Truth told, the dog here is actually a dragon that can sit and do tricks. And the kid, a Viking teenager who really isn't much of a Viking. Maybe that's why he's called Hiccup. Every other male in the youngster's village, especially his dad, Stoick the Vast (voiced by Gerard Butler), and trainer Gobber the Belch (Craig Ferguson) are improper Norsemen. Hairy brutes with "stubbornness issues," as the film puts it. For 300 years, these guys have lived for killing dragons. Then along comes Hiccup, a pacifist.