How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 American computer-animated action fantasy film loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name by Cressida Cowell, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois from a screenplay by Will Davies, Sanders, and DeBlois, and stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, and Kristen Wiig. The story takes place in a mythical Viking world where a young Viking teenager named Hiccup aspires to follow his tribe's tradition of becoming a dragon slayer. After finally capturing his first dragon, a kind known as a Night Fury, and with his chance at last of gaining the tribe's acceptance, he finds out that he no longer wants to kill the dragon and instead befriends it, and names him Toothless.
Cast[]
- Jay Baruchel – Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the awkward son of Stoick the Vast.
- America Ferrera – Astrid Hofferson, Hiccup's fellow student in dragon training and his love interest.
- Gerard Butler – Stoick the Vast, the chieftain of Berk and Hiccup's father.
- Craig Ferguson – Gobber the Belch, Berk's blacksmith, a close friend of Stoick's and teacher of the tribe's young dragon-training recruits.
- Christopher Mintz-Plasse – Fishlegs Ingerman, an enthusiastic youth knowledgeable in dragon lore which he often relates in role-playing game style.
- Jonah Hill – Snotlout Jorgenson, one of Hiccup's dragon-training classmates. Snotlout is brash, overconfident, and fairly unintelligent, but reliable.
- T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig – Tuffnut and Ruffnut Thorston, a pair of quarrelsome twins.
- David Tennant – Spitelout, Snotlout's father.
- Robin Atkin Downes – Ack, a blond-bearded Viking.
- Philip McGrade – Starkard.
- Kieron Elliott – Hoark the Haggard, a Viking with a knotted beard.
- Ashley Jensen – Phlegma the Fierce, a female Viking.
- Randy Thom – vocal effects for Toothless the Night Fury.