I love this movie so much

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The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

What I most liked about the movie is how toothless gets over control of alpha and establishes his own self as alpha. Hiccup does not give up on his dragon despite his father's death. At last everything ends on good note.It is worth watching for adults as well as children.Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography: It is excellent.Tone: The tone relies on story where it is learnt how dragons can be controlled, mainly how alpha controls them and how can one achieve control over them for good or for bad. It is constructed well.Music: Music is average.It is worth watching multiple times.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is the rare animated sequel that both goes deeper and is just as exciting as the original. The story takes place some years after the events in How to Train Your Dragon, the kid characters notably having matured to about their mid-teenage phase, and notably more experienced in their flying-dragons trade. From the beginning, it accepts the cooperation between Viking and dragon, flying and diving through the air, and we never doubt the logic of it.As the characters are more mature, so is, appropriately, the story, being more complex and darker than the original, without ever feeling like it's trying too hard to accomplish that. Hiccup and his loyal dragon Toothless are back, doing more impressive feats, going further and further from their home, exploring beautiful new environments and encountering new things, some friendly and many not. Our other Vikings and giant flying lizards in all their varieties (and solid voice work) are back from the original, and we see some new ones, including terrific sinister villain. But I hold back on telling too much, for to give much beyond the premise, and early scenes of discovery, would be a disservice to viewers coming to see it.This is an exhilarating, creative, and gorgeous piece of work, with hardly a dull moment to be found. It's not quite a perfect or near perfect animated film, with some tired humor and a bit of a rushed ending. Still it's one of DreamWorks' best efforts to date, so definitely see it.

The reason I put 3 stars at first place it is because it had nice graphics. Other than that the movie was terrible. Spoiler alert!! Hiccup's mother left them and never came back because she was looking after dragons?? Stupid His father and mother find each other after so many years and they want to start over (WHY? she abandoned them) anw and then he dies?? He dies because of toothless who was under mind control? Sad The good alpha dragon just died?? Toothless and Hiccups remain best friends even after toothless killed Hiccups' dad? All these do not make sense The movie had no plot It was terrible Plus the person who makes Hiccups' voice has a deeply annoying voice. It is not a cartoon movie for kids. It is very dark. And the first one was dark but this one is worse. I think it should be a pg13 movie. The feeling after watching the film was sadness and disappointment. I like cartoons, I liked the first one too. But this it was a big failure

What spurned this review is that I decided to wake up on my day off and watch both the 1st and 2nd movies. I meant for them to play in the background as I accomplished real work, but they sucked me in just like they do every time I watch them, so silly of me.First off, I LOVED the 1st movie so I had high expectations for the sequel, especially after waiting so long for it to come out. And it didn't disappoint. I love that it's not just a children's movie, that it has values and ideals in it that resonate not only as a lesson for young children, but as something relatable for adults. The friendship between Hiccup and Toothless makes me tear up (which I almost never cry when watching movies). And you can watch this movie multiple times and see the many details added to the backgrounds of the main scene, like dragons messing with one another, etc. The music speaks to me...there are so many things that I'm sure I'm not mentioning, but I think you can understand I love pretty much everything about it based on my review.My only spoiler is that I was very impressed with the scar on Hiccup's chin tying into the storyline regarding why he grew up without a mother. I didn't even notice it in the first film, and so I went home and watched the 1st movie again after watching the 2nd in theaters. Details like that make me want to go back and watch everything again to see if there are any other clues that may tie into the 3rd movie. My guess is that because we got Hiccup's background in the 2nd movie, we'll get Toothless' in the 3rd.