A good film

Rating: 8/10 (18 February 2019)

It was a good film but I though it lost its way part way through; at the start Hiccup shoots down Toothless and breaks part of his tail, over time he developed a tail fin controlled by a foot pedal that enabled him to fly.
I loved the scenes of Hiccup and Toothless learning to work together to fly and perfecting the fin and pedal mechanism, then when Hiccup lost his cheat sheet he instinctively was able to control the fin and the two flew together perfectly.
Then they get discovered by Astrid, but before she can get back to the village to expose them, Hiccup and Toothless catch her and strand her in a tall tree to talk.
Here the film looses the plot, rather than returning Astrid to the ground, Toothless rockets into the sky with a series of loops and rolls.
Such activities earlier in the film were impossible without Hiccup to control the tail fin, Toothless couldn't even take off on his own! And it is very unlikely that Hiccup helped with his flying as he told Toothless to return to the ground gently.
Throughout the film Toothless became able to fly more and more without Hiccups input; flying to the dragon island and into thier nest, then later he flew into the village to save Hiccup in the arena cage.