Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon

This is a How to Train Your Dragon short. Gobber claims that a Boneknapper Dragon burned down his home. Nobody believes that species exists. Gobber sets off to find the elusive dragon which uses old dragon bones as armor. Hiccup and his friend join him to ensure his safety. Gobber tells them about hammerhead whales and hammerhead yaks in his previous encounters with his Boneknapper Dragon. This is good solid fun. It's absurd and funny. It fits the franchise nicely.

As with so many animated films, How to Train Your Dragon created this short film I presume to go on the DVD as an extra. The plot is that the gang of children set out in search of a completely mythical dragon called the Boneknapper – a dragon only known via the highly dubious stories told by Gobber. While the main parts of the short are CGI, the stories snap into a nicely effective cartoon style which I liked as it differentiated it from the "reality" of the rest of the film. I can understand why some would see these sections as "cheap" because they clearly are less expensive to produce, but this didn't mean that this was the motivation – it worked as a device for me, not as a cost-saving.

The plot is simple and most of the laughs do come from the exaggeration in the story-telling in the cartoon sections. It isn't great but I did like the "and what came rising out of the water/volcano/ice" bits as they were out of nowhere and consistent. The rest of it comes and goes pretty quickly though and I certainly don't think the short is worth making an effort to seek out and it certainly doesn't stand up to the standard of the main film. But as a throwaway extra on a DVD? Sure, why not?

This animated short is a sequel to How to Train Your Dragon and released as a DVD extra.

The film follows Hiccup and his friends accompanying their mentor Gobber on a quest to kill the mythical Boneknapper Dragon.

The dragon is recalled by Gobber in some dubious stories which we see presented in traditional 2D animation. I presume using such as animation technique was also quicker and cheaper to produce.

The normal story is done in CGI. It is amusing enough for kids and I liked the voice acting of Craig Ferguson who plays Gobber the Belch.

Hey, it's great series, I liked it and it's fun. At the end of the day, that's the most important thing. For me, the smaller issues come because it's a 2010 series, but the story & stuff to it makes this a very solid peace to watch, the characters, stories, I feel like I hate heatable characters & feel empathic with the main characters, so overall everything sounds and looks amazing, I really don't want to speak more about it but the minimum required characters makes but because the series was that good, no need for random gibberish stuff, so, are you still reading this? Get out, it's an 8, get over it.

This is a wonderful little short story, which gives an in depth look at a much loved character, filled with barrels and barrels of laughs!!!!!! Its so hilarious!!!!!!!!!!