There’s been an awful lot of How to Train Your Dragon since the film franchise kicked off in 2010. The initial movie, very loosely inspired by Cressida Cowell’s book series, introduces a gangly Viking teenager named Hiccup, who lives in a village frequently attacked by dragons. After he befriends a black dragon he names Toothless, he changes his society and teaches his people to accept and work with dragons. Since then, there have been short films, an animated Cartoon Network series, an animated Netflix series, a live theater experience, and nearly a dozen video games set in the same world, all in addition to the 2014 theatrical sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2.
The third movie isn’t due out until 2019, but the first trailer has arrived. And while it teases at some kind of dragon-hunting murderous baddie (apparently voiced by Amadeus star F. Murray Abraham), it mostly focuses on Toothless meeting a female of his species for the first time, and acting like a goober around her. Some of his behavior seems to be inspired by the wilder end of the bird mating-dance spectrum, but mostly, this is familiar cartoon behavior for lovestruck male critters meeting female critters for the first time. Meanwhile, Hiccup has a beard in one shot, but mostly doesn’t. We’ll have to wait for the movie to see whether it’s a stick-on beard he dons to impress the lady dragon.
California: DreamWorks Animation telah merilis trailer resmi untuk film animasi How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World arahan sutradara Dean DeBlois. Seperti judul filmnya, trailer ini mengenalkan "dunia tersembunyi" tempat tinggal naga yang belum pernah diungkap di dua film sebelumnya.
Hiccup, bersama rekan naga Night Fury bernama Toothless, telah berhasil mewujudkan desa utopia dengan manusia yang hidup berdampingan dengan naga. Suatu ketika, Hiccup dan Toothless bertemu sosok naga betina mirip Toothless, tetapi berwarna putih. Pertemuan itu kemudian membawa mereka memasuki dunia baru yang dimasuki lewat tengah laut.
Namun dari penemuan itu juga, seperti diperlihatkan trailer, ancaman baru datang kepada para naga. Hiccup bersama warga desa Berk bersatu dengan naga mereka masing-masing untuk mengembalikan harmoni.Film ketiga ini dipasarkan sebagai film penutup. Dean DeBlois, yang terlibat penuh sejak film pertama, kembali menulis dan menyutradarai penutup trilogi ini. Film ini merupakan adaptasi atas buku seri berjudul sama karya Cresside Cowell.Sepekan sebelum merilis trailer, DreamWorks juga telah merilis poster resmi untuk film ini. Poster tersebut mengenalkan naga baru, pakaian perang baru Hiccup, serta sebuah habitat penuh pendar cahaya. Poster ini juga memastikan jadwal rilis film.Awalnya proyek film ketiga ini diumumkan pada 2012 dengan jadwal rilis film 2016, sebelum akhirnya diundur. Sekarang dapat dipastikan bahwa film ini akan dirilis pada musim semi AS tahun depan atau Maret 2019.(ELG)
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Goddammit Toothless, you’re adorable. The third film in the saga from Dreamworks, How To Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World, introduces a whole new dragon paradise and a major threat to their Dragon-Viking utopia. But all of that has to get put on pause for a second: Toothless is looking for a date.
Dreamworks has released the first trailer for How To Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World. Jay Baruchel returns as Hiccup, as he serves as chief and rule of Berk alongside Astrid (America Ferrera). And if you thought he was sexy in the second How To Train Your Dragon film, just wait until you see grown-up Hiccup sporting a beard even Chris Evans would be proud of.
As Hiccup and his village work to maintain a peaceful coexistence with dragons, the sudden appearance of a “Light Fury” dragon puts Toothless a bit on edge. She’s cuuuuuuuute. But a major threat appears in the form of a dragon hunter who wants to take out our favorite dragon boy... because he’s “the only one” of his kind! Cue Dragonheart joke here.
How To Train Your Dragon 3 comes out March 1, 2019.
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The hits keep a-coming in what may be the most crowded week for trailer drops that I can remember. We now have our first look at DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. The flick, due on March 1, 2019, is going to be the first DWA release since they left 20th Century Fox and headed over to Comcast Corp. It has been nearly four years since the last How To Train Your Dragon movie opened in June 2014.
At the time, I pegged it as a possible break-out sequel (the first one had a 5x multiplier) and a “biggest movie of summer” contender in a somewhat weak crowd of comparatively B-level franchises. It earned a still-great $621 million worldwide on a $165m budget, but it slightly underperformed in North America with $177m from a $49m opening. Despite (or because of) rave pre-release reviews, the film ended up way under the $217m domestic figure of the first How To Train Your Dragon in early 2010 but did a heck of a lot better worldwide compared to the $494m-grossing original.
It was another in a long line of DWA releases to get tarred with negative press after a soft or soft-ish opening only to stick around for awhile and soar overseas. Nonetheless, the perception was that the film wasn’t as big as it could have been. This was perhaps due to the franchise’s availability on TV in episodic form (a common issue now that almost every DWA movie has become a TV show in some form or another) or due to the darker, more emotionally-draining story that was closer in tone to Toy Story 3 than Madagascar 2.
Intriguingly enough, How To Train Your Dragon 2 marked a turning point in DWA’s animated destiny. Yes, it earned rave reviews and is often considered their very best movie, but the grim plot turns (including the murder of a beloved supporting character at the hands of another beloved supporting character) took its toll on the film’s family-driven buzz. As I noted at the time, considering the consumer base who don't want their kids to cry at the movies, I might argue that my mixed-positive “It’s okay and there’s nothing offensive” review of Planes: Fire and Rescue was more helpful to that film than my “It’s an emotional powerhouse and the best movie of the summer!” rave for HTTYD2.
After that movie, and the complicated reception of the also tremendous but also very dark Kung Fu Panda 2 (which dealt with an onscreen genocide at the hands of the baddie), DWA movies started to lighten up quite a bit. Kung Fu Panda 3 was the lightest and least consequential of the series, to its detriment, feeling less like a theatrical drama and more like a three-part episode of Legends of Awesomeness. How to Train Your Dragon 2 was arguably the last DWA movie that could in any way be classified as a drama.
That’s not to say that DreamWorks ignored serious issues, far from it. Home was a story of imperialism and colonialism disguised as a gee-whiz alien invasion story. Moreover, Trolls was essentially a story about genocide and mass murder done up as a candy-colored musical comedy. It’s hard to argue that the successes of these films showed that DWA was on the wrong track, and even something like the aggressive insane The Boss Baby would have been hailed as a whacked-out classic had it come from a more prestigious studio.
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All of this brings us to Dean DeBlois’s third (and final) How To Train Your Dragon movie. By the end of the last film (spoilers obviously), Hiccup was the leader of his human clan(s) while his dragon Toothless had become the leader of the dragon clan(s). That was an exciting new status quo, one that doesn’t necessarily lend itself to a third installment. Like The Godfather Part II, The Dark Knight, John Wick: Chapter 2 and The Last Jedi, there is peril in offering the third installment when the second ends on such a satisfying note of finality. Just because Lord of the Rings and Star Wars were trilogies doesn’t mean everything has to be.
Nonetheless, I am a huge How to Train Your Dragon fan, and I will be there to see how it all ends when the time comes. I do wonder if this third film is the beginning of an era (via the DWA/Comcast partnership) and the end of another (will HTTYD3 be DreamWorks Animation’s last outright drama?). Okay, so How to Train Your Dragon stands somewhat by itself among sweeping/epic DWA movies, but even Rise of the Guardians and The Croods had some high drama in the post-Shrek era.
As noted many years ago, it has been interesting to see DreamWorks, once pitched as the more mature, grittier counterpoint to Walt Disney, become a shorthand for goofy, exceedingly kid-friendly animated comedies. Moreover, if Illumination is cornering the market on somewhat care-free, wholesome and babysitter-friendly animated biggies that were once DWA’s primary domain, it may be worth DWA’s while to embrace its inner Kung Fu Panda right alongside its inner Boss Baby.
