Directed By: Dean DeBlois (How To Train Your Dragon)
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett, America Ferrera, Kit Harrington, Djimon Hounsou
Rating: PG for adventure action and some mild rude humor
Run Time: 1 hour, 42 minutes
Synopsis: Five years after becoming best of friends, a now 20-year-old Hiccup (Baruchel) and his dragon Toothless spend their time exploring the sky and discovering new lands. While on one of these explorations, Hiccup discovers the existence of two warring dragon masters: one a vicious Viking named Drago Bloodfist (Hounsou), who's trying to capture dragons to add to his vast dragon army, the other a mysterious dragon master and protector named Valka (Blanchett)…who happens to be Hiccup's long-lost mother.
REVIEW
Andrew: Hello readers! Earlier this
weekend we caught How To Train Your Dragon 2, the sequel to
2010's hit Dreamworks Animation film How To Train Your Dragon (obviously).
This is a film that was released last weekend but we weren't able to catch it
until now.
Sarah, I don't know about you but this wasn't necessarily
one that I was jumping in anticipation for, but more than anything I was
curious to see what it would be like in 3D. What about you?
Sarah: Oh I was really excited for
this one! I really liked the first one so I was looking forward to seeing where
they would take this. I was curious about the 3D as well, and I am so glad that
we decided to see it that way.
From a visual standpoint, this movie was
amazing. They were able to do some really cool things with the effects and it
just made the whole world come alive. All of the new dragons were very cool and
it was just fun to see what all the characters looked like now that it's been five years between stories.
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| One of the many stunning visuals in HTTYD2 is Hiccup's ability to fly alongside Toothless. |
