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...despite its feel-good message of cross-species acceptance, the movie is far from lacking in some good old-fashioned dragon mashing. Of course, it’s the sort of PG mayhem in which everything on the screen is spectacularly immolated except, conveniently, the people. Apparently, the dragons of “How To Train Your Dragon” are really bad with moving targets—perhaps that’s where the training comes in. But suffice to say, Hiccup’s efforts at human-dragon reconciliation do not go over as smoothly as he hoped...
...already had an interest in comics, but [Hancock] would give me stacks of books every week to look through, so I got introduced to tons of old comics artists and watched a lot of films and had this period of hibernation,” Escobedo says. “I wasn’t making any art, but I just had so much new influence and information stockpiled in my head, so when I got back on campus, I had an explosion of art making...
...taking old-timey comic books and the bad stuff that’s in the back of my head and blending the two of them,” Escobedo says. “So you have the comforting old-timey classic feel of the 1920s—you know, the comic book characters with the big eyes and floppy arms—but then there’s this intense sexual charge to it. It’s raw, sort of nasty...
Craig Robinson’s Nick, married in the present day, is also a very funny character, especially during a cocaine-fueled recap of the “Terminator” series or in a lewd phone call to his then nine-year-old wife. He also manages to pull off a surprisingly listenable cover (or is it a debut performance?) of The Black-Eyed Peas’ “Let’s Get It Started?...
...scene Huck believes that a traveling troupe of invisible Arabs with two hundred elephants was conjured by a genie. It is only after the incident that Huck reconsiders his gullibility. He “thought all this over for two or three days” and rubs an old lamp hoping to find a genie before eventually concluding “all that stuff was only just one of Tom sawyer’s lies... It had all the marks of Sunday School...