How to Train Your Dragon

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How to Train Your Dragon

PG

Released Mar 26, 2010

1h 38m

Kids & Family

Fantasy

Adventure

Comedy

Animation

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A misfit Viking teenager sees a chance to change the course of his clan's future when he befriends an injured dragon.

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Boasting dazzling animation, a script with surprising dramatic depth, and thrilling 3-D sequences, How to Train Your Dragon soars.

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

Based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the movie from writer-director Dean Dubois is funny, well-drawn and imaginatively structured so that adults need have no fear about taking the kids to it.

Dec 8, 2014

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Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

It's a foolproof scheme for picture making: take the plot elements of favorite movies, paint the concoction with bright colors so it looks like the zazziest customized car, set it running at NASCAR speed, and you have How to Train Your Dragon.

Dec 8, 2014

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Three cheers to DreamWorks for zipping it, at long last: in laying aside the post-modern quips, they've rediscovered an airborne sense of joy.

Rated: 4/5

Dec 8, 2014

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

…this epic animation from Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders does just about everything right…the makers anticipate the need for kids to understand prejudice, family and disability, without ever forgetting the film’s primary function to entertain...

Rated: 5/5

Jun 9, 2025

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Rachel Wagner

Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)

has an important message for kids with a ton of heart and soul

Jan 8, 2024

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

When it’s all over, the movie’s strengths—the impressive visuals, the neat dragon designs, and the central boy-and-his-dog relationship—are what remain and make it worth your time.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 22, 2023

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Christie I

Heartwarming high-flying fun!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/21/24

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wyatt

I love the first one

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/25/24

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Zihao

Such a moving experience for a 10-year fam of How To Train Your Dragon!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/17/24

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Veronica

So wonderful to finally see it on the big screen!! I missed it when it first came out

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/17/22

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James Van Hise

So impressive on the big screen again after eleven years.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/14/22

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Ivan C

i remember seeing this when it first came out..it was amazing then and its amazing now

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/14/22

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Synopsis

A misfit Viking teenager sees a chance to change the course of his clan's future when he befriends an injured dragon.

Director: Christopher Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Producer: Bonnie Arnold
Screenwriter: Christopher Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Distributor: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG
Production Co: DreamWorks Animation, Vertigo Entertainment
Rating: PG (Sequences of Intense Action|Brief Mild Language|Some Scary Images)
Genre: Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 26, 2010, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $217.4M
Runtime: 1h 38m

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