How to Train Your Dragon

Colored Vikings

Black Astrid, maori Fishlegs, fat Ruffnut.

movie was alright but Astrid was a light skin.

Not any more woke than the original

This was a darn good "live action" remake of the original. Scrawny characters are made to be scrawny in this, and the same with the opposite. A bit more diversity in the cast, but I can't quite nail down the homogeneous population of vikings that battled dragons historically to see if these compare.

Angry Astrid is a real B####H

Astrid has always been a strong aggressive person, but she is now a mean, bullying, bitter, and angry at Hiccup's "entitlement".
Shoe-horning in the diverse "vikings" is super cringe and blatantly an effort to DEI the movie (even with the pathetic reasoning).
My 8 yr old wanted to go home and immediately watch the original animated, to which is definitively proclaimed "the original is so much better".

Characters were boring or outright unlikeable. Major moments were lost. Magic of the original wasn't carried. Most of which because of woke DEI priorities in various scenes.

Back half of the movie was much better than the first half (much more true to the original movie) in hopes you will forget the woke train wreck that was the first half.

Had to see for myself.

I was almost dissuaded by this site from watching this movie. Being rated as super-woke is a strong statement.
There is definite wokeness in this one...
- Ethnic representation: Yes, Astrid and some others are darker skinned. This doesn't fit the history of the Vikings. It's obvious pandering to wokeness. It's annoying, but there was no agenda beyond that. No ethnic issues were addressed in the story.
- Women in authority: There were several women in authority. That is not authentic. Women were recognized in Viking culture as persons with rights, but not in authority. Again, historical accuracy was compromised in favor of wokeness. There was, however, some implied agenda on this point. Astrid was put in charge of the attack. She took charge and led the battle plan.
- LGBT: It could be said that Ruffnut and other female characters were somewhat masculine. There was no implied orientation otherwise.

I hope this is helpful for sorting out the conflicting reviews on this one.

Given the differences between the books and the original animated movies and this keeping with the changes I'm considering this a remake of the animated movies and not an adaptation of the books. There is really no reason for this to exist. It is a pointless unnecessary cash-grab.
The casting is all wrong and almost none of the characters fit with the originals. The acting outside of Butler is really bad. These are based off of young children's books and the animated colorful look of the original fit perfectly. Here they go for a dark serious fantasy look but with all the slapstick cornball comedy and it doesn't work at all. The FX are a mixed bag with some shots looking pretty good and others appear to be half finished concept art. Then there's all the woke crap. Astrid is a change for the animated movie based on a character from the book, both blonde typical Nordic Viking.
Here they race swapped her for black, there are multiple other black Vikings in several scenes. There is zero historical evidence there were black Vikings. Fishleggs has also been race swapped to an actor from the New Zealand native Maori tribe. Ruffnut another character added to the animated movies as a twin for Tuffnut is now body positive obese. Feminism is in full affect here with multiple loud aggressive female warriors. Astrid is the typical unlikable overpowered female character. Pretend this never happened and just watch the animated films again, even the worst one is better than this garbage.