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Name: How to Train Your Dragon
Director: Dean DeBlois
Genre: adventure, animation, family, fantasy
Released: 2010
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 8.1

How to Train Your Dragon has an iRankMovies score of 84.3/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

What started as fire and fury will become friendship.

Release:2010

Runtime:1h 38m

Country:United States

Director:Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders

Language:English

Genre

AdventureAnimationFamily

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Keywords

friendshipShipBlacksmithIslandBased On Novel Or BookFlyingArenaVillage

iRank84

How to Train Your Dragon rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.1/10· 883K votes

Rotten Tomatoes99%

Metacritic75%

TMDb7.859/10· 14K votes

With 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.1/10 on IMDb and 75/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About How to Train Your Dragon

As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father.

Cast of How to Train Your Dragon

Jay Baruchel
as Hiccup (voice)
Gerard Butler
as Stoick (voice)
Craig Ferguson
as Gobber (voice)
America Ferrera
as Astrid (voice)
Jonah Hill
as Snotlout (voice)
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
as Fishlegs (voice)
T.J. Miller
as Tuffnut (voice)
Kristen Wiig
as Ruffnut (voice)
Robin Atkin Downes
as Ack (voice)
Philip McGrade
as Starkard (voice)
Kieron Elliott
as Hoark the Haggard (voice)
Ashley Jensen
as Phlegma the Fierce (Voice)

How to Train Your Dragon facts

Budget: $165M
Box office: $495.1M
Collection: How to Train Your Dragon Collection

Our take on How to Train Your Dragon

Dean DeBlois turns a Viking coming-of-age story into a warm animated fantasy about a boy who refuses the path expected of him. Hiccup, a slight teenager in a village where killing dragons proves your worth, downs a feared beast and finds he cannot finish the job; instead he befriends it and names it Toothless. The film balances soaring flight sequences with a genuinely tender friendship and quiet father-son friction. It suits families wanting adventure with real emotional stakes, and viewers who appreciate expressive animation and a hero defined by curiosity rather than muscle. A gentle, confidently made 2010 fantasy that rewards younger and older audiences alike.

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