Saw How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, the third film in the series. This time we have a theme of love. This sort of nicely continues from the themes of the last film: a rise to power. Now with the power under their belt, Hiccup and his dragon turn their thoughts to coupling up. The end involves a fairly serious breakup however, which is strange, but these films have always been entertainment vehicles first and treatises on the human condition a distant second. So, the film is pretty good.
Once again, the dragons are adorable and dog-like and have great silly designs with jutting jaws and goggling eyes. This film was clearly once projected in 3D as there's a lot of fore-ground/back-ground stuff going on here and things that suddenly get in your face. There's a lot of flying about however and many scenes that suggest a grand scale and I wonder how well that would have come across in a theater.
Anyway, as with the second film (I've seen the first one so long ago, I don't think I can rely on my memory) I kept expecting the dragons to cohere into a recognizable symbol of like the human spirit or weapons of war or something, but they continued to confound me. It's really just a film about these Vikings' adventures with dragons. But it is that very successfully.
It was an enjoyable film and more serious than its first films. I liked the villain's dead-eyed dourness, even in victory. Similarly, I just liked hanging out with the characters and seeing what they do next. A satisfying movie.
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