How To Train Your Dragon is funny and imaginative

This charming piece of 3D animation from Dreamworks is set in the world of burly Vikings, who live on an island where they constantly have to fight off fire-eating dragons.

Stoick the Vast (voiced by Gerard Butler) has a little boy called Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) who wounds a dragon but, when he sees the results, discovers the poor creature is really quite sweet.

To persuade Stoick and co to stop their silly war, however, takes the duration of the film.

Based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the movie from writer-director Dean Dubois is funny, well-drawn and imaginatively structured so that adults need have no fear about taking the kids to it. (Out now)

How To Train Your Dragon 3D

Cert: PG