Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) by Jazzmin M — 13 Jul 2016

I think this film is outstanding. It's beautifully animated, action-packed, and very dramatic with an epic feel. The story is very well written. It's not a rehash of the first film. It builds on it.

It expands on it. It continues the story like a good sequel should. It's not only as good as it's predecessor, but it's better. The voice acting is wonderful as always. It's abundant in genuine emotion.

It's intense, serious, and even dark. The only problems have with the film is one: it could've used more humor, and two: the villain isn't extremely interesting. The movie is mostly dramatic, and that's okay.

I like animated films with lots of drama. But if a film studio is going to make a sequel, it needs a just as serious predecessor. The first film has a lot of funny moments and I was exited it see more in this, but it's mainly just dramatic which, like I said, is completely fine.

I was just expecting more than what is given since the first film is hilarious. The villain, while having a cool design and menacing intentions, is a bit too cliche. He's sort of just your typical "take over the world" kind of villain.

Even his backstory is a bit bland and rushed. He's not bad, he's just not that engaging. On the bright side, at least we have an actual villain in this in contrast to the first one. Despite this film's couple of issues, How To Train Your Dragon 2 is great.

It's an epic, amazing, satisfying sequel to a series that's getting better.