How to Train Your Dragon Hidden World Review Chicago Tribune
How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a 2014 American computer-animated action fantasy motion-picture show loosely based on the book serial of the aforementioned name past Cressida Cowell, produced past DreamWorks Blitheness and distributed by 20th Century Trick. It is the sequel to the 2010 computer-blithe film How to Railroad train Your Dragon and the 2nd installment in the trilogy. The picture was written and directed by Dean DeBlois, and stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Loma, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, and Kristen Wiig, along with Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou, and Kit Harington joining the cast. The moving picture takes identify five years subsequently the showtime film, featuring Hiccup and his friends as immature adults every bit they meet Valka, Hiccup'southward long-lost female parent, and Drago Bludvist, a madman who wants to conquer the world.
DeBlois, who co-directed the first moving-picture show, agreed to return to direct the second film on the condition that he would exist allowed to plough information technology into a trilogy. He cited The Empire Strikes Back and My Neighbor Totoro as his principal inspirations, with the expanded scope of The Empire Strikes Back being particularly influential. The entire voice cast from the first flick returned, and Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou signed on to phonation Valka and Drago, respectively. DeBlois and his creative team visited Norway and Svalbard to give them ideas for the setting. Composer John Powell returned to score the movie. How to Railroad train Your Dragon 2 benefited from advances in animation technology and was DreamWorks' beginning film to use scalable multicore processing and the studio'southward new animation and lighting software.
Contents
- 1 Plot
- 2 Voice cast
- 3 Production
- iii.1 Development
- 3.2 Animation
- 4 Music
- 5 Reception
- v.one Critical response
- v.ii Box office
- v.iii Accolades
- six External Links
Plot
Five years afterward the Viking villagers of Berk and the dragons made peace, they live together in harmony. Hiccup and his dragon, Toothless the Dark Fury, notice and map unexplored lands. Now 20 years old, he is being pressed by his father, Stoick the Vast, to succeed him as chieftain, although Hiccup feels unsure he is ready.
While investigating a burnt woods, Hiccup and Astrid discover the remains of a fort encased in ice and meet a group of dragon-trappers. Their leader Eret attempts to capture their dragons for their employer, Drago Bludvist, who plots to capture and enslave all dragons into becoming his soldiers. Hiccup and Astrid escape and warn Stoick virtually Drago. Stoick fortifies Berk to ready for battle. Hiccup, however, refuses to believe state of war is inevitable, and flies off to talk to Drago. Stoick stops him, explaining that he once met Drago at a gathering of chieftains, where Drago had offered them protection from dragons if they pledged to serve him; when they laughed it off as a joke, he had his dragons assail them, with Stoick the sole survivor.
Undeterred, Hiccup flies off with Toothless in search of Drago to try to reason with him. They instead meet a mysterious dragon-rider, who is revealed to be Hiccup's long-lost mother Valka. She explains that she, like her son, could non bring herself to kill dragons. After being carried off during a dragon raid, she spent 20 years rescuing dragons from Drago and bringing them to an island nest created out of water ice past a gigantic, ice-spewing alpha dragon called a "Bewilderbeast", which is able to control smaller dragons past emitting hypnotic sound waves. Stoick and his lieutenant Gobber track Hiccup to the nest, where Stoick discovers his married woman is live. Meanwhile, Astrid and the other riders force Eret to lead them to Drago, who captures them and their dragons and, learning of Berk's dragons, sends his fleet to assault the dragon nest. He also attempts to take Eret executed, just Astrid'southward dragon, Stormfly, saves him. A grateful Eret later helps her and the others escape.
At the nest, a battle ensues between the dragon-riders, Valka's dragons, and Drago'southward fleet, during which Drago reveals he has his own Bewilderbeast to challenge the blastoff. The two colossal dragons fight, ending with Drago'due south Bewilderbeast killing its rival and becoming the new alpha. Drago'south Bewilderbeast seizes control of all the adult dragons. Hiccup tries to persuade Drago to stop the violence, but Drago orders his Bewilderbeast to take Toothless kill him instead. The hypnotized Toothless fires a plasma bolt towards Hiccup, but Stoick pushes him out of the way and is killed instead. The Bewilderbeast momentarily relinquishes command of Toothless, but Hiccup drives Toothless away in a fit of despair over his father'south decease. Drago maroons Hiccup and the others on the isle and rides Toothless, again nether the command of the Bewilderbeast, to lead his army to conquer Berk. Stoick is given a Viking funeral and Hiccup, at present having lost both his father and dragon, is unsure what to do. Valka encouragingly tells him he alone can unite humans and dragons. Inspired by her words and his begetter's, Hiccup and his allies return to Berk to stop Drago past flying the babe dragons, which are allowed to the Bewilderbeast's control.
Back at Berk, they observe that Drago has attacked the village and taken control of its dragons. With an apology, Hiccup frees Toothless from the Bewilderbeast'south command, much to Drago'southward surprise. Hiccup and Toothless face up Drago, but the Bewilderbeast encases them in water ice. However, Toothless blasts abroad the ice and enters a glowing super-powered country. Toothless then challenges the Bewilderbeast, shooting it in the confront repeatedly, which breaks its command over the other dragons, who side with Toothless as the new blastoff. All the dragons repeatedly fire at the Bewilderbeast until Toothless fires a final massive blast, breaking its left tusk. Defeated, the Bewilderbeast retreats with Drago on his dorsum.
The Vikings and dragons celebrate their victory and Hiccup is made chieftain of Berk, while all the dragons from both Berk and Valka's sanctuary bow before Toothless as their new male monarch. Afterwards, Berk undergoes repairs, with Hiccup feeling secure that its dragons can defend it.
Voice bandage
- Jay Baruchel equally Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the son of the Viking chief Stoick the Vast and Valka.
- America Ferrera every bit Astrid Hofferson, Hiccup's fiancee.
- Cate Blanchett as Valka, Stoick's wife, Hiccup's long-lost mother and a dragon rescuer.
- Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast, chieftain of the Viking tribe of Berk, Hiccup's father and Valka'southward husband.
- Craig Ferguson as Gobber the Belch, Stoick'due south closest friend and a seasoned warrior.
- Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Fishlegs Ingerman.
- Jonah Hill equally Snotlout Jorgenson
- T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig as Tuffnut and Ruffnut Thorston, the fraternal twins.
- Djimon Hounsou as Drago Bludvist, a ruthless warlord and dragon hunter who seeks to accept over the globe with a dragon army.
- Kit Harington as Eret, a dragon trapper who sells captured dragons to Drago.
Production
Evolution
Afterwards the success of the first flick, the sequel was announced on Apr 27, 2010. "How to Train Your Dragon … has become DreamWorks Blitheness's next franchise. We plan to release the sequel theatrically in 2013," said Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation'due south CEO. It was later revealed that DeBlois had started drafting the outline for a sequel in Feb 2010 at Skywalker Ranch, during the final sound mix of the first film.The picture was originally scheduled for release on June twenty, 2014, but in August 2013 the release appointment was moved forward one calendar week to June 13, 2014.
Director and writer Dean DeBlois promoting the flick at the 2014 WonderCon
The moving picture was written, directed, and executive produced by Dean DeBlois, the co-writer/co-director of the first movie. Bonnie Arnold, the producer of the outset movie, also returned, while Chris Sanders, who co-directed and co-wrote the commencement moving-picture show, acted just as an additional executive producer this time due to his involvement with The Croods. When offered the sequel, DeBlois accepted it on condition he could plough information technology into a trilogy. For the sequel, he intended to revisit the films of his youth, with The Empire Strikes Back and My Neighbor Totoro having the pivotal inspirations for the film. "What I loved specially most Empireis that it expanded Star Wars in every direction: emotionally, its scope, characters, fun. Information technology felt like an embellishment and that'southward the goal."
The entire original voice bandage—Baruchel, Butler, Ferguson, Ferrera, Loma, Mintz-Plasse, Miller, and Wiig—returned for the sequel. On June 19, 2012, it was appear that Kit Harington, of Game of Thrones fame, was cast as one of the moving picture'southward antagonists. At the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, information technology was announced that Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou had joined the cast; they lent their voices to Valka and Drago Bludvist, respectively.
While the beginning film was set in a generic North Sea surround, the creative team decided to focus on Kingdom of norway this fourth dimension effectually. Early in the sequel'southward development, nigh a dozen of them traveled there for a week-long research trip, where they toured Oslo, Bergen, and the fjords. DeBlois, together with Gregg Taylor (DreamWorks' caput of feature development) and Roger Deakins (a cinematographer who served equally visual consultant), and so bankrupt off from the grouping to visit Svalbard and see polar bears in the wild with the assistance of armed guides.
DeBlois explained that he had learned from directing Lilo & Stitch (2002) that "if you set up an animated motion-picture show in a place you want to visit, there'due south a chance y'all might get to get there." He had wanted to visit Svalbard for some time, after learning of its stark dazzler from a couple of backpackers he met during earlier visits to Iceland to work with post-rock band Sigur Rós on the 2007 documentary film Heima.
Animation
During a visit to DreamWorks Animation in November 2013, U.South. President Barack Obamatried a motion capture photographic camera of the kind used to capture live-action reference performance for the motion picture.
Over the five years before the pic's release,DreamWorks Blitheness had substantially overhauled its production workflow and animation software. How to Train Your Dragon 2 was the kickoff DreamWorks Animation film that used "scalable multicore processing", developed together with Hewlett-Packard. Called by Katzenberg as "the side by side revolution in filmmaking", it enabled artists for the first time to piece of work on rich, complex images in real time, instead of waiting eight hours to see the results the next day. The film was too the studio'south first moving picture to utilize its new animation and lighting software through the entire production. Programs named Premo and Torch allowed much more subtlety, improving facial blitheness and enabling "the sense of fat, jiggle, loose skin, the sensation of pare moving over muscle instead of masses moving together."
By the time production was complete, over 500 people had worked on the film at DreamWorks Animation's headquarters in Glendale, also every bit its branch offices at PDI/DreamWorks in Redwood City and DreamWorks India in Bangalore.
Music
- Principal commodity: How to Train Your Dragon 2 (soundtrack)
Reception
Critical response
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approving rating of 91% based on reviews from 188 critics, with an boilerplate rating of 7.eighty/x. The website's critical consensus states: "Exciting, emotionally resonant, and beautifully animated, How to Train Your Dragon 2 builds on its predecessor's successes just the style a sequel should. "Metacritic gives the film a score of 76 out of 100 based on reviews from 44 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore during the opening weekend gave the movie an average form of "A" on an A+ to F scale. Audiences were a mix of 47% female person and 53% male. Children and Young Adults responded most strongly, with those aged under 25 giving a grade A+.
Bill Goodykoontz of The Arizona Commonwealth gave the film four out of v stars, saying "Information technology seemed as if at that place was nowhere new to go after the start film, but this is a richer story that dares to become darker and is thus more rewarding." Peter Travers of Rolling Rock gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying "Dragon two, like The Empire Strikes Back, takes sequels to a new level of imagination and innovation. Information technology truly is a high-flying, depth-charging wonder to behold." Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the flick three out of four stars, saying "DeBlois, who too wrote the script, successfully juggles the multiple story lines, shifting allegiances and uncharted lands." Rafer Guzman of Newsday gave the film three out of four stars, saying "Gruesome? A little. Scary? You bet. But that'southward exactly what makes the "Dragon" films and then dissimilar, and so much ameliorate, than the average children's fare." Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the picture 3-and-a-half stars out of four, proverb "For in one case, we have an blithe sequel free of the committee-job vibe so common at every blitheness firm, no matter the track record." Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave the moving-picture show a negative review, saying "The story seems to be going somewhere until information technology comes to a halt with the inevitable showdown betwixt the forces of darkness and the forces of light." Peter Howell of the Toronto Star gave the movie three out of four stars, saying "Taking its cues every bit much from Star Wars and Game of Thrones as from its own storybook narrative, How to Railroad train Your Dragon 2 breathes burn into a franchise sequel."
Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the picture show three out of four stars, saying "Nearly equally exuberant equally the original, How to Train Your Dragon 2 nimbly avoids sequel-itis." Colin Covert of the Star Tribune gave the film four out of four stars, saying "The impressive part is the storytelling conviction of writer/managing director Dean DeBlois. He has created a thoughtful tale every bit meaningful for grown-ups as it is pleasurable for its immature primary audience." Stephanie Merry of The Washington Post gave the film 3-and-a-half stars out of iv, saying "This may be the first and concluding fourth dimension anyone says this, but if How to Train Your Dragon 2 is this proficient, why stop at 3 and four?" Moira MacDonald of The Seattle Times gave the picture 3-and-a-one-half stars out of iv, saying "Young and old fans of the starting time moving-picture show will be lining up for the wit, for the creativity of the characters, for the breathtaking visuals — and just the sheer fun of it all." Tirdad Derakhshani of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying "One of this twelvemonth'southward true surprises, the superior animated sequel non only is infused with the same contained spirit and off-kilter artful that enriched the original, it also deepens the first film'southward major themes." Stephen Whitty of the Newark Star-Ledger gave the film 2-and-a-half stars out of four, saying "This was not a sequel that anybody needed, outside of the accountants. And there's another already planned." John Semley of The Globe and Mail gave the picture four out of four stars, saying "More than merely instruction kids what to think about the world they're coming into, it'south a rare picture show that encourages them to retrieve for themselves."
Box function
How to Train Your Dragon 2 grossed $177 million in North America, and $441.9 meg in other countries, for a worldwide total of $618.ix million. The film is the second-highest-grossing animated motion picture of 2014, backside Big Hero 6, and the twelfth-highest-grossing film of the twelvemonth in any genre. While How to Railroad train Your Dragon 2 simply earned $177 million at the US box function, compared to $217 million for its predecessor, it performed much better at the international box office, earning $438 one thousand thousand to How to Train Your Dragon's $277 million. Computing in all expenses, Deadline Hollywood estimated that the film made a profit of $107.3 one thousand thousand.
In the United states of america and Canada, the movie earned $18.5 million on its opening day, and opened at number 2 in its outset weekend, with $49,451,322. In its 2nd weekend, the film dropped to number three, grossing an boosted $24,719,312. In its third weekend, the film stayed at number three, grossing $thirteen,237,697. In its 4th weekend, the film dropped to number five, grossing $8,961,088.
Its $25.9 meg opening weekend in Mainland china was the biggest-ever for an animated film in the country, surpassing the record previously held by Kung Fu Panda 2.
Accolades
| Listing of awards and nominations | |||
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| 87th Academy Awards | Best Animated Characteristic | Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold | Nominated |
| Annie Awards | Best Animated Feature | Bonnie Anorld | Won |
| Animated Effects in an Animated Production | James Jackson, Lucas Janin, Tobin Jones, Baptiste Van Opstal, Jason Mayer | Nominated | |
| Grapheme Blitheness in a Feature Production | Fabio Lignini | Won | |
| Steven "Shaggy" Hornby | Nominated | ||
| Thomas Grummt | Nominated | ||
| Directing in a Feature Production | Dean DeBlois | Won | |
| Music in a Feature Production | John Powell, Jónsi | Won | |
| Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Truong "Tron" Son Mai | Won | |
| Writing in a Feature Production | Dean DeBlois | Nominated | |
| Editorial in an Blithe Feature Production | John K. Carr | Won | |
| British University Children's Awards | Kid's Vote - Film in 2014 | How to Train Your Dragon ii | Nominated |
| Children'due south Feature Film in 2014 | How to Train Your Dragon ii | Nominated | |
| 20th Critics' Choice Awards | Best Animated Feature | How to Train Your Dragon two | Nominated |
| 72nd Gilded Globe Awards | Best Animated Feature Picture | Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold | Won |
| Hollywood Pic Awards | All-time Hollywood Animation Award | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Won |
| National Board of Review | Best Animated Feature | How to Train Your Dragon ii | Won |
| 2015 Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Animated Film | How to Railroad train Your Dragon two | Nominated |
| Online Film Critics Society | Best Animated Characteristic | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Nominated |
| People's Choice Awards | Favorite Family Flick | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Nominated |
| Producers Guild of America Awards 2014 | Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motility Pictures | Bonnie Arnold | Nominated |
| San Francisco Moving-picture show Critics Circumvolve Award | Best Blithe Feature | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | All-time Move Moving picture Animated or Mixed Media | How to Railroad train Your Dragon 2 | Nominated |
| 41st Saturn Awards | Saturn Honor for All-time Animated Film | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Nominated |
| Saturn Award for Best Music | John Powell | Nominated | |
| 13th Visual Effects Society Awards | Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture | Bonnie Arnold, Dean DeBlois, Dave Walvoord, Simon Otto | Nominated |
| Outstanding Animated Grapheme in an Animated Feature Motion Picture | Jakob Hjort Jensen, Fabio Lignini, Stephen Candell, Hongseo Park for "Hiccup" | Nominated | |
| Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Characteristic Movement Film | Sun Yoon, Liang-Yuan Wang, Ted Davis, Shannon Thomas for "Oasis" | Nominated | |
| Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature Motility Picture | Spencer Knapp, Baptiste Van Opstal, Lucas Janin, Jason Mayer for "The Boxing" | Nominated | |
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association | Best Animated Feature | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Nominated |
External Links
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How to Train Your Dragon 2 on Wikipedia
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How to Train Your Dragon two on IMDb
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