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How To Train Your Dragon 2

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  • #52
    jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭jones


    Great film music and animation really are top drawer!! Good to see dreamworks back with some decent animated stuff...since the first 2 shrek films i think they havent been great


  • #53
    Devostator
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 45 ✭Devostator


    marklazarcovic wrote: »
    great movie,equal to the first in every way

    yeah, great great great!


  • #54
    Looper007
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    so happy to see that the rest of the world have some taste, making sure the foolish U.S market didn't bury this film. It's such a wonderful film, even better thanks to the third and fourth viewings of the film. It's amazing that it's still in cinema's after this long seen other big movies go after two weeks. the soundtrack is amazing, the fact it doesn't back off on tough moments The
    Death of Stoick by Toothless is shocking
    and that ending with Jonsi Where no one goes playing is epic. A ending of the trilogy is set for 2017 if it's as awesome as this then we're in for a threat.


  • #55
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Like it's predecessor this was a slow burner at Cinema's. One does have wonder though if Dreamwork didn't try to put it up against the summer blockbusters in the US how it would have fared.

    Regardless, I'm chuffed to say it's gross over $600 million worldwide. Fully deserved.

    Edit: 'slow burner is probably the wrong term'. In China, Italy, Australia and Britain it either doubled or trebled its performance from the original. 21% of that $600 mil come from the US. The rest is all worldwide gross.


  • #56
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Turtwig wrote: »
    Like it's predecessor this was a slow burner at Cinema's. One does have wonder though if Dreamwork didn't try to put it up against the summer blockbusters in the US how it would have fared.

    Regardless, I'm chuffed to say it's gross over $600 million worldwide. Fully deserved.

    Edit: 'slow burner is probably the wrong term'. In China, Italy, Australia and Britain it either doubled or trebled its performance from the original. 21% of that $600 mil come from the US. The rest is all worldwide gross.

    Agreed, I'd almost put it as my favourite film of the summer along with Guardians. This has been a pretty decent blockbuster season, 22 Jump St, HTTYD2, Edge of Tomorrow, Guardians, Apes and Captain America 2 were all really good.


  • #57
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Just finished downloading my 1080p version for iTunes. Disappointingly the Google Play Movies HD version seems to be 480p? Can't tell for sure but the resolution is clearly lacking. Play Movies version was my first choice because I had prepaid phone credit to waste. iTunes looks the superior version in every way though. It has extra features too.


  • #58
    SarahBM
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    Im hoping to maybe get it as an xmas present. if not, I might buy myself a blu-ray dvd player in the sales after xmas and get the blu-ray.
    Cant wait to see it again.


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
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    Saw this recently and I smiled almost the whole way through. The music, the animation, and Jonsi's voice made the whole thing magical. Dean DeBlois should be placed among John Lasseter when it comes to animated movies.

    It is also worth checking out his Sigur Ros documentary, Heima, and Jonsi's solo movie, Go Quiet. Guy has an eye for visual splendour.


  • #60
    adox
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    How does it hold up against the first one? I loved the first one but am always sceptical of sequels.


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  • #61
    Turtwig
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    adox wrote: »
    How does it hold up against the first one? I loved the first one but am always sceptical of sequels.

    Original has that extra novelty factor. Hiccup and Toothless's forbidden friendship scene, for example. This is still very very good. Only thing I really don't like about either movies Is Baruchel. Honestly, I'd actually pay to see it the cinema again if Dreamworks redubbed Hiccup with some other actor.


  • #62
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    adox wrote: »
    How does it hold up against the first one? I loved the first one but am always sceptical of sequels.

    Honestly, it holds up every bit as well as Toy Story 2 does to the original.

    I only saw the original 2/3 weeks prior to this hitting the cinema, and it quiet simply blew me away.

    The animation is superb, it's got a wicked soundtrack, the original characters are great and the new characters every bit as good (I was a big fan of Cate Blanchett & Kit Harrington). The story is a little more mature but there's plenty of great funny moments (usually involving Toothless)

    The only criticism (if you'd call it that) is that because Hiccup & Toothless are now acquainted, we don't get a repeat of this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD2OBcBCywM


  • #63
    Squeedily Spooch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭Squeedily Spooch


    Turtwig wrote: »
    Original has that extra novelty factor. Hiccup and Toothless's forbidden friendship scene, for example. This is still very very good. Only thing I really don't like about either movies Is Baruchel. Honestly, I'd actually pay to see it the cinema again if Dreamworks redubbed Hiccup with some other actor.

    I agree, he's perfectly fine in most of it but has some awful vocal habits. The supporting cast too, having basically the cast of Superbad as Hiccup's friends is jarring compared to the Scottish/Gaelic sounding other Vikings. The other young vikings all sound and talk like the 00's generation. It's the only minor complaint I have about the series. Other than that they're both wonderful films.


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