Our long national nightmare of live-action remakes continues, with a staggering $83 million box office take for How To Train Your Dragon, a remake of the 2010 animated smash. Coupled with the film’s $114 million international haul,

How to Train Your Dragon has set an audience score record for live-action adaptations of animated films, compared to all the Disney entries.

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It’s not even just that which made this good – the characters' mannerisms were there, the dragons were there – Toothless looked so good, and I literally felt tears come to my eyes when John Powell’s score swelled as he and Hiccup took their first real flight together. It was like a blast to the past.

On the set of the live-action movie, Toothless and the other dragons existed as large puppets with simple functions, operated by a team of master puppeteers led by Tom Wilton, a performer who had worked on the “War Horse” stage play.

Unless you're a very dedicated How to Train Your Dragon fan, it's fair to say that the post-credit scene isn't the most important watch. Rather than set up the sequel (which we assume would follow the same story as the animated sequel), we see Hiccup open his journal to his sketch of Toothless with the Book of Dragons in the background.

With the box office success of “How to Train Your Dragon” (taking in nearly $197 million worldwide opening weekend), fans are itching to watch the fantasy adventure movie again and again at home. If you can’t make it to the movie theater,