Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: Against the odds, this new version of How to Train Your Dragon is equal to the success of the first film, accomplishing the goal of making it feel like you’re watching the story for the first time.
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: How to Train Your Dragon is the live-action remake we didn’t ask for, but thanks to Dean DeBlois handling the job better than anyone else, he gives this story the passion it deserves.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: while the original 2010’s animation writer/director Dean DeBlois hasn’t made a bad film, there doesn’t seem much reason artistically for it to exist, especially given its excess thirty minutes of run time to tell the exact same story.
- [New] | Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Excerpt: An incredibly successful live action adaptation, with stunning cinematography, stirring music, and solid character development—far exceeding my expectations and proving that not all adaptations need to rely solely on nostalgia.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: I didn’t remember much of the original, so I judged this on its own merits. I’m glad I did because it was a ride worth taking.
- Kat Hughes @ THN
- Harrison Martin @ Flixfrog
- Excerpt: How to Train Your Dragon (2025) is almost a shot for shot remake of the animated movie and that was a smart choice.
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: I was impressed by many of the technical feats achieved. Still, with no real effort made to explore new angles, it’s hard not to feel that this was a fairly toothless endeavor.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: How to Train Your Dragon’ is perhaps the most faithful live-action remake I’ve ever seen. Beat by beat, shot by shot, line by line. Literally the same score. Same director. Some of the same actors. Not even a whiff of anything new. It’s an impressively executed carbon copy — and that’s the problem.
- Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
- Excerpt: How to Train Your Dragon makes a letter-perfect jump from animation to live-action with this lovely, heartwarming recreation that fills us with wonder a second time.
- Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: From start to finish, the new movie feels tired and recycled (because it is). Worse, the cast is not up to the task of replacing the original ensemble (though Gerard Butler returns in the same role as before).
- Diego Salgado @ Sofilm [Spanish]
- Jeff Schaefer @ The Marquee Topic
- Excerpt: Dean DeBlois returns to the Island of Berk for a live action reboot of his modern, animated classic How to Train Your Dragon.
- Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: If it works, it’s because the original story works; if it manages to generate emotional responses in the viewer, it’s because the original film from fifteen years ago was highly emotional, and this one achieves the same effect.
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