Movie Review

How to Train Your Dragon 2

“How to Train Your Dragon 2” is an American 3D animation movie which was released in the middle of 2014. This movie which was produced by Dreamworks Animation and distributed by 20^th Century Fox, belongs to fantasy action movie. It is actually the sequel of the first outstanding animated movie, “How to Train Your Dragon” which was released in 2010. Then, there are also many well-known actors that were involved in this movie, such as, Jay Baruchel, Gerrard Butler, Craig Ferguson, and Jonah Hill.

The movie started when Hiccup drove his dragon, Toothless, going on adventures to explore new places. That was five years after the clash between the Vikings of Berk with dragons was over. Hiccup was actually bored to be in Berk, because his father, Stoick, as the chief of the village, kept pressing him to prepare himself to be the next chief of the village.

When Hiccup was having a rest, Hiccup’s girlfriend, Astridcame by with her dragon, Stormfly, to join the adventure. In the middle of their adventure, Stormfly was captured by dragon trappers which were led by Eret. However, Hiccup and Toothless could beat the dragon trappers that were apparently ordered by Drago, Stoick’s old enemy. After bringing Stormfly back, Hiccup tried to find Drago to make peace, but, in the middle of his trip, he and his dragon were kidnapped by a group of huge dragons. Those huge dragons were commanded by a woman, named Valka, who was apparently Hiccup’s lost mother. Valka lived in a dragons’ nest which thousands of dragons lived there, and there was also the alpha of the dragons, called Bewilderbeast that could control smaller dragons.

Meanwhile, Astrid and her friends were caught by Drago who apparently had another alpha. He used Astrid and the dragons to bring him to Berk. Then, Drago and his dragon army went to Berk to capture other dragons. Nevertheless, in his way to Berk, Valka and her dragons stopped them, but it was not successful as Bewilderbeast was beaten by Drago’s alpha. After that, Drago’s alpha controlled Toothless, and made it to kill Stoick.

Then, Hiccup and his friends rode the baby dragons, which could not be controlled by any alphas, to distract the Drago’s alpha. Meanwhile, Hiccup confronted Drago who were riding Toothless, and finally succeeded to get his dragon back in consciousness. Both Toothless and Hiccup attacked the alpha repeatedly, that broke its control over the other dragons. Then, all of the dragons attacked the alpha, until its left tusk was broken. That defeat made the alpha and Drago went away. In the end, Hiccup was pointed as the successor of his father, to be the chief of the village, and Toothless became the new alpha of all dragons.

In my point of view, the movie is very attractive and entertaining, because the story is very interesting and well-organized. Besides, there are also many positive values that we can get from the movie. It tells us that love and hard work will pay off, and it clearly explains that animals have its feelings, and need to be loved. However, there are also two points that make me a little bit disappointed. First, the movie is a bit confusing when it does not directly explain that Stoick was dead. Then, it is not too good for children to show kissing scene (between Astrid and Hiccup). Overall, it is very nice movie, so I recommend all of you to watch this movie, because this movie proves that animated movie is as good as non-animated movies.

Here is some pictures of the movie.