Post by barracuda on Oct 4, 2012 5:11:01 GMT -5
Hm... I think this is one of my favorites so far, next to E03 Animal House. Some opinions and things I noticed:
- At the beginning, when they pulled the ship to the coast, I was first wondering: "Why are they interested in getting the old wrecks all of a sudden?", because it looks exactly like one of these wrecked ships near the ending of the first movie. They even used the same thick mist from that scene. If the ship is supposed to be damaged just recently by a Thunderdrum, that's pretty confusing.
- Apparently, night furies are the ants of the skies. I thought Stoick and Hiccup together are already though as loading weight, but even flying with a 400 pound man and three barrels doesn't really seem to be a big problem. Good thing weight is relative. ;D
- Speaking about Stoick being Superman: he does somehow glue himself onto any back of a dragon he rides. Right? I guess the glue failed at some point on the Thunderdrum.
- As mentioned by others, again some too obvious direct scene copies from the original movie.
- Red-eyed rabid boars from hell? Well, not the most innovative way to quickly invent a sort-of-enemy for a dragon...
- The Thunderdrum sonic effect looks too cheap for my taste. I mean, it could be a random shader effect from a video game. Even with that budget, they could've done more here.
- Another case of magic instant dragon sexing again. I first thought it's because of the Thunderdrum's blue color, since the other one's purple. But that one is just referred as a "friend", so... how the hell can they tell on first sight? That bugged me a little in Terrible Twos already: "Oh, that's a baby Typhoomerang boy, I have never seen any of those before! And this here is his mother, obviously.". Yeah... what?
- Other than that, I really liked how Stoick tried to tame his dragon with his fists, ignoring any advices from Hiccup. Like a boss. ;D