Literally why are they making a live action How To Train Your Dragon 

Hasn’t Dreamworks learned from Disneys mistakes?

I can't think of one live action adaptation that i found better than the animated original.

When the first time you see a film, from purposeful character design, music, theme and visual style...trying to follow up with a live action remake of it will inevitably not be received well. Think about it, if the HTTYD series did so well in animation format, the only reason you would make it live action is if you wanted to ...actually I can't think of a good reason typing this. I'll stick with the original films, hope DreamWorks doesn't attempt doing more of these after this regardless of outcome.

I just can't imagine the vivid colors, the amazing environments and dragon designs all CGI'd being better than the animation. Any shot from the original cgi'd into love action just wouldn't look nearly as wonderous or captivating. Great video!

I'm not gonna pretend that I believe that the LA is gonna be as rich in story as the original, but imma be honest chief. The creature designs for the dragons are like, 90% the reason I began watching, so as long as the dragons look cool ill be a happy camper (presuming that everything else is okay). But I do agree that the writing and charms are what really pushed the og films from interesting, into being remembered. That being said, I do want to advocate for the devil here. I still think that there's enough material in the original film to salvage an acceptable live action storyline (not that I believe that it's a pattern worth pursuing). As you said, the reason the LA Jungle book worked so well (or perhaps it's better to say, sucked the least) was because they shifted the tone to be more dramatic rather than the musical that the original animation went for. The best examples would be the scene of the snake, who's name eludes me, hypnotizing Mowgli, and the scene where Shao Khan kills one of the wolves. It also helps that the Jungle book is a fantasy story, which allows the creative freedom to make interesting creative decisions, such as making the animals so much larger than Mowgli, turning the snake from a comic relief secondary antagonist into some kind of snake god, and making the Orangutang king into a massive gigantopithicus (who's name also escapes me). This makes it leagues more visually and creatively interesting than the lion king, whose characters are supposed to be normal animals. I'd also believe that it works better than Beauty and the Beast because on top of the furniture being inherently less expressive, it kinda just looks like they're being moved around by magic instead of their own volition, especially in some of the musical scenes. On the topic of expressiveness, it helps that dragons aren't, y'know, real animals, so real animal rules needn't apply so hard (a la the Hobbit's Smaug). And even then, the dragons don't even need to have all that much facial expressions to be charming. What they lack in lips and eyebrows they can make up for in spines, tails, and wings. Stormfly pecks at her spines and flutters her wings like a parrot, and Meatlugs general movement is reminiscent of a pug. A significant amount of Toothless' attitude comes from his pupils alone. Admittedly, I don't think there's too much they can add to the story, so I think the live action lives and dies on its dragons. Sorry for the essay I just needed to get my thoughts down

Also, apologies for jumping gun on my previous comment. Great video addressing this topic, you presented it really well with your questions and making it a sudo part 2 to your previous vid😄🙌

Great work on this! You make a lot of strong points about the strengths of each medium and comparisons with the abundant live action remakes in recent years. And my thoughts exactly. What is the point of the movie? Every time I think about it I just feel like they're trapped in whatever they do. It's too soon, and many will be unhappy whether it's a shot-for-shot remake or if they make changes. Either it's the same thing or they're changing something beloved and expecting praise for it. The animated movies aimed for realistic textures and lighting that sets them apart from other animated movies without becoming uncanny, so what's the point of filming it in live action now? How will they balance the real and fantastical without animation's strengths as a medium? Again, great work! You presented a really strong case in both the writing and editing.

I would have immediately said no to this movie if the director/writer of the original trilogy didn't come back. He even called out Disney's approach to their remakes in the past, so here's hoping he pulls it off.

It isn’t Dreamworks who wants to do this remake, it's Universal, who have kind of been treating Dreamworks like crap in recent days. And about Dreamworks outsourcing a lot of their future movies, I think it might be Universal wanting that, as they want to save money. And I don't really want Dreamworks to outsource their movies, as it makes them seem like cheapskates.

Love your content!

Road to El dorado should get a live action remake

Here's the thing they are remaking tangled.

Unfortunately there are people who automatically think something being animation and not live action makes it worse, which I kinda think these remakes are for. It's all and fine for people to enjoy what they enjoy, but like you said, some things aren't meant for live action. I guess we'll see how this one ends up

But How to Train Your Dragon is a Book. So this would than be not a Animation to a Live Action Situation, but more a Book to Movie Situation. They will probably do a Book Adaption, because the whole situation with the Dragons was a very different in the Books.

Its already toothless, why not make it lifeless too?

Hey, the jokes were funny, but the timing was slightly off. I don't really know how to explain it other than that. Also, you are way nicer to Disney's live action remakes than I would be.

This has never worked… ever… there is just so much you can do with animation and still make it believable

don't change toothless to a monster or demon pls

Bro look at sonic the hedgehog

Yeah, I mean didn't they already made a perfect trilogy, why another take?

what they mean by "making it its own thing" is likely going to be some cheap race swap.

Considering this is helmed by only _one_ of the original directors, who has _no_ proven history with live action films, and burned this entire franchise down the last time he had sole control... Its basically a guaranteed disaster.

For all the reasons presented here, I found it very difficult to believe and enjoy the Avatar: The last airbender live action show.

Transformers did best at live action and animation.