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David HirschfelderCast:
Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, David Wenham, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Helen Mirren, Miriam Margolyes, Bill Hunter, Sam Neill, Anthony LaPaglia, Essie Davis (more)VOD (2)
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Acclaimed filmmaker Zack Snyder makes his animation debut with “Guardians of Ga’Hoole,” based on the beloved books by Kathryn Lasky. The film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father’s epic stories of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion, and yearns to hunt, fly and steal his father’s favor from his younger sibling. But Kludd’s jealousy has terrible consequences - causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones. Now it is up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave young owls. Together they soar across the sea and through the mist to find the Great Tree, home of the legendary Guardians of Ga’Hoole - Soren’s only hope of defeating the Pure Ones and saving the owl kingdoms. (official distributor synopsis)
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It must be the first time that a wonderful trailer made me look forward to an animation film and the result could not be other than disappointment. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole would be very good if it was consistent. It’s a very dark fantasy where evil owls use an almost Nazi rhetoric on the one hand, but on the other, it’s a childish family movie with cute plush animals. Hmm. Visually, it’s beautiful, but I wasn’t a fan of the random switch between one mode and the other, though the darker passages were a lot of fun. The rating is 7/10, but in this case, four stars would be too much, so three.
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This film features the action of 300, the epicness of The Lord of the Rings, and the childish humor of all sorts of cartoons. However, you just can't get everything done in ninety minutes, so the originally planned animated event of the year remains only a technological treat (will there be an Oscar?) that works in HD for the eye but SD for the brain. I wouldn't take the kids to see it but the adults. Snyder was quite off with this one. I give it a weaker three stars.
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Nice animation, and I liked the soundtrack at one point. But otherwise? NOPE. Maybe I'm squeamish, but I absolutely hated the owls fighting with each other. Plus it was such an infantile story, boilerplate characters, weird ambitions and goals, even the motivations of the protagonists and antagonists. I didn't like it. There are thousands and thousands of other and better cartoons out there. A weak 2 stars.
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A classic epic fantasy about rebellion against a Fascist system. Full of slow-motion shots of cute owls flirting and performing kids pranks for a whole hour and a half. And unfortunately a whole lot of that fits in. The result is a pastiche that entertains nobody. Thanks to its brilliant audiovisual qualities, it is at least watchable and, thanks to certain scenes playing at regular fantasy without any compromises for the youngest viewers, this movie is bearable, but enjoyable... No, unfortunately not.
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There aren't many animations that one would sometimes hear odes about and other times absolute damnation. "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" is exactly such a movie. There are voices that damn it and others that absolutely adore it. I tend to lean towards the more positive ones because I quite enjoyed the film. It's not a particularly new story, but it's presented with love for animated movies and children. That's what I liked about it.
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