I don't know why people would complain about a scene for scene recreation? Myself and all my friends believe a live action "remake" SHOULD be a scene for scene faithful adaptation and hate it when they change it because then it's not the story we came to see! What we want from a live action is to see our favourite animations become real. To see it in the likes of our world. We're there because we loved the original and that's what we want! We've been consistently disappointed with almost all of the remakes of other loved animations that we've given up going to see most of them... We were hesitant to see the httyd remake, in fear it'd change too much. Especially given the disappointment in casting looking nothing like the original characters! When you want to see your favourite characters come to life, changing them takes away that connection you have with that character. They feel like an imposter. That being said, as long as it makes sense genetically, given the characters heritage, it can often be forgiven. For e.g mermaids don't have a specific nationalitu tied to them, so changing Ariel's race is acceptable. But Nordic Vikings? That's very culture specific and they've removed that heritage with their casting. And so we were thinking maybe we won't go see it in fear it'd just ruin what is one of our favourite animated movies. However, the trailer for httyd actually gave us hope that it'd be mostly faithful to the original and so, despite the casting, we actually want to see it now! And we just hope that, as we see in the trailer, the rest of the movie is as faithful to the original as what we've seen so far. If they hold true to that, it'll mostly make up for the lack of nordic looking Vikings.