How to Train Your Dragon

When Hiccup first attached the artificial tail fin, Toothless is distracted by eating fish from a basket.

Toothless takes off with Hiccup on his tail, we get a shot of the ground - the basket is missing.

When Hiccup is searching for the dragon he shot down, he hits a tree branch which flings back in his face.

In the next shot Hiccup hasn't moved, but the branch is gone.

The first prints of this movie showed Hiccup's drawing of a Night Fury with its tail intact, when the drawing was dropped onto the Dragon Book.

This was a continuity error, since part of the tail fin on that drawing had been erased in a previous scene.

Many digital theaters had a corrected version of the movie, showing that erased tail, by mid April 2010.

(The DVD and Blu-Ray discs also have the corrected tail at the Dragon Book scene.

) The Vikings use many modern words.

We are hearing a translation of what they would have been saying.

During the dragon training scene with the zippleback, Tuffnut is dragged into the gas cloud by the dragon and loses his hat, leaving it in plain view.

He then runs out of the cloud wearing the hat again.

The actual size of Toothless varies from one scene to another (compared to Hiccup's height).

Despite Hiccup insisting that on Berk it "snows nine months out of the year and hails the other three," neither snow nor hail are seen throughout the entire movie; however, this is pretty realistic for an unhappy teenager describing his or her hometown, even today.

When Toothless pins Hiccup to the rock after being set free, we see trees in the reflections of his eyes.

Toothless was looking straight down at Hiccup, where no trees could possibly have been seen.

Astrid's patronym is Hofferson when, according to Norse traditions, it should be Hoffersdóttir.

While patronymic names are no longer used exclusively in Nordic countries, and while the suffixes have since changed (-dotter/-datter in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; though Iceland still uses -dóttir), during the Viking era patronyms were always used in place of family names and -dóttir was the suffix for a daughter.

When Astrid follows Hiccup into the valley, she has an axe, when Toothless attacks, Hiccup then has the axe and tosses it away.

Next scene the axe is gone.

After the final battle when Hiccup gets out of bed, his feet swing to the floor from the wrong direction.

His pillows are on the right side of the screen so his feet should come from the left side.

While the people are described as Vikings, their accent is Scottish, not Scandinavian.

However, the Vikings colonised large portions of Scotland and the author of the books based the location of Berk on the Inner Hebrides.

Therefore the accents aren't quite geographically correct but they aren't incorrect.

I saw it a few days ago in the morning, minutes after I got out of bed. I was having breakfast and a little unwillingly I started watching it.

I watched this and "Toy Story 3" out of curiosity and to stay well informed, without any expectations of an actual high quality material. Imagine my surprise when my eyes remained glued to the screen and how soon I forgot the plastic-looking faces of some characters (common problem with with today's 3D animation attempts).

The boy is the first Viking who does not kill the dragon, but he is the only Viking who can ride the dragon. At the same time, he admires the perseverance of the male owner after breaking the leg.

This movie blew me away. Everything about this movie is perfect.

"How To Train Your Dragon"? Really?

How to Train Your Dragon is a story told long ago about a Viking village and the struggles the villagers have with dragons attacking them on a regular basis, stealing their livestock and setting buildings ablaze. Hiccup, played by Jay Baruchel, is a young boy wishing to join his father, Stoick, played by Gerard Butler, and the other men on the island of Berk as a dragon slayer.

I like this movie. There's a many expressive details,cool graphics.

IntroductionThis paper is going to be about the film How To Train Your Dragon which is part of DreamWorks Animation. This film is set in the days of Vikings and their village is attacked by dragons that feed off of their livestock and set portions of the village on fire.

DreamWorks Animation responds to Pixar's "Up" with "How To Train Your Dragons". The plot: in a mythical Viking kingdom, a young boy teaches his warmongering clan to put down their weapons and befriend dragons.