Friday, May 24, 2019

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)


Academy Awards, USA 2015

Nominee
Oscar
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Dean DeBlois
Bonnie Arnold

Twentieth-Century Fox
Directed by Dean DeBlois
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Fox)

Hiccup and his dragon friend Toothless stumble upon a society of dragon-trappers with plans to take all of the dragons from his Viking village. His father the King overreacts and prepares for battle, while Hiccup decides to find their leader and negotiate a peaceful solution. Instead, he is greeted by their evil leader who was an "alpha" dragon capable of hynpnotizing all other dragons into doing his bidding. Hiccup, Toothless and friends are captured, but his father arrives to try save them, leading to an unexpected tragedy. Hiccup must find the strength to defeat the trappers and save the dragon. Enjoyable if over-baked, loud action film fairly similar to the original movie, which suffered from the same problems.

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