And yet, like Toothless and Hiccup themselves, the film was underestimated because it wound up breaking records for the How to Train Your Dragon franchise.
Heading in to this past weekend, it was obvious that How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World was flying towards a solid opening and an easy first place finish at the box office.
However, based on the tracking, it did seem like the threequel would fall short of the impressive marks set by its predecessors.
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