Friday, 4 January 2019

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World


Official Australian release date: 3/1/19. Viewed: 5/1/19.
Director: Dean DeBlois
Actors: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, F. Murray Abraham, Kit Harington
Genre: Action / Fantasy
Rating: PG

     
‘How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ is the third & final film in one of the best trilogies of recent memory – it lives up to the benchmark set by the first two films and has solid character development and a fantastic ending, rather than just rehashing the same motifs. There’s so much great CGI to watch – oceans, clouds, forests, caves, waterfalls, and obviously, hundreds of dragons! It’s all really colourful, fun and enjoyable

The plot is that now most of the dragons are living in their Norse village, pirates keep stealing them, so Hiccup (Baruchel), Astrid (Ferrera) , Eret (Harington), Snotlout (Hill), Fishlegs (Mintz-Plasse), Gobber (Ferguson), Ruffnut (Wiig) and Tuffnut (Miller) have to keep rescuing them. Since this is unsustainable, they try to find the hidden realm beyond the edge of the world where dragons originated from. In the meantime, Toothless is being hunted by the evil Grimmel (Abraham) who wants to destroy all Night Furies.

Even though it’s all fantasy and about dragons, there’s two great love stories in the film – Hiccup & Astrid and Toothless and the Light Fury. Along with love comes loss, and the film does a great job of portraying to kids that change is inevitable and is handled really well. There’s a few funny moments, lots of great action scenes and plenty of sweet moments. Almost had a tear in my eye at the end!

Overall: Delightful and uplifting fun, excellent conclusion.

Gav's Rating: 4 stars.

1 comment:

  1. That’s nice to know that this movie does the tremendous job of portraying to the children that change should be appreciated. Such movies are always in our watch list. I also will be adding some more shows for our family weekend movie parties. Adding the shows from Andy Yeatman because they are super nice.

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