How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014): 12 Dazzling Facts About The Animated Movie!!

How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) is directed and written by Dean DeBlois. The movie stars Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and T. J. Miller.  This movie is produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. 

Movie Details Facts
Movie Details Facts

The movie is set after the events of How To Train Your Dragon (2010). In this movie Dragon Toothless and Hiccup find an ice cave, where hundreds of new species of dragons reside. Dragon Toothless and Hiccup have to fight a new super villain to keep peace in the valley.

Ice Cave and Dragon species
Ice Cave and Dragon species

How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) is as fantastic as it’s predecessor How To Train Your Dragon (2010). The movie was released on 13 June, 2014 and earned more than $600 million. Today, I have a list of dazzling facts and details about animated movie How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014).

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How to Train Your Dragon 2 movie poster
How to Train Your Dragon 2 movie poster

12. Dean DeBlois  asked actress Cate Blanchett  to play the role of Valka in How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) movie during the 2011 awards season where How to Train Your Dragon (2010) was being campaigned for Academy Award recognition. DeBlois wanted Blanchett to play Valka because he knew she could strike the right balance of “rich and commanding,” mixed with a sense of “regret and vulnerability” that the part called for.

Cate Blanchett as Valka
Cate Blanchett as Valka

11. Character Hiccup is left-handed.

Hiccup
Hiccup

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10. How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) is the first Dreamworks Animation film to win a Golden Globe award for Best Animated Film.

DreamWorks Animation logo
DreamWorks Animation logo

9. Chris Sanders, co-writer and co-director of How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and Dean DeBlois’ collaborator since Lilo & Stitch (2002), did not write and direct the sequel, due to his involvement with The Croods (2013).

Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders (The Croods)
Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders (The Croods)

8. How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) reached a peak of 2nd position in the US box office and held it for one week only on the weekend of June 13-15 2014 with takings on that weekend of $49,451,322.

Toothless and Hiccup
Toothless and Hiccup

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7. Character Stoick the Vast has some experience and lines in common with another actor Gerard Butler character, Creedy in Reign of Fire (2002) which was also about dragons.

Stoick the Vast
Stoick the Vast

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