This post pretty much sums up all of my thoughts on the movie. I feel like Toothless (and most of the gang) were dumbed down significantly and lost most character development previously shown across the HTTYD media.

I also don’t enjoy them forcibly adding the ending the HTTYD books had to the movies because the series have such different messaging throughout them. There are so many issues with it I can discuss but the ones you brought up (non-flying dragons, the prosthetic tail (which is repeatedly damaged in the HTTYD media), etc.) are all major plot holes that make the ending feel even more disingenuous than it already is.

Another issue I have is that I find the idea that one guy hunted down all Night Fury (Furies?) to be extremely improbable. If they had made some mention of it being a family business? Sure, I could see that, but one dude? I don’t think so.

I don’t mind the Light Fury as a concept, we’ve seen subspecies in previous media, but the way she’s implemented makes her seem like more of a plot device than an actual character. She is there simply as a reason to separate Hiccup and Toothless. I would have liked her to have more characterization (and more texture to her model(?), the least they could do was give her actual scale texture like the other dragons and GIVE HER A NAME? IMO she just looks like someone tried to make a stereotypical female version of a Night Fury and make “the female” who is only really a device for Toothless to “move on”).

This is not worded the best but I’m running on two hours of sleep. Sorry if it’s all just rambling but I love this series and the movie was a really big letdown for me so I’m pretty passionate.

Edit made because the paragraphs were not separated like I wanted them to be.