Osupa 29 March 2010 Movies/DVD, Weekly Countdown No Comment

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Posted March 29TH 2010

WEEKEND STARTING MARCH 26th 2010

‘How To Train Your Dragon’ took over the box office this weekend securing the #1 position with $43.3million is box office sales!

Add another $17.3 million to ‘Alice In Wonderlands’ box office gross in the states as it slides into #2 spot with a cumulative total of $293 million.  ‘Hot Tub Machine’ landed in 2010 in the #3 position  in box office sales for this  weeks countdown.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON MOVIE TRAILER

“How to Train Your Dragon”, the new 3-D animated fable, has been made with a dreamy visual flair. It’s about a boy named Hiccup who’s the son of a toweringly gruff, red-bearded Viking voiced by Gerard Butler, who’s cast much better here than he was in “The Bounty Hunter”.

The Vikings live in mortal fear of dragons, which is why dragon slaying is their primary career option. Hiccup, however, wants nothing to do with that. He’s like an indie rocker who’s been born into a village of middle linebackers. One night, while wielding a catapult slingshot, he ham-handedly slices off half a dragon’s tail, which grounds it from flying. He then stumbles onto the creature nursing its wounds at a woodland lake. The connection that develops between these two is no cloying, smiley-happy animal friendship. It’s more like the stirring bond you remember from movies like “Old Yeller”, with an added touch of “King Kong”.

“How to Train Your Dragon” has winningly Harry Potteresque teen-dragon-slayer classes, plus a layer of age-of-terror allegory about the ignorance bred by jingoism. The dragon itself is a voracious beast whose trust has to be won, which Hiccup does by building him an artificial tail and saddling him up.

“How to Train Your Dragon” rouses you in conventional ways, yet it’s the rare animated feature that uses 3-D for its breathtaking spatial and emotional possibilities. When these two take to the sky, we’re free of constraint, aware of the space on all sides. At moments like these, the movie makes you feel, in every way, miles high.

WEEKEND STARTING MARCH 26Th 2010

BOX OFFICE

1. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
2. ALICE IN WONDERLAND
3. HOT TUB MACHINE
4. THE BOUNTY HUNTER
5. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

DVD’S

1. DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS
2. NEW MOON
3. 2012
4. THE FOURTH KIND
5. PRECIOUS: BASED OFF THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
6. THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG
7. ARMORED
8. LAW ABIDING CITIZEN
9. PLANET 51
10. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE