This is easily one of the most clichéd movies I've ever seen. The dialogue seems forced and unnatural, the plot conveniences are too glaring to forgive, every single side character feels completely useless as they have no reason for being on screen except to deliver not-that-funny one liners here and there. And to top it all off, the animation hasn't really improved from the first film. If you've seen an animated movie before, you'll be able to stay one step ahead of the movie the entire time because it's unbelievably predictable. There's a scene where Hiccup is captured (pretty inexplicably?) and when his captor takes off her mask and you see his captor is woman, I audibly said "That's his mother isn't it." And it was! Towards the end of the movie Hiccup is in "danger" and I audibly said "don't tell me his dad is going to sacrifice himself for his son." And he did! This movie will throw the shallowest of plot twists in the feeblest attempt to keep this movie interesting, and as a result, none of this makes any sense. Hiccup and his father finally see his mom after 20 years and everyone's okay and back to normal in like 5 seconds. The villain's motivation was basically just "I'm evil and I have a deep voice" and Kit Harrington's character kept switching sides for what seemed like no reason. This sequel isn't exceptional in any way, it's unforgivably average and mediocre, which is really upsetting considering how much I liked the first one.
Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2
