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The third and final installment in the trilogy, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World , is scheduled to be released on February 22, Five years after the Viking village of Berk and the dragons made peace, they now live together in harmony. Hiccup goes on adventures with his dragon, Toothless, as they discover and map unexplored lands.

Now 20 years old, he is being pressed by his father, Stoick the Vast, to succeed him as chieftain, although Hiccup remains unsure if he is ready for this responsibility. While investigating a burnt forest, Hiccup and Astrid discover the remains of a fort encased in ice and meet a group of dragon trappers led by Eret, who blames them for his fort's destruction and attempts to capture their dragons for an insane conqueror named Drago Bludvist. The two dragon riders escape and return to Berk to warn Stoick about the dragon army that Drago is amassing. Stoick orders the villagers to fortify the island and prepare for battle.

Hiccup, however, refuses to believe that war is inevitable, and flies off to talk to Drago. Stoick stops him, and explains that he once met Drago. At a gathering of chiefs, Drago had offered to protect them from dragons if they pledged to serve him, and when they refused, he had his dragons attack them, with Stoick as the only survivor.

Undeterred, Hiccup flies off with Toothless in search of Drago to try to reason with him. They run into a dragon rider named Valka, who is revealed to be Hiccup's long-lost mother. She explains that she, like her son, could not bring herself to kill dragons. After being carried off during a dragon raid, she spent 20 years rescuing dragons from Drago's traps and bringing them to an island nest created out of ice by a gigantic Alpha dragon called a "Bewilderbeast", which is able to control smaller dragons. Stoick tracks Hiccup to the nest, where he discovers that his wife is still alive.

Meanwhile, Astrid and the other riders force Eret to lead them to Drago. But Drago captures them and learns of Berk's dragons. Drago and his armada lay siege to the nest, where he reveals that he has his own Bewilderbeast to challenge the Alpha. A battle ensues between the two colossal dragons, which ends with Drago's Bewilderbeast killing its opponent and becoming the new Alpha. Drago's Bewilderbeast then seizes control of all the adult dragons, which hypnotically obey. Hiccup tries to persuade Drago to end the violence, but Drago orders him killed. Toothless, under the Bewilderbeast's influence, approaches Hiccup and launches a plasma bolt towards him, but Stoick pushes Hiccup out of the way and is hit instead, dying as a result.

The Bewilderbeast momentarily relinquishes control of Toothless, but Hiccup drives him away in a fit of despair. Drago maroons Hiccup and the others on the island and rides Toothless, again under the control of the Bewilderbeast, to lead his army to conquer Berk. Stoick is given a Viking funeral and Hiccup, now having lost both his father and dragon, is unsure what to do.

Valka encourages him by telling him that he alone can unite humans and dragons, and inspired by her words and his father's, Hiccup decides to return to Berk to stop Drago. The dragon riders fly baby dragons back to Berk, as they are immune to the Bewilderbeast's control. They find that Drago has already attacked the village and taken control of its dragons.

Hiccup confronts Drago and a brainwashed Toothless while the other riders work to distract the Bewilderbeast.

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Hiccup succeeds in freeing Toothless from the Bewilderbeast's control, much to Drago's surprise. Hiccup and Toothless briefly separate Drago from the Bewilderbeast and confront Drago on the ground, but the Bewilderbeast attacks them, encasing them in ice. However, Toothless blasts away the ice, revealing that both Hiccup and he are unharmed.

He then challenges the Bewilderbeast, shooting it in the face repeatedly, which breaks its control over the other dragons, who side with Toothless as the new Alpha dragon. All the dragons repeatedly fire at the Bewilderbeast until Toothless fires a final massive blast, breaking its left tusk. Defeated, the Bewilderbeast retreats under the sea with Drago on its back. The Vikings and dragons celebrate their victory and Hiccup is made chieftain of Berk.

After the success of the first film, the sequel was announced on April 27, For the sequel, he intended to revisit the films of his youth, with The Empire Strikes Back and My Neighbor Totoro [16] having the pivotal inspirations for the film. It felt like an embellishment and that's the goal. While the first film was set in a generic North Sea environment, the creative team decided to focus on Norway this time around. Early in the sequel's development, about a dozen of them traveled there for a week-long research trip, where they toured Oslo , Bergen , and the fjords.

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Over the five years before the film's release, [22] DreamWorks Animation had substantially over-hauled its production workflow and animation software. Called by Katzenberg as "the next revolution in filmmaking", it enabled artists for the first time to work on rich, complex images in real time, instead of waiting eight hours to see the results the next day. Programs named Premo [24] and Torch allowed much more subtlety, improving facial animation and enabling "the sense of fat, jiggle, loose skin, the sensation of skin moving over muscle instead of masses moving together.

The film was screened out of competition on May 16, at the Cannes Film Festival. The website's critical consensus states: Braver than Brave , more fun than Frozen , and more emotionally satisfying than so many of its live-action counterparts, Dragon delivers. And good thing, too, since DWA desperately needs another toon to cross the half-billion-dollar threshold. It should also do very healthy business for hit-starved DreamWorks Animation. Louis Post-Dispatch gave the film three out of four stars, saying "For audiences who want a sweet story, they can't beat the first film of a boy finding his best friend.

For those who are ready for the next stage, try this one about a boy becoming a man.

Bill Goodykoontz of The Arizona Republic gave the film four out of five stars, saying "It seemed as if there was nowhere new to go after the first film, but this is a richer story that dares to go darker and is thus more rewarding. It truly is a high-flying, depth-charging wonder to behold. But that's exactly what makes the "Dragon" films so different, and so much better, than the average children's fare.

He has created a thoughtful tale as meaningful for grown-ups as it is pleasurable for its young primary audience. And there's another already planned. Rene Rodriguez of the Miami Herald gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying " How to Train Your Dragon 2 is its own standalone picture, with a surprising range of emotions that surpasses the original and a brisk pace and manner of storytelling that give it purpose and direction. The fact that it's also so much fun, no matter what your age, almost feels like a bonus. Thanks to the superb 3-D direction by DeBlois, we swoop through the air, whoosh down dragons' tails, and juuust baaaarely [ sic ] squeeze into small crevices, but still, those experiences are only like being on a really great rollercoaster—they don't mean anything.

Dowd of The A. Club gave the film a B-, saying "There aren't just more dragons, but more characters, more plot, more everything. The trade-off is that the charm of the original gets a little lost, a casualty of rapid-franchise expansion. Composer John Powell , who earned his first Academy Award nomination for his music in the original movie , returned to score the sequel. Powell described the project "a maturation story" and stated that he too tried to achieve the same maturation in the structure of his music by developing further every aspect of his compositions from the original film.

The latter song is featured only in the European versions of the film. A soundtrack album for the film was released on June 17, , by Relativity Music Group. Rybak's song, " Into a Fantasy ", was released separately as a single. The third and final film, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World , [99] was originally scheduled for release on June 17, , [] but in September , DreamWorks Animation moved the release date to June 9, Murray Abraham had joined the cast as the film's main villain, named Grimmel.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Keoni Jameson is going away for the weekend, so Lilo uses a shape-shifting experiment to transform into him, and win the island's skateboarding competition's grand prize.

At the same time, Jake, Gramps and Fu Dog visit the island to check out reports that magical creatures actually Jumba's experiments are running rampant. All main, recurring , and supporting characters have vastly different appearances compared to the first season, as a new hand-drawn animation team and style was brought in order to give the show a sleeker look.

In this season, Jake Long is While using his Dream Charm to have secret dates with Rose, Jake gets the idea to use his charm to access Rotwood's mind in order to obtain the answer key for a future test. But when he inadvertently releases a dangerous Chimera creature into the Dream Realm, Jake, Rose, Spud, and Trixie must work quickly in order to stop it. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.

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But his date goes sour when Jake finds out his hot date, Jasmine, is hiding a dark secret, he must stop her from stealing all of the students souls. When an ancient magical chalice containing a powerful evil is being used as a trophy at his school's talent show, Jake must compete against Spud the Magnificent and risk losing their friendship.

Meanwhile, a treacherous dental villain tries to abduct Haley for her loose Dragon Tooth. Wanting an excuse to spend time with the girl of his dreams, Jake auditions for the role of Anthony to act opposite Rose's Cleopatra in the school play. Meanwhile, he must also protect a mystical Egyptian scarab from falling in the hands of the Huntsclan. Jake must hide a giant, hairy troll from his parents and visiting aunt. Fu Dog's trip to a Yankee game ends up with him trying to outrun a maniacal dog-catcher. In an attempt to raise enough money to replace the vase they broke, Spud and Trixie unknowingly give Jake's dragon form over to Professor Rotwood.

Jake, Grandpa, Trixie, Spud, and Fu Dog must comically stumble through an elaborate heist to retrieve a Leprechaun's stolen gold from a millionaire dark wizard named Eli Pandarus. Jake attends the World Dragon Summit and becomes engaged in a hilarious battle of pranks with Fred Nerk, the Australian Dragon - during which he learns about his grandpa's history with the infamous Dark Dragon. Jake is assigned as a bodyguard to the Oracle Twins, Kara and Sara.

When he brings them to school, they go from causing mischief to helping him cheat on his mythology test. Note this episode takes place before "Dragon Summit".

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When Jake, Trixie, and Spud attend a school sponsored ski trip, Jake embarks on an investigation to find out the true identity of the Huntsgirl, while also trying to get some alone time with Rose. Jake finds out the identity of Huntsgirl. Father-son bonding hijinx ensues when Jonathan takes Jake, Trixie and Spud on a camping trip in the forests of New Jersey. Meanwhile, the menacing "Jersey Devil" terrorizes a tribe of woodland sprites. Fu Dog is forced to go undercover as a contestant in the "Miss Magical World" beauty pageant in order to discover the secret evil plot of the wealthy wizard, Eli Pandarus.

The pageant host is voiced by Monty Hall. Jake accidentally lets a gremlin loose at his mother's big catering gig for the "Wedding of the Century" between two famous soap-opera stars. Jake discovers that his ancient, out-of-touch grandfather was once a swinging, styling super-agent in s Hong Kong, China, who had completely changed after defeating the Dark Dragon. The Great Wall soundtrack. Retrieved March 31, Retrieved December 13, Retrieved October 30, Retrieved April 19, Retrieved August 12, Retrieved December 15, Retrieved July 14, Retrieved September 21, Retrieved October 11, Retrieved 17 November Retrieved November 18, Retrieved December 14, Retrieved November 17, Retrieved July 29, Retrieved 22 November Retrieved December 26, Retrieved 21 February Retrieved March 2, Retrieved 14 February Accessed 17 February Retrieved June 8, Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament".

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