Most fun movie of the year so far

Rating: 10/10 (15 June 2014)

The summer movie season is in full gear and this movie is helping it kick off incredibly.
How To Train Your Dragon 2 is the sequel to How To Train Your Dragon (duh) and takes place 5 years after the first film. Dragons now all live in Berk and everyone gets along great until a man named Bloodfist (if that's not the most cliché villain name ever I don't know what is) begins rounding up dragons to start an army and take over the land. Meanwhile Hiccup (being played again by Jay Baruchel) finds his lost mother who has been keeping dragons safe under the protection of an alpha dragon. Now they must team up with the dragon riders of Berk to stop Bloodfist.
If this doesn't get some kind of visuals award at the Oscars I'm gonna be angry because this movie is beautiful. I got the joy of seeing it in Imax 3D and it's so freaking amazing to look at. The animation is amazing, you can make out like every hair on Hiccups chin. The flying scenes make you feel like you're right there on a dragons back taking out the enemy. I don't know what else I can say besides how amazing and fun it was to watch. Now with the good also comes what may be somewhat of a nitpick. So bloodfist has recruited his own alpha dragon to use against our heroes alpha. Here's my problem, what he does to recruit dragons for his team is tie them down, swing his club in the air and scream at them. He doesn't like scream a special chant or anything, he just screams like some kid with very bad autism. I maybe, just maybe can understand how this could work on smaller dragons but this alpha dragon is bigger than the queen dragon from the first movie and he somehow got it to listen to him by waving a stick and screaming like a kid who didn't get the McDonald's toy they wanted? It's tough to believe but everything else in the movie completely makes up for this plot hole.
There's a major character death in this movie that I won't spoil but it actually left one of my friends in tears and my other friend fighting back tears. If a movie titled How To Train Your Dragon 2 starring the guy who plays a stoner in 90% of his roles can make someone cry then you know it's doing something right.
By far the most fun and entertaining movie I've seen so far this year and I can't wait for the 3rd one.
a 9.5 from me. It would've gotten 10 but that plot hole was waaay too big.