Rating of
2.5/4
A Little Less Bite Than The First
Taz - wrote on 01/19/15
How to Trail Your Dragon 2 is cute but not as good as the original. As with the first one the movie is beautiful and the dragons are fun, exciting and cute. The story lacks a little from the first one though. It is pretty slow going at the beginning and takes a little while to get going. It finally picks up at the end with some big fun battles but really gets slow in the middle. The returning characters are all great and as I remembered them, fun and bubbly. The new characters that are introduced fell a little flat for me though. They felt a little lifeless and empty compared to fun characters from the first one. It just felt like How to Train Your Dragon 2 had a little less heart than the original. Rarely are sequels better then the original, especially with children's movies. Dreamworks had pulled that feet off with the great Kung Fu Panda 2 so I was optimistic. Overall it is a fun movie and worth seeing if you liked the first one and good enough I will probably indulge in a third one that I hear is being worked on.
