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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD

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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD is the epic conclusion to the popular animated franchise about Vikings and dragons. Hiccup is now chief of Berk and must undertake a desperate quest to find a legendary land of dragons before a villainous dragon-hunter finds it. Hiccup’s love for his dragon, Toothless, and his confidence in his own leadership are tested to the max as he makes hard choices to defend the people and the dragons of Berk.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD features the heart-pounding adventure and stunning visuals moviegoers have come to expect. They’re combined with a wonderful story promoting selflessness, friendship, sacrifice, leadership, marriage, and family. A key redemptive theme is that Hiccup can only mature and become the leader he needs to be by demonstrating sacrificial love. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD has some action violence, but the filmmakers have taken the scary content down a notch from the last movie. THE HIDDEN WORLD also has some light pagan and environmentalist elements, plus some light crass humor, common to this film trilogy.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Very strong moral worldview, with some strong redemptive elements, extols friendship, selflessness, bravery, sacrifice, peace, family love, with light pagan elements where Norse gods are mentioned and in exclamatory pagan profanities, and an old woman uses a staff with an animal carving that may be a pagan image to bless a couple’s marriage, plus a light environmentalist worldview with a politically correct view of nature where dragons are more peaceful/worthy than humans (a character tells the dragons “our world doesn’t deserve you”);

Foul Language:
Light pagan profanities with a few utterances of “gods” or “oh my gods,” “you have the body of a Norse god,” references to “butts,” and a joke about burning underwear;

Violence:
Some tense animated action violence including fights, but no killings on screen, flaming swords and dragons spewing green, some dragons are drugged to make them dangerous;

Sex:
No sexual immorality or content, but there’s kissing between a married couple, a boyfriend and girlfriend kiss, suitors flirt with hero’s widowed mother to get her attention, girl flirts with villains in a deliberately annoying/distasteful way so they will let her go, dragon performs comic National Geographic-style mating dance to win female dragon’s affections;

Nudity:
No nudity;

Alcohol Use:
Drinking at feasts but no drunkenness;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking or modern drug references, but villain drugs some dragons to make them dangerous to humans; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:
Villain practices deceit, traps dragons and kidnaps humans.

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In this epic conclusion to the exciting animated trilogy of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON films, Hiccup is now the chief of Berk, where Vikings and dragons live together peacefully. The arrival of a villainous dragon-hunter, Grimmel, sends Hiccup and his girlfriend, Astrid, on a quest to find a fabled hidden world of dragons, which may provide safe harbor for them all. They discover a female “Light Fury” dragon that corresponds to Hiccup’s Night Fury dragon, Toothless, who tries to court the new dragon. Eventually, Hiccup faces his hardest test yet in his determination to protect his people and the dragons.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD is a great example of how to make a family movie that appeals to children and adults. The movie’s animated fantasy world of Vikings and dragons is stunning and detailed, the action scenes are exhilarating, the story is moving, and the characters have gone on a real journey since the original movie in 2010. That said, the new movie works just as well as a standalone story for those who haven’t seen the previous two movies.

The story has wonderful Christian elements. A key theme is that Hiccup can only mature and become the leader he needs to be by demonstrating sacrificial love. In a flashback, Hiccup’s father instructs him in words that sound biblical: “With love comes loss, but in the end it is worth it. There is no greater gift than love.” Hiccup is supported and encouraged by two remarkable women, his mother, Valka, and his girlfriend, Astrid. These two characters are very well done, exhibiting biblical feminine qualities of strength, wisdom and dignity. (A comical subplot is the courtship of the widowed Valka by two suitors.) Though one of the trilogy’s comic characters was supposedly “outed” as homosexual in the last movie due to an oblique, unscripted line of dialogue, no reference is made to this in THE HIDDEN WORLD. Ultimately, the third movie’s conclusion gives moviegoers a beautiful vision of a traditional family. That vision will have far more impact on viewers.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD does have some action violence and suspense, but the filmmakers have taken the scariness down a notch from the last movie. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD also has some light pagan and environmentalist elements, plus some light crass humor, that are common to this movie trilogy. For example, Norse gods are mentioned, and an old woman uses a staff with an animal carving on it to bless a couple’s marriage

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.


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