How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
95%RT Audience Score: 91%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 2 Oscars
25 wins & 63 nominations total
Boasting dazzling animation, a script with surprising dramatic depth, and thrilling 3-D sequences, How to Train Your Dragon soars.
How to Train Your Dragon is the perfect movie for both kids and adults. It’s got everything you could want in an animated film: action, comedy, and heart. Plus, Toothless is the coolest dragon ever. I mean, who wouldn’t want a dragon as a pet? The animation is top-notch and the voice acting is spot-on. It’s no wonder this movie has become a classic. If you haven’t seen it yet, what are you waiting for? Get ready to soar with Hiccup and Toothless!
Production Company(ies)
Dream Works Animation, Mad Hatter Entertainment, Vertigo Entertainment,
Distributor
DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
Filming Location(s)
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG for sequences of intense action and some scary images, and brief mild language
Year of Release
2010
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital DTSS DDS
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:1h 38m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Mar 26, 2010 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 17, 2010
Genre(s)
Fantasy/Adventure
Keyword(s)
starring Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson, Bonnie Arnold, directed by Christopher Sanders, Dean DeBlois, written by Christopher Sanders, Dean DeBlois, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, PG, Box Office $217.4M, reviewed by Derek Malcolm, Richard Corliss, Tim Robey, David Stratton, Jay Baruchel as Hiccup, Gerard Butler as King Stoick the Vast, America Ferrera as Astrid, Jonah Hill as Snotlout, Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Fishlegs, Craig Ferguson as Gobber, DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures
Worldwide gross: $494,879,471
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $672,732,481
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 186
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 73,362,321
US/Canada gross: $217,581,231
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $295,776,992
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 192
US/Canada opening weekend: $43,732,319
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $59,449,125
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 178
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $165,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $224,298,776
Production budget ranking: 59
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $120,784,891
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $327,648,815
ROI to date (est.): 95%
ROI ranking: 955
Gerard Butler – King Stoick the Vast – Voice
America Ferrera – Astrid – Voice
Jonah Hill – Snotlout – Voice
Christopher Mintz-Plasse – Fishlegs – Voice
Craig Ferguson – Gobber – Voice
Director(s)
Christopher Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Writer(s)
Christopher Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Producer(s)
Bonnie Arnold
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 2 Oscars
25 wins & 63 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
All Critics (213) | Top Critics (59) | Fresh (210) | Rotten (3)
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.
December 8, 2014
Derek Malcolm
London Evening Standard
TOP CRITIC
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 8, 2014
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
TOP CRITIC
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.
December 8, 2014 | Rating: 4/5
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph (UK)
TOP CRITIC
It’s all right.
December 8, 2014 | Rating: 3/5
David Stratton
At the Movies (Australia)
TOP CRITIC
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.
November 19, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4
Tom Horgen
Minneapolis Star Tribune
TOP CRITIC
Toothless has the one precious ingredient that’s missing from so many of Hollywood’s contemporary animated characters: an air of mystery.
November 19, 2013
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
TOP CRITIC
Director Dean DeBlois’s trilogy is not only great entertainment, but powerful emotional storytelling about what it means to grow up, and be responsible for others.
May 3, 2022
Bianca Garner
In Their Own League
Gone are the sarcastic one-liners, replaced by some genuinely funny slapstick…
May 19, 2021 | Rating: 8/10
Owen Nicholls
NME
Has all the ingredients of a blockbuster action film – yet it’s a family-friendly computer-animated movie.
November 29, 2020 | Rating: 8/10
Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
The vocal work in How to Train Your Dragon is stellar across the board, most notably Jay Baruchel’s delightful mix of vulnerability and hidden strength.
September 11, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4.0
Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com
A very good show about friendship and humanity in a great fictitious world. [Full review in Spanish].
April 22, 2020 | Rating: 3/4
Federico Furzan
Cinelipsis
You can see that the animators who worked on How to Train Your Dragon loved every minute of making it.
July 24, 2019 | Rating: 4.5/5
Leslie Combemale
Cinema Siren…
Plot
Long ago up North on the Island of Berk, the young Viking, Hiccup, wants to join his town’s fight against the dragons that continually raid their town. However, his macho father and village leader, Stoik the Vast, will not allow his small, clumsy, but inventive son to do so. Regardless, Hiccup ventures out into battle and downs a mysterious Night Fury dragon with his invention, but can’t bring himself to kill it. Instead, Hiccup and the dragon, whom he dubs Toothless, begin a friendship that would open up both their worlds as the observant boy learns that his people have misjudged the species. But even as the two each take flight in their own way, they find that they must fight the destructive ignorance plaguing their world.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The vocal work in How to Train Your Dragon is stellar across the board, most notably Jay Baruchel’s delightful mix of vulnerability and hidden strength.
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