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How to Train Your Dragon

2010 · directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders · 98 min
25,554 feet · Prominence
337th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw75

Lifetime worldwide gross $495m, re-releases included; about $749m in 2026 money.

Rank325 of 11,051In 201010 of 306

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise89

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics87 baseAwards25 signal → +2 lift

Oscars2 nominated Animated Feature, Original Score
BAFTAs1 nominated Craft and other
How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy60

Judged directly: Toothless beloved, franchise still growing.

Verdict60 of 100IMDb8.1 from 883kWikipedia53k views a monthAge16 years

Scored beside it · 551 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 75 praise 89 legacy 60averages 75, placing it at25,554 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Jay Baruchel

In these careers — elevation for this film

Jay Baruchel19,912 ftGerard Butler19,196 ftAmerica Ferrera18,641 ftCraig Ferguson18,576 ftJonah Hill18,304 ftKristen Wiig18,119 ftChristopher Mintz-Plasse18,111 ftT.J. Miller18,066 ftChris Sanders17,992 ftDavid Tennant17,654 ft