The movie picks up a year later from the second movie, with Hiccup and crew spending most of their waking hours finding & rescuing dragons and bringing them back to the island of Berk. The island is getting crowded and becoming somewhat of a target -- so Hiccup decides to find The Hidden World, legendary island where the humans of Berk and their dragon friends can live in peace. Little or none of the continuity from the numerous TV series are brought into the plot, and the legend Stoick left behind seems to have just been tagged on. Adding to the tension, a dragonhunter named Grimmel introduces a female foil for Toothless, a white female version. Yep, girlfriend material.
They do find the Hidden World, a lovely glowy giant mushroom environment perfect for dragons, but not really for humans. So, no utopian vision of dragons and their friends in a Happily Ever After. Not sure why the Berkians don't just then return to Old Berk, but instead they settle on New Berk. Also not sure why dragonhunters could not find the dragons in the Hidden World, if they have been finding dragons all over this northern water-filled world of inhospitable islands, flying dragons and feisty vikings & sheep. There was nothing I disliked about the movie, it was just that despite great animation, the old cast, charming lovable dragons and an incredible super-saturated magical (hidden) world, I just didn't find myself as enthralled about it as I was with the others.
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