How To Train Your Dragon 2
When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect Berk from a power-hungry warrior named Drago.
20 June 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 August 1979, London, England, UK
22 August 1973, Canandaigua, New York, USA
13 November 1969, Paisley, Scotland, UK
26 December 1986, London, England, UK
18 April 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 May 1969, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
20 December 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 December 1962, Hockley, England, UK
17 May 1962, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
September 13, 2016
This is how all sequels should be made.
May 17, 2016
How to Train Your Dragon is peppered with plenty of wit to keep parents and kids alike happy, but is not afraid to get a bit dark at times, which may be challenging for younger audiences.
June 20, 2014
Overlong and overly busy but more emotionally powerful than its predecessor.
November 10, 2015
"How to Train Your Dragon 2" rises above its animated peers with more troubling themes, outstanding character design and innovative "camera" movements. And it rarely, if ever, takes the easy way out.
June 13, 2014
Although there are times when bits of the movie feel extraneous, the production as a whole comes across more like an organic extension of the original tale than something tacked on purely to score at the box office.
June 23, 2014
The writer and director Dean DeBlois takes the comedy to a deeper, more satisfying place than he did in the original franchise-launching animated film.
June 13, 2014
It's clear that [director Dean DeBlois] took inspiration from the first Star Wars trilogy - not a bad model for breathing new life, and yes, a bit of fire, into one of Hollywood's more nuanced animated franchises.
June 17, 2014
The entire film is a romance -- visually, parentally, ecologically. It's got the emotional, humorous, exciting sweep you want from a summer movie.
June 14, 2016
The animation is zippy and crammed with smart sight gags.
October 08, 2015
More alarming are the regressive messages about gender and race the film subliminally projects.
July 08, 2014
Hats off to Dreamworks for offering some bold surprises in a respectable sequel filled with moments of humour and emotion among its ample noise and movement.
April 12, 2016
If every installment can capture the same sense of escapism and passionate dedication to its ideas and images, then I'd be delighted to go on more flights of fancy with Hiccup and Toothless.
