I'd sure like to think that all the nasty things I've said over the years about DreamWorks Animation and its pseudo-entertainments have shamed its employees into finally doing better. Of course, I must reluctantly admit that I'm not important enough for them to have noticed me, let alone to have started taking cues from my reviews. Be that as it may, in its latest CG-animated feature, How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks has shed many of those habits I've found most off-putting, and it is far and away the best of the studio's animated features that I've seen. But it is still not nearly good enough.
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