AnimationWorld Magazine — February 20, 2019
Where Have All the Dragons Gone? Dean DeBlois Concludes His Spectacular Trilogy with ‘The Hidden World’
DreamWorks Animation’s The Hidden World, the culmination of the beloved How To Train Your Dragon trilogy, flies into theaters this Friday, finally giving U.S. audiences their opportunity to see the long-awaited film.
Written and directed by Dean DeBlois and produced by Brad Lewis and Bonnie Arnold, The Hidden World delivers a heartwarming message about overcoming intolerance wrapped inside a tale about growing up, facing the unknown, and learning to let go. It also answers the burning question of what happened to the dragons that once populated the earth and lived in cooperation with humans.
What began as an unlikely friendship between an adolescent Viking and a fearsome Night Fury dragon has become an epic adventure spanning their lives. Now that Hiccup (voiced once again by Jay Baruchel) has defeated the villainous Drago and laid his father Stoick to rest, he appears to have achieved his boyhood dream of perfect dragon-human existence, but their home of Berk has become overpopulated, leaving dragons and humans alike vulnerable to a new type of villain, Grimmel (F. Murray Abraham), whose pride and intolerance threatens their peaceful existence. As chief and ruler alongside Astrid (America Ferrera), it’s up to Hiccup to solve the crisis. When the sudden appearance of a female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they’ve known and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth.