Warner Bros.
Maybe it'd be best for Zack Snyder to stick to animated movies, I found this movie to easily be the best thing he's made. I've always thought his movies were slick with really fun, yet slightly overdone action scenes but they always felt like they were missing something. After the constant disappointments, I was so pleased to see that Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, not only exceeded my expectations, but turned out to be one of my favorite animated kids movies.
Based on the series of children's books named Legends of Ga'Hoole, the story tells the journey of a young owl named Soren who grows up hearing the mythical tales of a group of warrior owls named the Guardians who fight against the evil owls known as the Pure. His brother Kludd, who had grown tired of his brother's love of the tales, quickly becomes jealous of Soren as his natural abilities are much stronger than his own. Not to spoil too much, they get into some trouble, and are eventually rescued by two owls who end up being members of the Pure. Soren escapes with the help of an owl who's working as a double agent in order to save his family, and he embarks on a journey to find the Guardians, and attempt to go back to save his brother and defeat the evil Metal Beak and the entire Pure group.
The film has the darker tone like most of Snyder's adult efforts, but it's not enough to say the movie isn't intended for little ones. Not everything works out like most kids movies, and that's something to appreciate. The story is engaging, and should even draw in the adults. Easily, the films best qualities are the superb animated, this was easily one of the best looking animated films I've seen in some time. The fight scenes between the owls, were standard Snyder, slow motion sequences mixed with some great visuals. While they sometimes feel a little forced in his other movies, in this one they didn't. They really felt like something that other animated movies should aspire to live up to.
Guardians was met with mixed reviews and didn't make a ton of money at the box office, which is a real shame considering much worse animated movies (like the Smurfs!) made far more money and were pieces of shit compared to this one. So while we get to have multiple Smurf and Alvin and the Chipmunk movies, we get to have only one Guardian movie which was does potentially set up for a sequel that will sadly never come.
Highly recommended.
The film has the darker tone like most of Snyder's adult efforts, but it's not enough to say the movie isn't intended for little ones. Not everything works out like most kids movies, and that's something to appreciate. The story is engaging, and should even draw in the adults. Easily, the films best qualities are the superb animated, this was easily one of the best looking animated films I've seen in some time. The fight scenes between the owls, were standard Snyder, slow motion sequences mixed with some great visuals. While they sometimes feel a little forced in his other movies, in this one they didn't. They really felt like something that other animated movies should aspire to live up to.
Guardians was met with mixed reviews and didn't make a ton of money at the box office, which is a real shame considering much worse animated movies (like the Smurfs!) made far more money and were pieces of shit compared to this one. So while we get to have multiple Smurf and Alvin and the Chipmunk movies, we get to have only one Guardian movie which was does potentially set up for a sequel that will sadly never come.
Highly recommended.
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