Film Review — How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
A near shot-for-shot remake begs the obvious question: What’s the point?
If you look up “superfluous” in the dictionary, you’ll find the new take on How to Train Your Dragon. An utterly unnecessary live-action remake of Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois’s 2010 animated gem, this features DeBlois at the helm once more. Apparently, he didn’t want to see anyone else’s version of the story. I understand that to a p…
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