The How to Train Your Dragon series is one of DreamWorks Animation’s proudest achievements, and the second film is a darker, more mature and just as gripping as the first.

| Sep 25, 2024

What Dean DeBlois was able to do with the first How to Train Your Dragon was just incredible and has become big favorite of mine since then. There was some huge expectations for How to Train Your Dragon 2 and boy did Deblois deliver.

| Original Score: A | Aug 19, 2024

Boasting beautiful animation, a great script, wonderful voice talent, and one of the year’s best musical scores, this earns its dragon’s wings buy not only improving on its predecessor, but it makes the first film even better.

| Jun 17, 2024

Being at once a self-contained story and a continuation of a franchise that betters and grows more intricate than what came before, the film meets all the requirements of a great sequel.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2022

High on spectacle and never wastes an opportunity to entertain the eye and up the wonder factor, but it's not just shock and awe. An emotional subplot regarding family adds some weight to the fantasy elements of the story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2021

An engaging and entertaining way to while away a couple of hours during the summer school holidays.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2021

Imaginative, humorous, and thrilling, this sequel is everything the first film was - and a little bit more.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 4, 2020

It's a strong testimony to DeBlois that this second film in the series doesn't feel like a transition film or a filler film but an actual story that stands on its own.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

How to Train Your Dragon 2 succeeds by fulfilling the potential established by the first film, without succumbing to the trappings of being a sequel.

| Original Score: A | Jul 21, 2020

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a success on many levels.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2020

How to Train Your Dragon 2 could also be called How to Make a Proper Sequel ... will make you laugh and cheer and it will even tug at your heart.

| Jun 30, 2020

How to Train Your Dragon 2 groans with the strain of stretching a cute concept too far.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 26, 2020

It is spectacular.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 2, 2019

This franchise has got legs (wings, teeth, and can breathe fire... !) and leaves its audience looking forward to the already-announced threequel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2019

The animation is stunning.

| Original Score: A | May 6, 2019

[It's] a rare instance where the sequel is as good as the original.

| Mar 5, 2019

While How to Tame Your Dragon 2 is geared toward kids, I defy adults not to find something to enjoy as well.

| Jan 30, 2019

For those who love stories about friendship between humans and dragons, How to Train Your Dragon 2 provides one that is lovely to look at and generally engaging, even though it has a few lulls and that one plot issue.

| Original Score: B | Jan 12, 2019

How to Train Your Dragon 2 doesn't just meet expectations. It defies them.

| Original Score: 9.5/10 | Nov 1, 2018

Basically what a sequel should be - entertaining but doesn't forget to be emotionally satisfying. I believe second viewings are in order...

| Oct 10, 2018