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In the beginning scene when the dragons are attacking Berk, it shows several sky torch things being raised into the air. As one closest to the camera is rising, a Viking throws a burning stick at it to ignite it. If you watch it closely, you can see the torch starts burning first to the far left, well out of reach of the thrown fire. Even allowing for fumes igniting, the fumes nearest the flame should light first. See more...

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How to Train Your Dragon (2010) - 14 corrections

starring America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson, Gerard Butler, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill (add more)

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy

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When Hiccup releases Toothless after he is shot down, Toothless pins Hiccup to the floor and there is a close up of Toothless' eyes. His pupils reflect trees, which cannot happen as he is staring at Hiccup. [Toothless' eyes are curved: imagine it like looking at the bottom of a spoon. That mirror image doesn't just reflect what straight ahead of him.]
Edit Corrected by Friso94 Time
Throughout the movie, it is established that the Vikings have an Irish accent, or relative of. All the adults have the accent. Yet Hiccup does not. He is born and raised around them, yet he seems to not have any hint of an Irish accent. He only does once during the film, and that is when he is imitating his father's voice. Other than that, he does not have an accent to match his kin. In fact, none of the teens seem to have the Irish accent, which makes no sense. [It's a Scottish accent not Irish, and since Vikings would not have been speaking English anyway, the accents are mostly irrelevant.]
Edit Corrected by Christaffa
When the twins fly in front of the giant dragon after insulting it, the giant dragon blasts a line of fire at them. The fire passes by the twins on their dragon on their right side, then in the next shot it's passing on the left. [The Dragon actually fires twice at the twins. we see the first one go by the twins completely than we hear the second one as we view the twins from the back.]
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When Hiccup draws Toothless in the glen for the first time, he smudges the left tail section, indicating his understanding of the problem of why Toothless can't fly. When we next see the drawing, at dinner that night, the left tail section is clear and unsmudged. (And later in the film, it's smudged again.) Even if the filmmakers "fixed" this error while still in theaters, the DVD version I have shows the original errors - smudge/no smudge/smudge. [I have the DVD of the movie. And at the dinner table when Hiccup places the drawing on the dragon manual, the smudge is shown there.]
Edit Corrected by Quantom X
When Toothless first brings Hiccup and Astrid to the dragon's nest, it is nighttime. About a minute later, when they leave the nest, we can tell that it is daytime. The camera cuts to them back at Berk, and it is nighttime again. [What you are seeing at that time index, is not day light at the top of the next/mountain. It is moon light brightening up the clouds over head, or possibly smoke/steam coming from the mountain. It is still very much night time at the moment they leave the nest.]
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When Hiccup is training toothless and becomes liked by the locals, when he sits down to eat in the mess hall there is an adult viking that runs to his table from the opposite side Hiccup is sitting on. He runs straight through the bench and then sits on it. [Not true. There is no bench, he does not sit down, but simply puts his arms on the table.]
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When Hiccup draws Toothless in the glen for the first time, he smudges the left tail section, indicating his understanding of the problem of why Toothless can't fly. When we next see the drawing, at dinner that night, the left tail section is clear and unsmudged. (And later in the film, it's smudged again.). [This has been fixed. The tail IS smudged at the dinner scene.Apparently it was fixed whilst still in theaters.]
Edit Corrected by Moviegamer
During the first training sequence, Tuffnut and Ruffnut are fighting over a shield. After Ruffnut hits Tuffnut with the shield, she holds it in her hand, but in the next shot, they are both holding onto the shield. [On that scene, Ruffnut had always both hands on the shield.]
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Near the beginning, when Hiccup says the other teens names, right before he says Astrid's name the area behind her explodes, but neither her skirt nor her hair move at all, indicating no wind pushing out from the explosion that happened right behind her. [This scene is a goofy homage to action films and the whole point is that Hiccup sees Astrid as a lovely beauty who creates a significant reaction in Hiccup - it's not about explosions and wind blowing her skirt.]
Edit Corrected by MovieFan612
Towards the end of the film, right after Hiccup and Toothless take down the giant dragon and everyone is gathering around Toothless, right after Toothless reveals that he saved Hiccup, a close-up shot of Astrid shows her bangs away from her eye, but in the next immediate shot, her bangs are suddenly in front of her eye. [Throughout the entire film, we see Astrid constantly moving her fringe away from her eyes and it immediately falls back down again (e.g., in the training arena the first time they enter it for training). This is a normal characteristic for Astrid.]
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When Hiccup is looking for the night fury, he says, "I manage to lose an entire dragon!" He hits a branch and it snaps back to hit him, after which you see the red mark, but seconds later it's completely gone. [It's a slight red slash to indicate the branch striking him but it would, of course, dissipate quickly. It's not a cut or a raised welt. This isn't a mistake.]
Edit Corrected by MovieFan612
Throughout the entire movie, none of the characters' breath forms steam. There are many things in the film that point out it's very cold (Stoik mentioning winter is almost here, they must be in the arctic circle because the Northern Lights are visible, etc.) If it was even fairly cold, breath would form a steam cloud in the air but, somehow, this never happens. [1) The Northern Lights are not just visible in the arctic circle. 2) Given what's seen of the current climatic conditions and the abundant vegetation, it seems clear that it's not that cold at that point.]
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At the end of the film, just after the "queen" dragon is destroyed, Hiccup falls head-first, engulfed by the flames, but the injury he receives is losing his left leg. [We don't get to see the nature of his injuries or how he impacts the ground because he's wrapped in Toothless' wing. Toothless could have switched him to a heads-up orientation at the last second - shattering his leg, but saving his life.]
Edit Corrected by BocaDavie
When Astrid meets Toothless for the first time Hiccup says "She's a friend", referring to Toothless. It's established many times that Toothless is a "He". [Hiccup is talking to Toothless, referring to Astrid. He's trying to keep Toothless from attacking Astrid by telling him that she's a friend.]
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