This is the sequel to “How to Train Your Dragon” (2010), a great coming-of-age* story.

    This movie has added more expensive state-of-the-art* animation, an elaborate* script full of action and a dragon cast of thousands.

    Five years after the previous film ends, Hiccup has now grown into a handsome young man (voiced by Jay Baruchel), set to succeed* his father, Stoick (Gerard Butler), as chief of Berk. But the young Viking* man spends every free moment away from the tribe, drawn to whatever lies beyond the edges* of his map.

    The film’s opening scenes reunite Hiccup’s noisy classmates — Snotlout (Jonah Hill), Fishlegs (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), Tuffnutt (T.J. Miller) and twin sister Ruffnut (Kristen Wiig) — for a dragon-racing game.

    As usual, it’s tomboy* Astrid (America Ferrera) who wins, while Hiccup, now her boyfriend, is again off exploring* with his dragon, Toothless.

    Hiccup and Astrid come upon a manmade fort* frozen in green ice. It turns out that a kind of dragon called Bewilderbeast does not breathe fire, but ice.

    However terrible this so-called “king of all dragons” might be, it’s men that Hiccup and his people have to worry about, for he who controls the dragon controls them all.

    The story now develops into a full-blown war movie, pitting Hiccup against a dragon hunter named Drago Bludvist (Djimon Hounsou).

    Together with Astrid, and later joined by his father and comic relief* Gobber (Craig Ferguson), Hiccup comes to discover much about both his past and his destiny with a dragon-rider named Valka (Cate Blanchett), who turns out to be Hiccup’s long lost mother.

    Battles follow, and Stoick sacrifices* his life to save Hiccup. Stoick is given a ship burial and Hiccup, filled with regret at the loss of his father, decides that he will fly back to Berk to defend* his people and live up to his father’s legacy*.(SD-Agencies)