Our long national nightmare of live-action remakes continues, with a staggering $83 million box office take for How To Train Your Dragon, a remake of the 2010 animated smash. Coupled with the film’s $114 million international haul,

We’ve seen a flood of live-action remakes over the last decade, and most of them, from Disney especially, tend to fall into two categories… hollow cash grabs or awkward reinterpretations that lose what made the originals work.