Hardly any words can describe the emotional punch and moral divide this film gives you when watching. It, like it's predecessor, has trumped the movie that came before. With even more maturity built into the story than before. It shows the targeted audience extremely important lessons, displayed with animation that outshines some modern CGI in big blockbusters.

The scenery is gorgeous and the cinematography is outstanding. Not trying to outdo the previous films with the "look what we can do with the camera" gimmick. But improves the stability and grounds the viewer within the world. Vivid imagery that adds to the story and the style, this movie has many points other studios need to take a note from.

At first, the villain seemed typical and unneeded after the second film. But the wit and backstory they gave him, don't make us feel for him. Only adding to Hiccup's story and his choices throughout the film. Toothless is way more "himself" here. Seeming that Dean Deblois wanted to focus on him letting loose. It really pays attention to how this voiceless dragon, needs to have a compelling arc as well as his rider. This does lead to my one gripe about the film, the Light Fury. She represents a very important aspect in the film. Her introduction, however, didn't feel right and could have been a bit more coherent to how she acts throughout the rest of the film. Although, it all adds up to the end. For this really is the final movie in this amazing trilogy.

With this marking the end of these stunning and surprising films. They capture the story of a boy, who trudges through hard times to find life's hardest challenges and truths. And they ended it extremely wholesomely. It feels, complete. As if it always should have been this way.

**9.5/10**

I really really really loved this movie. Honestly, I really really really loved all three movies. This one truly, once again, lived up to all my expectations. It looked beautiful, it was funny ( I cried of laughter at one point), I loved seeing all the characters again. It was just great. In the end, it got quite emotional for me personally. I tried very hard to hold back my tears but I let one slip, so I was happy my 3D glasses helped me cover up my tear filled eyes. I will miss these movies very much and be sure to watch them all again very soon.

Just realized that I pretty much only talked about my emotions but I also want to say something about the storyline. I think this movie had one of the best storylines of all three. I witnessed a growth in multiple characters, which is something I really enjoyed. I hated the bad guy, which hasn't happen in this trilogy yet, so that's pretty great. Loving all these emotions, to be honest.

So, if you haven't noticed by now, I loved How to Train Your Dragon (all of them) and HIGHLY recommend you watch them all :-)

things that didn't make sense in this movie:
- the light fury.
- the entire mating plot line.
- the hidden world. period. (if the hidden world literally changed everything why was it shown for maybe five minutes)
- why hiccup decided they had to live separately when the last two movies were all about how hiccup wanted to spread the compassion for dragons. the lesson that berk learned was just that dragons are another species and just being pets for them wasn't the best for the dragons. so why, since hiccup is all about spreading the love for dragons, did they have to completely remove themselves from humans instead of simply finding/creating more safe spaces for dragons.
- how it was incredibly easy for toothless to just leave hiccup throughout the movie, but then him leaving at the end was oh so hard for him. what is with this complete inconsistency in their relationship.

are these even the same characters like what.

honestly this movie would've been infinitely better if there was a larger focus on hiccup and astrid, the chiefdom, and how toothless, with the lesson above, would fit into that. and to remove the CRIME that was a romantic interest for toothless.

i'm so angry. i haven't felt this angry about a movie before.

It's visually stunning, but a lot less interesting than the previous ones.

First one looked great. Then you see the second, rewatch the first, and the difference is crazy. And I have no doubt rewatching the second now would give the same impression. Except that it felt like the characters didn't improve that much, it was more like "look at this fog, look at this fire, look at this sea, look what we can do". Yeah graphics engine for particle stuff are crazy these days, the waterfall looks 95% real, fire and fog effects are great but that's a little too much in your face.

As for the story, meh. Nothing much.

You barely see how life in the village evolved, it could have been interesting but it's just a long plan of "there are dragons everywhere".

The bad guy is only a dragon hunter, sure, a little smarter, but that's it. He just outsmarts them a few times to end up defeated in a snap like it could have happened in the first encouter.

There's a looooot too much of night furies awkward flirting. Sure that's the only original thing in the scenario, but that's not enough for a whole movie. And the female dragon character is very weird. First where does she comes from ? You have this super dragon hunter that is supposed to have killed every night furies, he is super stunned to learned that he missed one (Toohtless), but it's just normal that he actually missed a second one and that regular bozos just managed to capture her ? And then the way she acts makes no sense. She just happens to do [spoiler]exactly what Grimmel needs her to do, every time. So this guy can control dragons by drugging them, so you'd expect she's controlled, but no, she just does that naturally. Which means he just freed her like that, assuming that it would just work out for him.[/spoiler]

Then there's this hidden world thing. Legendary, unknown aaaaand they just happens to find it the moment they set out for it. Actually, not even sure they were looking for it at this time, just looking for Toothless. [spoiler]There also happened to be no alpha there, so Toothless just lands there and boom, he's the king.[/spoiler]

Also about the ending, [spoiler]dragons disappeared ? So basically every dragon in the world were in their village ? There was virtually no dragon anywhere else that was not under Toothless. So where did the bad guys caught the dragons that they were saving ? There were that few when it seems that the whole viking civilization was about them, fighting against them, capturing them, etc.[/spoiler]

Could the final scene have been more cliche ? Nope, I can't see how that would be possible. So much that maybe it could be considered as intended ? Not sure.

Technically it's on the level, but apart from that, it's just a children movie, totally missing the originality and intelligence of the first two and full of non connecting story parts that can only be seen as lazy writing when you're over 10 year old. Maybe they thought the second was a little too dark, well this one is way too bland.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
Dir: Dean DeBlois

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is the third and final movie in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, in which viking leader Hiccup and his friends must unite to find the hidden world which holds the key to them saving his dragon, Toothless and his friends.

This film really was the perfect ending to the trilogy for me, growing up reading the books and then watching the film series left me with really high expectations going in to it, and I honestly wasn't even slightly disappointed. The How to Train Your Dragon trilogy has to be up there in my top 10 animated film franchises.

The animation was really incredible and most of the shots were so captivating that it was hard to look away for even a moment in fear of missing some of the wonderful cinematography. The story line was also amazing and such a good way for the audience to say farewell to Hiccup and his crew.

I really don't have a single negative thing to say about this film, I loved it more than I ever thought I would. It was incredibly wholesome and I'd definitely recommend this film, and the franchise as a whole.