How to Train Your Dragon (2025 film)

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2025 live-action film and a remake of the 2010 animated film of the same name, loosely based on the children's novel by Cressida Cowell. The film focuses on the Viking village of Berk, the inhabitants of which fight a never-ending war with multiple varieties of dragon, until the chieftan's misfit son, Hiccup, accidentally captures one and ends up befriending it.

Directed by Dean DeBlois. Written by DeBlois.
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Dialogue

Hiccup (v.o.): This is Berk. So far off the map but it might as well not exist. [We glide through the fog to see two giant Viking statues with fires burning in their mouths. We go past the statues only to dive through a crashing wave and jump to a closer shot of the island. As we pan in a circular motion, we see several structures, houses, and a sheep farm.]
Hiccup (v.o): My village. In a word, sturdy. It's been here for generations, but every single building is new. The air is crisp, the water is clean, and the viewers of nothing to complain about. [We land on fake sheep grazing in the grass.]
Hiccup (v.o): The only downsides are the pests. [A dragon carries one fake sheep away. The alarm is bells.] You see, most places have mice or mosquitoes. We have... [A dragon fires at the screen as door slams shut, a boy dodged behind it]
Hiccup: Dragons.
Hiccup: I really did hit one.
Gobber: Sure, Hiccup.
Hiccup: [about his father] He never listens.
Gobber: It runs in the family.
Hiccup: And when he does, it's always with this... disappointed scowl, like someone skimped on the meat in his sandwich. [imitating his father] "Excuse me, barmaid! I'm afraid you brought me the wrong offspring! I ordered an extra-large boy with beefy arms, extra guts, and glory on the side! This here, this is a talking fishbone!"
Gobber: Now, you're thinkin' about this all wrong. It's not so much what you look like. It's what's inside that he can't stand.
Hiccup: [sarcastically] Thank you for summing that up.
Gobber: Look, the point is, stop trying so hard to be something you're not.
Hiccup: I just wanna be one of you guys. [goes inside his house, then goes out the back door, out of his village, to look for Toothless]
[Hiccup returns home after failing to kill Toothless. He tries to sneak up to his bedroom, but Stoick hears him]
Stoick: Hiccup.
Hiccup: Dad! Uh, I have to talk to you, Dad.
Stoick: I need to speak with you too, son.
[They both take deep breaths and speak at once.]
Hiccup: I've decided I don't want to fight dragons.
Stoick: I think it's time you learned to fight dragons.
Hiccup and Stoick: [beat] What?
Stoick: Uh, you go first.
Hiccup: [kindly] No, no, you go first.
Stoick: Alright. [takes another deep breath] You get your wish. Dragon Training. You start in the morning.
Hiccup: [panicked] Oh, man, I should have gone first! Uh, 'cause I was thinking, you know, we have a surplus of dragon-fighting Vikings. But do we have enough...bread-making Vikings? Or small home repair Vikings?
Stoick: [not paying attention; drops a large battle axe into Hiccup's arms] You'll need this.
Hiccup: I don't wanna fight dragons.
Stoick: [chuckles] Oh, come on. Yes, you do.
Hiccup: Rephrase: Dad, I can't kill dragons!
Stoick: But you will kill dragons!
Hiccup: No, I'm really very extra sure that I won't.
Stoick: It's time, Hiccup.
Hiccup: [desperately] Can you not hear me?!
Stoick: This is serious, son! [takes the axe from Hiccup] When you carry this axe, [returns the axe] you carry all of us with you. Which means you walk like us, you talk like us, you think like us. No more of... [gestures to Hiccup] this.
Hiccup: [sighs] You just gestured to all of me.
Stoick: Deal?
Hiccup: This conversation is feeling very one-sided...
Stoick: Deal?
Hiccup: [sighs; giving in] Deal.
Gobber: WELCOME TO DRAGON TRAINING!
Astrid: No turning back.
[The teens enter the arena and look around in wonder]
Tuffnut: I hope I get some serious burns!
Ruffnut: I'm hoping for some mauling, like on my shoulder or lower back.
Astrid: [wryly] Yeah, it's only fun if you get a scar out of it.
Hiccup: [entering behind the others; unenthusiastic] Yeah, no kidding, right? Pain, love it.
Tuffnut: Oh, great! Who let him in?
Gobber: Let's get started! The recruit who does best will win the honor of killing his first dragon in front of the entire village.
Snotlout: [mockingly] Hiccup already killed a Night Fury, so does that disqualify him, or...?
[Snotlout and the twins snicker]
Tuffnut: Can I switch classes with the cool Vikings?
Gobber: [aside, to Hiccup] Don't worry, you're small and weak. That'll make you less of a target. They'll see you as sick or insane and go after the more Viking-like teens instead. [aloud, to the other teens] Behind these doors are just a few of the many species you will learn to fight! The Deadly Nadder.
Fishlegs: Speed 8, Armor 16.
Gobber: The Hideous Zippleback.
Fishlegs: Plus 11 stealth times 2.
Gobber: The Monstrous Nightmare.
Fishlegs: Firepower 15.
Gobber: The Terrible Terror.
Fishlegs: Attack 8! Venom 12!
Gobber: [irritated] CAN YOU STOP THAT?! And the... Gronckle.
Fishlegs: [whispers to Hiccup] Jaw strength 8.
Gobber: The Terrible Terror!
[From a pet door emerges a small, green dragon about the size of a Chihuahua.]
Tuffnut: Ha! That's like the size of my-- [the Terror leaps onto his face. The Terrible Terror chases a shiny light created by Hiccup's shield back into the enclosure]
[After Hiccup stops Toothless from attacking Astrid]
Hiccup: Toothless, Astrid. Astrid, Toothless. The, uh, Night Fury. [Astrid is about to grab her axe, but Toothless growls menacingly at her. Astrid stares at the two in disbelief, then runs off to tell the village.] Da, da-da, we're dead! [Toothless shrugs and walks away] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Where do you think you're going?
Astrid: [hanging from a tree branch] Hiccup! Get me down from here!
Hiccup: [pleading] You have to give me a chance to explain!
Astrid: I am not listening to anything you have to say!!
Hiccup: Then I won't speak. Just let me show you. [softer] Please, Astrid.
Hiccup: [Toothless starts to drop] Oh no.
Astrid: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Hiccup: Toothless, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! We need her to LIKE us. [Toothless starts spinning] And now, the spinning. [Deadpan] Thank you for nothing, you useless reptile.
[Hiccup, Astrid, and Toothless return to the cove from the Dragon's Nest after witnessing the Red Death for the first time]
Astrid: No! No, it totally makes sense! It's like a giant beehive. They're the workers, and that's their queen. It controls them. [She dismounts from Toothless' back and runs toward the village] Let's find your dad.
Hiccup: [Also dismounts and stops Astrid] No, no! They'll kill Toothless, no. Astrid, we need to think this through. Carefully.
Astrid: Hiccup, we just discovered the Dragon's Nest. The thing we've been after since Vikings first sailed here! And you want to keep it a secret? To protect your pet dragon? Are you serious?
Hiccup: [looks at her with hardened expression] Yes.
[Astrid looks at him, surprised at his determination; Hiccup looks away]
Astrid: Okay. Then what do we do?
Hiccup: Just give me until tomorrow. I'll figure something out.
Astrid: Okay. [punches Hiccup's arm] That's for kidnapping me. [Hiccup and Toothless exchange confused looks. Astrid leans forward and quickly kisses him on the cheek] That's for... everything else.
Hiccup: [blushingly watches her walk away and Toothless walks beside him giving a smile; stammers] Are you--What are you lookin' at?
[Hiccup and Hookfang are face to face. Hiccup drops his knife and shield and reaches out to touch Hookfang. The Vikings start mumbling]
Stoick: What's he doing?
Hiccup: [to Hookfang] It's okay. It's okay. [takes his hat off and throws it aside] I'm not one of them.
[The Vikings gasp in shock]
Stoick: Stop the fight.
Hiccup: No! You all need to see this. They're not what we think they are. We don't have to kill them.
Stoick: I SAID, STOP THE FIGHT!!! [whacks his hammer on the ring cage railing with a loud clang, which startles Hookfang into attacking Hiccup]
Astrid: It's a mess. You must feel horrible. You've lost everything. Your father, your tribe, your best friend...
Hiccup: Thank you for summing that up. [sadly] Why couldn't I have killed that dragon when I found him in the woods? It would've been better. For everyone.
Astrid: Yep. The rest of us would have done it. So why didn't you? [Hiccup doesn't answer] Why didn't you?
Hiccup: I don't know. I couldn't.
Astrid: That's not an answer.
Hiccup: [irate] Why is this so important to you all of a sudden?
Astrid: Because I want to remember what you say, right now.
Hiccup: [angrily] Oh, for the love of - I was a coward! I was weak! I wouldn't kill a dragon.
Astrid: You said "wouldn't" that time.
Hiccup: [snaps] Whatever! I wouldn't! Three hundred years, and I'm the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon.
[Silence]
Astrid: First to ride one, though. So...?
Hiccup: I wouldn't kill him... because he looked as frightened as I was. I looked at him, and I saw myself.
Astrid: I bet he's really frightened now. What are you going to do about it?
Hiccup: Eh, probably something stupid.
Astrid: Good, but you've already done that.
Hiccup: [smiles, getting an idea] Then something crazy. [runs off]
Astrid: [smiles] That's more like it. [follows him]
Stoick: When we crack this mountain open, all hell is gonna break loose.
Gobber: And my undies. Good thing I brought extras!
Stoick: No matter how this ends, it ends today.
[The Red Death emerges from the cave]
Gobber: Beard of Thor! What is that?!
Stoick: Odin help us...
[After Stoick rescues Hiccup and Toothless from drowning, Toothless motions to Hiccup]
Hiccup: You got it, bud. [mounts Toothless]
Stoick: Hiccup! [grabs Hiccup's hand; Hiccup turns] I'm sorry... For--For everything.
Hiccup: Yeah, me too.
Stoick: You don't have to go up there.
Hiccup: We're Vikings. It's an occupational hazard.
Stoick: [takes his hand] I'm proud to call you my son.
Hiccup: Thanks, Dad.
[Hiccup and Toothless fly into the sky]
Astrid: [sees Hiccup] He's up! Get Snotlout out of there!
Twins: I'm on it!
Tuffnut: [arguing] I'm on it first! I'm ahead of you!
Ruffnut: [arguing] Hey! let me drive!
Tuffnut: [arguing] No, this way, don't push me
Ruffnut: [arguing] Stop it, I'll take your teeth out
[Snotlout hops onto Ruffnut and Tuffnut's dragon]
Tuffnut: Aw, I can't believe that worked!
[Red Death pulls Astrid's dragon using his vacuum ability]
Gobber: NIGHT FURY! Get down! [Red Death pushes Astrid off her dragon and she falls, screaming, until Toothless saves her]
Hiccup: Did you get her? [Toothless looks upside down to see if he saved Astrid. Then he safely puts her down]
Astrid: Go.
Hiccup: That thing has wings! Okay, let's see if it can use them!
[Toothless strikes Red Death really hard, Red Death screams and falls over]
[Red Death spreads his wings]
Hiccup: You think that did it?
[Red Death roars]
Hiccup: Well he can fly.
Crowd: WOOOOOOOOOOOO! Yeah! GO HICCUP!
Hiccup: Okay Toothless, time to disappear! Come on, bud!
[Red Death follows Toothless and Hiccup, while he/she/it chomps constantly before releasing fire]
Hiccup: Here it comes!
[Red Death releasing fire]
[Red Death keeps chasing Toothless and Hiccup up the clouds]
[Red Death chomps and loses Toothless and Hiccup out of his sight]
[Toothless shoots plasma blasts at the Red Death]
[Red Death gets mad and releases fire]
Hiccup: Watch out!
[Toothless' prosthetic tail catches fire]
Hiccup: Okay, times up! Let's see if this works. COME ON! IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO?!
[Toothless roars]
[Red Death chomps again]
[Red Death roars loudly]
Hiccup: Stay with me, buddy. We're good. Just a little bit longer.
[Red Death gets mad]
Hiccup: Hold Toothless...
[Red Death gets ready to release fire]
Hiccup: NOW!
[Toothless shoots a plasma blast down Red Death's throat]
[Red Death spreads his wings but they rip apart quickly]
Red Death: [Roaring]
[Red Death accepts his end, slams into the ground and explodes]
Hiccup: [runs into Red Death's clubbed tail] No! NO! [collides with Red Death's clubbed tail and falls off]
Stoick: Hiccup! HICCUP?! SON! [sees Toothless but with Hiccup nowhere to be found] Hiccup. [kneeling beside Toothless] Oh, son... I did this. [Toothless stirs and opens his eyes, looking at Stoick] [close to tears] I'm s... I'm so sorry. [Toothless lifts his wings, revealing Hiccup clutched in his paws] Hiccup! [picks him up, puts an ear to his chest and laughs with relief] Oh, he's alive! You brought him back alive! [the Vikings cheer and Stoick puts a hand on Toothless' head] Thank you for saving my son.
Gobber: [comes over; grimacing] Well... you know, most of him.
[Hiccup is later seen to have lost his foot during the battle]
Hiccup: [seeing the newly reformed Berk] I knew it... I'm dead.
Stoick: [chuckling] No, but you gave it your best shot. So, what do you think?
Viking: Look, it's Hiccup!
[The Vikings gather around Stoick and Hiccup]
Stoick: Turns out all we needed was a little more of... [points to Hiccup] this.
Hiccup: [surprised] You just gestured to all of me.
[Stoick smiles and nods]
Gobber: Well, most of you. [gestures to Hiccup's peg leg] That bit's my handiwork. With a little Hiccup flair thrown in! You think it'll do?
Hiccup: [looks at it; jokes] I might make a few tweaks.
[The Vikings laugh. Astrid comes up behind Hiccup and punches him in the arm]
Astrid: That's for scaring me!
Hiccup: [shocked] Wha-what?! What, is it always gonna be this way? 'Cause-- [Astrid cuts him off by kissing him on the lips. Hiccup's expression changes to one of pleasant surprise.] I could get used to it.
[Astrid smiles.]

Taglines

  • The legend is real.

Cast

See also

  Feature films    Animated     How to Train Your Dragon  (2010) · How to Train Your Dragon 2  (2014) · How to Train Your Dragon 3  (2019)
 Live action      (2025)
  Short films     Gift of the Night Fury  (2011) · Dawn of the Dragon Racers  (2014) · Homecoming (2019)
  Television series     DreamWorks Dragons
  Feature films     Animated      Antz  (1998) · The Prince of Egypt  (1998) · The Road to El Dorado  (2000) · Chicken Run  (2000) · Shrek  (2001) · Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron  (2002) · Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas  (2003) · Shrek 2  (2004) · Shark Tale  (2004) · Madagascar  (2005) · Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit  (2005) · Over the Hedge  (2006) · Flushed Away  (2006) · Shrek the Third  (2007) · Bee Movie  (2007) · Kung Fu Panda  (2008) · Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa  (2008) · Monsters vs. Aliens  (2009) · How to Train Your Dragon  (2010) · Shrek Forever After  (2010) · Megamind  (2010) · Kung Fu Panda 2  (2011) · Puss in Boots  (2011) · Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted  (2012) · Rise of the Guardians  (2012) · The Croods  (2013) · Turbo  (2013) · Mr. Peabody & Sherman  (2014) · How to Train Your Dragon 2  (2014) · Penguins of Madagascar  (2014) · Home  (2015) · Kung Fu Panda 3  (2016) · Trolls  (2016) · The Boss Baby  (2017) · Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie  (2017) · How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World  (2019) · Abominable  (2019) · Trolls World Tour  (2020) · The Croods: A New Age  (2020) · Spirit Untamed  (2021) · The Boss Baby: Family Business  (2021) · The Bad Guys  (2022) · Puss in Boots: The Last Wish  (2022) · Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken  (2023) · Trolls Band Together  (2023) · Kung Fu Panda 4  (2024) · The Wild Robot  (2024) · Dog Man  (2025) · The Bad Guys 2  (2025)
  Live action      (2025)
  Short films     Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party  (2001) · Shrek 4D  (2003) · Far Far Away Idol  (2004) · Thriller Night  (2011) · Puss in Boots: the Three Diablos  (2012)
  Television specials     Shrek the Halls  (2007) · Scared Shrekless  (2010)
  Television series     The Penguins of Madagascar
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