How To Train Your Dragon had a simple, but compelling idea at its heart: dragons make awesome pets. So the entire story is engineered around this key concept, and it's all the better for it.

Other movies have good ideas, but dilute them with unnecessary subplots. Let's look at how movies like How To Train Your Dragon and Tokyo Drift keep their ideas pure.

A Goofy Movie was an underrated gem that got swept under the rug and forgotten by Disney fans. This movie serves as a case study for what happens when a good story is packaged for the wrong audience - in this case, a story about teen and parent conflict put into a cartoon that appeals to young children.

Let's see where it went wrong, and how you can avoid a similar situation.

A wild cowboy and a by-the-book veteran team up to solve a case, and due to their mismatched personalities, hilarity ensues! Buddy Cop movies are a staple of the comedy genre, and in this special Buddies, Bottles, and Banter episode of Story Stripdown, I chat with Subash from Reel Deal about our favorite buddy cop duos and what are the elements that make them special... and why are they almost always male-male pairings that favor bromance over romance?

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