![]() ![]() How to Train Your Dragon’s swashbuckling lessons of taming and tolerance were accompanied by stiffness. That is apparently enough time for stunning progress in digital animation technology. The original, which hails from the first of Cressida Cowell’s dozen How To … children’s books, was released four years ago. It’s got the emotional, humorous, exciting sweep you want from a summer movie. The entire film is a romance - visually, parentally, ecologically. But when his massive, burly viking (Stoick the Vast) and her petite preservationist share a dance, her touch and tremulous singing transform the gravitational properties of his boulder of a body. How their scenes were recorded is unclear. Then there is the unexpected pleasure of the voices of Cate Blanchett and Gerard Butler. The flight here doesn’t feel simulated even in the plain-old 2-D version, the cliff dives and cloud-surfing feel chest-clutchingly real. Dragons breathe ice and fire that look equally minty. ![]() ![]() But it’s useful to consider how something like How to Train Your Dragon 2 makes magic. It’s easy to take for granted the familiar pleasures of a good animated movie. ![]()
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