Cinepals - HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 3 Movie Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: February 19, 2024

Steph and Andrew watch How to Train Your Dragon 3, the epic conclusion of the beloved animated trilogy, as they watch the adventures of Hiccup and Toothless facing a new enemy who wants to wipe out all dragons, while also discovering a hidden world of dragons and a mysterious female fury who catches Toothless’ eye. The film stars Jay Baruchel (This is the End & She’s Out of My League), Cate Blanchett (The Lord of the Rings & Cinderella), Gerard Butler (Olympus Has Fallen & 300), Craig Ferguson (The Drew Carey Show & Brave), America Ferrera (Superstore & Barbie), Kit Harington (Game of Thrones & Eternals), & F. Murray Abraham (Moon Knight, Amadeus, & Scarface) You can watch our full reaction on Patreon: www.patreon.com/jabykoay and the cutdown version on our Youtube channel www.youtube.com/@cinepals  SOCIAL MEDIA:  ~CINEPALS~ YouTube: @CinePalsInsta: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals   ~STEPH SABRAW~ Instagram: @StephSabraw YouTube: @TheWhirlGirls ~ANDREW 'FLASH' GORDON~ Instagram, Twitter & TikTok: @Agor711 https://www.YouTube.com/moviesource

Senna. Pals. Hello and welcome back. I'm Step Sabra. I'm Steps Abra. joined by Andrew Flash Gordon. What's up? We are happy to announce that we finish the sequel of How to Train Your Dragon, and we were blown away. Oh, so good. It is so, so good. It's incredible. So I just can't even wait another second to get into this, the third, the hidden world.

Yeah. Which is what we're going to watch today with y'all, and we are so looking forward to it. What a great story. Before we watched this, I did read. They were talking about like about halfway through production. Not filming and all that or voicing, whatever, animation and all that, but halfway through production when they were doing pre-production. They talked about coming back with Drago and they were going to come up with a redemption.

He was going to be the villain and they were going to have a redemption art for him. And then they just abandoned that and then went with the villain that they ended up going with. I think that was probably the right choice. I think they still could have made that interesting in work, but I'm glad the way this ended up, oh, F. Marie Abram, okay, I thought that was it. Right, he had a different, like, it was a different type of villain for this story.

Yeah, yeah, so, um, but, uh, yeah, this was outstanding, amazing. I'm glad they got Gerard Butler to come back for some flashbacks, but I think we touched upon already, but the main theme of this film was about letting go, sacrifice. And love. And love, of course, love. That's always the main theme of these films, but, and, you know, your significant other,

you got to use that, you know, that person is like your better half. You got to use them for a source of inspiration. And when you're down at your lowest and you need someone there for you. Yeah, they fill your gaps. Exactly. So I thought this film, like, yeah, these movies, you can view them as kids' movies, but they're for adults, too. There's a lot of adult themes in these films as well.

So I just, I love this movie. I love the trilogy. Right. It's so good. They all have unique storylines and character arcs and progressions. And they just always seem to do a great job. of expanding the world, progressing the characters, progressing the storyline and just doing it in such a mature and organic way.

And I just, I love this film as well as the other, the first two. What do you think? I think this trilogy is outstanding. It really doesn't have a weak point. All of them are so strong for so many reasons. And they have an overarching theme like we've talked about. But I think they do a good job of incorporating and building on themes in such a great way. and such patient storytelling, and I'm sure this is from the book.

So hats off to the author of creating such an incredible world for these filmmakers to use and expand on. But it's like just little things like knowing that hiccup is kind of a craftsman with tools and creating things. And then how that got played into an earned, a forever tale for Toothless. And then just seeing the evolution of parenting and knowing when to, like, let go and knowing that one of my favorite thing of readings from the prophet is about is the one on parenting about how the parents are the archer and the kids are the bow and we can send them off but we can't guide their path and I thought that like that's what toothless did here and so it's just so great and beautiful visuals oh my god the visuals I just want to live in the end of the world

Oh, my God. And the, the, what's it called? Hidden world. Hidden world. I want to live in the hidden world. Amazing. Amazing. That's why it was like, Pandora, eat your heart up.

It was unbelievable. I mean, the visuals in everything is always outstanding in these films, but especially in that, the hidden world. That was so beautiful, so outstanding. I can't even imagine how much work. All of the animation takes, but specifically the hidden world, that was just outstanding. And he just kept going. And the way.

the way that also the dragons were coming off. Yeah. That was just spectacular. Look at it. I was so beautiful. I love that they did like a bioluminescence vibe. And also too, I really loved watching the progression of, I guess you would call it the light fury, right? And toothless, the way their love progressed too.

I mean, they can't actually talk, but you can read body, but you can read their body language. It was so adorable and you get just so invested in watching their love story progress. And also, too, you fill the gaps in. to with Hickup and Astrid and I just love how patient Astrid was being with him and understanding because she knows how important that Toothless is to Hickup. Like she could have been selfish at any point saying, why don't you pay attention to me? Like I've been so supportive of you this whole time and you're just focused on Toothless. You're not into me and you're not focused on me.

And she was and she was being loving and understanding. I love that Hickup also noticed that and realized it was time to let go of Toothless and how important Astrid is to him. And that's what love is. It's about sacrifice. It's about understanding. And that was something he gained from his father. I feel like, too, he understood the emotional core and value that his father instilled in him. Yeah, definitely.

I love that they passed on the father's love for his wife and for Volka because I think there's something to be said about, like, you know, it was easy for me to make it an assumption that a Vikings, like their romance isn't based in equality and true love because they're so, like, they were so brute in the first movie, but they really are, like, it's equal. And they called her the chief desk, I think, Astrid, at the end there, because it is, I love the idea that they were like, Hickup thinks that he has to rule alone, but he doesn't. And he has this team, and it's so important, sometimes we try to take on the world by ourselves. But that's what our partners and our, in our very best friends, not for everyone, but your

partner and your very best friends and your family, we should lean on them. Yeah, their couple romance swing at the end. I was like, yes, we got the wedding. Yeah, and those are my favorite type of animation films. Or just films in general, where films, you can watch this with your children, but these are also for adults, too. Like, I mean, like, the animation and the visuals, like kids can eat it up and just be like, ah, toothless, I love you.

And then, like, the themes and a lot of the scenes, like adults can watch this and go, oh, my God, this is totally relatable. I totally get this. Like, so, I mean, those are my favorite type of animations. are just films in general where, you know, I think both can take up what they're seeing and enjoy it's for everyone. So I think all three films just excelled in that. I also, again, too, one of those flashbacks that really hit me was where Stoic was, because we didn't really get to see any of those gaps filled in in terms of flashback scenes from the previous, or at least the first film, is when Stoic was crying when his wife was gone. He really thought she, you know, had been deleted from the Dragons, and you could see how sad he was.

And Hiccup took that, not only the emotional maturity that he saw from his father, that he'd grown from the first film, and also the sacrifice he'd given in the second film, but seeing how sad his father was just being alone and without someone or someone he had lost, but that's what love is, you know what I mean? And now seeing not only that he had found his partner,

but also that Toothless had found someone and he didn't want him to be alone because he knows what his father had gone through. And like having that passion to let go and being a best friend of Toothless and wanting him to have that love too, It's just, like, this movie just had all the feels for me. Yeah, that's a great point.

I think there was a lot of threads that were being drawn and similar vibes. I completely agree. Yeah, so this trilogy rocks. So good. What a great ending. Again, I know I made this point in the second movie. It's just, again, I'm so excited. I can't wait to see the live action.

But how? I just, how are you going to be? How? Again, I'm excited to see what they can do, like, at least visually, like, if anything, I think, like, the biggest thing, if you can, nail, like, again, I don't want to see copy and pasted, but then on the flip side, like, good luck beating the storylines of all three of these films. Well, I mean, you got to, yeah, you got to just at least do one good one first and then go from there. I think the biggest thing you got to nail,

obviously, is the emotional core. It's toothless and hiccup. You got to nail that relationship first and foremost, and then get the rest of the character stuff done and get the storyline down. But I think the biggest fear that comes with me is, is it going to feel copy and paste? because that's going to be the biggest thing. But again, I'm excited. I'm curious to see what they come up with. But this trilogy for itself, if anything, if it doesn't hit the mark, if it's not great,

you still got this. And this trilogy was right up there with greatest trilogies, in my opinion. I mean, so for me, for me personally, Lord of the Rings is the best. But this is like right. And then you got Dark Night. You got back to the future.

You got the original trilogy of Star Wars. This is really damn close. This is right up there with GoTrilegy. in my opinion. I agree. This is definitely up there. And I don't say that lightly. It's doing good.

Yeah. It's really incredible. I want to see the live action. Because the last I had heard, the writer or the director of the movie was attached, of the animated was attached to the live action, which I always think you're in better hands in that sense because you know the source material so well.

Oh, it's the same director. Yeah. Okay. So, same director. So, I mean, that's. To me, that gives me more hope. Because you really have a scope of the characters and the heart of it and what works. Because since they carried the trilogy, you know, like, that person, they didn't miss, right?

Yeah, all three. It's not like they just did one good one. It was all three. This is Thandie Newton's daughter who's said to be in it. She was great. She was in The Last of Us. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know Mason Tames, Niko Parker's, yeah, Thandie Newton's daughter.

I believe it's, yeah, Tandy Newton. She was in Mission Impossible, too, many of Crash, many other films. Oh, yeah, she's in so many things. Solo. Yeah, yeah, I loved her in solo. And then Westworld, I think, most notably. But, yeah, no, it's going to be interesting to see how they're able to emulate that in live action. Again, worst case scenario, if it's not great, you still got the animated films.

I always say that about remakes or live action from animated. If it's not good, you still got the originals. Right, right. So anyways, thanks for going along this ride with us. This was so fun. I feel like my life is better now that I've seen this trilogy. Yes, I want a dragon now. Yeah, so bad.

One that looks like toothless prefer. So bad. I want toothless, yeah. Yeah, I wonder what, we didn't even name. The Light Fury. Yeah. What's her name? I'm sure.

I think it's unicorn. That's a good name. Yeah. Now we've got to come up with names for the three cute kids of theirs. Yeah. It was just the most perfect ending. That really was. It was satisfying for the viewers.

I feel like they usually don't give people that because they're like, what if we close, like we want to keep it open ended. But they did kind of keep it open ended while also giving us full closure. Yeah, it was perfect. I loved it. Loved it. 10 out of 10.

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