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How to Train Your Dragon 2025 Review
3 months ago
Hi there
Just got back from watching the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon.
Okay, let's get this out of the way first. Yes, this is almost a scene-by-scene remake of the original animated film with some minor changes and edits (mostly setting things up for the 2nd movie). But I feel it works for this case, all the actors play their characters well, all the CGI Dragons look good, and they stay true to the original design of the dragons, but updated them just enough to fit in a live-action setting, and it still keeps the original messages of the animated movie.
Overall, I like it, and it was still a fun movie to watch. Will it replace the original animated film? No. But it will add more to the Dragon franchise in the end.
What's sad about this, I know the internet is going to rip this movie apart for not being original enough, and yet we got some live-action remakes like Lilo & Stitch that made some changes to fit a more modern setting that the internet didn't like either. So there's no way a remake could win. So, no matter which way they went, keep it the same, or make some changes, someone online will complain about it, and it just gets tiring seeing this every time a remake is announced.
So, at the end of the day, it's just going to depend on how well a remake is done and whether you like it or not.
Okay, let's get this out of the way first. Yes, this is almost a scene-by-scene remake of the original animated film with some minor changes and edits (mostly setting things up for the 2nd movie). But I feel it works for this case, all the actors play their characters well, all the CGI Dragons look good, and they stay true to the original design of the dragons, but updated them just enough to fit in a live-action setting, and it still keeps the original messages of the animated movie.
Overall, I like it, and it was still a fun movie to watch. Will it replace the original animated film? No. But it will add more to the Dragon franchise in the end.
What's sad about this, I know the internet is going to rip this movie apart for not being original enough, and yet we got some live-action remakes like Lilo & Stitch that made some changes to fit a more modern setting that the internet didn't like either. So there's no way a remake could win. So, no matter which way they went, keep it the same, or make some changes, someone online will complain about it, and it just gets tiring seeing this every time a remake is announced.
So, at the end of the day, it's just going to depend on how well a remake is done and whether you like it or not.
Ninetails2000
~rvroovie99
To be fair, the complaint is more about making changes that enrich the plot or take it in a new, different direction. The changes made to Lilo and Stitch only served to bring the movie down and cheapen it's message.
caseyljones
~caseyljones
OP
I disagree, I believe the changes they made to Lilo and Stitch didn’t cheapen it’s message in fact I believe it expanded on it. That’s the thing about movies they’re subjective we all view them in different ways.
