“How to Train Your Dragon” has breathed a bit of box-office fire with a $43.3 million opening weekend and a No. 1 debut.

Yet the DreamWorks Animation adventure came in well behind the studio’s last cartoon comedy, “Monsters vs. Aliens,” which opened with $59.3 million over the same weekend last year.

In my opinion, ‘Dragon’ was one of their best films to date, far better then that horrible “Monsters vs. Aliens” movie.  The story was intriguing, the animation was breathtaking, and the cast was well fitted.  It was definitely enjoyable and I would recommend you seeing it.

Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland,” which had been No. 1 the previous three weekends, slipped to second place with $17.3 million. It raised its domestic total to $293.1 million.

John Cusack’s raunchy comedy “Hot Tub Time Machine” had a lukewarm No. 3 debut of $13.7 million.