Over the course of the 15 years between Toy Story and Toy Story 3, Pixar Animation Studios underwent a monumental evolution from a computer firm taking its first steps into animation to an industry-changing powerhouse. Over the nine years between How to Train Your Dragon and the new trilogy-capper How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, DreamWorks Animation went through a much more troubled evolution with rapid expansion, financial struggles, leadership changes, and an eventual sale to NBCUniversal. Both companies are producing more visually sophisticated, ambitious films than ever before, but where Pixar found solid artistic and commercial footing over the course of its signature trilogy, DreamWorks has consistently struggled. And while the new film is a beautiful spectacle, it shows a company that’s still, as always, struggling to find a strong identity of its own.
在《玩具总动员》到《玩具总动员3》之间的15年里，皮克斯动画工作室公司经历了一场巨大的演变，从一家计算机公司迈出进军动画领域的第一步，到一家改变行业格局的巨头。 在《驯龙高手》和三部曲第三部《驯龙高手: 隐秘世界》之间的九年时间里，梦工厂动画经历了一个更加困难的演变过程: 快速扩张，财务困境，领导层的变化，最终卖给了NBC环球。 两家公司都在制作比以往任何时候都更复杂、更有野心的电影，但皮克斯在其标志性的三部曲中找到了稳固的艺术和商业基础，而梦工厂一直在挣扎。 新电影呈现了美丽的奇异场景，它显示了一个公司，仍然一如既往，努力寻找一个强大的自己的地位。
Exactly like Toy Story 3, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is about growing up and letting go — somewhat suspiciously so, given that Toy Story 3 earned such high praise for its handling of the theme nearly a decade ago, and Hidden World doesn’t have many more ideas than that. In the third installment in the series, young Viking chieftain Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) has to learn that his identity isn’t entirely bound up in Toothless, the dragon partner he befriended in the series’s first installment. Given their deep and satisfying friendship, that sometimes feels like an odd message. Metaphorically speaking, it feels like the movie’s saying that to grow up, people need to let go of their beloved pets. But writer-director Dean DeBlois at least loads the story with visual style and a lot of heartfelt wonder.
正如《玩具总动员3》 ，《驯龙高手:隐秘世界》讲述的是成长和放手的故事---- 有一点让人怀疑的是，鉴于玩具总动员3在十年前处理这个主题时获得了如此高的评价，而《隐秘世界》没有比这更多的想法。 在该系列的第三部中，年轻的维京酋长小嗝嗝不得不认识到他的身份并不完全局限于无牙，无牙是他在该系列的第一部中结识的伙伴。 考虑到他们深厚而满意的友谊，这有时感觉像是一个奇怪的信息。 比喻来说，这感觉就像电影在说，要想长大，人们需要放开他们心爱的宠物。 但是编剧兼导演迪恩· 德布洛伊斯至少在故事中加入了视觉风格和许多由衷的惊叹。
As the film begins, Hiccup and his Viking town of Berk are again under threat from dragon-trappers who want to capitalize on Berk’s massive dragon population by whisking them all away to some unclear fate. Given that Hiccup and his dragon-rider friends are formidable opponents, the trappers enlist the help of legendary dragon-killer Grimmel (Amadeus’ F. Murray Abraham) to take out Toothless, as he’s apparently eliminated every other member of Toothless’ species. Hiccup’s response is an attempt to find the legendary Hidden World where dragons come from, hoping to move Berk and its dragons there. Minor adventures ensue, but mostly, Toothless meets a female of his species for the first time and starts trying to woo her.
随着电影的开始，小嗝嗝和他的维京人小镇伯克岛再次面临着猎龙人的威胁，猎龙人想要利用伯克岛庞大的龙族群，把他们赶走，让他们走向未知的命运。 鉴于小嗝嗝和他的龙骑士朋友们是强大的对手，猎人们请来传奇龙骑士格里梅尔帮忙除掉无牙，因为他显然已经除掉了无牙族的其他所有成员。 小嗝嗝的反应是试图寻找传说中的隐秘世界，龙的故乡，希望把伯克岛和岛上的龙转移到那里。 小冒险接踵而至，但大部分是，无牙第一次遇到同类中的一只雌性，并开始试图追求她。
It’s mildly bizarre how much of Hidden World just feels like a National Geographic special tracking the sexual habits of dragons. The sheer amount of time DeBlois spends on dragon mating dances (heavily inspired by real-life bird mating dances) and courtship rituals suggests that he’s much more interested in the visuals of this film than on any narrative weight. The story often feels rushed and thin, with Grimmel as a threat closely echoing the dragon trapper Drago from the previous installment in the series, and Hiccup’s various human buddies each getting short, annoying character arcs that never amount to anything. Hiccup’s mother Valka (Cate Blanchett) at least has a little more of a purpose in this film than she did in her introductory movie, even if it only amounts to scouting, dispensing wise advice, and weirdly not discouraging the arrogant kid Snotlout (Jonah Hill) who has a loudly aggressive crush on her and an equally loud interest in deposing and replacing her son.
隐秘世界有点奇怪，感觉就像《国家地理》追踪龙求爱习惯的特别节目。 德布洛伊斯花在龙的求偶舞蹈(受现实生活中的鸟类求偶舞蹈的启发)和求爱仪式上的时间之多，表明他对这部电影的视觉效果比任何叙事戏份更感兴趣。 这个故事经常让人感觉匆忙和单薄，格里梅尔是一个威胁，类似于该系列前一部中的捕龙者德拉戈，而小嗝嗝的各种各样的人类伙伴每一个都变得短小而烦人的角色弧从来没有任何意义。 小嗝嗝的母亲瓦尔卡在这部电影中至少比她在预告中的表现更有意义，尽管只是一种侦查，提供明智的建议，奇怪的是没有阻止傲慢的孩子斯诺特洛特 ，后者对她有着强烈的好感，并且也有兴趣除掉和取代她的儿子。
Those dragon mating rituals are pretty lovely. As Toothless chases and tries to impress his female equivalent, they engage in goofy comedy routines and charming aerial ballets, both strongly reminiscent of similar scenes in Pixar’s Wall-E, but visually impressive nonetheless. The minimalism of Hidden World’s plot leaves a lot of room for long, wordless sequences of dragon dancing and dragon flight, and the sheer expressiveness of the dragon characters (still midway between cats and dogs in behavior, with a little bit of eager toddler thrown in) makes their interactions particularly memorable and approachable.
那些龙的求偶仪式非常可爱。 当无牙仔追逐并试图给他的女同伴留下深刻印象时，他们开始了愚蠢的喜剧动作和迷人的空中芭蕾，这些都强烈地让人想起皮克斯的《机器人总动员》中类似的场景，但是视觉上还是给人留下了深刻的印象。 《隐秘世界》的情节极简主义为长长的、没有对话的舞蹈和飞舞留下了很大的空间，而龙的表现(在行为上仍处于猫和狗之间，还有一点儿急切的蹒跚学步的孩子)使他们的互动特别令人难忘和亲切。
For that matter, all of Hidden World looks impressive. The initial return to Berk, now a tottering metropolis of brightly colored buildings absolutely crammed with equally brightly colored dragons, is an impressive showcase for how ambitious and wild CG animation has become. Every frame of the film that’s set in Berk is distractingly busy with neon shades and independent movement, with zany architecture and wildly designed life. For viewers content to just lean back and let the film wash over them, there’s plenty of beauty here, some of it downright awe-striking.
就此而言，《隐秘世界》看起来令人印象深刻。 最初回到伯克岛，现在是一个摇摇欲坠的大都市，有着色彩鲜艳的建筑，里面住满了同样色彩鲜艳的龙，这是一个令人印象深刻的展示，展示了雄心勃勃的电脑特效动画。 电影的每一个画面都以伯克为背景，充斥着霓虹色调，以及滑稽的建筑和疯狂设计的生活。 对于观众来说，他们满足于向后靠着，让电影冲刷他们，这里有很多美丽的东西，其中一些简直令人的敬畏。
The narrative element rarely finds equally impressive footing. While Toothless is cozying up to the first female of his species he’s ever seen, Hiccup is similarly trying to figure out his relationship with his crush Astrid (America Ferrera), under pressure from a village that expects them to marry. That’s potentially odd territory for a kids’ movie, and DeBlois handles it by shorthanding it, with Astrid feeling they’re too young to get married.... Hiccup saves her life and she dramatically realizes how she feels about him. Their relationship grows quietly and organically, out of working together on the same cause. But their plot gets much less attention than Toothless’ frantic attempts to wing-waggle or silently soar his way into a female’s heart.
叙事元素很少能同样令人印象深刻。 当无牙正在讨好他所见过同类中的第一只雌性时，小嗝嗝同样试图搞清楚他和他的暗恋对象阿斯特丽德的关系，迫于一个村庄的压力，他希望他们能结婚。 对于一部儿童电影来说，这是一个奇怪领域，德布洛伊斯通过简短的时间来处理这个问题，阿斯特丽德觉得他们还太年轻，不能结婚... ...。 令人印象深刻的是，小嗝嗝救了她的命，她戏剧性地意识到她对他的感觉。 因为他们在同一个事业上共同努力，他们的关系悄悄地、自然地发展起来， 但他们的情节得到的关注远远少于无牙疯狂地试图摇摆翅膀或无声地飞进一个女性的心脏。
It’s not that Hidden World is a deeply problematic movie in any particular regard. It just seems too basic in its outline, and too familiar in its execution, both from Pixar movies that follow strikingly similar lines and from the past two Train Your Dragon films. Its story ambitions are grand — for instance, in including a villain who’s apparently single-handedly all but wiped out an entire species — but it rarely fills in the details. It’s unclear why Grimmel hates Toothless so much or why he doesn’t take any of his multiple opportunities to kill the dragon. He’s just an Evil Villain, with no sense that the film needs to try to explain more than that.
这并不是说《隐秘世界》在任何方面都是一部问题重重的电影。 无论是皮克斯电影，还是之前的两部《驯龙高手》 ，它们的台词都惊人的相似。 它的故事雄心很大，例如，它包括了一个显然只手毁灭了整个物种的恶棍，但它很少补充细节。 目前还不清楚为什么格里梅尔如此憎恨无牙，也不清楚为什么他不抓住任何机会去杀死这条龙。他只是一个邪恶的恶棍，没有任何意义，电影需要尝试解释更多。
Hidden World’s conceptual familiarity and failure to fully live up to its own ideas highlights an issue DreamWorks’ animation has always had. In its early days, the studio directly copycatted Pixar, with movies like Antz and Shark Tale attempting to ride the coattails of A Bug’s Life and Finding Nemo. More recently, DreamWorks has fallen back on pumping out franchise installments and endless related spinoffs in an attempt to get on more solid financial ground. The studio has never had much of a signature or an identity equivalent to Pixar’s solid grounding in richly emotional stories, and Hidden World does nothing to cement DreamWorks’ identity or even suggest where that might be going.
隐秘世界概念的熟悉和完全实现自己理念上的失败，突出了梦工厂的动画一直以来都存在一个问题。 在早期，工作室直接模仿皮克斯，像《小蚁雄兵》和《鲨鱼故事》这样的电影试图搭上《虫虫危机》和《海底总动员》的顺风车。 最近，梦工厂为了获得更稳固的财政基础，已经开始大量出售特许经营权和无数相关的副产品。 这个工作室从来没有像皮克斯那样在情感丰富的故事中打下坚实的基础，并且《隐秘世界》也没有巩固梦工厂的地位，甚至也没有暗示它的发展方向。
All of the most daring things about the film — DeBlois’ willingness to spend long segments on wordless sky-dancing or explore some of the painful processes of finding an adult identity — feel directly cribbed from other movies. The film’s eye-candy is endlessly impressive and a worthy reason to see the film in a theater, but it’s never as memorable as authentic, unique story moments like Hiccup’s first connection with Toothless in the series’s first installment. Hidden World is a plausible enough ending to the Train Your Dragon series that hits all of the expected beats and finds plenty of time for art. It just doesn’t go that one step further into fully realizing its world and its characters as relatable or even entirely plausible people.
这部电影所有最大胆的地方——德布洛伊斯愿意花很长时间在无声的空中舞蹈上，或者探索寻找成年人身份的痛苦过程——都让人感觉是直接从其他电影中抄袭过来的。 这部电影的视觉效果永远令人印象深刻，也是值得在电影院观看这部电影的一个理由，但是它永远不会像小嗝嗝在第一部中与无牙的第一次相遇那样真实、独特，那样令人难忘。 隐秘世界》是《驯龙高手》系列的一个似是而非的结局，它打出了所有预期的节拍，并有充足的时间。 它只是没有更进一步，充分认识到它的世界和它特点作为关联，甚至完全合理的人。
The original How to Train Your Dragon was a wonder, a joyous, funny, heartfelt film that felt like the beginning of a whole new era for DreamWorks. Instead, it’s become a platform for the studio to keep churning out familiar work. This film feels like the studio wanted it to be the next step in its development toward more ambitious stories. Instead, it’s a gorgeous hangout movie. There are worse things to be. But there are better ones, too, and at its best, DreamWorks has proved that.
第一部《驯龙高手》是一个奇迹，一部欢乐、有趣、感人的电影，仿佛是梦工厂一个全新时代的开始。 相反，它成为了工作室继续大量制作熟悉作品的平台。 这部电影给人的感觉就像是电影公司希望它成为下一步的发展方向，朝着更加雄心勃勃的故事发展。相反，这是一部华丽的电影。还有更糟糕的事情。但也有更好的，最好的，梦工厂已经证明了这一点。
评论：
brian.eric.ford
At any rate, just saw the third Dragon movie.
不管怎么说，我刚看了驯龙高手3。
I don’t agree with this review. It’s not really all that similar to Pixar’s movies, thematically. It still felt like a How To Train Your Dragon Movie, to me — though a little slower than the 2nd one, but very much of a piece. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
我不同意这个评论。 这和皮克斯的电影在主题上并不完全相似。 对我来说，它仍然感觉像一部《驯龙高手》——虽然比第二部稍微慢一点，但很棒。 我非常喜欢。
EmuRage
The second one felt so emotionally mature and really resonated with me, it’s a shame if this one is so much more shallow. I’ll definitely still watch it for the visuals though.
第二部如此成熟，真的和我产生了共鸣，如果这个更肤浅的话，那就太可惜了。 尽管如此，我还是会去看它的视觉效果。
jim.beaming Jim
For what it’s worth, I have already seen it and don’t agree with this review at all. There’s a lot of closure between the first movie and this movie, and it very much feels like a maturation of the journey.
值得一提的是，我已经看过了，完全不同意这篇评论。 在第一部电影和这部电影之间有很多的结局，它非常像一个成熟的旅程。
chaunceyd
I am with Jim.Beaming – I too have already seen the movie, and don’t agree with this review.
我同意吉姆的看法。我也看过这部电影，但不同意这篇评论。
Allison C
I agree with the others, it was a satisfying closure to the story, and made a lot more sense than the reviewer here implies. (I guess maybe he left to pee every time Grimmel explained his motivations and that’s why he thinks he had none.)
我同意其他人的观点，这是一个令人满意的故事的结尾，而且比这里的评论者所暗示的更有意义。 (我猜他可能每次格里梅尔解释自己的动机时都会离开去小便，所以他认为自己没有动机。)
CNT
Saw this movie a few weeks ago, and for the most part, I disagree that it’s likenesses to Pixar movies was much of an issue. Most movies will crib off others, including Pixar’s. And some of the comparisons given as examples are simply reaching or downright incongruent. The one thing that I will agree with in this review, is that the villain is completely one-dimensional. He’s just a big bad guy with no back story or great motivation for his actions. Drago from the second movie was the same type, but fully fleshed out and had much more charisma about him and because of it, is still my favorite in the series. It was still a very satisfying ending to the trilogy.
几周前看过这部电影，大部分时候，我不同意它和皮克斯电影的相似性是个问题。 大多数电影都会抄袭其他电影，包括皮克斯的。 作为例子给出的一些比较，只是达到或完全不一致。 在这篇评论中，我会同意一件事，那就是反派角色完全是一维的。 他只是一个大坏蛋，没有背景故事，也没有强大的行动动机。 第二部电影中的德拉戈也是同样的类型，但是充满血肉，有着更多的个人魅力，正因为如此，他仍然是这部电视剧中我的最爱。 这仍然是三部曲非常令人满意的结局。
Cyberax
I loved the first movie. I still listen to its soundtrack on occasion – it’s simply amazing. I think it’s the best orchestral soundtrack ever.Second movie was more complex and still really good. And the third movie is the best one.
我喜欢第一部电影。 我现在还偶尔听听它的原声带——简直太神奇了。 我认为这是有史以来最好的管弦乐配乐。第二部电影更加复杂，但仍然很好。 第三部电影是最好的一部。
tzs
Uhm…Antz was released before A Bug’s Life. Kind of hard to ride the coattails of someone behind you.Shark Tale did come out 16 months after Finding Nemo. Big budget animated movies in 2004 took a lot longer to produce than 16 months, again making coattail riding rather difficult.
嗯... 小蚁尖兵是在《虫虫危机》之前发行的。 在《海底总动员》发行16个月后，《鲨鱼故事》才上映。 2004年的大预算动画电影制作时间要比16个月长得多，再次使得搭顺风车变得相当困难。
hittrj01
That’s kind of like saying Samsung didn’t copy the iPhone just because their devices came out a couple months earlier. Roadmaps are widely known, and DreamWorks knew Pixar was making A Bug’s Life. They tried to beat them to market with a subpar movie. They succeeded in the timing, but Antz was pretty bad.
这有点像说三星没有抄袭iPhone 只是因为他们的设备在几个月前发布了。 路线图广为人知，梦工厂也知道皮克斯正在制作《虫虫危机》。 他们试图通过一部低水平的电影抢在他们前面上映。 他们成功地掌握了时机，但是小蚁尖兵的表现相当糟糕。
brian.eric.ford
I actually remember preferring Antz to A Bug’s Life. (And still consider the latter to be one of Pixar’s weakest entries.)
实际上，我记得比起《虫虫危机》 ，我更喜欢《小蚁尖兵》。 (仍然认为后者是皮克斯最差的作品之一。)
tb4000
Antz is a really weird child in the Dreamworks family. Like they were trying to say we’re not Disney with all the dangerously close to PG-13 stuff the flick had.
小蚁尖兵是梦工厂家庭中一个非常古怪的孩子。 就好像他们试图说我们不是迪斯尼，因为电影里有那么多接近PG-13级。
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