<P> 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, and with his chance at last of gaining the tribe's acceptance, he finds that he no longer wants to kill the dragon and instead befriends it . </P> <P> The film was released March 26, 2010, and was a critical and commercial success, earning acclaim from film critics and audiences and earning nearly $500 million worldwide . It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score at the 83rd Academy Awards, but lost to Toy Story 3 and The Social Network, respectively . The movie also won ten Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature . </P> <P> A sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, was released on June 13, 2014, with DeBlois writing and directing by himself . Much like its predecessor, the sequel was also universally acclaimed and became a box office success . A second and final sequel, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, is to be released on March 1, 2019 . The film's success has also inspired other merchandise, including a video game and a television series . </P> <P> On Berk, a Viking village located on a remote island from which dragons periodically steal livestock, Hiccup, the awkward fifteen - year - old son of the village chieftain, Stoick the Vast, works as a blacksmith's apprentice . As he is too small and weak to fight the dragons, he instead fashions mechanical devices under his apprenticeship with Gobber, the senior blacksmith, though his inventions often malfunction or backfire . During one attack, Hiccup shoots down a Night Fury, an extremely rare and dangerous dragon, with a bola launcher of his; he later finds it in the forest trapped in his bolas, but finding that he cannot bring himself to kill the dragon, he instead sets it free . </P>

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