Sorry I was so late for my review of Dragon Rider aka Firedrake The Silver Dragon after watching the movie on Netflix, because I've been so busy with stuff in real life other than online and on social media. But besides that, this is going to be a rough but wild review and I will have so many thoughts about this movie.

I'm surprised that Dragon Rider/Firedrake The Silver Dragon has many updates and differences from the book such as the writing, the setting, the character designs, the comedic bits, and the inflation scene of Firedrake that the writers came up for the update of Firefrake defeating Nettlebrand as part of the updated version of the movie based on the book. The movie does have its mixed reviews, but it does has a pretty good animation by Reel FX and it has a pretty good UK english dub to it like Freddie Highmore as Ben, Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Firedrake, Felicity Jones as Sorrel, and Patrick Stewart as Nettlebrand, and the english dub for Dragon Rider is part of both the Sky Channel original movie and the Netflix original film (Which was retitled as Firedrake The Silver Dragon). The odd thing about the english dub is Thomas Brodie-Sangster is using an American accent for the voice of Firedrake instead of his native British accent... Probably. But hey, I still like that.

This movie is similar to the How To Train Your Dragon trilogy, Spirited Away, Shrek, The Neverending Story, and Zootopia combined and to me, this movie may be compared to Zootopia for some reasons, because of the characters, the animation, the comedic bits (Which is similar to the movies of Blue Sky Studios, DreamWorks Animation, Sony Pictures Animation, Illumination Entertainment, and Warner Animation Group), as well as the writing, since it's the 5th anniversary of Zootopia this year while Dragon Rider premiered on Sky Channel in the UK and on Netflix this year after the movie originally premiered in Germany last year. Since it's the 20th anniversary of the year 2001 besides the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, this movie also reminds me of any animated movies from 2001 such as Shrek, Spirited Away, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Monsters, Inc., and Osmosis Jones, because it has the animations, the comedic bits, the story, the writing, the action sequence, and the climatic sequence to it. But on the side note, Dragon Rider marked the 20th anniversary of the 2000 release of the book after it originally published in 1997 in Germany during its premiere in 2020, which was last year, and it also marked the 5th anniversary of the 2016 release of the sequel to the book Dragon Rider: The Griffin's Feather during its release on Sky Channel and on Netflix.

So between 2020 and 2021, Dragon Rider aka Firedrake The Silver Dragon is considered to be the "Citizen Kane" of animated movies since The Lion King (1994), because of the animation, the music, the action sequences, the climatic sequence, the sound design, the comedic bits, the slow motion for some scenes, as well as the English voice dub, and of course, the scene where Firedrake defeats Nettlebrand with his fire powers, which is part of the inflation scene as seen on TheBigFatHippo's video "Dragon Breath Inflation." To me, this scene will still hold up in cinematic history and the history of animations between 2020 and 2021. Nevertheless, I highly recommend Dragon Rider aka Firedrake The Silver Dragon to all my dragon friends and my friends from Germany and the UK around this fandom so they can watch it anytime on DVD, on Sky Channel, and on Netflix.

And lastly, Firedrake will forever be my favorite character from the book and the movie and I love him now!