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How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019) poster

2019 · animation · fantasy · adventure

How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming

Directed by Tim Johnson22m2019

It's been ten years since the dragons moved to the Hidden World, and even though Toothless doesn't live in New Berk anymore, Hiccup continues the holiday traditions he once shared with his best friend. But the Vikings of New Berk were beginning to forget about their friendship with dragons. Hiccup, Astrid, and Gobber know just what to do to keep the dragons in the villagers' hearts. And across the sea, the dragons have a plan of their own...

Our read: How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · fantasy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.

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Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.

ElsewhereIMDb7.38k
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • inventive
  • redemptive
  • tender
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DNA · twelve axes

How How to Train Your Dragon feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You want a cozy holiday reunion with Hiccup and Toothless in twenty minutes.”

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

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