It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score at the 8. Academy Awards, but lost to Toy Story 3 and The Social Network, respectively. The movie also won ten Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature. A sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, was released on June 1. Deblois writing and directing by himself. Much like its predecessor, the sequel was also universally acclaimed and became a box office success. A second sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 3 is to be released on March 1, 2. The films success has also inspired other merchandise, including a video game and a television series. The island of Berk is a remote Viking village, from which dragons periodically steal livestock. Hiccup, the awkward fifteen year old son of the village chieftain, Stoick the Vast, is too small to fight the dragons and instead fashions mechanical devices under his apprenticeship with Gobber the blacksmith, though his inventions often backfire. During one attack, Hiccup believes he has shot down a Night Fury, an extremely rare and dangerous dragon. Hiccup later finds it in the forest trapped in his bolas, but finds that he cant bring himself to kill the dragon and instead sets it free. How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 American 3D computeranimated actionfantasy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Loosely. Directed by Tom Owens. With Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera. As the village of Berk prepares for its winter holiday, the resident dragons. Download Legend Of The Boneknapper Dragon Cartoon Now MovieStoick assembles a fleet to find the dragons nest, leaving Hiccup in a dragon fighting class taught by Gobber. Hiccup returns to the forest to find the Night Fury still there, and realizes it is unable to fly properly because of its crippled caudal fin. Hiccup gradually tames the dragon and gives it the name Toothless, for its retractable teeth. Hiccup makes a harness and prosthetic fin that allows him to guide the dragon in free flight. Brave Stream. By studying Toothless behavior, Hiccup becomes proficient in subduing the captive dragons during training. Stoicks fleet arrives home unsuccessful, but he is cheered by Hiccups unexpected success. Astrid, a tough Viking girl on whom Hiccup has a crush, discovers Hiccup is training Toothless, but Hiccup takes her for a ride to demonstrate his relationship with the dragon before she can tell the village. Toothless unexpectedly takes the pair to the dragons nest where they discover a gargantuan dragon named the Red Death,2 which eats the smaller dragons unless they bring it stolen livestock. Back at the village, Hiccup subdues a captive dragon in his final training test in front of his father instead of killing it, but Stoick inadvertently angers the dragon into attacking. Toothless attempts to protect Hiccup in the ensuing panic but is instead captured by the Vikings. Hiccup accidentally reveals to Stoick that Toothless is capable of locating the dragons nest. Stoick disowns his son and sets off for the nest with Toothless chained to the lead ship as a guide. The Vikings expel most of the dragons but are overwhelmed by the Red Death until Hiccup, Astrid and their fellow pupils fly in riding the training dragons from the academy and provide cover fire. Hiccup almost drowns trying to break Toothless free from a sinking ship but Stoick saves them both and then reconciles with his son. Toothless and Hiccup destroy the Red Death but Hiccup is injured in the fight. Hiccup regains consciousness on Berk where his left foot has been replaced by a prosthesis, and the Vikings and the dragons now live in harmony. Voice casteditJay Baruchel as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III companion of Toothless, a Night Fury. Producer Bonnie Arnold declared that Hiccups appeal emerges from Baruchels voice acting and the characters mannerisms making him a slightly offbeat character. Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast, the chieftain of the Viking tribe and Hiccups father. A fierce, immensely strong and utterly fearless, warrior. Director Chris Sanders described Stoick as representing everything thats Viking, and thus a very important character in how he intimidates his son Hiccup. Butler considered that half my career led me into playing a role like this, particularly Beowulf Grendel, which is set in the Viking age, and was trying to avoid depicting Stoick as villainous, instead aiming for a character that we can all identify, hes not just big and tough, also vulnerable. Craig Ferguson as Gobber the Belch blacksmith, a close friend of Stoicks, and training master of the young warriors. He is the mediator between Hiccup and Stoick. He is missing his right foot and his left hand, the latter of which he has replaced with a variety of specialized prosthetics. Director Dean Deblois said Gobbers characterization drew a lot from how Fergusons comedic routine takes a really dark situation and phrases it in a way theres always a punchline. Dream. Works had long been interested in having Ferrera voicing one of their movies and, once invited, the actress picked up Cressida Cowells book, which made her accept the job. Bonnie Arnold complimented how Ferrera has a strong voice, but also a lot of heart in it that helped make Astrid sympathetic even as she continued being rough to Hiccup. Bonnie Arnold declared Mintz Plasses voice made them immediately think of Fishlegs, as the characters big frame needed something to contrast, and the actors squeaky, small voice was perfect to complement a dragon nerd. Jonah Hill as Snotlout Jorgenson, one of Hiccups dragon training classmates. Snotlout is brash, overconfident, and fairly unintelligent, but reliable. T. J. Miller and Kristen Wiig as Tuffnut and Ruffnut Thorston, a pair of quarrelsome twins. David Tennant as Spitelout. A Viking who is not named in the film, he appears to be Stoicks second in command and Snotlouts father. Tennant has previously narrated a series of Hiccup adventures on audio book. Robin Atkin Downes as Ack. Philip Mc. Grade as Starkard. Kieron Elliot as Hoark the Haggard. Ashley Jensen as Phlegma the Fierce. Productionedit. Early production concept artwork of Toothless and HiccupThe book series by Cressida Cowell began coming to attention to the executives at Dream. Works Animation in 2. Coming off her success in Over the Hedge, producer Bonnie Arnold shortly became interested in the newly acquired property. She kept focusing on the project as time went on, and when Dream. Works Animation co president of production Bill Damaschke asked her what she wanted to work on next, she chose How to Train Your Dragon. In initial development, the plot followed the original novel closely, but about halfway through production Chris Sanders and Dean De. Blois, the writer directors of Disneys Lilo Stitch, took over as co directors and it was altered. The original plot was described as, heavily loyal to the book, but was regarded as being too sweet and whimsical as well as geared towards a too young demographic, according to Baruchel. In the novel, Hiccups dragon, Toothless, is a Common or Garden Dragon, a small breed. In the film, Toothless is a Night Fury, the rarest of all dragons, and is large enough to serve as a flying mount for both Hiccup and Astrid.