Opening this weekend is DreamWorks animated movie How to Train Your Dragon.  The film features the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig, and T.J. Miller.  While DreamWorks animated movies are definitely hit or miss, this one is fantastic and absolutely worth paying to see in a movie theater.  Also, the 3D is great and it's currently at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes!

If you've seen the preview (click here to watch it), you know it's about a teenage viking named Hiccup who doesn't fit in with the rest of his tribe.  Instead of wanting to kill dragons, he gets along with the creatures and wants to teach his tribe that killing isn't the answer.  Of course he needs to overcome a number of obstacles before his tribe will listen to him.

Again, How to Train Your Dragon is great.  For a taste of the film, we've been given 5 clips and you can check them out after the jump:

As always, are the clips are in the player below.  Once you push play you might have to watch a pre-roll ad and then all the clips will play in order.  Sorry about the pre-roll, it pays for the bandwidth.

Here's the official synopsis:

From the studio that brought you "Shrek," "Madagascar" and "Kung Fu Panda" comes "How to Train Your Dragon"-an adventure comedy set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild fire-breathing dragons, based on the book by Cressida Cowell.  The story centers around a Viking teenager named Hiccup (JAY BARUCHEL), who lives on the Island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life.  The teen's rather progressive views and offbeat sense of humor don't sit too well with his tribe or its chief...who just happens to be Hiccup's father, Stoick the Vast (GERARD BUTLER).  When Hiccup is included in Dragon Training with the other Viking teens-Astrid (AMERICA FERRERA), Snotlout (JONAH HILL), Fishlegs (CHRISTOPHER MINTZ-PLASSE), and twins Ruffnut (KRISTEN WIIG) and Tuffnut (T.J. MILLER)-he sees his chance to prove he has what it takes to be a fighter.  But when he encounters (and ultimately befriends) an injured dragon, his world is flipped upside down, and what started out as Hiccup's one shot to prove himself turns into an opportunity to set a new course for the future of the entire tribe.  Also starring is CRAIG FERGUSON as Gobber, the village Blacksmith and Dragon Training instructor, who sees the potential in Hiccup's unique skill set, even when Stoick does not.

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