How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 American computer-animated fantasy film loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name by British author Cressida Cowell, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois from a screenplay by Will Davies, Sanders, and Deblois, and stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T. J. Miller, and Kristen Wiig. It is DreamWorks Animation's 19th feature film. The story takes place in a mythical Viking world where a young Viking teenager named Hiccup aspires to follow his tribe's tradition of becoming a dragon slayer. After finally capturing his first dragon, and with his chance at last of gaining the tribe's acceptance, he finds that he no longer wants to kill the dragon and instead befriends it.
The film was released March 26, 2010, and was a critical and commercial success, earning acclaim from film critics and audiences and earning nearly $500 million worldwide. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score at the 83rd Academy Awards, but Lost to Pixar's Toy Story 3 and Sony's The Social Network, respectively. The movie also won ten Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature.
A sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, was released on June 13, 2014, with DeBlois writing and directing by himself. Much like its predecessor, the sequel was also universally acclaimed and became a box office success. A second and final sequel, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, was released on February 22, 2019. The film's success has also inspired other merchandise, including a video game and a television series.
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- Jay Baruchel as Hiccup Haddock
Trivia[]
- After the boy sitting on the moon in the DreamWorks Animation logo at the begining of the film flicks the fishing line, a black shadow can be briefly seen obscuring some of the stars to the right of the moon as it flies past. This is likely Toothless, as it is the only black dragon shown in the movie.
- This is the first DreamWorks Animation releases three films in the same year, while the other films are Shrek Forever After and Megamind.
- This the first DreamWorks Animation film to use the new logo.
- This is the third DreamWorks Animation film to be released in March, after The Road to El Dorado and Monsters vs. Aliens, followed by The Croods, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Home, Kung Fu Panda 3 and The Boss Baby.
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