Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole Review

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole


Release Date: 30th September 2010 - Australia


Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures (presents)
Village Roadshow Pictures (in association with)
Animal Logic

Distribution
Roadshow Films


Genre: Animation/Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 97 minutes


Budget: $80,000,000

Box Office Gross: $140,073,390 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
Soren is a young barn owl amazed by his father's tales of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, a mythic group of winged protectors who fought to save all owl-kind from the evil Pure Ones. While learning to fly, Soren and his brother Kludd get taken by the Pure Ones, who plan to turn young owlets into soldiers. Only Soren escapes from their grasp with the help of the other brave owls. They

must journey to find the

Guardians and their home,

the Great Tree.

Voice Cast
Jim Sturgess - Soren
Emily Barclay - Gylfie
David Wenham - Digger
Anthony LaPaglia - Twlight
Joel Edgerton - Metal Beak
Helen Mirren - Nyra
Ryan Kwanten - Kludd
Hugo Weaving - Noctus/

Grimble
Essie Davis - Marella
Leigh Whannell - Jatt
Angus Sampson - Jutt
Miriam Margolyes - Mrs. Plithiver
Barry Otto - The Echidna
Richard Roxburgh - Boron
Deborra-Lee Furness - Barran
Geoffrey Rush - Ezylryb
Sam Neill - Allomere
Sacha Horler - Strix Struma
Abbie Cornish - Otulissa
Bill Hunter - Bubo
Gareth Young - Pete

Crew
Director - Zack Snyder
Based on the Novels

"Guardians of Ga'Hoole"/

Executive Producer - Kathryn Lasky

Screenplay - John Orloff and Emil Stern
Associate Producers - Wesley Coller,

Imke Fehrmann and Katrina Peers

Executive Producers - Bruce Berman,

Donald De Line, Christopher DeFaria,

Deborah Snyder and Lionel Wigram
Producer - Zareh Nalbandian
Production Designer - Simon Whiteley
Art Director - Grant Freckleton
Concept Artists and Designers - Tohru Patrick Awa,

Hovig Alahaidovan, Daniel Bavell,

Mark Campbell, Don Ezard, Ravinder Kundi,

Pierre Lorenzi, Dale Mackie, Warren Mahy,

Robert Mason, Nicole Mather, Tim Pyman,

Dan Hee Ryu, Charles Santoso and Vivienne To

Concept Artist and Designer/Story Artist -

Chris Georgiou

Head of Story - Alexs Stadermann

Production Managers - Georgie Uppington,

Kacy McDonald and Amber Naismith

Head of Animation: Animal Logic -

Eric Guaglione
Animation Director - Eric Leighton
Animation Supervisor - Alex Weight

Previs and Lensing Director - David Scott
Digital Supervisors - Ben Gunsberger
and Aidan Sarsfield

Character Supervisor - Damien Gray

Lighting Supervisor - David Welsh
Supervising Character Effects Technical

Director - Graham Hopkins
Compositing Supervisor - Julien Leveugle
Editor - David Burrows

Additional Editors - Matt Villa,

Alicia Gleeson, Ryan Boucher and

Martin Connor

Supervising Sound Editor/Designer/

Re-Recording Mixer - Wayne Pashley

Re-Recording Mixers - Phil Heywood

and Peter Smith
Music - David Hirschfelder

Review
I never begin to describe how LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE was beautiful. In 3D, it was a breathtaking and exciting adventure of a CGI film. It's even more interesting when it's from the same director who brought us hits like 300 and Watchmen. There's nothing wrong with the movie with the storyline or the character development, whereas the other critics have panned it. The animation is visually impressive and lifelike, along with other brilliant aspects of the film, like the cinematography, fighting movements and voice acting.

I'm very passionate about LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS, and while this dark animated picture isn't Animal Logic's strongest follow-up to Happy Feet. The film has a lot of value inside and is considerably enjoyable for moviegoers who will be astonished by this movie.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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