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Fails to catch fire

Daily Star

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June 13, 2025

Dean DeBlois, Oscar-nominated co-director and co-writer of the 2010 animation How To Train Your Dragon, flies solo for a live-action reworking that captures all the charm of the original but begs the question: why remake a film that was almost perfect and confidently passes the test of time?

- with DAMON SMITH

Fails to catch fire

Chieftain's son Hiccup (Mason Thames) yearns to win the approval of his father, Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler) in the village of Berk. During a night-time skirmish with dragons, Hiccup shoots down a Night Fury using his homemade catapult device. He secretly befriends the crash-landed beast, which he christens Toothless, and an unbreakable bond is forged between the young rebel and his tribe's sworn enemy.

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