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MayfieldjaMar 10, 2019

Though this film lacks the emotional punch of the first two installments of this trilogy, The Hidden World still puts a nice little bow onto the film franchise that the kids will enjoy. You will still find some laughs but ultimately this filmThough this film lacks the emotional punch of the first two installments of this trilogy, The Hidden World still puts a nice little bow onto the film franchise that the kids will enjoy. You will still find some laughs but ultimately this film is the weakest of three with less character development and less depth than it’s predecessors.… Expand

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PurplepufferyFeb 26, 2019

Wish I could say more, but this movie just wasn't good. I've read the books, watched the first movie around 42 times, the second around 6, and have seen both tv series. I'm a huge fan of the HtTYD series, and that's why this hurts me soWish I could say more, but this movie just wasn't good. I've read the books, watched the first movie around 42 times, the second around 6, and have seen both tv series. I'm a huge fan of the HtTYD series, and that's why this hurts me so much.
The movie is visually stunning, and John Powell's soundtrack work salvaged it for me.
The plot is incredibly forced, and emotionally draining with how unsatisfactory this movie is.
I'd never expect something so generic and predictable from Dreamworks, but here we are.… Expand

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nicktohzyuJun 8, 2019

Good graphics and passable laughs but the narrative is lacking and the pace is too slow, sometime adding cheesy moments that drag on for too long

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TrevorsViewFeb 22, 2019

Moving to a new place can feel like your own house got set on fire. Meeting someone who speaks another language can feel like you are talking to a wall. Deciding to shower in the morning instead of the evening can shift your entire sleepMoving to a new place can feel like your own house got set on fire. Meeting someone who speaks another language can feel like you are talking to a wall. Deciding to shower in the morning instead of the evening can shift your entire sleep routine. Embracing change puts a toll on anyone, myself included. DreamWorks’ attentive conclusion to their popular trilogy presents these challenges and more in an approach that guarantees any child at heart watching How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World will confront transformation greater as a result.

The screenplay to this otherwise watchable feature remains too safe by keeping the side characters to one-note comic devices, as was the problem with previous installments to the franchise. While Toothless learning how to court a white female dragon of his own species becomes a sweet scene without dialogue, the naïve bonding still may distance most others who would see this as too little-kiddish. Adults may enjoy the relatively huge clouds that progress into a powerful storm, yet the sudden splendor ultimately remains pretty hollow in its true meaning. Some older viewers may see it all as nothing but a weak tool for empty spectacle to prioritize its claims to help sincere problems. Not all kids would be totally into the experience either, as some could possibly find some of the dragons too scary, especially a couple of sabretooth venom-spitters who go on a rage in their own flames. Stuff like that could make children skip over the message.

Speaking of the message, a bland flashback copies The Lion King with an overused theme, “humans shouldn’t exercise authority over the environment,” with little added on to it that other family films have done better in the past. Its catalyst for delivering that theme centers around an unnecessary lazy old villain trope who kills Night Furies when the focus should have stayed on a true, healthy friendship. There’s the strong friendship between Hiccup and his dragon alright, but what about Fishlegs, Snotlout, Ruffnutt, Tuffnutt, and even Astrid? Nothing exploits the clear changes in each of the friends since their first appearances to display their growth… not even Fishlegs’ new braided moustache. It’s the same problem movies numbers one and two have: the gang is not fully invested to help Hiccup decide what’s best for Berk.

Now with the negative aspects out of the way, DreamWorks’ franchise still remains a wonderful investment. Considering our culture wants to build up borders, what a breath of fresh air that the big screen unites nationalities through something unanimously tangible. The Hidden World does so in a way that must be seen only in IMAX as more dragons fly than ever within neon glows, even to the extent of caressing a silent storytelling language! At a smaller scale, the white Night Fury’s slumber within radiant backlights looks pure inside her misty forest. Then she moves catlike before turning invisible: prim, independent, and well mannered.

Everyone can understand animals (that includes dragons), a truth exploited to its full potential when some green auroras grace a sky dance to contrast against other larger, uglier, beast designs. The immense range of scale guides Berk’s soft sunrise stretched from one of Earth’s corners to another that looks much stronger after the foggy rescue mission prologue gives a cold aura. To tie it all together into a cohesive unit, the franchise’s usual director adds dramatic flames beneath the magic hour moments to symbolize Hiccup’s fear of being a nobody without his pet.

To make things better, the vocal cast puts their best feet forward without any more of those fake-sounding accents! Jay Baruchel improved quite a lot after struggling a little throughout the first two installments; he carries our familiar hero to take on those new responsibilities of being chief to great success.

The wonderful continuation off past movies helps our sympathetic capacity, both in the story arcs and the quality of the animation; Toothless’ sand drawing turns out better now because the sand texture moves so realistically thanks to technological wizardry! These filmmakers clearly matured as they present a series finale that sweetens the senses, as if you too grew over the last decade.

We all must take on those risky challenges, as do I, being always caught in personal thoughts. So, I recently joined my church’s Spain mission trip as a way to enforce needed growth. In that same way, Hiccup’s sky-riding has done wonders to inspire fans the past nine years—you can do the same, whether raising a son or daughter, a dog, a cat, employees, or a workspace. Then, proper etiquette can be taught and learned to eventually help others expose the hidden.… Expand

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TyranianMay 16, 2019

Decent third film with strong animation and music though very poor writing.

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AkumaJackApr 26, 2019

Loved the first two movies. This one is kinda "meh". It's a slower version of the same story we saw years ago, with nothing really interesting or emotionally moving happening. Nothing really happens until the last 10 movies and i was tooLoved the first two movies. This one is kinda "meh". It's a slower version of the same story we saw years ago, with nothing really interesting or emotionally moving happening. Nothing really happens until the last 10 movies and i was too bored out to care anymore. Too bad it ended like that. Avoid.… Expand

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LouesApr 8, 2019

The emotions and animation are better than the antecessors, but we have a really weak script.
This is not a bad movie, however it's worse than the other two.

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TVJerryFeb 27, 2019

This is the 3rd installment in this series about a young man and his friendly dragon. It starts with his community rescuing a bunch of captured dragons, but their plight from a diabolical villain is played out thru the rest of the plot. ThereThis is the 3rd installment in this series about a young man and his friendly dragon. It starts with his community rescuing a bunch of captured dragons, but their plight from a diabolical villain is played out thru the rest of the plot. There are plenty of bizarrely funky dragons, lots of frenzied action and some mildly charming supporting characters. This final chapter will appeal to fans who are invested in the series, but there's nothing particularly original or special here. The ending is sweet.… Expand

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AntonioSanAlo99Jun 24, 2019

A silly plot without so much inspiration, good visuals but a mess of narrative. Only can be saved by its finale, very sensitive and energetic to put an end to the trilogy.

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superfieldsJul 11, 2019

they waited years to release this poorly executed film, that falls way below the mark of the other two previous films. just awful

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CyberRobotnixMar 3, 2019

I think it's enough of these "Train Your Dragon" movies, all good things have to end.

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SamSayajinFeb 22, 2019

Above average film.Its a fine conclusion to the trilogy but i like much more the 2nd

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LajaleaaJul 15, 2019

"You're supposed to be the generation who lead us into the future."
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( 65/100 ) . No hay mucha diferencia entre ésta y varias otras películas infantiles. How To Train Your Dragon jamás fue mi mayor afición y ver la conclusión de esta saga no"You're supposed to be the generation who lead us into the future."
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No hay mucha diferencia entre ésta y varias otras películas infantiles. How To Train Your Dragon jamás fue mi mayor afición y ver la conclusión de esta saga no me fue conmovedor. Sin embargo debo de admitir que hay un par de momentos de gran valor narrativo y emotivo que la salvan de ser totalmente invisible.
En esta aventura, Toothless y Hiccup, interpretado por Jay Baruchel, rescatan dragones y los integran a un estilo de vida más seguro. Sin embargo, el espacio en donde habitan ya es muy pequeño para todos los integrantes y también es muy vulnerable de los agresores, por lo tanto, el plan es mudar a la sociedad de dragones y humanos al mundo escondido en donde podrán vivir sin confrontaciones.
La única parte de ingenio que vale la pena rescatar en la narrativa es la forma en la que el amor no se puede sostener sin la amistad. Me hubiera gustado una resolución en la que el sacrificio y el abandono no se hubiera dado, pero también entiendo que es parte de una intención que hará que sobreviva tanto la emoción por la saga como el respeto por la mitología en la que se basa. Visualmente, sí es un festín. Hay una aglomeración de elementos y detalles que hace que el recorrido asombre con colores, formas, especies, lugares y una que otra secuencia visual que hará que el cariño de la gente por la saga no desaparezca pronto. Hiccups le enseña al público el valor del ser incondicional y la forma en la que eso crea amistades y relaciones tan fuertes, humildes y transparentes que la distancia, cuando es la solución, no es un obstáculo. The Hidden World es una película carismática que no aspira a nada más que a mostrar un mundo visualmente hermoso y una narrativa fácil de digerir cuyas pequeñas vueltas dramáticas engancharán a grandes y pequeños.
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There's not much difference between this and many other kids movies. How To Train Your Dragon never was my biggest fondness and seen the conclusion of this saga was not really moving for me. Nevertheless, I will admit that there are a couple of moments with great narrative and emotive value that save it from being completely invisible.
In this adventure, Toothless y Hiccup, voiced by Jay Baruchel, rescue and integrate dragons to a much safer life stile. The problem is that the space where they live is too small for all of the members and too vulnerable to attackers, therefore, the plan is to move the human-dragon society to a hidden place in which they will be able to live with no confrontations.
The only clever part that is worth saving in the narrative is the way in which love is unsustainable without friendship. I would’ve liked a resolution in which sacrifice and abandonment would not have happened, but I also understand that is all part of the intention to survive both the emotion for the saga and the respect for the mythology in which is based. Visually, it is a feast. There's a jam of elements and details that makes the travel to surprise with colors, forms, species, places and some few visual sequences that will hold the affection of the people to the saga for some long time. Hiccups teaches about the value of being unconditional and the form in which that creates strong, humble and honest enough friendships and relationships that distance, when it is a solution, it's not an obstacle. The Hidden World is a charismatic movie that doesn't aspire to more than a visually beautiful world and an easy to consume narrative with little dramatic turns that will engage kids and grown ups.… Expand

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AndresandyartguJul 25, 2019

Was bored , the worst of this saga , unfunny , the only good part is toothles and his girldfriend

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DominArsenOct 27, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Dragon 3 is a good film starring two kings Dragons to liberate an oppressed people for their power and ways of living in the midst of the Vikings. Vikings who suddenly become enemies of the crown. Most scenes have no downtime, no breaks. The result is a work of staging particularly well worked. The combat choreographies are nice, but not exceptional. This dragon 3 leaves us less an area of solitude as are predecessor, but on this episode the environments are completed by copy / pasted and it sees that. Beyond that, there remains a nice film powered by his catchy music.

Dragon 3 est un bon film mettant en scène deux Dragons rois devant libérer un peuple opprimé pour leur puissance et leurs manières de vivre au milieu des Vikings. Des Vikings qui du coup deviennent ennemis de la couronne. La plupart des scènes n'ont aucun temps d'arrêt, aucune coupure. Il en résulte un travail de la mise en scène particulièrement bien travaillé. Les chorégraphies de combat sont sympathiques, mais pas exceptionnelles. Ce dragon 3 nous laisse moins un aire de solitude comme sont prédécesseur, mais sur cet épisode les environnements sont complétés par copier/collé et ça ce voit. Au-delà de ça il en reste un film sympa propulsé par sa musique entrainante.… Expand

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DolphinReviewsJul 20, 2022

Funny at times and emotional at others. It's an enjoyable movie but nothing all too inventive.

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