How To Train Your Dragon Reviews: Fans Call It ‘Out Of The World' Experience
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Released on June 13, How to Train Your Dragon is a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film with the same name. It is directed by Dean DeBlois.
Reviews for the American fantasy adventure film How to Train Your Dragon are in and most of them are positive. Released on June 13, the film is a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film with the same name. It is directed by Dean DeBlois and stars a talented bunch of actors, including Mason Thames, Nico Parker and Gerard Butler in lead roles. After the film's release on Friday, cinephiles flocked to the theatres and flooded social media with their positive reactions to the never-before-seen action sequences.
For some, How to Train Your Dragon is one of the 'best-animated" movies, whereas others called it a 'beautiful" film to watch. A user wrote, 'How to Train Your Dragon is one of the 10 best-animated movies ever made, and I will hear nothing against it and field no questions."
How to Train Your Dragon is one of the 10 best animated movies ever made and I will hear nothing against it and will be fielding no questions.— Jack Gray (@JackGr27) June 13, 2025
Another shared his review of the film, saying, 'Just walked out of the movie theatre… How to Train Your Dragon was absolutely OUT OF THIS WORLD."
just walked out of the movie theatre.. how to train your dragon was absolutely OUT OF THIS WORLD— nana ♡ (@diangeloreads) June 13, 2025
Describing it as 'beautiful", a social media user added, 'Just saw the live action of how to train your dragon, and omg, it was beautiful. A+ #HowToTrainYourDragon."
JUST SAW THE LIVE ACTION OF HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON AND OMG IT WAS BEAUTIFUL A+ #HowToTrainYourDragon pic.twitter.com/eg3IBtHMLG — 캐시디⁷
One more review read, 'Just saw how to train your dragon live action and I am going to confidently say that is the best live action I have ever seen."
just saw the how to train your dragon live action and i am going to confidently say that is the best live action ive ever seen
— sofia ♡ (@burgerhour) June 13, 2025
Take a look at a few more reactions here:
Just watched the Live Action How to Train your Dragon and it's….ok. Thankfully, I still have the original— Colonel Hammer
How to train your dragon live action overall was really good and other than a little bit of nitpicking I was very satisfied ☺️
Finally a decent live action remake imo lol
— Spyra ♡ SqueeshyBean (@xSpyra) June 13, 2025
How to Train Your Dragon follows the friendship between Hiccup (played by Mason Thames) – an inventive Viking and the Night Fury dragon with the name Toothless. A media franchise, the film is loosely based on the book series, authored by Cressida Cowell. The franchise includes three feature films – How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2 and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. The action adventure film is written by Dean DeBlois, Cressida Cowell and William Davies. It is produced by Dean DeBlois, Adam Siegel and Marc Platt. The distribution rights of the film are acquired by Universal Pictures.
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June 14, 2025, 18:41 IST
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