The first reactions to 2025’s How to Train Your Dragon have arrived. The live-action movie, which follows a young Viking named Hiccup (Mason Thames) who befriends a wounded dragon and fights to help his island community learn to stop fearing dragons, is a remake of the DreamWorks animated movie of the same name, which itself is an adaptation of the 2003 children’s book by Cressida Cowell. The upcoming How to Train Your Dragon, which was helmed by original co-director Dean DeBlois, also stars Julian Dennison, Nico Parker, Bronwyn James, Nick Frost, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz, and Gerard Butler.