10 Awesome Movies With 99% On Rotten Tomatoes
6. How To Train Your Dragon
DreamWorks' 2010 animation may not be quite as iconic or unforgettable as many of the films on this list, but it's still one of the most entertaining and visually astonishing animated films of the last decade.
How to Train Your Dragon could've just served up a cute titular creature and called it a day, as is to be expected for DreamWorks, but the result is something that feels far deeper - and therefore much closer to the spirit of an actual Pixar movie.
A witty, jaw-droppingly gorgeous new riff on the familiar "boy and his dog" formula, this film is by turns sweet and deceptively nuanced, particularly with the sensitive two-hander of dragon Toothless and his human companion Hiccup (Jay Baruchel).
Arriving at the beginning of the 3D movie boom, it remains one of the few films (alongside Avatar) to truly take advantage of the format for anything more than chintzy gimmickry, and its refreshingly frank approach regarding its disabled protagonists remains a landmark moment in family entertainment.
Despite being DreamWorks' highest-rated movie critically, it has three negative reviews on the Tomatometer to date, with The Village Voice dubbing it "unremarkable," while The New York Post said the story was "devised by the merchandising department." Oof.
Though its two sequels didn't quite reach the same uncommon critical praise, they both cleared the 90% mark regardless.