How to Train Your Dragon star Gerard Butler and director Dean Deblois talk about adapting their animated classic for live-action.

In an era of skepticism around live-action remakes, Universal believes audiences will take flight with Hiccup and Toothless again.

It’s not even just that which made this good – the characters' mannerisms were there, the dragons were there – Toothless looked so good, and I literally felt tears come to my eyes when John Powell’s score swelled as he and Hiccup took their first real flight together. It was like a blast to the past.

The wait for the live-action How to Train Your Dragon is over, here's where to watch the 2025 version now and where it will be streaming.

Director Dean DeBlois delivered a near-perfect live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon. Check out the rest of our review.

Ever wanted to soar through the skies on the back of a friendly dragon? The new “How to Train Your Dragon” may be the ticket, from a decidedly safer, though possibly still vertigo-inducing, distance.