The most impressive thing about the Legend of the Guardians: the Owls of Ga'Hoole happens in the first few seconds: they hunt a mouse. Kill it and eat it and they are still the good guys. I liked that very much. When was the last time a hunter was a good guy? One that showed themselves to be a hunter. You never saw Simba eat anything but bugs, the hyenas ate a leg of zebra. Or a predator why hadn't tried to turn over a 'new leaf' and not be predators? I cannot think of one other example, myself.
This set a stage for a unique animated, computer-generated movie. It doesn't quite live up to staying so unique, but it is still quite an entertaining movie. Better than most, but doesn't match How to Train Your Dragon just because of humor. The Owls of Ga'Hoole is not as specifically funny. It has jokes, cleaver ones that fit the circumstance, but that's not what it is about.
Legend of the Guardians is an epic fantasy and it's "A Hoot". It is good enough that I want to read the books now. Of which there are 15... written in 5 years. But more than that, and more important to me, it breaks the need in our movie industry to make pro-war rhetoric. War isn't 'fun' and shouldn't have that much glamor. The soldiers who graduated alive from The Great War knew this and it was called "That Old Lie". We seem to have completely forgotten that by now. Legends of Ga'Hoole isn't very vocally opposed, it shows war as fun and glamorous, but it includes one good speech to the contrary, which I appreciated.
Even if it did evoke nauseating memories of 300's speed-up then slow-down fight scenes.
This set a stage for a unique animated, computer-generated movie. It doesn't quite live up to staying so unique, but it is still quite an entertaining movie. Better than most, but doesn't match How to Train Your Dragon just because of humor. The Owls of Ga'Hoole is not as specifically funny. It has jokes, cleaver ones that fit the circumstance, but that's not what it is about.
Legend of the Guardians is an epic fantasy and it's "A Hoot". It is good enough that I want to read the books now. Of which there are 15... written in 5 years. But more than that, and more important to me, it breaks the need in our movie industry to make pro-war rhetoric. War isn't 'fun' and shouldn't have that much glamor. The soldiers who graduated alive from The Great War knew this and it was called "That Old Lie". We seem to have completely forgotten that by now. Legends of Ga'Hoole isn't very vocally opposed, it shows war as fun and glamorous, but it includes one good speech to the contrary, which I appreciated.
Even if it did evoke nauseating memories of 300's speed-up then slow-down fight scenes.
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