The 3D effect of "How to Train Your Dragon 2" makes people feel as if they have experienced the clouds and their blood is boiling.
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"How to Train Your Dragon 2": family drama dog blood, flying drama blood
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For reasons that are well known and unknown to the public, almost every summer vacation mainland film fans have to endure young youth films and childish martial arts films, coupled with disguised occupation of movie halls and real-time barrage specials, which are detrimental to artistic dignity and media nature of dog blood marketing, this summer seems to be particularly long. And the release of "How to Train Your Dragon 2" at the end of the summer vacation is like a dessert that saves the whole feast after an exhausted dinner.
Compared with the first part, "How to Train Your Dragon 2" has been difficult to break through in terms of freshness and creativity, so the focus of the entire sequel has shifted to how to make the existing materials to the extreme. At the beginning of the film, Hiccup and Toothless have a series of difficult churning and tumbling above the clouds, which is the highlight of the whole film, especially the right subjective shots and upgraded 3D effects, as if the feeling of experiencing the clouds is enough to make people's blood boil.
In terms of character setting, "How to Train Your Dragon 2" finally invited Hiccup's "legendary" mother Volka, which somehow made up for the lack of maternal love in the first part. However, it has to be said that although the famous popular actress Kate Blanchett was voiced, the role of Volka was inexplicable and untenable. According to the logic of normal people, no matter how urgent the situation is, desperately defending the homeland and defending the husband and children is always the first trick, and it is an instinctive reaction. However, this Volka is a unpretentious, rather than die style, which makes people wonder whether this is the negative impact of Rise of Women movies such as The Hunger Games and Brave Legends.
Although the family scenes in the middle of this film are quite bloody, the details interspersed with it are still not lacking in the humor that is unique to DreamWorks. The image of Toothless copied the old trick of winning the audience's favor in the first part - 361 degrees of rolling, turning over, piercing eyes, malicious cuteness is even close to flattery; the "Catch the Sheep" contest at the beginning of the movie has a feeling of copying the "Quidditch Ball" game of the "Harry Potter" series, and the gags of several peripheral friends also make this aerial scene suspected of showmanship quite popular with the audience.
For Hiccup's mother, Volka, the confined space created by the BOSS-level "Dragon King" who can breathe into ice is a "paradise", in which the soaring colorful and diverse wyverns once made people feel happy watching Rio Adventure. However, the general law of cinema has long told us that beautiful things will be completely destroyed after they are fully displayed. The expected battle takes place between the real villain Draeg and the crowd, but the real boss is actually a huge black dragon - in addition to the same awesome combat skills, it also has the "super power" to control the consciousness of other dragons, which is simply an animated version of the "Hypnotic Master"...
The climactic scene of the battle between the two sides is not the traditional ultimate duel of swinging positions and sparks, but a tug-of-war between "hypnosis" and "anti-hypnosis", which may be somewhat unacceptable to some fans who advocate traditional action dramas. After all, after the long preparation of the first few tens of minutes, the climactic part is indeed a bit "unprofessional" and "insincere". However, the reversal of "weak to strong" and the classic bridge section of "pets standing up for their owners" still appear at the right time, and they are still so good.
Like all Hollywood animations, the ending of "How to Train Your Dragon 2" is naturally happy, but unlike "Avatar", the central idea of this film is that not whoever has the bird (dragon) under the crotch is big, who can finally decide.
The biggest drawback of "How to Train Your Dragon 2" is the flat character of the character, and several protagonists even broke with the first part.
"How to Train Your Dragon 2": Character Flat Plot Fracture Copycat Version of Avatar
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"How to Train Your Dragon 1", a rare leftist film in Hollywood, lost to the warm-hearted "Toy Story 3" at the Oscars of that year, along with the "Magician" of the soul of Jacques Tati. The "Toys" series has at least one thing that other Hollywood cartoons can't do: it's a rare, three-piece "high-profile" animated series. The "How to Train Your Dragon" series can't do this today, and after the sequel comes out, the gap between it and the "Toy" series will widen to more than one small golden man.
The worst part of this play is that there is no dramatic conflict in the first half, and the opening paragraph is a long period of time to show off DreamWorks' unique 3D technology "promotional film", and the "Quidditch" paragraph and "backlit flight" plot have nothing to do with the main plot of the film. This makes it difficult for the film to mobilize the audience's desire to enter the play after the real unfolding of the story, and its direct consequence is that when an important person dies later in the film, the musical sensationalism of John Powell is very weak, and this problem is also somewhat reflected in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2".
Another problem is the flattening of the character's personality, and several of the main characters of this film even broke with "How to Train Your Dragon 1". The male protagonist "Hiccup" is a highly hands-on "technical otaku" in "How to Train Your Dragon 1", and it is he who has this characteristic, which makes it logical that he later installed an artificial "tail wing" on the tail of "Toothless Boy". The male protagonist of this part does not even have any "technical house" characteristics at all, and this is almost the biggest highlight of the male protagonist of "How to Train Your Dragon 1". A large part of this rupture is due to the fact that the characters in the film are too complex, in which the role of the protagonist's mother is also a long reversal before appearing on the scene - the film portrays her as a "death" like the villain. But as the plot unfolds, you'll find that this design is meaningless, because the real villain is not directly related to the protagonist's mother, and the film lays too many unrelated lines, but it is difficult to avoid them from being twisted together in the final rush to close the net.
In fact, "How to Train Your Dragon 2" only inherits the previous work in one element, that is, the "avatar" of this film. The theme of whether humans and other races can live in peace is also its closeness to Avatar. It's just that this "How to Train Your Dragon" has developed to the extent that even the specific scenes imitate "Avatar", similar to the ecological environment of Hallelujah Mountain, the plot design of the little dragon in Dalong Town, and then to the counterattack plot of "Returning to The Ancestor of All Things", too much like "Avatar", which also makes this film more or less add a sense of cheapness.
Finally, let's talk about the theme of this film. The theme of the previous work, in the words of Mao Zedong, was "to overthrow the King of Yama and liberate the little devils", as was the case with the main part. It's just that the plot of the protagonist and the "Toothless Boy" getting rid of the brain control of the giant beast is not convincing. But overall, the film is basically about a patriarchal collapse process, and the giant beast is clearly the embodiment of the patriarchal image. Needless to say, the emotional line of the protagonist will be understood by everyone after watching the movie; and macroscopically speaking, the fall of a ruler and the return of a mother figure are the most stark blows to patriarchy. In the final analysis, this is in line with the theme of "stopping desire" implied in the English title of "How to Train Your Dragon". Speaking of which, this kind of ideological signs has been rampant in Hollywood movies in recent years, in fact, after the sale of extreme feminist animations such as "Frozen", Hollywood will only go further and further down the crooked road of "saving women's rights and destroying people's desires".
To be fair, in the Hollywood animation released in the mainland this year, the overall quality of "How to Train Your Dragon 2" is still slightly stronger than that of "Despicable Me 2" and "Frozen", but the last two animations, one has a saliva song that has spread around the world, and one has a group of minions that have spread all over the world, and these "How to Train Your Dragon 2" are also not.