The added oomph just tears the film apart

Rating: 7/10 (27 September 2014)

The first film was fun, adventurous, engaging, even inspiring. The sequel adds more to every aspect: family dynamics and drama, enemies, numbers and size of dragons, deaths, romance... all except the fun, adventure or inspiration.
So is it a nicely drawn film? Amazingly so. It's 3D, but a good 3D. What I found very interesting is that the actors did NOT look like their 3D models at all. Just look at the cast. It is also very well voiced and character acted. Where it fails is the storyline, adding a lot of... stuff where none was needed. I wanted more freedom given by flight, interesting uses of dragons, any expansion in the aspects that I liked in the first. I don't care about how many dragons there are and how different they are and other stuff like that.
Bottom line: I really wanted to like this film, but the script messed it all up. I rate it average just because it was well done. With a good script this could have been really cool. It wasn't. Instead it seemed like another good animation team abused by producers with Disney like stories. Exactly at what time after they discovered they could ride dragons did the Vikings forget they were Vikings? That is the question I am left with after this film.