Faith & Film: How To Train Your Dragon 2
Here’s a summer sequel I have been eagerly anticipating!
Four years ago, we were introduced to young dragon-tamer Hiccup and his companion Toothless. The first Dragon was an enormously entertaining animated film, full of fantastic soaring rides in the sky, swooning and dipping in 3-D. Dragon 1 also told a beautiful story about learning to deal with one’s fears and reach out to that which is different. Hiccup showed his father, Stoick, that dragons need not be feared. When treated well, they proved to be great companions to humans.
Dragon 2 takes up the action five years later. Hiccup is now a young man of 20, with a prosthetic leg from an injury he suffered in the first movie. Hiccup and Toothless are still soaring across the sky, along with Astrid and their other friends. Hiccup is worried that Stoick has chosen his son to be the next leader of their island, Berk. Hiccup is a peacemaker, and doesn’t know if he can be the kind of leader that Stoick wants him to be.
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