Film

How to Train Your Dragon 2010

Directed by Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders

  • Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Family
  • 98 min
  • PG

What started as fire and fury will become friendship.

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.

FantasyAdventureAnimationFamilyfriendshipshipblacksmithislandbased on novel or bookflyingarenavillagevillaintrainingignorancevikings (norsemen)

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