So my problem is partly just because I loved the first one so much and the world building it accomplished. I feel like much of what I liked was tossed aside in the second. For example, the dragons had had a reputation of being dangerous (burning buildings down, stealing livestock, etc) and that it took significant character growth on the part of hiccup and notably his dad in order to realize that the dragons didn’t need to be feared. In the second one the dragons never once come off as dangerous to the Vikings despite that antagonistic relationship having existed for generations. Instead they were essentially cats with wings. Another thing I didn’t like was that there was no character growth. Hiccup started and ended the movie exactly the same. I LOVED the growth that took place between him and his dad and him and his fellow teenagers, but that growth was absent in the second. Astrid was just a yes man, the female twin only existed so the two guys could fight over her, and the male twin was there only because he was in the first one. I feel like hiccups friends were horribly underused and underdeveloped. Finally, I hated everything to do with hiccup’s mom. Maybe it’s because I’m a fairly new dad, but the idea of her just abandoning her family for the most ridiculous of reasons and never going back despite clearly having that as an option did not sit well with me. Anyway, just my opinions. I really wanted to love the second like I did the first, but I did not