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Saw this last night.

I found the continual foreground 3D and the 3D bugs distracting. Ok, show us you can do it in the beginning, but then STOP IT. Using the 3D as background and midground- brilliant. Yes, more of that, absolutely.

Visually: pretty. I liked the blue people (yes, I know you're supposed to. I like them anyway).

Plot: No real surprises except for the ending. I was pleased with the ending. I didn't expect they'd actually do it.

People: wanted to smack the crap out of Jake all the way up to when he went to choose his dragon. Even then, he didn't seem to "get" it and I despised him for it. I loved the communal stuff at the tree of souls. I loved the adoption of a new member, and how everybody formed a web of touch.

Overall- thank you for having a story. It's still kind of showing off, too much of the "look what we can do," but it's starting to integrate into the movie and be just a part of it instead of calling attention to the effects. I'm not a fan of how movies are going deeper and deeper into the showing-off of effects, big blockbuster costs, and it's just crazy, but then at the core, there's no story. Big explosions, 3D, big sets, astounding scenery, but then it doesn't say anything.