Interesting scenes with some that had me tearing up.

Rating: 8/10 (11 July 2014)

As with almost all sequels, I feel that the first movie was better, though this was still good on its own. The visuals were stimulating and really cool, with the dragons flying against the beautiful backdrops.
There were also quite a few scenes that were very touching and gave me the feels. I teared at least three times. I feel like I'm getting soft. I never used to cry at movies, even the really sad ones and then now I seem to be tearing up in every movie. Oh well.
The story-line was pretty interesting and not all that predictable. Though I feel that the screenplay could've been better. It felt a bit awkward and dry sometimes. Or maybe it was because the speech was targeted towards children, so it seemed a bit stale.
Toothless really steals the show. He's the main attraction and the facial expressions he makes are superb. The relationship between him and Hiccup is really well portrayed. I feel like a lot of animation movies that have animals as part of their main cast, make them out to be somewhat like dogs. For example in Tangled, the horse really acted like he was a dog, with the leg scratching and sitting. I guess that's what makes them adorable and relevant to us. Because we wouldn't understand what it's like to have a pet dragon, so if they acted more like dogs, we would feel that connection. I don't know, I just came up with that but it kind of makes sense, no?
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