How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World caps off the trilogy in a wonderful way. It again manages to tell a fairly compelling story, coupled with absolutely stunning animation and a mesmerising score from John Powell, which really adds impact to certain scenes.
The story does well to create emotional stakes, which is something How to Train Your Dragon 2 also did very effectively, which incorporates into the bittersweet message that the film is creating. This then leads to some powerful scenes at the end which I really connected with. Much like with the ending of the Harry Potter film series I was left with a hollow feeling by the end as I knew no more films would be made in that series, but that is testament to the quality of the films' storytelling.
For minor gripes I felt that villain Grimmel could have been developed more than he was, but he was voiced well by F. Murray Abraham. Likewise the voicework was decent across the whole cast.
Overall, the How to Train Your Dragon series remains one of the most consistently good trilogies, animated or otherwise, in recent film history and deserves all the acclaim it has received.
The story does well to create emotional stakes, which is something How to Train Your Dragon 2 also did very effectively, which incorporates into the bittersweet message that the film is creating. This then leads to some powerful scenes at the end which I really connected with. Much like with the ending of the Harry Potter film series I was left with a hollow feeling by the end as I knew no more films would be made in that series, but that is testament to the quality of the films' storytelling.
For minor gripes I felt that villain Grimmel could have been developed more than he was, but he was voiced well by F. Murray Abraham. Likewise the voicework was decent across the whole cast.
Overall, the How to Train Your Dragon series remains one of the most consistently good trilogies, animated or otherwise, in recent film history and deserves all the acclaim it has received.