"How to Train Your Dragon" is an animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation. It is based on the 2003 book of the same name by Cressida Cowell. The film is set in the Viking village of Berk, where dragons frequently attack and burn down houses. The story follows Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, a young Viking who befriends a dragon after shooting it with a bolas launcher he built. The dragon, a Night Fury, turns out to be extremely intelligent and less a mindless beast than Hiccup initially thought.