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How To Train Your Dragon
Hiccup is a Norse teenager from the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. His progressive views and weird sense of humor make him a misfit, but when he befriends an injured dragon he names Toothless, he has the chance to plot a new course for his people's future.
11 August 1969, Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
20 December 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 April 1982, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
22 August 1973, Canandaigua, New York, USA
17 May 1962, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
18 April 1971, Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
6 September 1976, London, England, UK
20 June 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 April 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
December 08, 2014
What helps elevate How to Train Your Dragon above the glut of other recent animated fare is its message about tolerance and realizing that your enemy may not be as different as you think.
May 06, 2011
It's a Harry Potter-meets-Avatar adventure that should delight most children and adults.
December 08, 2014
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.
December 08, 2014
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.
November 19, 2013
Toothless has the one precious ingredient that's missing from so many of Hollywood's contemporary animated characters: an air of mystery.
December 08, 2014
Instead of relying on dizzying gimmicks, Dreamworks' new animated feature simply revels in the sheer heart-pumping pleasure of watching action unfold through those Buddy Holly-style glasses.
April 04, 2011
Technically proficient and featuring a witty, intelligent, surprisingly insightful script, How to Train Your Dragon comes close to the level of Pixar's recent output while easily exceeding the juvenilia Dreamworks has released in the last nine years.
December 08, 2014
Undoubtedly Dreamworks' best film yet, and quite probably the best dragon movie ever made.
November 19, 2013
Smartly dispensing with the usual hubbub of pop references that dot many of these films, the movie offers touching, quiet moments and imaginative, high-flying beauty. It's fantastically entertaining.
December 08, 2014
Everything from the angle of the shot to the speed of the editing projects an end visual that feels like you're either on Toothless' back or you get an outsider perspective of just how fast he's flying.
December 08, 2014
It's charming, funny and a lot like Avatar, though less solemn and an hour shorter.
November 19, 2013
What we have here is an exhilarating epic that mixes comedic and touching moments with some of the best action sequences ever created with CGI animation.
