How to Train Your Dragon 2

"Training is over. The adventure begins."

2014 1h 42m EN

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7.7

BANGER

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92%

CERTIFIED FRESH

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METACRITIC

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7.8

IMDB

★7.7TMDB · 10,719🍅92%Rotten Tomatoes●77Metacritic★7.8IMDB · 398,152

FantasyActionAdventureAnimationFamily

Synopsis

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Five years after uniting the dragons and Vikings of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless soar beyond their homeland, charting the vast unknown. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds of wild dragons—and a mysterious dragon rider with a startling connection to Hiccup. And as the ruthless conqueror Drago Bludvist rises to seize control of both dragons and people alike, Hiccup must step into his role as a true leader and, alongside his friends and Toothless, protect Berk from a devastating war.

“Training is over. The adventure begins.”

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Cast

Jay Baruchel
Hiccup (voice)
Cate Blanchett
Valka (voice)
Gerard Butler
Stoick (voice)
Craig Ferguson
Gobber (voice)
America Ferrera
Astrid (voice)
Jonah Hill
Snotlout (voice)
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Fishlegs (voice)
T.J. Miller
Tuffnut (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Dean DeBlois
Writers: Dean DeBlois, Simon Otto
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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$145M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.3× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 12 years ago.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "How to Train Your Dragon Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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271+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Dean DeBlois, shot by Gil Zimmerman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by John Powell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor John K. Carr shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Dean DeBlois directs. Gil Zimmerman behind the camera. John Powell scores. John K. Carr cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1$145M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 4.3× over at the box office.
3Released 12 years ago.
4Part of the "How to Train Your Dragon Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5271+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Dean DeBlois, shot by Gil Zimmerman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by John Powell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor John K. Carr shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Jay Baruchel and Cate Blanchett and Gerard Butler carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Training is over. The adventure begins.".
11IMDB entry: tt1646971 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12The top-rated still from this film on TMDB has 1 community votes — a signal the frame composition stuck with viewers.
1310,719 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
14Classified under 43 themes, including "rescue", "husband wife relationship", "sacrifice", "parent child relationship".
15Released under 13 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Gil Zimmerman
Original score: John Powell
Editing: John K. Carr
Production design: Pierre-Olivier Vincent
VFX supervisor: Dave Walvoord
Sound: Leff Lefferts
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $145,000,000
Box office: $621,537,519
Return: 429% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
Rotten Tomatoes: 92% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 77/100
IMDB rating: 7.8/10 · 398,152 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 15 wins & 61 nominations total

Annie Award for Best Animated Feature

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Part of

How to Train Your Dragon Collection

This computer-animated action fantasy film series follows the adventures of a young Viking named Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, son of Stoick the Vast, leader of the Viking island of Berk. Although initially dismissed as a clumsy and underweight misfit, he soon becomes renowned as a courageous expert in dragons, beginning with Toothless, a member of the rare Night Fury breed as his flying mount and his closest companion. Together with his friends, he manages the village's allied dragon population in defense of his home as leader of a flying corps of dragon riders. Upon becoming leaders of their kind, Hiccup and Toothless are forced to make choices that will truly ensure peace between people and dragons.

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katiegofanywhere2014-06-22
If you loved the first How to Train Your Dragon, you'll absolutely love this movie. If you are a frequent user of Tumblr, you'll want to capture SO many moments in .gif format. If you've never seen the first movie, you'll still love this movie, or at least, like it. Essentially, this movie is great. It has all that a child could desire in a film (trust me, the kids in the theatre LOVED it - it was super cute) and it also had some absolutely hilarious moments for the adults. The plot is pretty good; even if it is predictable, it's predictable in a way that works. The animation is gorgeous. The voicework is awesome. The way all of the characters have grown over the 5 year gap between the two movies in the series was really well done and evident, not just in appearance, but also in their personalities and interactions with each other. In any case it was a lot of fun! Go watch it, even if you don't have kids.
Reno2015-05-03
★ 8/10
Like I said a couple of year ago during 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2' review, it's a terrible title for a sequel. The host, Neil Patrick also said the same thing during the 2015 Oscars. But in the digital world, slight change in the title makes random in order. I mean on the computer and web world, it won't show in order. Even sometime it might get lost in a vast number of other titles if they dare to chance the first word in the title for a sequel. Other than that they are not stupid as many people think. That's why they highlighted 'Dragon' boldly than the rest of the words. This part two was not much different to its first. The story continues five years after Hiccup recovers from his injury. He and his pet, Toothless discovers a new land during the survey for the map. So their's adventure begins, but end in a trouble and forces all his people from the town to involve and fight against the rising evil force that tries to conquer them all. Like I always say, those days are gone, now animated movies are for all ages. This was a very nicely and carefully written screenplay, did not fail to deliver. Very close to the impact the first movie made, but due to simplicity it stayed a couple of steps behind. Developed well with a bit of suspense, thrill and entertainment. Nothing more we could have asked, a perfect follow-up and hoping to explore beyond lot more in the upcoming movies in this series. Four years gap between the movies is a nice idea and fine breathing space for this franchise fan. A movie must be seen by animation fans, especially if you have already seen the first then don't miss it. 8/10
Andres Gomez2016-03-24
★ 8/10
The first one was good and the second is not any worse. This series is standing out of the pack for its complex plot involving several topics, not just the typical ones in an animated movie. Arguably, they have been also treated in former movies; two main characters which are crippled (Finding Nemo ...), greater involvement of strong female roles (although, still, not as main characters and utterly in need of help from the male roles), ecology, etc. The points I dislike the most is the speech of homeland being the good "peacekeeper" nation forced to use violence to keep it (peace). Quite hypocritical but, clearly, addressed to the US audience. The repetitive line of story about the (nerd) hero who is the only one to save the world is quite tiresome too. Finally, how lightly some other traumatic causing topics are treated: finding that a parent abandoned their child, death, etc ... In any case, this is a good movie, funny and with an interesting story. Worth watching for a franchise that, I think, doesn't have all the attention it should have.