01-11-2020, 08:07 PM
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
Making my first foray into the H2TYD-verse the third and last film was probably a mistake. The character designs are sooooo bland and two of the central heroes are only distinguishable by their hair colour. It seems like the CGI artists were more interested in excuses for showing off perfect sand, fog, fire, water, hair and grass simulations that telling a memorable story. A couple of sequences where two dragons were falling in love had some charm but that was mostly because all the annoying sarcastic voice actors had no lines. They all sound like hyperactive teenagers, not grizzly dragon riding vikings. I felt sympathy for the cackling evil bad-guy in one scene where he finds one of these babbling good characters so irritating to be around that he actually lets her go from his dungeon. The ending was quite nicely handled but generally I've no idea how this franchise got to a third film on this evidence, or why this is getting good reviews, or award nominations.
Making my first foray into the H2TYD-verse the third and last film was probably a mistake. The character designs are sooooo bland and two of the central heroes are only distinguishable by their hair colour. It seems like the CGI artists were more interested in excuses for showing off perfect sand, fog, fire, water, hair and grass simulations that telling a memorable story. A couple of sequences where two dragons were falling in love had some charm but that was mostly because all the annoying sarcastic voice actors had no lines. They all sound like hyperactive teenagers, not grizzly dragon riding vikings. I felt sympathy for the cackling evil bad-guy in one scene where he finds one of these babbling good characters so irritating to be around that he actually lets her go from his dungeon. The ending was quite nicely handled but generally I've no idea how this franchise got to a third film on this evidence, or why this is getting good reviews, or award nominations.
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