How to Train Your Dragon, released on June 13, 2025, is a live-action remake of the original movie that came out on March 21, 2010. It is told from the perspective of Hiccup Haddock I, who we meet as the unlikely hero of the movie.
How to Train Your Dragon stars Mason Thamas as Hiccup Haddock and Nico Parker as Astrid Hofferson. The creation cost $150 million, with the live-action remake having the same look as the original. While this movie has almost all of the same scenes from the original, a few scenes from the original movie were left out of the remake.
Hiccup was seen as the village outcast because he could not kill a dragon. When he did try to prove himself to the village,people, including himself were injured because of his machines, and also managed to shoot down a dragon. The machine that we are introduced to at the beginning of the movie is a bola launcher also known as “the mangler” and its purpose is to capture and fight dragons, another machine that was mentioned at the beginning was made to gather yak milk easier but instead it angered a yak which caused the angered yak to ram through the stables, making the stables collapse. The dragon that Hiccup shoots down was later known as Toothless, who is a Night Fury, in the movie it describes a Night Fury as the offspring of lightning and death itself. As the movie progresses Toothless and Hiccup become unlikely friends.
While this movie is a live-action remake of the original, it holds the same lessons about the real world from the original: that if you see the best in yourself and are brave enough to be different, good yet challenging things will come your way. This message is shown towards the end of the movie when Hiccup loses his left leg while fighting the Red Death, near the end of the movie it shows that hiccup is no longer accepted by Stoick after he could not kill a dragon, once Hiccup realizes that it is a trap he goes to get Astrid, Fishlegs, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, and Snotlout to go and distract the Red Death that way Hiccup can go get Toothless. Once Hiccup gets Toothless and helps the others defeat the Red Death but not before Hiccup falls into the Explosion and Toothless goes in to the fire to protect him, making Stoick realize his mistake and runs to Toothless only to see Hiccup is alive but Gobber couldn’t save his leg and making Hiccup the hero.
Overall, the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon is an enjoyable, family-friendly film that still brings back the nostalgia of the original movie. Just like how the dragons formed a friendship between the vikings, this movie is calling to all new and old fans to have a guaranteed fun watching experience.
