I struggled with How to Train Your Dragon for several reasons, but two of them stick out the most. First, just like most of the rest of the live-action remakes, there’s no reason for this to exist.

Now, in 2025, How to Train Your Dragon is back on the screen as a live-action remake. What once radiated specificity to its directors and creative audacity is now a rigid recreation of the past.

The live-action How to Train Your Dragon can feel hemmed in by its faithfulness to the animated original, but it’s re-creating that film’s sense of heart and soul as well as its entire plot ...

It breathed fire into the box office. “How to Train Your Dragon” had a mythical day in theaters on Friday, its opener, landing in first place with $35.6 million in sales, according to The Numbers.

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A stage show based on the first film called “How to Train Your Dragon: Live Spectacular,” which toured Australia and New Zealand in 2012, radically changed the design — to a mixed response.

On the grand scale, this live-action How to Train Your Dragon doesn’t change anything. Indeed, this film is faithful, nearly shot-for-shot of the animated original.

How to Train Your Dragon filmmaker Dean DeBlois has been dreaming about directing a live-action narrative for three-plus decades, but he never imagined that he’d finally do so by adapting his ...