Toothless is my spirit animal. I never read the 2003 children’s books, but I saw the entire How To Train Your Dragon series which began in 2010, and fell in love with Toothless, Hiccup, Astrid, and the whole gang. And now that there is a live-action remake, I really wanted to see it. And since we’d shown the animated movies to our daughter and she enjoyed them, we thought it might be a good movie for the whole family (even our youngest, who had never seen them).

Those who know me well, know that Superman is my favorite superhero. I grew up reading all sorts of superheroes, and enjoy many of them, but Superman always held a special place in my heart. Sure, he’s nearly infinitely powerful and can fly and all that. But power and flight are table stakes for superheroes these days. Superman’s real superpower was that he chose to do good, to do what was right, because it was right.