It 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. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 99% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 214 reviews from professional critics, with an overall rating average of 7.

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The franchise primarily follows the adventures of a young Viking named Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (voiced by Jay Baruchel), son of Stoick the Vast, leader of the Viking island of Berk. This was the first DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by Universal Pictures, after NBCUniversal's acquisition of the company in 2016, [19] and followed DreamWorks' departure from 20th Century Fox after 2017's Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie. Snoggletog Log is a 28-minute slow television short film inspired by The Yule Log; it is a single continuous 28-minute shot of a Christmas fireplace, with various gags involving the franchise's main characters, Viking and dragon alike, happening every so often. Hiccup is devastated, but Astrid prompts him to realize that he spared Toothless out of compassion, not weakness.

Renamed to How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular, it toured United States and Canada between June 2012 and January 2013, [70] when it was cancelled in favour of taking the show to China where it premiered in July 2014. Dreamworks All-Star Kart Racing is a racing video game published by GameMill Entertainment, and includes Hiccup and Astrid as playable racers, along with a race track based on New Berk. a b First look: DreamWorks' 3-D 'How to Train Your Dragon' Archived November 24, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. School of Dragons, a 3D educational massively multiplayer online role-playing game produced by JumpStart, game concept was co-created by Producer David Jaloza and Lead Designer Justin Prate was released online in July 2013, [46] after a month-long beta testing.

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It is set ten years after the dragons left the Vikings in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, but within the film's epilogue.

The show is being produced in partnership with Global Creatures, the company behind another arena show Walking with Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular, and directed by Nigel Jamieson. The first and second seasons were titled Dragon: Riders of Berk and Dragons: Defenders of Berk respectively. In July 2014, the film's distribution rights were purchased by DreamWorks Animation from Paramount Pictures and transferred to 20th Century Fox [20] before reverting to Universal Studios in 2018.