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This is how you do a sequel!

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How To Train Your Dragon 2 is a fantastically
animated and mostly well thought out summer

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sequel to one of Dreamwork's best animated
features. It takes places a few years after

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the first film, and again follows Viking oddball
Hiccup and his dragon, Toothless, and explores

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the depth and power of the pair's bond, and
how that will affect Hiccup's role in his

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home village as he struggles to come to terms
with his differing opinions on the world around him.

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While the movie delivers tons of great jokes
and some fantastic action sequences, the film's

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biggest strength is it's ability to leverage
it's cast to deliver some surprisingly potent

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emotional moments. There are at least three
scenes in the film that really struck a chord

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with me, and that's even after I knew they
were coming, since I saw that horribly spoiler-laden

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trailer. Context alone made the scenes very
powerful, and they ended up being the highlight

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of the movie.

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The only real off part of the film to me was
how it handled the villain. While not terrible,

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he seemed to be grounded in little of the
film's logic, his abilities largely unexplained

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and seemingly going against the rules of the
world that the movie attempts to establish.

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The way he's eventually taken care of in the
third act also seems to contradict the overarching

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theme of the film, even though multiple times
it feels like his actions are being set up

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to align with the film's platitudes perfectly.

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Overall though, despite being a bit eyebrow
raising, he doesn't ruin what is otherwise

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a fantastic blend of action and emotion that
anyone of any age can enjoy.