There are sagas and production companies whose social impact is much greater than the noise they make, and sometimes the reasons are mysterious. For example, many more people know and recognize Pixar films than Dreamworks films, and the truth is that the studio has done a lot of good work over the last three decades to look closely at the Disney universe. There has been no 3D animated film more influential and with more impact than Shrek except for Toy Story. But we are talking about a company that, 3D or 2D, has given us classics like Antz, The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Chiken Run: Farm Escape, The Shark Scarer, Madagascar, Megamind, The Croods or sagas like Kung Fu Panda and the aforementioned Shrek.
This year, if justice is done, it will win the Oscar for Disney and Pixar sequels with Wild Robotthe emotional animated film that has conquered the box office in an outstanding way. Although nothing compared to the second installment of Inside Out y Vaiana 2. But perhaps the saga that deserves the most attention and vindication is the first from Dreamworks that, like Disney, will move to Live-Action. On June 13, 2025, the live-action version of How to train your dragonremake of the wonderful adventure that Dreamworks gave us in 2010.
But one of the characteristics of Dreamworks that it does not share with Pixar or Disney is that it usually maintains or even improves the level in its second and third parts. That’s how it was with Shrekso it was with Kung Fu Panda and so it was with How to train your dragon. The first installment of the saga is only available on SkyShowtime, but we are more concerned about the other two films that round out the story of Hiccup and his dragon. How to train your dragon 2 (2014) y How to train your dragon 3 (2019) are available on Netflix but will leave the catalog without a clear destination as of December 31. That is, we will say goodbye to them with the grapes.
And it would be a shame for all those who saw the first installment if they did not complete the saga, since this story works as a total in three parts, and not as a repetition of a formula to make money. The story of Hiccup and his dragon is a story of growth, and if the first installment shows us a rebellious rookie, the second is about a still immature adult and the third about the protagonist becoming the man we can say goodbye to in peace. That’s why we can’t think of a better bet for this Christmas, even the grapes, than to recover on Netflix the last two parts of this outstanding Dreamworks trilogy capable of marking a Boyhood with vikings and dragons. In 2025 it will be too late and then when we want to see them before the live-action the tears will come.
