HTTYD (Live version)

[Magical Realist]

Same story. Same characters. Same music. Even the dragons are still CGI. Was this really necessary? At least they got Hiccup's nose right..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22w7z_lT6YM

[C C]

"Live action" sure doesn't mean what it once did. Performance capture data of human actor facial expressions and body movements that manipulate CGI puppets.

I like how the Vikings speak in English with American accents, though. Since it's just as crazy to have characters in fantasies (and Shakespeare plays) speaking with modern or non-rhotic British accents. The latter didn't develop until the late 18th-century and spread across the whole [applicable] population of the Isles until the Victorian era.

Even the vocal delivery of today is significantly different from that in the 19th and early 20th-century centuries. In old British movies, for instance, speech is molded more by the haughty nasal passages. In the decades after, the chief effect gradually shifted and seems now to stem more from the deeper resonances of the throat.

Grandma's version of what "live action" meant when blended with animation ... https://youtu.be/2bjGACO45DI

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/2bjGACO45DI

[Syne]

The only change... Astrid's no longer blonde.