Review of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) by Live2Rise — 05 Mar 2019

”How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” should be the equivalent of how every other animated or live-action trilogy should add up to when it reaches the end of their run. It takes the gorgeous 3D animation, the interchangeable characters, the stellar action set pieces, the breathtaking cinematography, the captivating musical scores, the emotional but heart-tugging messages, everything that made its predecessors so adorable, so lovable, so relatable, so reeling in awesomeness, it all carries over here. The only major downside is the fact that despite how good this movie is, despite the fact that it’s one of those rare gems in a trilogy where the third film doesn’t suck, it is still effectively the weakest out of the three. It separates away from the darker and more mature tone that its predecessor set, the two main story arcs that come together seamlessly wrap up to the benefit of one arc as opposed to the other and there was no need for an antagonist here. In a movie this simple but so complex in its execution, you either give its villain the Drago treatment or you don’t wanna include him here PERIOD. Here, it should’ve been the latter.

As far as I know though, these stories aren’t exactly very original as far as these movies go but it isn’t so much on what the story is that matters more than it is how it’s executed. It’s how these stories are presented plus the relationships they build plus the journey they take to get to the destination that matters the most and the presentation for how all three of these movies executed it is the very reason why we’ve been able to have so much fun with it for this long. But all things considered, it manages to end this series on a high note, the way it deserves. All good things come to an end......and there’s no denying we’re gonna miss you, Toothless.