CinemaSins' Everything Wrong with How to Train your Dragon

The folks at CinemaSins are at it again, this time attacking beloved animation with Dreamworks' Hot to Train Your Dragon. The video tears into the film, ripping it for clichés, borrowed plot elements and characters, and its fair share of deus ex machina.

There are a couple of times when CinemaSins get snarky for snark's sake. For instance, they instantly assume there's no way for wood to survive the fire attack of a dragon, when there are in fact plenty of ways for wood to be treated to near fireproof, or at the very least fire resistant. They also complain that one dragon looks a bit like Smaug, despite How to Train Your Dragon debuting in 2010, while Smaug debuted in the 2013 second chapter of The Hobbit. Maybe we should start CinemaSinsSins.

Like other videos of its nature, it's all in good fun, and they do make plenty of good points, though a lot of their complaints seem to be about animation tropes (that happen to be in this), perhaps speaking to larger problems with the medium.