How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

And, so, everyone, we've finally arrived at the final instalment to the humongous popular Dragons franchise, the Hidden World. I was obviously super excited for this. I love the Dragons franchise as a whole. I've watched the two previous movies and I've seen all the TV shows like Riders Of Berk, Defenders Of Berk and Race To The Edge, which I've reviewed on this blog. So expectations were pretty high for this final instalment in this franchise. So, what did I end up thinking of it? Honestly, in terms of where I would rank it with the other two movies, I personally think I'd put it in the middle. A lot of people are calling this the least of the three movies, but, personally, I think I found it to be better than the first, but not as good as the second. Which is kinda hard to beat considering how high a bar that is. Still though, I'm really happy to say that this was such a great time... for the most part, mainly because I do have problems with the movie. But I still had a great time with it. And, yes, this'll be spoiler-free for the first part and then I'll get into all the spoilers. So, what's the story? It actually begins a few months after the second movie and now Hiccup and the others are still freeing dragons from dragon trappers. And everything seems to be going pretty well until a villain named Grimmel is planning to kill them all. All while Toothless has actually met a female Night Fury who he begins to have a crush on, but she keeps vanishing. And now, because of the danger of Grimmel, Berk has been evacuated. All the while Toothless is still constantly thinking of the Light Fury and Hiccup is trying to help him. And I'm gonna stop right there. So I'm just gonna get into the positives first. Obviously, when it comes to DreamWorks movies, whether they're good or bad, something that always remains a staple is that they always have fantastic animation, and this is no exception. The other two movies were easily the best looking DreamWorks movies they had made and this takes that to even higher levels. And whenever any of the dragons move around or have their own way of moving in a way, they actually look like they have they're own way of doing it and it doesn't feel recycled from any of the others. It feels like everything was created from the ground up perfectly. And every detail you can imagine is perfectly shown. And the characters are just the same, which I'm so happy about. Hiccup feels more like he's evolving as a character again, and not just the fact that he's now the chief, but he's also stepping more into an adult stage, but at the same time, he's still the same as before and he's still really funny. He also feels like he can fully be awesome here. When it looks like he's mad and serious, it's not like the first movie where he's a weak guy trying to act tough, he really does feel like a person who can deliver on what he says. And the rest are great too. Him and Astrid still work great together and there's still a lot of great banter between all of them. And what they did with Snotlout was really funny again. And I obviously like all the other side characters too like Gobber, Valka and Erit. I still really like them. The movie's also got a fair amount of surprises. I was pretty shocked by some scenes in this and I was really pleased with how a lot of it progressed. I still really enjoy watching these characters together and interacting and watching the story progress with them. I was especially really happy and hyped up whenever we went into an action scene with them because so much of it was really exciting and really fun. But, even with that, I would say my favourite scenes in the movie were any with Toothless because he's in love with this Light Fury and he's always trying his best to impress her and win her over. And any scene with that was always enjoyable. In particular a scene on a beach where Toothless is trying to impress her and Hiccup trying to help him by doing hand gestures. There's not a single word being said, but Hiccup is trying to help him and Toothless is really trying to do his best to woo this Light Fury. That was really funny and really cute too. All the stuff with the main characters were easily the best parts, like always. They're all still really likeable and entertaining. Honestly, the only problem with the film I have is the villain. Grimmel was a very boring villain who I don't even remember all that much of. Any time it cut to him, I was always sorta waiting for the movie to go back to Hiccup. I remember Drago from the second Dragons movie being a much better villain than Grimmel. Also, his eventual defeat was pretty disappointing in my opinion. Besides that though, I am so happy to say that this is a franchise that has not had a single bad entry in it. Not just from the movies, but also the TV shows and even the little shorts they've made too like Gift Of The Night Fury and all those. I was so please with how the Dragon series ended and, yeah, the ending to this is incredible. I could not believe what happens during the ending. So, yeah, if you like these films, I would highly recommend seeing this, but I would still say go see it because it's a really great movie. And so, everyone, that was my review of How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.
Spoilers:
Okay, there's not a lot of spoilers to talk about, so this will probably be really quick. I really the part where Hiccup was making a new tail for Toothless so he could go looking for the Light Fury himself And the actual Hidden World where all the dragons were look gorgeous. Not just the designs, but also the colours and the different ways they shot just made it feel that much more alive. I did also really love the end climax. That was really cool and there were some stakes there where it looked like either Toothless or the Light Fury could have been killed. And there were other action scenes I liked like the scene in Grimmel's base where he was setting traps for them or when he burned down Hiccup's house. And then the ending, when Grimmel died and where I said it was anticlimactic is when he just falls into the water and that's it. It felt really quick and we don't even see him afterwards. That's not too big an issue, but still. I also kinda liked the fact that they had to leave Berk because of Grimmel, but I also found it weird that they did considering they've faced threats before and didn't leave it then, but I do also understand given how many he had under his command. And really, the only other big spoiler is the really great ending to the movie, which I still really love. After Grimmel is beaten, Hiccup decides to let all the dragons go and they head off towards the Hidden World, which was really sad, but then it's followed by Hiccup and Astrid finally getting married and then we cut to years later with the two of them with kids and they meet up with Toothless and the Light Fury again who have baby dragons themselves. Which I loved. I really love endings like that and this is just another one of those awesome endings. And I think that's pretty much everything. And so, everyone, that's my review of How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Thank k you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.