I have seen the first one before. The novel themes, gorgeous pictures, all kinds of cute dragons, and the misunderstanding and growth between father and son have made How to Train Your Dragon a high-quality Hollywood animation blockbuster of the year. DreamWorks Animation's previous spoof style suddenly produced such a heartwarming and inspirational cartoon. If you don't look at the title logo, you will think it is a new work by Pixar.
I walked into the movie theater with a good impression of the first film and a 92% favorable rating for the second film on Rotten Tomatoes. Let’s talk about the film’s pros and cons.
1.
The development of Hollywood animation has become more and more skilled in technology, the scenery is more and more beautiful, and the characters are more and more detailed, but they are also more and more similar. It is also a work of DreamWorks, the protagonist of the Guardian League, the protagonist of this movie, and the hero of last year's Crazy Primitives are almost identical in length, it seems that the same model is just a change of clothes and hairstyle. . Some people may say that people are supposed to be like this, and in real-life movies, this actor changes his clothes and goes to the next movie. However, we are talking about cartoons. Cartoons are bound to be more exaggerated than live-action movies. No matter the shape or action, we must make appropriate exaggeration for the plot. First, we can make the character modeling into the heart and become a classic, and secondly, it can be more exaggerated. Good shows the goodness of animation to serve the plot. But the character design of DreamWorks always disappoints me. The one-thousand-story style is basically the same as the live-action movie. The protagonist changes clothes and a new hairstyle before the next movie. In this regard, Pixar has done a better job. Pixar is clever and often uses animals or objects as anthropomorphic protagonists, so the shapes are basically exaggerated and easy to remember, and it is easy to become a classic. It's all great, whether it's a square-faced grandfather or a fat kid, it's easy to remember and fits the theme. At this point, DreamWorks has to work hard.
2. Details
The special effects of How to Train Your Dragon II are very well done, and the pictures are beautiful and beautiful. Domestic animations still need a lot of work. I personally feel that the Dragon Valley I watched some time ago is the pinnacle of domestic 3D animations. It's the top, but the picture is not as bad as how to train a dragon. The picture of Dragon Valley is often dark and many details can't be seen clearly. It always feels covered with a layer of gray veil. Coordination is much better.
But this kind of picture has basically become the standard of Hollywood cartoons now. Let's take a look at other details of the film. What is disappointing is that many of the plots have a feeling of deja vu. After finding her mother, Xiao Ge Ge found a beautiful paradise. First, a Xiao Ge Ge came in for a shot, and then accompanied by spectacular music and Xiao Ge Ge's surprised expression. The next scene did not need to guess to know that it must be a pair of beauty. Lun Mei changed to a fairyland-like landscape. Do you feel deja vu? Yes, the Crazy Primitives, also produced by DreamWorks last year, also had similar shots. The same bridge segment will feel shocking once used, and it will make people feel nauseated when used repeatedly. Toothless Boy's main show "Selling Moe" is basically doing one action to know what the next action will be. There are no surprises. You can only sit in the theater and repeat the damn thing again and again.
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As mentioned earlier in the plot, the theme of the first part of How to Train Your Dragon is more convenient, and the plot mainly focuses on the contradiction between father and son, which has a strong sense of drama. The suspense was explained at the beginning, and then it continued to advance until the climax. It resonates with people, and a masterpiece is born. And the second episode has lost the freshness of the theme setting, and the theme has become Toothless and cute, and there is not even a decent villain, that is, the acting feels that there must be a villain to reach the climax and end, So a villain suddenly appeared at the back of the performance, and the background was not explained, so it came out like this, why he can make Dalong become a villain and how he controls these dragons are not clearly explained, just watching him come to do the task. come out to challenge and be defeated by the protagonist. Looking at the front half of it, only Toothless Boy is cute and then flying, then cute, and then flying again. It is estimated that the main creator also felt that such a plot was unreasonable and then forced the role of a mother. There is absolutely no need for the role of mother to appear, just like Li Bingbing for Change 4, it has no effect on the plot at all, as if it was just added to make up the number.
I walked out of the movie theater with disappointment, and suddenly felt that this is a product like the Hollywood assembly line. It looks delicious but tasteless, and it is mass-produced.
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