How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, mini movie review

Rating: A

I've seen How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, the third and final installment in the How to Train Your Dragon series, twice now.  Loved it equally both times.  The second time I went with my nieces and nephew, and they loved it.  They sat still the whole movie, watching with great interest!  My toddler niece, who I worried would get scared, didn't, and when we got back to the house she found a dinosaur toy that was suddenly flying everywhere, eating things, so I think she got what was going on.

Our heroes from the first movie are growing up, no longer kids in training.  They're dragon masters, understanding the intricacies of behavior and nuance of personality in these majestic creatures.  Hiccup and his friends are leaders in a society that no longer fears dragons, but embraces, their home remarkably different from what we saw nearly a decade ago.  (The first movie came out in 2010).  But there are still dragon hunters, and Toothless, plus the now dragon haven, are worth destroying.  A new home must be found for the dragons and those who love them.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is such a wonderful way to end a series.  I'm sad to see its closure, but loved the way plots and situations ended, but I'm getting ahead of myself!

The Hidden World is a feast of sight and sound.  The visuals in the movie, especially a moment I don't want to spoil, is simply beautiful.  And the music!  It's been such a long time since I've seen a movie where the music stood out and made me listen, not in a distracting way, but in a way that invited me into the scenes, complimenting the action and movement.  The song "Third Date" is a wonderful track, hearkening to the first movie where Toothless and Hiccup meet, only this time Toothless is going all bird of paradise courtship on us with a potential lady love.  It's a good scene.

At the heart of Hidden World, and the whole trilogy as a whole, is a really beautiful story of friendship.

If you haven't seen How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, then you really need to see it.  Do you need to see the first two movies?  Maybe not, but seeing them, no, you do.  Seeing all the movies is worth it.  These movies have a nice arc, growth, and story.

MPAA: Rated PG for adventure action and some mild rude humor.

365 Day Photo challenge: Days 37-40

(Day 37 of the 365 day photo challenge 02-08-2012) 

This is the very first Dummies book I've gotten, though I do have to add that I got it with my Mom.  We've had an Etsy shop since November, and not a whole lot of sales sense.  There are those that sale big, those that are well established, but for newcomers it's hard to get noticed.  So we got this book to help us see through the murky waters.  There's a lot of information, good information, though I'm still pouring over it.  Mainly networking is the key, and we're still learning how that works.  No one said it would be easy.

     (Day 38 of the 365 day photo challenge)

There was a former post I made about my postcrossing habit.  A few weeks ago I discovered that the post office raised prices again.  Instead of international postage costing $0.98, it now costs $1.05, and they don't have a stamp yet that matching the change.  So for fun, and because I love getting stamps myself, a $0.20+$0.45+$0.45 stamp=$1.10, only 5 cents over.  Not that bad.  I went to the USPS website and discovered all these amazing stamps, and that first day issue envelopes are not that expensive.  Back in High School I used to collect stamps, and it's something I've missed, so I got a nice little selection of canceled stamps.  This is one of the new Year of the Dragon stamp, which I think is incredibly cool. 

  (Day 39 of the 365 day photo challenge)

Admittedly, my last few pictures haven't been that exciting, so on this day I took my camera everywhere.  Here I was in the Walmart parking lot, not the most thrilling of locations, but then I saw this cute bird on the shopping cart, and had to take the shot.

(Day 40 of the 365 day photo challenge)

When I first took this picture, I totally know why I was taking it, but now it's nothing but torture!!  I'm on a no sugar diet with my sister-in-law, but we've allowed ourselves treats we can have on occasions to help with our cravings.  One of my allowances is frozen yogurt, and nobody makes it better then Red Mango.  The nice thing is that they're constantly getting new flavors to replace old ones.  The bad thing is that they're constantly losing great flavors for new ones.  Right now they have a Caribbean Cocoanut yogurt that's simply Epic.  Okay, I'm driving myself crazy.  You can find out how my sister-in-law is dealing with this goal of ours on her blog at k.stuff.

Hope you guys are having a great day!

Sarah