Though this wasn't my first choice to watch, I highly enjoyed Rise of the Guardians

Rating: 9/10 (29 November 2012)

Though I'm an animation fan, I wasn't all intent on seeing this movie until a few weeks into December but my movie theatre-working friend had some time off after 5 today and wanted to see something soon after that since he wanted to be home in time for tonight's Saints game against the Atlanta Falcons (I left his house after half time when New Orleans was beaten 17-7). Anyway, I loved this take on the holiday characters with Santa (or North as he's referred here) is depicted as Russian and the Easter Bunny is Austrailian with an attitude (he's the only one I recognized by voice as Hugh Jackman was so familiar to me). And the way the Jack Frost character was initially reluctant before eventually agreeing to join was well handled. Nice mixture of laughs, scariness, and sentiment throughout and me and my friend both highly enjoyed it. So on that note, yes, that's a recommendation of Rise of the Guardians. P.S. It's now a few hours later and I just found out the final score was 23-13, Atlanta.