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Filmtracks Statistics:
Average Filmtracks Rating: 3.35
Average Viewer Rating: 3.15
Number of Reviews: 52
Number of Votes: 55,251
Number of Comments: 618
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Top 100 Traffic Ranks:
#71. The Thin Red Line
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#38.  How to Train Your Dragon
#84.  How to Train Your Dragon 2
#89.  The Call of the Wild
Filmtracks Editor's Recommendations:
•Chicken Run
•How to Train Your Dragon
•How to Train Your Dragon 2
•How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
•Solo: A Star Wars Story
•The Call of the Wild
•Wicked
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REVIEWS AT FILMTRACKS
 (see legend below for abbreviations and codes)
 TitleYear FR VRVTCT RD TRDates Notes
•How to Train Your Dragon2025*****3.473113|||2,01506/25
N
Wicked: For Good (co-wrote)2025*****3.642983|||||2,31312/25multiple albums
•That Christmas2024****3.542131||||2,18001/25
•Wicked (co-wrote)2024*****3.765384|||||1,92612/24 - 06/25multiple albums
•Migration2023****3.512051||||1,99501/24
•The Call of the Wild2020*****3.974213||||1,86801/21 - 09/21all albums
•How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World2019*****3.834893||||1,44703/19 - 03/24all albums
R
Solo: A Star Wars Story (co-wrote)2018*****3.931,12519|||||70406/18 - 10/25all albums
•Ferdinand (co-wrote)2017***3.062700||1,81901/18
•Jason Bourne (co-wrote)2016**2.522092||1,62409/16
•Pan2015****3.441978|||1,54312/15
•How to Train Your Dragon 22014*****3.971,0837|||||75009/14 - 03/22all albums
•Rio 22014***2.882161||1,67508/14
•Ice Age: Continental Drift (co-wrote)2012***2.853211||1,15907/12
•Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (co-wrote)2012***2.863341||1,35803/12multiple albums
•Happy Feet Two2011***2.702401||1,74901/12
•Kung Fu Panda 2 (co-wrote)2011****3.329788||81305/11
•Mars Needs Moms2011****3.264851|||1,35703/11
•Rio2011***2.984872||1,41504/11
•Fair Game2010**2.613064||1,84211/10
•Green Zone2010****3.093531||1,73312/10
•How to Train Your Dragon2010*****4.142,69721||||23304/10 - 04/21multiple albums
•Knight and Day2010***2.922775||1,82108/11
•Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs2009***2.984016||1,18206/09
•Bolt2008***3.045062||1,05611/08
•Hancock (co-wrote)2008***3.094394||93107/08
•Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (co-wrote)2008***3.004696||97204/08
•Jumper2008***2.751910|||1,87208/11
•Kung Fu Panda (co-wrote)2008***3.201,2132||58306/08
•The Bourne Ultimatum2007***3.0496210||44408/07
•Happy Feet2006****3.434448||79412/06
•Ice Age: The Meltdown2006***3.224926|71404/06
•United 932006**3.031951||1,82310/10
•X-Men: The Last Stand2006****3.531,16359||38806/06
•Mr. & Mrs. Smith2005***2.962211||1,86301/12
•Robots2005***3.2358516||61603/05 - 10/11
•The Bourne Supremacy2004***3.421,86128||15108/04 - 09/11
•Gigli2003**2.303432||69601/04 - 03/09
•The Italian Job2003***2.731,282129||19506/03 - 03/09
•Paycheck2003****3.4259310|||46401/04 - 08/21all albums
•The Bourne Identity2002*2.321,83082|||20407/02 - 06/22all albums
•Two Weeks Notice2002***2.781860||1,88010/09
•Evolution2001***3.011,30515||58206/01 - 02/09
•I Am Sam2001***2.801170||2,30805/24
•Just Visiting (co-wrote)2001***2.754752||59504/01 - 10/08
•Shrek (co-wrote)2001***3.067,01391|||9512/01 - 01/09
•Chicken Run (co-wrote)2000****3.605,10213||33708/00 - 06/08
•The Road to El Dorado (co-wrote)2000**2.914504|||65210/03 - 03/09all albums
•Chill Factor (co-wrote)1999**2.213411||1,24810/03 - 04/09bootlegs
•Antz (co-wrote)1998****3.783,0304|30712/98 - 01/07
•The Thin Red Line (co-wrote)1998***3.0011,45710||||7101/99 - 08/20multiple albums
•Face/Off (co-wrote)1997**2.905326|42307/97 - 04/06
(reviews listed with a "co-wrote" indicate that either the composer wrote the score with another person or that more than one composer worked separately to provide a score for the production)
Legend:
Status:
N
 - indicates a new review that has been published in the last 180 days
R
 - indicates an older review that has been significantly revised in the last 180 days
Awards: AW - or a golden year indicates that the music won or was nominated for a major award
Ratings: FR - Filmtracks Rating ("Varied" indicates a split rating with no overall designation)
VR - Viewer Rating (overall average)
VT - Vote Total (for viewer ratings)
Comments: Comment Total (the number of messages posted in the review's comment area)
Review Depth: ||||| - Massive Review (over 4,000 words)
|||| - Very Long Review (between 2,200 and 4,000 words)
||| - Long Review (between 1,200 and 2,200 words)
|| - Average Review (between 800 and 1,200 words)
| - Short Review (under 800 words)
Traffic Rank: Popularity Rank (lower numbers indicate more cumulative reads; new reviews take time to climb the ranks)
Dates: 1st - indicates the month and year during which the review was first published
2nd - indicates the month and year of the review's most recent significant revision (if any)
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