How to train your dragon 2

There are way too few dragons in movies . Dragons have always had this mythical status in media, a kind of "the less is better" status. Dragons are often talked about on books and movies but very seldom seen. Dragons are amazing, powerful and awesome creatures and they deserve to be featured a lot more in movies.

Que How to train your dragon. A delightful movie filled with childish innocence, mature writing and lots of dragons. It was a great movie that wasn't afraid of using as many dragons as possible.

A few years pass by and along comes How to train your dragon 2, my expectstions ran very high. Not only was this a sequel to a very good movie, but it also promised way more dragons. So, how did it fare? Before we go into the actual review, let's taje a look at the story.

A few years has passed (mirroring real life) since drafons and humans found peace. Hiccup and his friends have grown up and so hace the rest of the village. The humans now live in symbiosis with the dragons and life is looking really good. Hiccup and tooth are as inseparable as ever. They constantly exploring the world, expanding the map and discovering that the world is a lot bigger than they thought. At the same time, Stoick is coming to terms with the fact that hiccup woll havr to take over the role as chief soon. Something that Hiccup has no interest in doing. Tensipns are running high, but when a threat appears on the horizon Hiccup will have to lead the rest of the dragonriders to save all of humanity and... dragon...ity from an evil warlord.


How to train your dragon 2 is a perfect example of a sequel. It's bigger and it's louder but in terms of quality it lacks that certain something that made its predecessor so great. The magic is still there but it can't topple the feeling you got when you saw the first one, not that they aren't trying. The movie is full of all the stuff that made the original do good. Great voice performances, awesome flight sequences and a blistering sense of forward momentum. All of this is great but all the time I was sitting there I couldn't stop thinking that I had seen this before

A very nice detail, that most "kids movies" forget to use, is the progress of time. Where the first one was about kids having a fun time, this movie is all about teenagers on the cusp of becoming adults. It made the characters come alive a little more than if they had still been 12 years old.

Other than that, How to train your dragon 2 did'nt bring anything new to the table. It was just more of the same wich in this case meant more dragons, more action and more fun, so I am not really complaining.