How to Train Your Dragon filmHow to Train Your Dragon is a 2. American 3. Dcomputer animatedaction fantasy film produced by Dream. Works Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Loosely based on the British book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell, the film was directed by Chris Sanders and Dean De. Blois, the duo who directed Disneys Lilo Stitch. It stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T. J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher Mintz Plasse. The story takes place in a mythical Viking world where a young Viking teenager named Hiccup aspires to follow his tribes tradition of becoming a dragon slayer. After finally capturing his first dragon, and with his chance at last of gaining the tribes acceptance, he finds that he no longer wants to kill the dragon and instead befriends it. The film was released March 2. 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. How to Train Your Dragon 2 is the sequel to the How to Train Your Dragon film adaption. It was. Writerdirector Dean DeBlois talks about How to Train Your Dragon 3, revealing it will take the series to where the books begin a world without dragons. 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. NE7UrNsWkAKxbb_1_b/How-To-Train-Your-Dragon-2-Astrid-Character.jpg' alt='The Full How To Train Your Dragon 2 Movie ' title='The Full How To Train Your Dragon 2 Movie ' />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 Isle 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. Stoick 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. When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the. Hiccup makes a harness and prosthetic fin that allows him to guide the dragon in free flight. By studying Toothlesss 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. The son of a Viking chief must capture a dragon in order to mark his passage into manhood and prove his worthiness to the tribe in directors Chris Sanders and Dean. Fallen The Movie High Quality. Watch How to Train Your Dragon 2 Animation on DIRECTV. Its available to watch on TV, online, tablets, phone. Video5/v4/7d/18/cb/7d18cb85-da41-bb28-9190-3f77c1870151/source/1200x630bb.jpg' alt='The Full How To Train Your Dragon 2 Movie ' title='The Full How To Train Your Dragon 2 Movie ' />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 lower left leg has been replaced by a prosthesis, and the Vikings and the dragons now live in harmony. Voice cast 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.