Anyone who knows me knows that the word ‘Dragons’ means that whatever you’re selling, I’m buying (luckily Dodge went with the ‘Viper’ or I’d be broke!).
But, anyway, today I’ve come across a ‘Dragon’ thing that I’m particularly excited about: it’s a trailer for How To Train Your Dragon 2. If you’ve seen the first, you’ll know how good it is. If you haven’t, let me tell you that it is absolutely wonderful; I’d go as far to say that it is my favourite animate film to date (I’m sorry Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, I do still love you, but… Dragons… Done well!). It literally has everything I look for in a movie: fantasy, an interesting setting, loveable characters, a roller-coaster of emotions, a great story line and plenty of humour.
Excitingly, the second movie is set to pick up five years after the first finished. Hiccup is no longer a scrawny, runty boy continually disappointing his Viking father, but rather a Dragon Rider spending most of his days adventuring with Toothless. This fits well with the directors promise that the first movie was “the first act in a much larger story,” and that he plans many adventures where Hiccup will travel far beyond the familiar grounds of Berk.
I haven’t looked for too much more information than that, because I don’t want too many spoilers; but I’m looking forward to seeing how the rest of the crew grew up upon its release in July 2014. For now, here’s the trailer for you to enjoy yourselves:
Jennie Ivins
Here is a little bit more for those interested in the ‘Mysterious Dragon Rider’
In a first look released earlier this week on USA Today, director Dean DeBlois says Valka looks to keep the dragons away from the humans. She is “somebody living with the animals and learning to communicate with them in non-verbal ways and becoming much like a dragon herself,” the director says. “Her years of isolation and dealing with nothing but dragons and being very sympathetic to them has made her very distrusting of humans.”