How To Train Your Dragon: Dubbed German animation revives adventure film
Pitched somewhere between unofficial spin-off and bare-faced rip-off, it pairs teenage thief Ben (voiced by Freddie Highmore) with a misfiring adolescent dragon called Firedrake (Thomas Brodie-Sangster). They bump into one another as Ben makes his escape after attempting to steal some jewellery at the premiere of a film called How To Tame Your Dragon, a scene which I imagine has been played a fair few times in the offices of DreamWorks’ legal department.
At first, Ben is shocked to see a dragon in the flesh. According to the movie’s prologue, the misunderstood creatures have been in hiding for centuries after falling foul of the warlike humans.
But then Ben overhears Firedrake chatting to his sidekick Sorrell (Felicity Jones), a ‘brownie’ (a pixie, not a girl cub scout) with a deep distrust of humankind.
When they mention their quest to find a mythical dragon paradise filled with silver, Ben claims to be the fabled dragon rider who can guide them to its gates.
