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It's New Berg at Snoogletog. It's ten years since humans and dragons have agreed to live apart. Hiccup and Astrid are shocked when their daughter Zephyr reveals her anti-dragon sentiments after reading her grandfather's old book. Hiccup decides to hold a dragon friendly festival by re-enacting his first contact with Toothless. This is a Christmas special coming after the third How to Train Your Dragon movie. This is a fun under-the-radar franchise and this continues its good works. It hits on a good theme and continues the story onwards.

Even though "How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming" may feel unnecessary - it's still a nice addition to the beloved franchise and giving us this time the final goodbye to the characters that we've known for almost ten years. It's even great that they brought back Jay Baruchel and America Ferrera to voice Hiccup and Astrid for one last time, because this short would not work without them. Even with it's flaws - it's a very enjoyable holiday special that everyone, including families will have fun while watching it. I'm giving "How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming" a 6.3/10.

Movie would be better than a short film. Looking forward to it.

"How did it happen?" - Hiccup

Basically that's what you get when people forget about things that were common for you.

On the one hand the Special was great, hilarious in places and homecoming))) but I dunno, I have kinda strange mixed up feelings about it. Seeing Hiccup and Toothless not together is just... it doesn't feel right. Tamed once - tamed forever. And letting dragons go is like throwing your favourite pet cat or dog into the wild. Not only Toothless but also all other dragons that lived on Berk wouldn't be scared of humans and if they meet someone who has never seen dragons....

The story was mainly concentrated on Zephyr and yet again as in Hiccup's case, she changed her mind when she actually saw Toothless and understood that he wasn't a thread. Well, maybe not exactly the same case, but the idea is the same: seeing and understanding that the thing is not quite what you think of it to be.

So I don't think that without dragons Berkians would be able to preserve that love and care that hey had when dragons lived with them. Slowly in a couple of generations everything would return to the beginning when people were terrified of dragons and hunted them.

I'm going to keep this review short and sweet just like this film; it is wonderful!

This is the second Christmas special for the franchise. In my opinion, it's quite inferior to its predecessor from eight years ago, "Gift of the Night Fury." Neither was scripted by Dean DeBlois, the man behind the three movies, but this one was unnecessary and brought nothing new to the story. Worst of all is that there's poor continuity between this and the epilogue of the final movie. The children's reactions are completely different, as was Toothless's. This lack of consistency made it difficult to reconcile this in the same universe. Watch this only if you're a completist superfan of the franchise. Despite enjoying all three movies, most of the specials and some of the TV episodes, I won't be watching it again myself.

My family loves the HTTYD series! We were all so excited to learn that we would get more of Toothless, Hiccup, and Co. We loved how the characters bond remained strong even over long distances and time. There are people that will always leave an impression on our hearts and this was a good reminder of that. We have made a promise to reach out to those who have touched our hearts this holiday season. This is a fun dive back into the characters that will leave you remembering why you love HTTYD so much.

Didn't like most of it with the childish story and very obvious silly mistakes but it all left my heart pounding and whelming just hearing Hiccub screaming Toothless and leading to the end of the third movie💔 It still is an honour to have witnessed this saga.

After The Hidden World, I always wondered how would Hiccup's children reaction to Dragons. A charming yet rushed short, Homecoming answered that question and gives us the HTTYD feels we all love. Highly recommend.

+ Not ten seconds into the short and you get the feeling and nostalgia of the franchise.

+ Animation quality and direction are fantastic, unlike other Dragons shorts. Scenes and shifting are captured very well.

+ Outstanding Music reminiscent to the HTTYD theme, with new tweaks.

+ Hiccup and Astrid are yet again a remarkable duo. Strong writing for both of them.

+ Zephyr and Nightlights' characters are unique well-developed. Definitely the star of the short.

+ Remarkable voice acting for the children. Nuffing's accent!

+ The satisfying amount of content out of 20 minutes we all needed.

• Hiccup's voice acting hasn't been modified to suit his older self. Feels like same young Hiccup.

• Rushed. Could've used more time to develop scenes. We barely saw New Berk or it's traditions, and "three days" seemed like a couple of minutes.

• Missing characters.

🚨 SPOILERS follow 🚨

• Hiccup not emphasizing Gobber's memories for Stoick makes absolutely no sense given Hiccup known love for his father.

• Major characters missing. Most are supposedly 31 years old, why do they look young? Didn't they start families? With Vikings' life span, it makes no sense they're still young, even when Hiccup already has TWO children. Focus was definitely not given to the background.

I didn't pay attention when I got this movie to view, we had enjoyed the various "HTTYD" movies and expected this one to be another one. Nope! It is a 22 minute short, I suppose a holiday special. While it has its own charm I can't really compare it to a feature length movie. Even the animation detail seems inferior, although that just might be an impression. Overall I'd say watch it if it comes on free TV but don't pay to see it, not good enough.

My wife and I watched it at home on DVD from our public library. So it was free.

Story keeps unfolding too slow and it lets the audience get ahead of it right off the bat. Less would have been more. Points for stunning visuals, VO and character animation.

Amazing short really brings so many mixed emotions they really need to make more of httyd in movies of how the the next gen has grown to be teens and have dragons of their own.

On the Isle of Berk, Vikings and dragons have been living apart for ten years. Hiccup and Astrid have grown up without seeing dragons and they fear them as monsters.

So Hiccup plans a holiday pageant. To remind villagers both new and old of the bond between humans and dragons.

The pageant does not go without a hiccup but Toothless shows up, bringing his two offsprings. Hiccup's kids are enchanted by the dragonlings.

This animated short was released after the third How to Train Your Dragon feature movie.

It is a breezy enough short that younger kids will like. The animation style is good as well as the voice acting.

I love how to train your dragons since i was 6 because theres dragons and it would be a shame to let the journey end.... Love The OG Days of How To Train Your Dragon.😪

This is a great festive film for everyone to watch and enjoy the holidays. It is also a nice addition to the franchise. It fits in nicely. The storyline was a fine way of revealing to viewers the importance and significance of what festivities are all about. The cast selection is always great in this franchise. The festive and holiday season is always a bad time for me. One bad experience can ruin something for anyone. That is what happened to me. The festive season is a dark reminder of that. That adds more difficulties to my already chaotic life. It never ends for me. This is a good and fine festive short film for all viewers to watch and enjoy.

How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019) is a Christmas themed short film in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise and it was great.

Positives for How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019): It was cool to see what Christmas is like in this franchise and how these characters celebrate it. I liked seeing Toothless and the Light Fury with their kids and they were cute. You get good moments of humor and hijinks. And finally, the play of the first meeting between Hiccup and Toothless was fun.

Negatives for How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019): This short film only exists because DreamWorks Animation and NBC wanted to create a holiday special in the franchise for the kids.

Overall, How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019) was great holiday-themed short film in the franchise and I can see myself rewatching this during the Christmas season.

As a huge fan of HTTYD I was actually disappointed with this release... the spoilers had made me expect way more than what was actually in store.. also how this was only around 20 mins and spoilers are at 7 mins max... like what's the point of building up that much expectation only to disappoint us like this 😭💔

I couldn't get into this story with the accents all over the place. Most of the people sound American, even the daughter, then there's the son with the accent that sounds American with the odd Irish/Scottish combo thrown in at the end of sentences for supposed Norse people? American movie producers must feel like they need to "Americanise" everything because we're too stupid to understand English spoken with other accents for authenticity. They're making our kids unaware of other cultures too.