The central friendship between Hiccup and Toothless is still the emotional ... opposed to the more openly cartoonish and occasionally goofy original film. The medium shift will have an undeniable ...

Even when it occasionally finds some goofy laughs, the expansion of Gates ... just gets lost in this overlong, meandering, and toothless film. Premiering Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival ...

by not being all that different from it. Toothless looks amazing, as do the rest of the dragons that take centre stage here. All signs point to this being an epic fantasy movie in its own right ...

An extended version from the initial teaser of Hiccup capturing and attempting to kill Toothless follows, up to the moment the dragon allows Hiccup to touch him. "Maybe they're not as bad as we ...