Fifteen years doesn’t seem very long to wait before doing a nearly scene-for-scene remake of an animated blockbuster. In the case of DreamWorks’ “How to Train Your Dragon,” that’s the same age as Hiccup Haddock, the callow boy Viking who deliberately defied his belligerent tribe’s long-running war on dragonkind by befriending one of the flying fire-breathers. It’s also just enough time for those who belonged to the tween-age target market for the 2010 original to be feeling nostalgic.
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