Bringing in Chris Sanders from Disney is still one of DreamWorks Animation’s best moves, as How to Train Your Dragon remains a classic.

| Sep 25, 2024

has an important message for kids with a ton of heart and soul

| Jan 8, 2024

When it’s all over, the movie’s strengths—the impressive visuals, the neat dragon designs, and the central boy-and-his-dog relationship—are what remain and make it worth your time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2023

The story is so-so, but the animation is delicious. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 19, 2022

Director Dean DeBlois’s trilogy is not only great entertainment, but powerful emotional storytelling about what it means to grow up, and be responsible for others.

| May 3, 2022

Gone are the sarcastic one-liners, replaced by some genuinely funny slapstick...

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 19, 2021

Has all the ingredients of a blockbuster action film - yet it's a family-friendly computer-animated movie.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 29, 2020

The vocal work in How to Train Your Dragon is stellar across the board, most notably Jay Baruchel's delightful mix of vulnerability and hidden strength.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

You can see that the animators who worked on How to Train Your Dragon loved every minute of making it.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 24, 2019

Gorgeously animated, and accompanied by a rousing score by John Powell, How to Train Your Dragon is a delightful adventure with a surprising dose of heart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2019

How to Train Your Dragon, an animated wonder of a film, does have often-familiar, heartwarming themes about individuality, acceptance, teamwork and prosthetics. It also has wicked awesome dragons...

| Feb 27, 2019

How to Train Your Dragon boasts stunning visuals, particularly the gorgeous and exhilarating dragonback flying scenes, which are worth the extra cost for 3-D tickets.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 8, 2018

So far, the best animated movie of 2010. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2018

It's charming, funny and a lot like Avatar, though less solemn and an hour shorter.

| Dec 8, 2014

Based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the movie from writer-director Dean Dubois is funny, well-drawn and imaginatively structured so that adults need have no fear about taking the kids to it.

| Dec 8, 2014

Instead of relying on dizzying gimmicks, Dreamworks' new animated feature simply revels in the sheer heart-pumping pleasure of watching action unfold through those Buddy Holly-style glasses.

| Dec 8, 2014

It's a foolproof scheme for picture making: take the plot elements of favorite movies, paint the concoction with bright colors so it looks like the zazziest customized car, set it running at NASCAR speed, and you have How to Train Your Dragon.

| Dec 8, 2014

Undoubtedly Dreamworks' best film yet, and quite probably the best dragon movie ever made.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 8, 2014

Everything from the angle of the shot to the speed of the editing projects an end visual that feels like you're either on Toothless' back or you get an outsider perspective of just how fast he's flying.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 8, 2014

What helps elevate How to Train Your Dragon above the glut of other recent animated fare is its message about tolerance and realizing that your enemy may not be as different as you think.

| Dec 8, 2014