Rise of the Guardians is the avengers of holidays

Rating: 5/10 (2 December 2012)

"When you put all these childhood legends together in one film some of the tension works but when it takes the dramatic turn it turns into an OK film"
Based on the William Joyce series of books this film just throws you into the universe and not tell us much about the characters. It is almost a continuation of the books than an adaptation. Jack Frost (Chris Pine) has been frost for hundreds of years and kids do not believe in him leaving him invisible. When he chosen as a a guardian along with North (Alec Baldwin), Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman), Tooth (Isla Fisher) and the Sandman. They all must fight together when Pitch Black (Jude Law) has become fed up with being unknown like Jack so try's to put the world into pure darkness and fear.
The film mainly is about Jack Frost and his journey to be accepted by children and his fellow guardians when some question him being apart of the gang. Jack is an interesting character and near the end of the film after having a mystery of his past we learn about how he became who he was and I did not like the direction they took to tell his past because I did not believe it was entirely interesting. The story can be boring at times but it is backed up by some great animation images mainly in the way the design of sand either dark or light is great to see because it just moves so well on the screen. Each of the characters has their own separate design and I like the way these well known characters have been given such different personalities especially with an Australian Bunny and Russian Santa.
Chris Pine voices Jack Frost and he is fine. He is the centre of the film and because he does a fine job that is my overall image of the movie because the character of Jack just was not as entertaining as his fellow characters who add some light moments to this tale. Alec Baldwin choose to give Santa a Russian accent and even though it's different I just did not like where the character went because he started off interesting but near the end he just became a fighter and most of Alec's voice is just Russian noises not words. Hugh Jackman adds the comedy to the film as the Bunny with an Australian accent. He usually gets the one liners and Jackman sells them so well. Jude Law voices the villain of the film and he is OK as a British voiced villain but the character seemed just to one note to me because his start and end just did turned me off him.
The film overall relied on it's images to get me through this standard tale of evil versus good. The only difference is that we are looking at some of our favourite childhood legends fighting against evil. My favourite part was when Sandy was on screen but he goes away for some time only coming back near the end and during his absence I found it hard to watch this film as it mostly revolved around Jack Frost.
MOVIE GRADE: D (MVP: Hugh Jackman)