Dreamworks’ live-action How to Train Your Dragon has introduced the franchise and its lovable lead Toothless to a whole new ...

Live-action remake "How to Train Your Dragon" partners Mason Thames and a lovable winged beast for a soaring adventure that lives up to the original.

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 ...

At its core, this is still just the original 'How to Train Your Dragon' and you know what? That’s a great film! It turns out when you take a movie that’s already great and try to make the ...

Hiccup (Mason Thames) makes an unlikely new friend in “How to Train Your Dragon.” AP. And it’s tear-jerking as ever watching the very well-cast 17-year-old newcomer Mason Thames as geeky ...

Image Credit: Universal/Everett Gobber is Stoick’s best friend, and Nick Frost portrays the Blacksmith in the live-action How To Train Your Dragon (2025). Craig Ferguson voiced the Viking, who ...

Ultimately, the "How to Train Your Dragon" live-action remake is fine. It brings some of the charm of the original films, especially in its stunning visuals of Berk and the dragons.

DeBlois, who also helmed 2014’s “How to Train Your Dragon 2” and 2019’s “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” — knows this universe like the back of his clawed dragon hand.

Critics are debating whether the new "How to Train Your Dragon" is too similar to the animated movies. The director Dean DeBlois said Universal asked him to make small changes.

“How to Train Your Dragon” — 2 stars (out of 4) MPA rating: PG (for sequences of intense action and peril) Running time: 2:05. How to watch: Premieres in theaters June 12.