![]() ![]() With Astrid's encouragement, Hiccup sets out with the dragon riders to stop Grimmel and his army. Toothless' alpha status allows Grimmel to capture the rest of Berk's dragons by holding the Light Fury hostage. Grimmel appears and captures Toothless and the Light Fury, who had followed them to New Berk. Ruffnut returns, but unbeknownst to her, Grimmel had secretly followed her to New Berk. When the two humans are soon discovered, Toothless rescues them and returns them to the Berkians, with Hiccup realizing that his people would be intruders and unsafe in the Hidden World. Hiccup, Astrid, and her dragon Stormfly, searching for Toothless, find the Hidden World and see Toothless and the Light Fury leading the dragons as a happily mated couple. Ruffnut is captured but irritates Grimmel until he lets her go. Hiccup and the dragon riders head to capture Grimmel but fall into his trap and barely escape. On a scouting patrol, Valka notices Grimmel's approaching army and reports back to Hiccup. Upon receiving it, Toothless flies off, meeting up with the Light Fury and flying with her to an unknown land. Seeing Toothless' inability to fly solo hindering his growing relationship with the Light Fury, Hiccup rebuilds an automatic tailfin for him. Mid-journey, the Berkians discover an island on which they initially plan to rest, but soon begin to settle there, dubbing it "New Berk". Hiccup then rallies the citizens and dragons to leave Berk on a quest to find the Hidden World and safety from dragon hunters. Grimmel escapes while his Deathgripper dragons burn down Hiccup's house and most of Berk. Grimmel visits Hiccup that night, demanding he hand over Toothless while revealing he single-handedly endangered the Night Fury species, but Hiccup has prepared an ambush for him. Hiccup and Tuffnut later discover Grimmel's dragon traps in the area. Astrid then dubs the white Fury a "Light Fury". Toothless discovers the white Fury in the woods, and the two become enchanted with each other until the white Fury, sensing Hiccup's and Astrid's nearby presence, flees. ![]() Meanwhile, a white female Fury dragon, held captive by warlords, is given to infamous dragon hunter Grimmel the Grisly as bait for him to capture Toothless for the warlords' use as an alpha. In response, Hiccup desires to find the "Hidden World", a safe haven for dragons spoken of by his late father, Stoick. Their efforts have resulted in the island becoming overpopulated with dragons. One year after becoming chieftain, Hiccup, his Night Fury Toothless, and their fellow dragon-riders continue to rescue captured dragons to bring them to Berk and its bustling dragon-human utopia. At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Animated Feature. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World received several awards and nominations: five nominations for Annie Awards and a Golden Globe. It grossed over $525 million worldwide, becoming the fifth highest-grossing animated film of 2019, as well as Universal's highest-grossing animated film not to be produced by Illumination. Like its predecessors, it received acclaim from critics, who praised its animation, voice acting, musical score, and emotional weight of the conclusion. The film marks the first DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by Universal Pictures, three years after parent company NBCUniversal acquired DreamWorks Animation in 2016. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World was released on January 3, 2019, in Australia, and on February 22 in the United States. The animation challenges of the production required DreamWorks Animation to update and invent new software to handle complex tasks, such as lighting the Light Fury dragon. The film underwent changes for release dates due to distributor changes. DeBlois stated that the first sequel was being intentionally designed as the second act of the trilogy. The first discussions about a second sequel to How to Train Your Dragon began in December 2010 when DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg announced that there would be a third film in the series. The film follows Hiccup as he seeks a dragon utopia known as the "Hidden World" while coming to terms with Toothless' new bond with a female Fury, as they deal with the threat of a ruthless dragon hunter named Grimmel the Grisly. ![]() Written and directed by Dean DeBlois and produced by Bonnie Arnold and Brad Lewis, the film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett, Craig Ferguson, and F. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures, it is the sequel to How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and the third and final installment of the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (also known as How to Train Your Dragon 3) is a 2019 American computer-animated action fantasy film loosely based on the book series by Cressida Cowell. ![]()
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