Excellent, a Must See

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Watched How To Train Your Dragon 2 featuring the Voice Talents of Jay Baruchel(Fanboys) as Hiccup,America Ferrera(Ugly Betty) as Astrid Hofferson, Craig Ferguson(Web Therapy ) as Gobber, Christopher Mintz-Plasse(Superbad) as Fishlegs , Jonah Hill(21 Jump Street) as Snotlout Jorgenson, T.J. Miller(Transformers:Age Of Extinction) as Tiffnut & Kristen Wiig(Bridesmaids) as Ruffnut ,Kit Harrington(Game Of Thrones) as Eret , Gerard Butler(300) as Stoick , Djimon Hounsou(Gladiator) as Drago Bludvist and Cate Blanchett(Lord Of The Rings) as Valka. The film was fantastic i really enjoyed the Growing of Hiccup and Toothless also Hiccup FInding his mother another tamer of Dragons also it was darker as well as Drago was a crazy control freak but it was great in character development as well final consensus better than The First Musical Score by John Powell(Kung Fu Panda 2 ) also Amazing Direction by Dean Deblose(How To Train Your Dragon) Better Than The First HTTYD One The Best Animated Sequels Ever 8/10

The reason I put 3 stars at first place it is because it had nice graphics. Other than that the movie was terrible. Spoiler alert!! Hiccup's mother left them and never came back because she was looking after dragons?? Stupid His father and mother find each other after so many years and they want to start over (WHY? she abandoned them) anw and then he dies?? He dies because of toothless who was under mind control? Sad The good alpha dragon just died?? Toothless and Hiccups remain best friends even after toothless killed Hiccups' dad? All these do not make sense The movie had no plot It was terrible Plus the person who makes Hiccups' voice has a deeply annoying voice. It is not a cartoon movie for kids. It is very dark. And the first one was dark but this one is worse. I think it should be a pg13 movie. The feeling after watching the film was sadness and disappointment. I like cartoons, I liked the first one too. But this it was a big failure

Five years have passed since the events of the first film and the people in the Viking village of Berk now live in peace with dragons. Hiccup has been told by his father that it is time for him to take over as village chief; however he doesn't feel ready. He wants to continue mapping undiscovered parts of the world with the help of his dragon Toothless. On one such flight they find a burnt village; it is a village of dragon catchers who are working for Drago Bludvist who wants them for his dragon army. His father tells him that Drago is a violent warlord who poses an imminent threat; Hiccup believes that he can talk to Drago and persuade him to live in peace. While trying to find Drago he encounters the mysterious 'Dragon Rider' who turns out to be someone surprisingly close to him that everybody thought had died years before. She lives with dragons in their vast, remote nest. Astrid and Hiccup's other friends try to help him find Drago but are captured and soon Drago is attacking the dragon nest with tragic consequences. He then sets off to attack Berk; Hiccup and his friends will have their toughest struggle yet if they are to keep the world safe for both humans and dragons.I enjoyed the original 'How to Train Your Dragon' far more than I expected so was very pleased that this sequel managed to live up to the original. While watching the original probably isn't absolutely essential I think one should try to watch it before this as it introduces the key characters and their situation; this would probably lose a lot of its depth without that prior knowledge. I was not surprised to read that director Dean DeBlois was inspired by 'The Empire Strikes Back' as this film is considerably darker than the original, especially in the middle section where a major character is killed. There are some clichés but that didn't bother me to much as the story was good. As before the animation is top notch; the many flight sequences are particularly spectacular. As well as action and tragedy there is of course a decent amount of comedy which is funny without being too goofy. Overall I heartily recommend this to anybody who enjoyed the original and look forward to seeing the third film in the trilogy when in eventually gets made.

When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace. Darker and more mature than the previous film but also more heavily action packed and with some really beautiful places and new characters coming in How to Train your Dragon 2 is for me at least better than the first one and it also has something that i didn't expect to happen a sudden death occurred and it was painful to watch it it puts a friendship on the line but also the fate of dragons and it just made the movie even better not only as a sequel but also as a film on it's own.