How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated action family fantasy film produced by DreamWorks Animation[3] and distributed by 20th Century Fox, loosely based on the book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. It is the sequel to the 2010 computer-animated film How to Train Your Dragon and the second in the trilogy.[4] The film is written and directed by Dean DeBlois, and stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig with the addition of Kit Harington, Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou. The film was released on June 13, 2014.
The film takes place five years after the first film, featuring Hiccup and his friends as young adults.[4] DeBlois revealed in an interview about the story: "At the end of last film, all these Vikings who were previously somewhat landlocked are now on the backs of dragons so the entire Northern Hemisphere opens up to them. And with that Hiccup's curiosity increases, the map expands and inevitably they are going to come across new dragons, new cultures."[5] Hiccup then "discovers a larger conflict brewing between humans and dragons and he finds himself at the center of it".[4]