I
finally got to see How To Train Your Dragon 2 and I'll be damned if I
didn't like it more than the first first. Most times they make
sequels to kids films it is an obvious cash grab and they tend to
just do more of what the first film did but badly. That wasn't the
case with this one. This had better animation, a better story, and an
even more tragic ending than the first one and if you saw the first
one you're probably asking “How is that even possible!”
This
takes place five years after the first film so all the kids are a bit
older and the dragons are integrated into their land, Berk. Hiccup
has recovered from having his leg lost at the end of the first film
and is riding Toothless around finding new lands to create a map and
not wanting to rule the land.
His girlfriend Astrid arrives and they
discover a new place and are attacked by dragon trappers. They get
away and Hiccup tells his dad Stoick the Vast about some guy named
Drago Bludvist and his father is like “We need to go kill him right
now!” Hiccup doesn't understand why and even after being told
thinks they can talk it out. Does this look like the talk it out
kinda guy to you?
Hiccup,
after a daring escape from the dragon catchers, ends up caught by
this crazy dragon rider that turns out to be his mother who left when
he was a baby. She has a land where she lives with nothing but
dragons. Its pretty cool. She even shows Hiccup things about
Toothless that he didn't know. Vast shows up and sees his wife for
the first time in all these years and falls in love again.
The
battles that take place at the end of this movie are pretty damned
cool. The crazy thing about this and the first movie is that they
show that there are consequences to war. Like in the first movie
where Hiccup lost his leg something really bad happens to someone in
this one. I was like “No! This better not be happening!” Oh, it
was so fucked. I really liked this movie and must own it like the
first.
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