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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: what age is it for?

Movie · 2019 · 1 h 37 · animation, family, adventure

8YRS

In France, zinema would say 8.

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralone

Alone from 8; from 7, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

What it's about

As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup’s reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.

Why 8

A hunter out to kill the dragonThe villain is a dragon killer, cold and patient. He drugs his own beasts into obedience, walks into the hero's home to threaten him, promises to destroy everything he loves and burns his house down. Nothing is shown up close, but everything is said, and the threat hangs over the whole film.
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Fights and falls in the darkRaids on ships, war dragons with poisoned stingers, a battle over the sea where the hero lets go and falls. Many dark scenes, screams, a very fast pace. No blood.
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A friendship coming apartThe dragon meets a female and drifts away; the hero feels worthless without him and says so. The film is about letting go of what you love, and its ending tugs hard at the youngest.
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Jabs between friendsThe Vikings mock one another, sometimes harshly: a friend calls the hero a malnourished runt with bad hair and a twig for a neck, and the French dub piles on the insults. Two or three grown-up jokes sail over children's heads.
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What the movie brings

Letting go of what you love when it is better for them.
Leading also means doubting, getting it wrong and asking for help.

Watching it together

Before

Warn that a villain hunts dragons to kill them, and stay for the ending, which makes many children cry.

After

at 8 and up

Hiccup thinks he is nothing without Toothless. What can he actually do on his own?

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A zinema reading from September 8, 2026 · the whole movie, watched in full · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made