"How to Train Your Dragon 2" absorbed 161 million gold in four days and set a new record for animated films in the mainland

Cranial Cranial Dragon

Leap in the cloud

Meat ears

Dragon King

How to Train Your Dragon 2 75 points

NO.462

Movie location: Broadway, Guorui City

Moviegoers: 20

As the only imported sub-account animation in this year's summer program, "How to Train Your Dragon 2" landed in mainland theaters on August 14, attracting 161 million yuan in four days of release, setting a new record for the first week of animation films in the mainland, and ending the myth that "Ice Age 4" maintained a box office of 130 million yuan in the first three days of the past two years. In the summer program that is coming to an end, this film has warmed up the tired domestic film market. On the morning of August 19, the "Beijing News Movie Watching" event invited 20 readers and viewers to watch the film together.

Plot Confused teenager growth story

Just like the values that every Hollywood animated film instills in the audience, the film from the beginning to the end is always the process of the protagonist constantly searching for himself. Hiccup, who has grown into an adult, saved Kojima's fate with his ingenuity in the previous film, and this time, he embarked on the journey again. A master of drama once pointed out that when the protagonist's ideal conflicts with the external environment, it is necessary to adhere to the former, so that the protagonist can hit his head and bleed in reality. Although his previous performance has won his unanimous approval from everyone, Hiccup will inevitably not be satisfied with this. Therefore, he was confused that he did not want to inherit his father's will to become the leader of the island, and he revealed his heart to his girlfriend with a little anger: "The problem is, I am different from you, you know what kind of person you are, and I never knew." This self-thirsty motivation guided him in making every decision, such as taking the opportunity to leave the island when his father had already decided to isolate all the dragons. He needs to prove himself, though the premise is that it's not clear what exactly he wants. Draeg is both the villain of the real power and the embodiment of Hiccup's inner obstacle, and defeating him means that Hiccup has gained temporary peace. But the protagonist's psychological battle will be endless, otherwise there would be no sequel forever.

Innovation Another New Hollywood Woman

After "Frozen" and "Sleeping Curse", Hiccup's mother Volka should be the third new Hollywood female figure to be different. She firmly believes that there is a second mode of getting along between dragons and humans besides war. Although she was abducted by the dragon, she clashed with her husband's ideas, so that she never returned to the island after leaving, until she and her son Hiccup accidentally met. Interestingly, although she and Stogo sang affectionately in the cave, the subsequent plot setting completely broke her desire to return to family life, and in Draeg's sudden attack, Stogo died. Recalling a playful conversation between her and Hiccup, she said: "Sitting on the back of a dragon and flying, I can't even feel the cold, I can only feel..." "Freedom!" Hiccup's response was met with a smile from her mother. Although she loves her son deeply and left the island in order to protect him, her image is more like a rootless person who wanders the world, hiding in the world to live a simple life of taming dragons, and the love of the princess and prince in the so-called fairy tales is superfluous, and her son Hiccup is just a dream passed by in a past life. Such independent and sexless female figures are becoming more and more common in Hollywood animation, and perhaps it is precisely the audience that is happy to pay for it, but it will certainly become an unavoidable trend in the future.

Ending, there are too many cute spots

Compared with the previous game, the new episode is slightly thin in narrative, and the final story ending is hasty and simple, and the dramatic conflict between emotion and plot ends after the last escalation fight. Volka reveals his motherhood to make the endangered Hiccup turn the danger into a disaster, and in the face of the ensuing accidents of accepting his mother and losing his father, Hiccup lacks psychological transformation, and he who refuses to inherit his father's status in the opening scene, he actually naturally promotes the patriarch at the end because he drove away Draeg, and toothless boy also becomes the new "Dragon King", and the self-confusion that was constantly emphasized before disappears, like he suddenly lost the purpose of fighting monsters and upgrading halfway through. The grand and majestic scenes and the cat and dog of the Dragon Clan make the whole audience laugh continuously, but if you want to cover up the flaws in the play, it is equivalent to beating the adult animation of all ages back to the positioning of young and young. Because children will easily be moved by those deliberate cute points, but the more moving point of the film should be the spiritual core, especially how hiccup in the previous game finds the bridge of self-existence value while taming toothless. At the end of the film, Draeg disappears with his Dragon King, which is obviously the suspense left by the director to the next episode, but if there is no breakthrough in the play, even if it is at least to maintain the level of the previous game, then the "How to Train Your Dragon" series will only slowly slide into the ranks of the young children's special.

■ Comments from the audience

Except for the sentence "You're as beautiful as you were 20 years ago", you can't get into the play from beginning to end. In recent years, DreamWorks' reputation has become more and more unsatisfactory, and I really can't imagine leaving a third part in the finale. (60 minutes)

Once a toothless brain-dead fan, I now watch it become like a cute tool, although the plot is not as good as the previous one, but for my toothless feelings, I am still willing to enter the theater again for the next one. (75 minutes)

More dragons, more special effects, more joy, I like such a story too much, the first half is almost tearful to watch, but unfortunately the plot reversal is a bit blunt, but all of them are made up by Meng Mengda Toothless. (83 minutes)

■ New members of the Dragon Clan

Cranial Crush Dragon Good Partner for Dragon Taming: Stogo

It belongs to the tracking class. It has a hard shell glowing red and green, looks like a rhinoceros, and can fire long-range flame missiles. It has a strong sense of smell and is good at tracking, and when it smells the missing helmet, it finds a small hiccup.

Leaping in the Clouds Taming the Dragon Good Partner: Volka

It belongs to the class of sharp edges. It has a second pair of invisible wings that spew long-lasting, fiery rings of fire. The wings are covered with small sharp hooks.

Meat Ear Taming dragon good partner: Fish foot division

It belongs to the megalithic class. Although he looks at the five big and three thick, he is delicate and very shy. His killer skill is to swallow the rock and then rely on his own heptane and oxygen to melt it into lava for attack.

Dragon King Raptor Good Partner: Draeg

It belongs to the deep sea class. It spews out icy gas and instantly condenses into icicles. It is a natural architect who can sculpt the ice he spews out into a solid nest.