How to Train Your Dragon

And we’re back to Berk – a live-action remake of the universally-beloved animated childhood-classic, this adaptation of How To Train Your Dragon is a love-fuelled ode to the original – and it’s hard not to compare them when the remake is virtually shot-for-shot. Featuring (probably) one of your favourite human-dragon dynamics Hiccup and Toothless, it’s a film steeped in nostalgia, packed with all the same fun-looking dragons, shaggy vikings, and dramatic family rivalry – so it’s basically the film no-one asked for but everybody needed. Hearing Powell’s score will take you back to the time that you were ten or twelve or whatever you were when it first released; the film is wholesome, endearing, and the perfect celebration of kinship and kindred spirits. The HTTYD franchise definitely has a cult following (and perhaps one of the most interesting of fanbases – Hiccup edits reemerging on the timeline, anyone??) and this latest addition is sure to bring in new fans. Whether or not you’ve seen this story before, or if you missed it more recently, you can catch the new How to Train Your Dragon now in L3.

Martha Gibbs