How to Train Your Dragon’s Best Movie With 92% on Tomatometer Leaves Netflix, So Hurry Up

How to Train Your Dragon became a sensation in 2010, despite the fact that this year was an explosive mix of exciting 3D animations.

Back then, DreamWorks released Shrek Forever After and Megamind in addition to How to Train Your Dragon, Disney released Tangled, Zack Snyder made his animated film Legend of the Guardians, Illumination debuted their hit Despicable Me, and Pixar released Toy Story 3, which broke all box office records.

But even with such competition, the animation about dragons stood out. It became the first non-Pixar project to have soul and real drama – it was clear that the creators not only loved their characters, but believed in them, listened to them, and cared about them.

How to Train Your Dragon Excels Where Other Animations Never Have

The creators managed to show true friendship, and even more surprisingly, to show it without dialogue, since the dragons cannot speak. Some viewers even claimed that such powerful silent scenes, conveying so many emotions and ideas without a single word, had not been seen since the days of Charlie Chaplin.

We had to wait four years for the sequel. Because of how good the original was, many were waiting for it, but for the same reason there were many doubts – such a success is very difficult to repeat. But the creators did it.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 Is Considered The Best of the Franchise by Most Viewers

As expected, How to Train Your Dragon 2 received a tsunami of positive reviews (its rating on Rotten Tomatoes is now 92%), and many critics even said that the sequel turned out to be better than the first part.

Some, however, liked the second installment less – because the cozy personal story was replaced by an epic confrontation.

The Sequel Is Not Afraid to Explore Deep Topics

But in fact, the sequel is not about battles at all – it is about responsibility and the cost of one's choices, about the fact that a hero's achievement often changes him so much that he may never become a part of society. How many animated projects have you seen that dare to use such topics?

Like the first part, the sequel is strikingly beautiful. And it's not just the quality of the graphics –once again the flights are shown in such a way that your heart beats faster at the crazy turns.

At the same time, the emphasis on the cutest dragons, especially Toothless, has become even greater. Like Despicable Me and its minions, the creators of the sequel realized what their greatest asset was and gave it more screen time.

As a result, How to Train Your Dragon 2 turned out to be a real revelation, playing simple scenes for children in the foreground, and in the background, with hints and undertones, telling a completely different story, much darker, deeper, that only adult viewers will notice.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 Is Leaving Netflix Soon

Maybe now is the best time to revisit the best part of one of the most impressive animated franchises of the 21st century – catch How to Train Your Dragon 2 on Netflix, as it leaves the streaming on April 30.