Starting off pretty strong with the new Oscar nominees. Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) is now the leader of Berk and the community is thriving with its dragons. But increased prosperity is an invitation to enemies and Hiccup worries that his people are in danger from dragon hunter Grimmel (F. Murray Abraham), who has vowed to kill the last Night Fury as he has all the others. Hiccup believes that the key to everyone's safety is to find the "hidden world" of dragons that his father (Gerard Butler) was searching for but must find balance between his quest and his people.
There have been a lot of movies recently about moving on and letting beloved franchises go. This one doesn't have anything new or revelatory to add to that dialogue but it does wrap up the friendship between Hiccup and Toothless in an organic, warm way that feels genuine. The animation is beautiful, especially the play of light and the subtle uses of color on the Light Fury's scales. A white dragon could have been very boring and flat-looking but there's real attention paid to making her look just as lifelike as Toothless. I do not know if it will win, considering that Toy Story 4 is basically telling the exact same story but with more philosophy, but it is still absolutely worth watching. It is currently streaming on Hulu.
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