How To Train Your Dragon ROCKS! 🐉

Let's discuss the How To Train Your Dragon Trilogy!

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[beastialmoon]

The reunion scene between Hiccup's mom and dad, and the subsequent line "You're as beautiful as the day I lost you." will always, always make me cry

[corynydam]

One point I love about the animation that not too many people talk about is the variety of fire animations the movies use. Most of the dragons have their own distinct style of fire, rather than just using the standard, propane style flame burst.

[Glowmus]

John Powell brought his A-game with the score for the whole trilogy. Glad he's coming back for the live-action film.

[Bailey_]

HTTYD is one of my favourite comfort franchises. As someone with a leg disability due to a injury seeing disabled characters in the same vain means a lot to me. Im so glad you enjoyed it. If you ever want more material in this world the books the movie is based off are good and the shows are good as well.

[Mr_Vorland]

HTTYD2 is one of the few movies to make me cry in the theater.

That beautiful scene where Stoic and his wife are reuniting after so many years apart, rekindling their romance and realizing that they never lost their love for each other, and in the back of my mind a voice whispered, "one of them is gonna die, " and I got really sad....

[ariameyer]

I am autistic and how to train your dragon was my special interest as a kid. I memorized all the dragons classes and stats, played all the games, watched all three of the TV shows, and read all of the books. It was really awesome!
The disability rep in this franchise is awesome, so many of the characters are disabled, Hiccup, Gobber, and Toothless, but it is never hidden, nor is it a big deal. It is just a normal thing the viking society lives with and that's so awesome for a kids movie.

[GuruofGone]

I ran into one of the animators on the second one at PAX East one year. He said they fought the studio to keep the alpha death on screen to drive home how important moment was

[cornellthemoviedude]

As much as I love Star Wars, I have to admit, this was my Star Wars. When I hear people talk about how magical and incredible it was to see the first Star Wars on the big screen in 1977, that was what How to Train Your Dragon was to me in 2010. Watching this in 3D as a kid is most likely what sparked my love for film and interest in filmmaking. For me, this is definitely up there for one of the best trilogies.

[oliverdemille]

The romance between Hiccup and Astrid is one of the best in fiction. I love that it's never a main plot point, but that it always supports and improves them and allows them to be stronger as they deal with life and hardship.

[nikgokuhil]

I am a bit more partial towards 1st movie, but 2nd does top my list too.
I also love how Hiccup remains Hiccup throughout. A lot of times people who get an upgrade like dragon loose their other strengths, but Hiccup remains a tinkerer and inventor. Hell, he doubles down on that and adds being an explorer too. His growth from trying to be something to please others, to embracing his own way and then to accepting faults in his way too and become what others need from him while maintaining his true self was so well done

[ranham]

The soundtrack in all of them is just so beautiful and the variations of a reoccurring theme that is so well developed and emotional. Makes the movie in my mind. Romantic flight from the first movie is still one of mostly beautiful pieces of music that still haunts me year's later.

[captainsirk]

If you ever read the books, I’d highly recommend the audiobooks read by David Tenant. The man is my favorite actor because of his performance in an audiobook.
The series is definitely for a younger audience, but then the last couple books have, just, incredibly high stakes, and it almost seems a bit inconsistent in that regard. Toothless does get less annoying as the series progresses.

[libbykenilworth]

Another point for the third film is the whole “There we’re dragons when I was a boy” monologue at the end, as that is the classic monologue from the books as it was at the very start of the first book, and it was almost identical to it, which was just a perfect ending for me as a fan of the books and the franchise

[ArcadianCatharsis]

10:44 you know it's funny, knowing the movies are based of a book, and that the show gets more into details you can actually see that village isn't so pro dragons, but they couldn't put everything in one movie, there is much more story to how to train your dragon

[thomaslundmarkappel]

I also really loved how the movies showcases different kinds of parallels between Hiccup and Toothless, as well Drago and his Alpha. In the beginning of the first movie, Toothless loses the left part of his tail, and at the end, Hiccup loses the lower part of his left leg. And of course the movie also explicitly states how Hiccup and Toothless are in similar circumstances, being loners in their respective packs and being exceptions to their kinds respective "always go for the kill" mentality.
Then in the second movie, we see that Drago has lost his left arm to a dragon, and at the end, his Alpha loses its left tusk, mirroring its master, and making this villanous pair and their physical trauma parallel Hiccup and Toothless! It's quite neat.

[thehonk]

The only potential good I could see coming from a live action HTTYD is if they actually made a point of doing a more faithful adaptation of the novels. What DreamWorks did with the franchise is amazing but different from the actual books. But if they were more faithful, then a live action adaptation could potentially stand more on its own as opposed to adapting the first adaptation.

[BlackSnowX]

"You're as beautiful as the day I lost you"

- I cry every time.

Also there's also a series which takes place between movie 1 and movie 2 with a lot of adventures of that 5 year time skip period, which honestly for a cartoon, is absolutely brilliant imo.

[nikcantsnipe]

I've such a fond memory with each of these films. I don't quite know if its the nostalgia or my love for the genre but I absolutely adore the second installment in the trilogy although I do think the first one is absolutely superior to the final installment. Toothless is a precious baby and I want to pet him. So happy to see it get a review.

[jon_with_no_n]

Jónsi's vocals in the soundtrack are so amazing. I can't imagine the movies without him.

[Spudiffer]

The music in the first film is iconic, one of the best scores I’ve ever heard