Day 185: Lilo & Stitch

An alien built to destroy crashes on Earth. He’s adopted by an orphaned little girl who is about to be taken away from her sister. Cry-fest.

Stitch just wants to belong somewhere. Lilo looks after him and won’t give him up and he realises that he belongs with her. He wants to have a family and now he has one. The film manages to be depressing, lovely and funny all at the same time and I love when films can do that. I’m really glad I finally watched it and I will definitely watch it again.

8/10

Day 145: How To Train Your Dragon

Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) just wants to be part of his Viking community but finds that he can’t kill dragons. That’s a big part of what makes up the community so it’s a bit of a problem. He catches a dragon known as ‘night fury’ and he names him Toothless and the two become friends. Hiccup helps him fly again and changes the way his community think about dragons.

I’m going to admit to something here, try not to laugh. I believe in dragons. I believe they existed and perhaps they do still and just haven’t been found yet. But it’s a good thing we don’t know where they are because you can just bet that humans would kill them or try and use them for some military purposes. In the film humans do try and kill them for years because they don’t understand them and are frightened. It takes almost complete annihilation of the Viking community before they change their minds about the dragons and stop attacking them.

I do really like this film. Toothless is such a wee cutie, how could you not love him?

8/10