It earned less than its predecessor at the US box office, but performed better internationally. It grossed over $621 million worldwide, making it the 12th-highest-grossing film of 2014.

It received positive reviews for its animation, voice acting, musical score, action sequences, emotional depth, and darker, more serious tone compared to its predecessor.

The film premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2014, and was released in the United States on June 13. How to Train Your Dragon 2 was DreamWorks' first film to use scalable multi-core processing and the studio's new animation and lighting software. The entire voice cast from the first film also returned, while Blanchett and Hounsou signed on to voice Valka and Drago, respectively.

Composer John Powell returned to score the film. DeBlois and his creative team visited Norway and Svalbard to look for inspirations for the setting. He cited The Empire Strikes Back and My Neighbor Totoro as his main inspirations, with the expanded scope of The Empire Strikes Back being particularly influential. He had agreed to return to direct the second film on the condition that he would be allowed to turn it into a trilogy. DeBlois, who co-directed the first film, began drafting the outline in February 2010. The sequel to How to Train Your Dragon was announced in April 2010. Set five years after the events of the first film, the film follows Hiccup and his friends as young adults as they encounter Valka, Hiccup's long-lost mother, and Drago Bludvist, a madman who wants to conquer the world. Miller, and Kristen Wiig, along with Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou, and Kit Harington joining the cast. The film was written and directed by Dean DeBlois, and stars the returning voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it is the sequel to the 2010 film How to Train Your Dragon and the second installment in the trilogy.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a 2014 American computer-animated action fantasy film loosely based on the book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell.

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