How to train your DRAGON

Mason Thames learns to love the big beasties in this wonderful live-action remake

- JASON BEST LIZ MILROY, NIGEL PIZEY

DreamWorks is copying the Disney playbook with this live-action remake - the studio's first - of its enchanting animated fantasy adventure based on the book by Cressida Cowell about an island where Vikings and dragons are at permanent war. As you might expect, director Dean DeBlois (co-director of the original 2010 animated film) cleaves closely to the or