Rise of the Guardians (2012) Movie | Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin & Hugh Jackman | Review & Facts
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produced by Dreamworks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures the film was directed by Peter Ramsey in his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by David Lindsay AAR based on the book series The Guardians of Childhood and the short film The Man in the Moon by William Joyce it stars the voices of Chris Pine Alec Baldwin Jude law isisa Fisher and Hugh Jackman the film tells a story about Guardian Santa Claus the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny and the Sandman who enlist Jack Frost to stop the evil Pitch Black from engulfing the world in darkness in a fight of Dreams Rise of the Guardians was released in the United States on November 21st 2012 the film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences but despite grossing 36.9 million worldwide against a budget of $145 million it was a disappointment at the box office and lost the studio an estimated $87 million due to marketing and distribution costs it was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for best animated feature film and the Annie Award for best animated feature it was the last Dreamworks Animation film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures starting with the crudes in 2013 20th Century Fox would distribute DreamWorks films until Captain Underpants the first Epic movie in 2017 until the release of Ruby Gilman teenage Kraken in 2023 Rise of the Guardians was previously DreamWorks animation’s biggest box office bomb plot Jack Frost emerges from a frozen pond with amnesia and finds himself invisible to the Mortal realm three centuries later The Man in the Moon alerts Nicholas St north of the Resurgence of pitch black who threatens to unleash nightmares upon children North rallies his fellow Guardians e ASA bunnymund Sanderson mans nuzi and toana and they discover that Jack has been chosen to join their ranks transported to the North Pole Jack is told by North that every Guardian has a center which is something they Foster in children Jack knows nothing of his Center and resists the call to become a guardian while visiting tooth’s Palace Jack learns that every baby tooth holds the childhood memories of its owner pitch kidnaps tooth subordinate fairies and steals all of the teeth reducing children’s belief in tooth to counter pitch’s plan the other Guardians and Jack embark on a mission to collect teeth from children themselves in their Quest they visit jimie Bennett a young boy who still clinging to his belief sees all of them except for Jack on their way back to the North Pole pitch’s nightmares attack the Guardians and Pitch kills Sandy with Easter approaching the Guardians travel to Bunny’s Warren and assist in the egg coloring preparations Jack is lured to pitch’s Lair where he finds his teeth pitch distracts Jack long enough for the nightmares to destroy all the eggs causing children to stop believing in bunny ashamed Jack flees to Antarctica where pitch breaks his magic staff and throws him into a chasm unlocking the memories inside his teeth Jack learns that he was once a human who sacrificed himself to save his younger sister inspired he repairs his staff and rescues the kidnapped fairies due to pitch every child in the world has stopped believing except Jaimie drastically weakening the Guardians finding Jaime’s belief wavering Jack makes it snow in his room causing Jaime to be the first person to believe in him jack realizes that his Center IS F and uses it to gather Jaime’s friends play and diminish Their Fear leading to renewed belief that bolsters the Guardians and resurrects Sandy the children’s dreams prove stronger than the nightmares who turn on pitch and drag him to the underworld Jack finally accepts his place as the guardian of fun cast and characters Chris Pine as Jack Frost the spirit of winter Jack is a teenage Helen who enjoys creating mischief and has no interest in being bound by rules or obligations he just wants to use his staff to spread his winter magic for the sake of fun but also wants to be believed in Via his staff he possesses potent cryokinesis at the end of the film Jack became the guardian of fun Alec Baldwin is Nicholas St North Santa Claus the leader of the Guardians and the guardian of Wonder he lives at the North Pole in the ice castle and is served by loyal North Pole natives the yetis who built the castle and workshop and the Christmas elves he has a Russian accent culture Persona resembling dead moros Jude lore is Pitch Black Boogeyman the guardian of fear and the nightmare King he has dark hair and wears a black cloak despite being the literal embodiment of Terror ironically at the resolution he is scared of his own nightmares after being forgotten islafisher as toothiana Tooth Fairy called tooth for short the guardian of memories tooth is part human and part hummingbird Loosely resembling a kinari assisted by many fairies that are split off extensions of herself she collects the children’s teeth which hold their most precious memories tooth stores them in her Palace and returns memories when they are needed the most Hugh Jackman as e ASA bunnymund and Easter bunny called bunny for short the keeper and bringer of Easter eggs and guardian of Hope he shares Jackman’s Australian accent sanman is the guardian of dreams and the oldest of the Guardians being the first Guardian chosen by the Man in the Moon he doesn’t speak but communicates through sand images that he conjures above his head Dakota Goyo is Jamie Bennett a child who has not given up on believing in the Guardians Georgie grieve is Sophie Bennett Jaime’s little sister Jacob bertron as Monty domini grund as cupcake Olivia mat ly as Mary Jack’s sister production in 2005 William Joyce and real FX launched a joint venture asworth amusements to produce CG animated feature films one of which was set to be the Guardians of Childhood based on Joyce’s idea the film was not realized but they did create a short animated film The Man in the Moon directed by Joyce which introduced the Guardians idea and served as an inspiration for the film early in 2008 Joyce sold the film rights to Dreamworks Animation after the studio assured him it would respect his vision for the characters and that he would be involved with the creative process in November 2009 it was revealed that DreamWorks had hired Peter Ramsey to make his feature debut as director of what was then titled the Guardians and playright David Linds AAR to write the script Lindsay AAR previously co-wrote the screenplay for robots which Joyce previously produced the next month Leonardo DiCaprio was announced to make his animated feature film debut as the lead character of the film tentatively titled the Guardians Jack Frost Joyce acted as a co-director for the first few years but left this position after the death of his daughter Mary Katherine who died from complications relating to her brain cancer positive diagnosis in May 2010 Joyce continued to work on the film only as an executive producer while Ramsey took the helm solo as a full-time director making him the first African-American to direct a big budget CG animated film as well as making it one of the first DreamWorks films to have only one director instead of two and not have a co-director as with some previous DreamWorks films Giller model tooro came on board to join Joyce as an executive producer present almost from the beginning he was able to help shape the story character design theme and structure of the film he said he was proud that the filmmakers were making parts of the film dark and Moody and poetic and expressed hope this might set a different tone for family movies for entertainment movies the final title Rise of the Guardians was announced in early 2011 along with the First cast Roger deacons the cinematographer who had already worked on the previous DreamWorks film how to Train Your Dragon advised on the lighting to achieve its real look he selected photographic references for color keys and during the production gave notes on contrast saturation depth of field and light intensity the film contains a lot of special effects particularly the volumetric particles for depicting Sandman and pitch for this Dreamworks Animation developed open VDB a more efficient tool and format for manipulating and storing volume data like smoke and other amorphous materials open VDB had been already used on Puss in Boots and Madagascar 3 Europe’s Most Wanted and was released in August 2012 for free as an open-source project with a hope to become an industry standard although the film is based on Joy’s book series it contains differences from the books the book series begun in 2011 explains the origins of the characters while the film takes place about 300 years after the books and shows how the characters function in present time Joyce explained because I don’t want people to read the book and then go see the movie and go oh I like the book better and I also didn’t want them to know what happens in the movie and I also knew that during the progress of Film Production a lot of things can change so I wanted to have a sort of distance so we were able to invoke the books and use them to help us figure out the world of the movie but I didn’t want them to be openly competitive to each other the idea for the Guardians came from Joyce’s daughter who asked him if he thought Santa Claus had ever met the Easter Bunny the film includes a dedication to her as well as song Still dream sung over the end credits originally the film was set to be released on November 2nd 2012 but Dreamworks Animation pushed the film to November 21st 2012 to avoid comp competition with Pixar’s upcoming film Monsters University which in turn had been pushed to November 2nd 2012 to avoid competition with the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn part two Monsters University was then pushed to June 21st 2013 with Disney’s record Ralph taking its place box office Rise of the Guardians grossed 103.4 million in the United States and Canada and 23.5 million in other countries for a worldwide total of 36.9 million in North America the film opened to $ 32.3 million over its extended 5-day weekend and with $23.8 million over the 3-day weekend it reached fourth place behind the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn part two Skyfall and Lincoln the film’s opening was the lowest debut for a Dreamworks Animation film since Flushed Away while the film did gross more than double of its $145 million budget it still did not turn a profit for Dreamworks Animation due to its high distribution and marketing costs forcing the studio to take an $87 million write down this marked the first time that the studio had lost money on an animated film since Sinbad legend of the seven se’s as a result of this combined with other factors in February 2013 the Studio announced it was laying off 350 employees as part of a companywide restructuring here’s a quick quiz for you what does Jack Frost look like young or old I confess I’ve never had a mental image of Jack in fact until seeing Rise of the Guardians I never gave him any thought at all the kids around me at a preview screening seemed more expert perhaps because they know the inspiration for the film William Joyce’s book series Guardians of Childhood in those books unread by me Joyce imagines a Loosely knit Avengers style Federation of the Guardians of Childhood most of them are famous Santa Claus the Easter Bunny the Tooth Fairy the Sandman and so on Jack Frost’s reputation suffers sadly in comparison voiced in the film by Chris Pine he finds himself literally invisible when he visits Earth people are able to walk right through him since he is a spritely boy he finds this depressing although many kids have probably felt the same way why is this so the Man in the Moon never explained it to him the man in the moon functions in the story as sort of a symbolic nature God who never does anything but shine enigmatically in the sky this is a hyperkinetic 3D action comedy with the characters forever racing on Santa’s sleigh hurtling down choots and zooming through tunnels that rework the same 3D illusion iions over and over again the characters aren’t all referred to by what we might call their Earth names and we get such as North a broad shouldered Santa voice of Alec Baldwin tooth the fairy Isa fiser and Bunny Hugh Jackman there’s also a villain called pitch by others and sometimes resentfully the Boogeyman by himself this dastardly fiend voice of Jude Law is envisioned as all Darkness teeth and Claws determined to put the Guardians out of business in this moment of Crisis the team calls on Jack Frost to lead their resistance and in the process he inevitably redeems himself becomes visible and achieves a personal Victory now we know what he looks like I was reminded of Peter Pan although he isn’t green there’s an audience for this film it’s not me I gather younger children will like the break neck action the magical ability to fly and the young hero who has tired of only being a name their parents and older siblings may find the 89 minute running time quite long enough still let it be said that director Peter Ramsey and his art team have created a crisp colorful fantasy world sharper edged than many featurelength children’s cartoons especially fetching the tooth’s countless followers called baby teeth bunnies ranks upon ranks of Easter eggs and pitches scary manifestations I thought by the end of the picture pitch had earned some sort of redemption but I guess he goes back to wherever pitch has come from I just saw this movie for the first time recently I vividly remember when this movie came out and it seemed like animation’s response to the Avengers seriously I really wasn’t all that interested with the marketing of this film and I didn’t do my research however I recently heard the plot of this movie and it sounded cool all of these mythological Hol characters in one movie yeah that sounds cool so how is the movie it’s good it’s very entertaining and it’s just fun the very best thing about the movie is the world I loved that this movie is just running with the fantasy element from the first scene in the movie I felt like a child in school listening to a really fun story I also really enjoyed the characters even though they don’t really share the wealth we’ll talk about that later though I really loved Hugh Jackman as the Easter Bunny I think that was very clever casting and I also really liked Alec Baldwin as North I thought that these were really fun takes on classic characters also I was really into pitch black Jude Law was really awesome as a bad guy because he actually sounds Sinister I was a fan of his backstory and just how bad he was this film also spoilers has a very solid third act when the kid sees Jack Frost I was actually tearing up a little I also had a lot of fun fun cheering on the heroes in their climactic battle spoiler end now let’s talk about some issues that I have unfortunately my biggest flaw with this film is pretty big Chris Pine is the voice of Jack Frost Frost is supposed to be a rebellious teen but he has a deep husky voice yeah it grows on you but I never believed that voice and it was very distracting most people that I have spoken to have agreed with me I would like a sequel but if they plan on keeping Pine they should age the character like 12 Years also none of the things that the Guardians hold dear don’t seem to match I don’t think the Easter Bunny is very hopeful I don’t understand the tooth Fair much and I don’t get that sense of wonder from Father Christmas sure they each have a minute or two where they really display this but it doesn’t carry throughout the whole movie very much however the dialogue makes these characters very fun to watch lastly The Man in the Moon the movie Never explains this is it a DreamWorks joke is this a famous Legend what is it at the end of the day this is a really fun movie pop this in when you’re with the family and you’ll have a good time Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 American animated fantasy action adventure film produced by Dreamworks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures the film was directed by Peter Ramsey in his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by by David Lindsay AAR based on the book series The Guardians of Childhood and the short film The Man in the Moon by William Joyce it stars the voices of Chris Pine Alec Baldwin Jude Law eisa Fisher and Hugh Jackman the film tells a story about Guardian Santa Claus the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny and the Sandman who enlist Jack Frost to stop the evil Pitch Black from engulfing the world in darkness in a fight of Dreams Rise of the Guardians was released in the United States on November 21st 2012 the film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences but despite grossing 36.9 million worldwide against a budget of $145 million it was a disappointment at the box office and lost the studio an estimated $87 million due to marketing and distribution costs it was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for best animated feature film and the Annie Award for best animated feature it was the last Dreamworks Animation film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures starting with the crudes in 2013 20th Century Fox would distribute DreamWorks films until Captain Underpants the first Epic movie in 2017 until the release of Ruby Gilman teenage Kraken in 2023 Rise of the Guardians was previously dreamor Works animation’s biggest box office bomb plot Jack Frost emerges from a frozen pond with amnesia and finds himself invisible to the Mortal realm three centuries later The Man in the Moon alerts Nicholas St north of the Resurgence of pitch black who threatens to unleash nightmares upon children North rallies his fellow Guardians e ASA bunnyman Sanderson Mansi and toana and they discover that Jack has been chosen to join the their ranks transported to the North Pole Jack is told by North that every Guardian has a center which is something they Foster in children Jack knows nothing of his Center and resists the call to become a guardian while visiting tooth’s Palace Jack learns that every baby tooth holds the childhood memories of its owner pitch kidnaps tooth subordinate fairies and steals all of the teeth reducing children’s belief in tooth to counter pitch’s plan the other gu Guardians and Jack embark on a mission to collect teeth from children themselves in their Quest they visit Jamie Bennett a young boy who’s still clinging to his belief sees all of them except for Jack on their way back to the North Pole pitch’s nightmares attack the Guardians and Pitch kills Sandy with Easter approaching the Guardians travel to Bunny’s Warren and assist in the egg coloring preparations Jack is lured to pitch his lair where he finds his teeth pitch distracts Jack long enough for the nightmares to destroy all the eggs causing children to stop believing in bunny ashamed Jack flees to Antarctica where pitch breaks his magic staff and throws him into a Chasm unlocking the memories inside his teeth Jack learns that he was once a human who sacrificed himself to save his younger sister inspired he repairs his staff and rescues the kidnapped fairies due to pitch every child in the world has stopped believing except Jamie drastically weakening the Guardians finding jae’s belief wavering Jack makes it snow in his room causing jaim to be the first person to believe in him jack realizes that his Center is fun and uses it to gather Jaime’s friends play and diminish Their Fear leading to renewed belief that bolsters the Guardians and resurrects Sandy the children’s dreams prove stronger than the nightmares who turn on pitch and drag him to the underworld Jack finally accepts his place as the guardian of fun cast and characters Chris Pine as Jack Frost the spirit of winter Jack is a teenage Helen who enjoys creating mischief and has no interest in being bound by rules or obligations he just wants to use his staff to spread his winter magic for the sake of fun but also wants to be believed in Via his staff he possesses potent cryokinesis at the end of the film Jack became the guardian of fun Alec Baldwin is Nicholas St North Santa Claus the leader of the Guardians and the guardian of Wonder he lives at the North Pole in the ice castle and is served by loyal North Pole natives the yetis who built the castle and workshop and the Christmas elves he has a Russian accent culture Persona resembling dead moros Jude lore is Pitch Black Boogeyman the guardian of fear and the nightmare King he has dark hair and wears a black cloak despite being the literal embodiment of Terror ironically at the resolution he is scared of his own nightmares after being forgotten islafisher as toothiana Tooth Fairy called tooth for short the guardian of memories tooth is part human and part hummingbird Loosely resembling a kinari assisted by many fairies that are split off extensions of herself she collects the children’s teeth which hold their most precious memories tooth stores them in her Palace and returns memories when they are needed the most Hugh Jackman as e ASA bunnymund and Easter bunny called bunny for short the keeper and bringer of Easter eggs and guardian of hope he shares Jackman’s Australian accent Sandman is the guardian of dreams and the oldest of the Guardians being the first Guardian chosen by the Man in the Moon he doesn’t speak but communicates through sand images that he conjures above his head Dakota Goyo is was Jamie Bennett a child who has not given up on believing in the Guardians Georgie grieve is Sophie Bennett Jaime’s little sister Jacob bertron as Monty Domin grund as cupcake Olivia mattingley as Mary Jack’s sister production in 2005 William Joyce and real FX launched a joint venture asworth amusements to produce CG animated feature films one of which was set to be the Guardians of Childhood based on Joyce’s idea the film was not realized but they did create a short animated film The Man in the Moon directed by Joyce which introduced the Guardians idea and served as an inspiration for the film early in 2018 Joyce sold the film rights to Dreamworks Animation after the studio assured him it would respect his vision for the characters and that he would be involved with the creative process in November 2009 it was revealed that DreamWorks had hired Peter Ramsey to make his feature debut as director of what was then titled the Guardians and playright David Linds abar to write the script Lindsay abar previously co-wrote the screenplay for robots which Joyce previously produced the next month Leonardo DiCaprio was announced to make his animated feature film debut as the lead character of the film tentatively titled the Guardians Jack Frost Joyce acted as a co-director for the first few years but left this position after the death of his daughter Mary Katherine who died from complications relating to her brain cancer positive diagnosis in May 2010 Joyce continued to work on the film only as an executive producer while Ramsey took the helm solo as a full-time director making him the first African-American to direct a big budget CG animated film as well as making it one of the first DreamWorks films to have only one director instead of two and not have a co-director as with some previous DreamWorks films Giller mod Del Toro came on board to join Joyce as an executive producer present almost from the beginning he was able to help shape the story character design theme and structure of the film he said he was proud that the filmmakers were making parts of the film dark and Moody and poetic and expressed hope this might set a different tone for family movies for entertainment movies the final title Rise of the Guardians was announced in early 2011 along with the First cast Roger deacons the cinematographer who had already worked on the previous DreamWorks film How to Train Your Dragon advised on the lighting to achieve its real look he selected photographic references for color keys and during the production gave notes on contrast saturation depth of field and light intensity the film contains a lot of special effects particularly the volumetric particles for depicting Sandman and pitch for this Dreamworks Animation developed open VDB a more efficient tool and format for manipulating and storing volume data like smoke and other amorphous materials open VDB had been already used on Puss in Boots in Madagascar 3 Europe’s Most Wanted and was released in August 2012 for free as an open-source project with a hope to become an industry standard although the film is based on Joyce’s book series it contains differences from the books the book series begun in 2011 explains the origins of the characters while the film takes place about 300 years after the books and shows how the characters function in present time Joyce explained because I don’t want people to read the book and then go see the movie and go oh I like the book better and I also didn’t want them to know what happens in the movie and I also knew that during the progress of Film Production a lot of things can change so I wanted to have a sort of distance so we were able to invoke the books and use them to help us figure out the world of the movie but I didn’t want them to be openly competitive to each other the idea for the Guardians came from Joyce’s daughter who asked him if he thought Santa Claus had ever met the Easter Bunny the film includes a dedication to her as well as song Still dream sung over theend credits originally the film was set to be released on November 2nd 2012 but Dreamworks Animation pushed the film to November 21st 2012 to avoid competition with Pixar’s upcoming film Monsters University which in turn had been pushed to November 2nd 2012 to avoid competition with the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn part two Monsters University was then pushed to June 21st 2013 with Disney’s wet Ralph taking its place box office Rise of the Guardians grossed 103.4 million in the United States and Canada and 23.5 million in other countries for a worldwide total of 36.9 million in North America the film opened to $ 32.3 million over its extended 5-day weekend and with $23.8 million over the 3-day weekend reached fourth place behind the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn part two Skyfall and Lincoln the film’s opening was the lowest debut for a Dreamworks Animation film since flushed away while the film did gross more than double of its $145 million budget it still did not turn a profit for Dreamworks Animation due to its high distribution and marketing costs forcing the studio to take an $87 million write down the this marked the first time that the studio had lost money on an animated film since Sinbad legend of the seven C’s as a result of this combined with other factors in February 2013 the studio announced it was laying off 350 employees as part of a companywide restructuring here’s a quick quiz for you what does Jack Frost look like young or old I confess I’ve never had a mental image of Jack in fact until seeing Rise of the Guardians I never gave him any thought at all the kids around me at a preview screening seemed more expert perhaps because they know the inspiration for the film William Joyce’s book series Guardians of Childhood in those books unread by me Joyce imagines a Loosely knit Avengers style Federation of the Guardians of Childhood most of them are famous Santa Claus the Easter Bunny the Tooth Fairy the Sandman and so on Jack Frost’s reputation suffers sadly in comparison voiced in the film by Chris Pine he finds himself literally invisible when he visits Earth people are able to walk right through him since he is a sprightly boy he finds this depressing although many kids have probably felt the same way why is this so the Man in the Moon never explained it to him the man in the moon functions in the story as sort of a symbolic nature God who never does anything but shine shine enigmatically in the sky this is a hyperkinetic 3D action comedy with the characters forever racing on Santa’s sleigh hurtling down choots and zooming through tunnels that rework the same 3D illusions over and over again the characters aren’t all referred to by what we might call their Earth names and we get such as North a broad shouldered Santa voice of Alec Baldwin tooth the fairy Isela Fischer and Bunny Hugh Jackman there’s also a villain called pitch by others and sometimes resentfully the Boogeyman by himself this dastardly fiend voice of Jude Law is envisioned as all Darkness teeth and Claws determined to put the Guardians out of business in this moment of Crisis the team calls on Jack Frost to lead their resistance and in the process he inevitably redeems himself becomes visible and achieves a personal Victory now we know what he looks like I was reminded of Peter Pan although he isn’t green and there’s an audience for this film it’s not me I gather younger children will like the break neck action the magical ability to fly and the young hero who has tired of only being a name their parents and older siblings may find the 89 minute running time quite long enough still let it be said that director Peter Ramsey and his art team have created a crisp colorful fantasy world sharper edged than many featur length children’s cartoons especially fetching the tooth’s countless followers called baby teeth Bunny’s ranks upon ranks of Easter eggs and pitch’s scary manifestations I thought by the end of the picture pitch had earned some sort of redemption but I guess he goes back to wherever pictures come from I just saw this movie for the first time recently I vividly remember when this movie came out and it seemed like animation’s response to the Avengers seriously I really wasn’t all that interested with the marketing of this film and I didn’t do my research however I recently heard the plot of this movie and it sounded cool all of these mythological holiday characters in one movie yeah that sounds cool so how is the movie it’s good it’s very entertaining and it’s just fun the very best thing about the movie is the world I loved that this movie is just running with the fantasy element from the first scene in the movie I felt like a child in school listening to a really fun story I also really enjoyed the characters even though they don’t really share the wealth we’ll talk about that later though I really loved Hugh Jackman as the Easter Bunny I think that was very clever casting and I also really liked Alec Baldwin as North I thought that these were really fun takes on classic characters also I was really into pitch black Jude Law was really awesome as a bad guy because he actually sounds Sinister I was a fan of his backstory and just how bad he was this film also spoilers has a very solid third act when the kid sees Jack Frost I was actually tearing up a little I also had a lot of fun cheering on the heroes in their climactic battle spoiler end now let’s talk about some issues that I have unfortunately my biggest flaw with this film is pretty big Chris Pine is the voice of Jack Frost Frost is supposed to be a rebellious teen but he has a deep husky voice yeah it grows on you but I never believed that voice and it was very distracting most people that I have spoken to have agreed with me I would like a sequel but if they plan on keeping Pine they should age the character like 12 Years also none of the things that the Guardians hold dear don’t seem to match I don’t think the Easter Bunny is very hopeful I don’t understand the Tooth Fairy much and I don’t get that sense of wonder from Father Christmas sure they each have a minute or two where they really display this but it doesn’t carry throughout the whole movie very much however the dialogue makes these characters very fun to watch lastly The Man in the Moon the movie Never explains this is it a DreamWorks joke is this a famous Legend what is it at the end of the day this is a really fun movie pop this in when you’re with the family and you’ll have a good time Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 American animated fantasy action adventure film produced by Dreamworks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures the film was directed by Peter Ramsey in his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by David Lindsay AAR based on the book series The Guardians of Childhood and the short film The Man in the Moon by William Joyce it stars the voices of Chris Pine Alec Baldwin Jude Law eisa Fisher and Hugh Jackman the film tells a story about Guardian Santa Claus the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny and the Sandman who enlist Jack Frost to stop the evil Pitch Black from engulfing the world in darkness in a fight of Dreams Rise of the Guardians was released in the United States on November 21st 2012 the film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences but despite grossing 36.9 million worldwide against a budget of 145 million it was a disappointment at the box office and lost the studio an estimated 87 million dolls due to marketing and distribution costs it was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for best animated feature film and the Annie Award for best animated feature it was the last Dreamworks Animation film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures starting with the crudes in 2013 20th Century Fox would distribute DreamWorks films until Captain Underpants the first Epic movie in 2017 until the release of Ruby Gilman teenage Kraken in 2023 Rise of the Guardians was previously DreamWorks animation’s biggest box office bomb plot Jack Frost emerges from a frozen pond with amnesia and finds himself invisible to the Mortal realm three centuries later The Man in the Moon alerts Nicholas St north of the Resurgence of pitch black who threatens to unleash nightmares upon children North rallies his fellow Guardians e ASA bunnymund Sanderson mans nuzi and toana and they discover that Jack has been chosen to join their ranks transported to the North Pole Jack is told by North that every Guardian has a center which is something they Foster in children Jack knows nothing of his Center and resists the call to become a guardian while visiting tooth’s Palace Jack learns that every baby tooth holds the childhood memories of its owner pitch kidnaps tooth subordinate fairies and steals all of the teeth reducing children’s belief in tooth to counter pitch’s plan the other Guardians and Jack embark on a mission to collect teeth from children themselves in their Quest they visit jimie Bennett a young boy who still clinging to his belief sees all of them except for Jack on their way back to the North Pole pitch’s nightmares attack the Guardians and Pitch kills Sandy with Easter approaching the Guardians travel to Bunny’s Warren and assist in the egg coloring preparations Jack is lured to pitch’s Lair where he finds his teeth pitch distracts Jack long enough for the nightmares to destroy all the eggs causing children to stop believing in bunny ashamed Jack flees to Antarctica where pitch breaks his magic staff and throws him into a Chasm unlocking the memories inside his teeth Jack learns that he was once a human who sacrificed himself to save his younger sister inspired he repairs his staff and rescues the kidnapped fairies due to pitch every child in the world has stopped believing except jimie drastically weakening the Guardians finding Jaime’s belief wavering Jack makes it snow in his room causing jaim to be the first person to believe in him jack realizes that his Center is fun and uses it to gather Jaime’s friends play and diminish Their Fear leading to renewed belief that bolsters the Guardians and resurrects Sandy the children’s dreams prove stronger than the nightmares who turn on pitch and drag him to the underworld Jack finally accepts his place as the guardian of fun cast and characters Chris Pine is Jack Frost the spirit of winter Jack is a teenage Helen who enjoys creating mischief and has no interest in being bound by rules or obligations he just wants to use his staff to spread his winter magic for the sake of fun but also wants to be believed in Via his staff he possesses potent cryokinesis at the end of the film Jack became the guardian of fun Alec Baldwin is Nicholas sent North Santa Claus the leader of the Guardians and the guardian of Wonder he lives at the North Pole in the ice castle and is served by loyal North Pole natives the yetis who built the castle and workshop and the elves he has a Russian accent culture Persona resembling dead moros Jude lore is Pitch Black Boogeyman the guardian of fear and the nightmare King he has dark hair and wears a black cloak despite being the literal embodiment of Terror ironically at the resolution he is scared of his own nightmares after being forgotten islafisher as to theana Tooth Fairy called tooth for short the guardian of memories tooth is part part human and part hummingbird Loosely resembling a kinari assisted by many fairies that are split off extensions of herself she collects the children’s teeth which hold their most precious memories tooth stores them in her Palace and returns memories when they are needed the most Hugh Jackman as e Aster bunnymund and Easter bunny called bunny for short the keeper and bringer of Easter eggs and guardian of hope he shares Jackman’s Australian accent sanman is the guardian of dreams and the oldest of the Guardians being the first Guardian chosen by the Man in the Moon he doesn’t speak but communicates through sand images that he conjures above his head Dakota Goyo is Jamie Bennett a child who has not given up on believing in the Guardians Georgie grieve as Sophie Bennett Jaime’s little sister Jacob bertron as Monty Dominique grund as cupcake Olivia mattingley as Mary Jack’s sister prod ction in 2005 William Joyce and real FX launched a joint venture asworth amusements to produce CG animated feature films one of which was set to be the Guardians of Childhood based on Joyce’s idea the film was not realized but they did create a short animated film The Man in the Moon directed by Joyce which introduced the guardian’s idea and served as an inspiration for the film early in 2008 Joyce sold the film rights to Dreamworks Animation after the studio assured him it would respect his vision for the characters and that he would be involved with the creative process in November 2009 it was revealed that DreamWorks had hired Peter Ramsey to make his feature debut as director of what was then titled the Guardians and playright David Lindsay aay to write the script Lindsay AAR previously co-wrote the screenplay for robots which Joyce previously produced the next month Leonardo DiCaprio was announced to make his animated feature film debut as the lead character of the film tentatively titled the Guardians Jack Frost Joyce acted as a co-director for the first few years but left this position after the death of his daughter Mary Katherine who died from complications relating to her brain cancer positive diagnosis in May 2010 Joyce continued to work on the film only as an execu Ive producer while Ramsey took the helm solo as a full-time director making him the first African-American to direct a big budget CG animated film as well as making it one of the first DreamWorks films to have only one director instead of two and not have a co-director as with some previous DreamWorks films Giller mod Del Toro came on board to join Joyce as an executive producer present almost from the beginning he was able to help shape the story character design theme and structure of the film he said he was proud that the filmmakers were making parts of the film dark and Moody and poetic and expressed hope this might set a different tone for family movies for entertainment movies the final title Rise of the Guardians was announced in early 2011 along with the First cast Roger deacons the cinematographer who had already worked on the previous DreamWorks film How to Train Your Dragon advised on the lighting to to achieve its real look he selected photographic references for color keys and during the production gave notes on contrast saturation depth of field and light intensity the film contains a lot of special effects particularly the volumetric particles for depicting Sandman and pitch for this Dreamworks Animation developed open VDB a more efficient tool and format for manipulating and storing volume data like smoke and other office materials open VDB had been already used on Puss in Boots in Madagascar 3 Europe’s Most Wanted and was released in August 2012 for free as an open-source project with a hope to become an industry standard although the film is based on Joy’s book series it contains differences from the books the book series began in 2011 explains the origins of the characters while the film takes place about 300 years after the books and shows know how the characters function in present time Joyce explained because I don’t want people to read the book and then go see the movie and go oh I like the book better and I also didn’t want them to know what happens in the movie and I also knew that during the progress of Film Production a lot of things can change so I wanted to have a sort of distance so we were able to invoke the books and use them to help us figure out the world of the movie but I didn’t want them to be openly competitive to each other the idea for the Guardians came from Joyce’s daughter who asked him if he thought Santa Claus had ever met the Easter Bunny the film includes a dedication to her as well as song Still dream sung over the end credits originally the film was set to be released on November 2nd 2012 but Dreamworks Animation pushed the film to November 21st 2012 to avoid competition with Pixar’s upcoming film Monsters University which in turn had been pushed to November 2nd 2012 to avoid competition with the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn part two Monsters University was then pushed to June 21st 2013 with Disney’s wet Ralph taking its place box office Rise of the Guardians grossed 103.4 million in the United States in Canada and 23.5 million in other countries for a worldwide total of 36.9 million in North America the film opened to $ 32.3 million over its extended 5-day weekend and with $23.8 million over the 3-day weekend it reached fourth place behind the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn part two Skyfall and Lincoln the film’s opening was the lowest debut for a Dreamworks Animation film since flushed away while the film did gross more than double of its $45 million budget it still did not turn a profit for Dreamworks Animation due to its high distribution and marketing costs forcing the studio to take an $87 million write down this marked the first time that the studio had lost money on an animated film since Sinbad legend of the seven C’s as a result of this combined with other factors in February 2013 the studio announced it was laying off 350 emplo employees as part of a companywide restructuring here’s a quick quiz for you what does Jack Frost look like young or old I confess I’ve never had a mental image of Jack in fact until seeing Rise of the Guardians I never gave him any thought at all the kids around me at a preview screening seemed more expert perhaps because they know the inspiration for the film William Joyce’s book series Guardians of Childhood in those books unread by me Joyce imagines a Loosely knit Avengers style Federation of the Guardians of Childhood most of them are famous Santa Claus the Easter Bunny the Tooth Fairy the Sandman and so on Jack Frost’s reputation suffers sadly in comparison voiced in the film by Chris Pine he finds himself literally invisible when he visits Earth people are able to walk right through him since he is a sprightly boy he finds this depressing although although many kids have probably felt the same way why is this so the Man in the Moon never explained it to him the man in the moon functions in the story as sort of a symbolic nature God who never does anything but shine enigmatically in the sky this is a hyperkinetic 3D action comedy with the characters forever racing on Santa’s sleigh hurtling down shoots and zooming through tunnels that rework the same 3D illusions over and over again the character aren’t all referred to by what we might call their Earth names and we get such as North a broad shouldered Santa voice of Alec Baldwin tooth the fairy Isa Fisher and Bunny Hugh Jackman there’s also a villain called pitch by others and sometimes resentfully the Boogeyman by himself this dastardly fiend voice of Jude Law is envisioned as all Darkness teeth and Claws determined to put the Guardians out of business in this moment of Crisis the team calls on Jack Frost to lead their resistance and in the process he inevitably redeems himself becomes visible and achieves a personal Victory now we know what he looks like I was reminded of Peter Pan although he isn’t green and there’s an audience for this film it’s not me I gather younger children will like the break neck action the magical ability to fly and the young hero who has tired of only being a name their parents and older siblings may find the 89 minute running time quite long enough still let it be said that director Peter Ramsey and his art team have created a crisp colorful fantasy world sharper edged than many featurelength children’s cartoons especially fetching the tooth’s countless followers called baby teeth Bunny’s ranks upon ranks of Easter eggs and pitch’s scary manifestations I thought by the end of the picture pitch had earned some sort of redemption but I guess he goes back to wherever pictures come from I just saw this movie for the first time recently I vividly remember when this movie came out and it seemed like animation’s response to the Avengers seriously I really wasn’t all that interested with the marketing of this film and I didn’t do my research however I recently heard the plot of this movie and it sounded cool all of these mythological holiday characters in one movie yeah that sounds cool so how is the movie it’s good it’s very entertaining and it’s just fun the very best thing about the movie is the world I loved that this movie is just running with the fantasy element from the first scene in the movie I felt like a child in school listening to a really fun story I also really enjoyed the characters even though they don’t really share the wealth we’ll talk about that later though I really loved Hugh Jackman as the Easter Bunny I think that was very clever casting and I also really liked Alec Baldwin as North I thought that these were really fun takes on classic characters also I was really into pitch black Jude Law was really awesome as a bad guy because he actually sounds Sinister I was a fan of his backstory and just how bad he was this film also spoilers has a very solid third act when the kid sees Jack Frost I was actually tearing up a little I also had a lot of fun cheering on the heroes in their climactic battle spoiler end now let’s talk about some issues that I have unfortunately my biggest flaw with this film is pretty big Chris Pine is the voice of Jack Frost Frost is supposed to be a rebellious teen but he has a deep husky voice yeah it grows on you but I never believed that voice and it was very distracting most people that I have spoken to have agreed with me I would like a sequel but if they plan on keeping Pine they should age the character like 12 years also none of the things that the Guardians hold dear don’t seem to match I don’t think the Easter Bunny is very hopeful I don’t understand the Tooth Fairy much and I don’t get that sense of wonder from Father Christmas sure they each have a minute or two where they really display this but it doesn’t carry throughout the whole movie very much however the dialogue makes these characters very fun to watch lastly The Man in the Moon the movie Never explains this is it is it a DreamWorks joke is this a famous Legend what is it at the end of the day this is a really fun movie pop this in when you’re with the family and you’ll have a good time Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 American animated fantasy action adventure film produced by Dreamworks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures the film was directed by Peter Ramsey in his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by David Lindsay AAR based on the book series the Guardians of Childhood and the short film The Man in the Moon by William Joyce it stars the voices of Chris Pine Alec Baldwin Jude Law isisa Fischer and Hugh Jackman the film tells a story about Guardians Santa Claus the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny and the Sandman who enlist Jack Frost to stop the evil Pitch Black from engulfing the world in darkness in a fight of Dreams Rise of the Guardians was released in the United States on November 21st 2012 the film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences but despite grossing 36.9 million worldwide against a budget of $145 million it was a disappointment at the box office and lost the studio an estimated $87 million due to marketing and distribution costs it was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for best animated feature film and the Annie award for best animated feature it was the last Dreamworks Animation film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures starting with the crudes in 2013 20th Century Fox would distribute DreamWorks films until Captain Underpants the first Epic movie in 2017 until the release of Ruby Gilman teenage Kraken in 2023 Rise of the Guardians was previously DreamWorks animation’s biggest box office bomb plot Jack Frost emerges from a frozen pond with amnesia and finds himself invisible to the Mortal realm three centuries later The Man in the Moon alerts Nicholas St north of the Resurgence of pitch black who threatens to unleash nightmares upon children North rallies his fellow Guardians e ASA bunnymund Sanderson mans nuzi and toana and they discover that Jack has been chosen to join their ranks transported to the north po Jack is told by North that every Guardian has a center which is something they Foster in children Jack knows nothing of his Center and resists the call to become a guardian while visiting tooth’s Palace Jack learns that every baby tooth holds the childhood memories of its owner pitch kidnaps tooth subordinate fairies and steals all of the teeth reducing children’s belief in tooth to counter pitch’s plan the other Guardians and Jack embark on a mission to collect teeth from children themselves in their Quest they visit Jaimie Bennett a young boy who still clinging to his belief sees all of them except for Jack on their way back to the North Pole pitch’s nightmares attack the Guardians and Pitch kills Sandy with Easter approaching the Guardians travel to Bunny’s Warren and assist in the egg coloring preparations Jack is lured to pitch’s Lair where he finds his teeth pitch distracts Jack long enough for the nightmare to destroy all the eggs causing children to stop believing in bunny ashamed Jack flees to Antarctica where pitch breaks his magic staff and throws him into a Chasm unlocking the memories inside his teeth Jack learns that he was once a human who sacrificed himself to save his younger sister inspired he repairs his staff and rescues the kidnapped fairies due to pitch every child in the world has stopped believing except Jaimie drastically weakening the Guardians finding Jaime’s belief wavering Jack makes it snow in his room causing Jaime to be the first person to believe in him jack realizes that his Center is fun and uses it to gather Jaime’s friends play and diminish Their Fear leading to renewed belief that bolsters the Guardians and resurrects Sandy the children’s dreams prove stronger than the nightmares who turn on pitch and drag him to the underworld Jack finally accepts his place as the guardian of fun cast and characters Chris Pine is Jack Frost the spirit of winter Jack is a teenage Helen who enjoys creating mischief and has no interest in being bound by rules or obligations he just wants to use his staff to spread his winter magic for the sake of fun but also wants to be believed in Via his staff he possesses potent cryokinesis at the end of the film Jack became the guardian of fun Alec Baldwin is Nicholas s North Santa Claus the leader of the Guardians and the guardian of Wonder he lives at the North Pole in the ice castle and is served by loyal North Pole natives the yetis who built the castle and workshop and the Christmas elves he has a Russian accent culture Persona resembling dead moros Jude lore is Pitch Black Boogeyman the guardian of fear and the nightmare King he has dark hair and wears a black cloak despite being the literal embodiment of Terror ironically at the resolution he is scared of his own nightmares after being forgotten islafisher as toothiana Tooth Fairy called tooth for short the guardian of memories tooth is part human and part hummingbird Loosely resembling a kinari assisted by many fairies that are split off extensions of herself she collects the children’s teeth which hold their most precious memories tooth stores them in her Palace and returns memor memories when they are needed the most Hugh Jackman as e Aster bunnymund and Easter bunny called bunny for short the keeper and bringer of Easter eggs and guardian of hope he shares Jackman’s Australian accent Sandman is the guardian of dreams and the oldest of the Guardians being the first Guardian chosen by the Man in the Moon he doesn’t speak but communicates through sand images that he conjures above his head Dakota Goyo is Jamie Bennett a child who has not given up on belie leaving in the Guardians Georgie grieve as Sophie Bennett Jim’s little sister Jacob bertron as Monty Dominique grund as cupcake Olivia mattingley as Mary Jack’s sister production in 2005 William Joyce and real FX launched a joint venture asworth amusements to produce CG animated feature films one of which was set to be the Guardians of Childhood based on Joyce’s idea the film was not not realized but they did create a short animated film The Man in the Moon directed by Joyce which introduced the Guardians idea and served as an inspiration for the film early in 2008 Joyce sold the film rights to Dreamworks Animation after the studio assured him it would respect his vision for the characters and that he would be involved with the creative process in November 2009 it was revealed that DreamWorks had hired Peter Ramsey to make his his featured debut as director of what was then titled the Guardians and playright David Lindsay aay to write the script Lindsay AAR previously co-wrote the screenplay for robots which Joyce previously produced the next month Leonardo DiCaprio was announced to make his animated feature film debut as the lead character of the film tentatively titled the Guardians Jack Frost Joyce acted as a co-director for the first few years but left the position after the death of his daughter Mary Catherine who died from complications relating to her brain cancer positive diagnosis in May 2010 Joyce continued to work on the film only as an executive producer while Ramsey took the helm solo as a full-time director making him the first African-American to direct a big budget CG animated film as well as making it one of the first DreamWorks films to have only one director instead of two and not have a co-director as with some previous DreamWorks films Giller mod Del Toro came on board to join Joyce as an executive producer present almost from the beginning he was able to help shape the story character design theme and structure of the film he said he was proud that the filmmakers were making parts of the film dark and Moody and poetic and expressed hope this might set a different tone for family movies for entertainment movies the final title rise of of the Guardians was announced in early 2011 along with the First cast Roger deacons the cinematographer who had already worked on the previous DreamWorks film How to Train Your Dragon advised on the lighting to achieve its real look he selected photographic references for color keys and during the production gave notes on contrast saturation depth of field and light intensity the film contains a lot of special effects particularly the volumetric part articles for depicting Sandman and pitch for this Dreamworks Animation developed open VDB a more efficient tool and format for manipulating and storing volume data like smoke and other amorphous materials open VDB had been already used on Puss in Boots in Madagascar 3 Europe’s Most Wanted and was released in August 2012 for free as an open- source project with a hope to become an industry standard although the film is based on Joyce’s book series it contains differences from the books the book series begun in 2011 explains the origins of the characters while the film takes place about 300 years after the books and shows how the characters function in present time Joyce explained because I don’t want people to read the book and then go see the movie and go oh I like the book better and I also didn’t want them to know what happens in the movie and I also knew that during the progress of Film Production a lot of things can change so I wanted to have a sort of distance so we were able to invoke the books and use them to help us figure out the world of the movie but I didn’t want them to be openly competitive to each other the idea for the Guardians came from Joyce’s daughter who asked him if he thought Santa Claus had ever met the Easter Bunny the film includes a dedication to her as well as song Still dream sung over the end credits or originally the film was set to be released on November 2nd 2012 but Dreamworks Animation pushed the film to November 21st 2012 to avoid competition with Pixar’s upcoming film Monsters University which in turn had been pushed to November 2nd 2012 to avoid competition with the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn part two moners University was then pushed to June 21st 2013 with Disney’s recet Ralph taking its place box office Rise of the Guardians grossed 103.4 million in the United States and Canada and 23.5 million in other countries for a worldwide total of 36.9 million in North America the film opened to $ 32.3 million over its extended 5-day weekend and with 23.8 million over the 3-day weekend it reached fourth place behind the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn part two Skyfall and Lincoln the film’s opening was the lowest debut for a Dreamworks Animation film since flushed away while the film did gross more than double of its $145 million budget it still did not turn a profit for Dreamworks Animation due to its high distribution and marketing costs forcing the studio to take an $87 million write down this marked the first time that the studio had lost money on an animated film since Sinbad legend of the Seven Seas as a result of this combined with other factors in February 2013 the studio announced it was laying off 350 employees as part of a companywide restructuring here’s a quick quiz for you what does Jack Frost look like young or old I confess I’ve never had a mental image of Jack in fact until seeing Rise of the Guardians I never gave him any thought at all the kids around me at a preview screening seemed more expert perhaps because they know the inspiration for the film William Joyce’s book series Guardians of Childhood in those books unread by me Joyce imagines a Loosely knit Avengers style Federation of the Guardians of Childhood most of them are famous Santa Claus the Easter Bunny the Tooth Fairy the Sandman and so on Jack Frost’s reputation suffers sadly in comparison voiced in the film by Chris Pine he finds himself literally invisible when he visits Earth people are able to walk right through him since he is a sprightly boy he finds this depressing although many kids have probably felt the same way why is this so the Man in the Moon never explained it to him the man in the moon functions in the story as sort of a symbolic nature God who never does anything but shine enigmatically in the sky this is a hyperkinetic 3D action comedy with the characters forever racing on Santa’s sleigh hurtling down shoots and zooming through tunnels that rework the same 3D illusions over and over again the characters aren’t all referred to by what we might call their Earth names and we get such as North a broad shouldered Santa voice of Alec Baldwin tooth the fairy Isela Fisher and Bunny Hugh Jackman there’s also a villain called pitch by others and sometimes resentfully the Boogeyman by himself this dastardly fiend voice of Jude Law is envisioned as all Darkness teeth and Claws determined to put the Guardians out of business in this moment of Crisis the team calls on Jack Frost to lead their resistance and in the process he inevitably redeems himself becomes visible and achieves a personal Victory now we know what he looks like I was reminded of Peter Pan although he isn’t green and there’s an audience for this film it’s not me I gather younger children will like the break neck action the magical ability to fly and the young hero who has tired of only being a name their parents and older siblings may find the 89 minute running time quite long enough still let it be said that director Peter Ramsey and his art team have created a crisp colorful fantasy world sharper edged than many featurelength children’s cartoons especially fetching the tooth’s countless followers called baby teeth bunnies ranks upon ranks of Easter eggs and pitches scary manifestations I thought by the end of the picture pitch had earned some sort of redemption but I guess he goes back to wherever pitch has come from I just saw this movie for the first time recently I vividly remember when this movie came out and it seemed like animation’s response to the Avengers seriously I really wasn’t all that interested with the marketing of this film and I didn’t do my research however I recently heard the plot of this movie and it sounded cool all of these mythological holiday characters in one movie yeah that sounds cool so how is the movie it’s good it’s very entertaining and it’s just fun the very best thing about the movie is the world I loved that this movie is just running with the fantasy element from the first scene in the movie I felt like a child in school listening to a real really fun story I also really enjoyed the characters even though they don’t really share the wealth we’ll talk about that later though I really loved Hugh Jackman as the Easter Bunny I think that was very clever casting and I also really liked Alec Baldwin as North I thought that these were really fun takes on classic characters also I was really into pitch black Jude Law was really awesome as a bad guy because he actually sounds Sinister I was a fan of his backstory and just how bad he was this film also spoilers has a very solid third act when the kid sees Jack Frost I was actually tearing up a little I also had a lot of fun cheering on the heroes in their climactic battle spoiler end now let’s talk about some issues that I have unfortunately my biggest flaw with this film is pretty big Chris Pine is the voice of Jack Frost Frost is supposed to be a rebellious teen but he has a deep husky voice yeah it grows on on you but I never believed that voice and it was very distracting most people that I have spoken to have agreed with me I would like a sequel but if they plan on keeping Pine they should age the character like 12 Years also none of the things that the Guardians hold dear don’t seem to match I don’t think the Easter Bunny is very hopeful I don’t understand the Tooth Fairy much and I don’t get that sense of wonder from Father Christmas sure they each have a minute or two where they really display this but it doesn’t carry throughout the whole movie very much however the dialogue makes these characters very fun to watch lastly The Man in the Moon the movie Never explains this is it a DreamWorks joke is this a famous Legend what is it at the end of the day this is a really fun movie pop this in when you’re with the family and you’ll have a good time Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 American animated fantasy action adventure film produced by Dreamworks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures the film was directed by Peter Ramsey in his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by David Lindsay AAR based on the book series The Guardians of Childhood and the short film The Man in the Moon by William Joyce it stars the voices of Chris Pine Alec Baldwin Jude Law isisa Fisher and Hugh Jackman the film tells a story about Guardian Santa Claus the the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny and the Sandman who enlist Jack Frost to stop the evil Pitch Black from engulfing the world in darkness in a fight of Dreams Rise of the Guardians was released in the United States on November 21st 2012 the film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences but despite grossing 36.9 million worldwide against a budget of $145 million it was a disappointment at the the box office and lost the studio an estimated $87 million due to marketing and distribution costs it was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for best animated feature film and the Annie Award for best animated feature it was the last Dreamworks Animation film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures starting with the crudes in 2013 20th Century Fox would distribute DreamWorks films until Captain Underpants the first Epic movie in 2017 until the release of Ruby Gilman teenage Kraken in 2023 Rise of the Guardians was previously DreamWorks animation’s biggest box office bomb plot Jack Frost emerges from a frozen pond with amnesia and finds himself invisible to the Mortal realm three centuries later The Man in the Moon alerts Nicholas St north of the Resurgence of pitch black who threatens to unleash nightmares upon children children North rallies his fellow Guardians e ASA bunnymund Sanderson Mansi and toana and they discover that Jack has been chosen to join their ranks transported to the North Pole Jack is told by North that every Guardian has a center which is something they Foster in children Jack knows nothing of his Center and resists the call to become a guardian while visiting tooth’s Palace Jack learns that every baby tooth holds the childhood memories of of its owner pitch kidnaps tooth subordinate fairies and steals all of the teeth reducing children’s belief in tooth to counter pitch’s plan the other Guardians and Jack embark on a mission to collect teeth from children themselves in their Quest they visit jimie Bennett a young boy who still clinging to his belief sees all of them except for Jack on their way back to the North Pole pitch’s nightmares attack the Guardians and Pitch kills Sandy with Easter approaching the Guardians travel to Bunny’s Warren and assist in the egg coloring preparations Jack is lured to pitch’s Lair where he finds his teeth pitch distracts Jack long enough for the nightmares to destroy all the eggs causing children to stop believing in bunny ashamed Jack flees to Antarctica where pitch breaks his magic staff and throws him into a Chasm unlocking the memories inside his teeth Jack learns that he was once a human who sacrificed himself self to save his younger sister inspired he repairs his staff and rescues the kidnapped fairies due to pitch every child in the world has stopped believing except Jaimie drastically weakening the Guardians finding ja’s belief wavering Jack makes it snow in his room causing Jaime to be the first person to believe in him jack realizes that his Center is fun and uses it to gather Jaime’s friends play and diminish Their Fear leading to to renewed belief that bolsters the Guardians and resurrects Sandy the children’s dreams prove stronger than the nightmares who turn on pitch and drag him to the underworld Jack finally accepts his place as the guardian of fun cast and characters Chris Pine as Jack Frost the spirit of winter Jack is a teenage Helen who enjoys creating mischief and has no interest in being bound by rules or obligations he just wants to use his staff to spread his winter magic for the sake of fun but also wants to be believed in Via his staff he possesses potent cryokinesis at the end of the film Jack became the guardian of fun Alec Baldwin is Nicholas St North Santa Claus the leader of the Guardians and the guardian of Wonder he lives at the North Pole in the ice castle and is served by loyal North Pole natives the yetis who built the castle and workshop and the Christmas elves he has a Russian accent culture Persona resembling dead moros Jude lore is Pitch Black Boogeyman the guardian of fear and the nightmare King he has dark hair and wears a black cloak despite being the literal embodiment of Terror ironically at the resolution he is scared of his own nightmares after being forgotten islafisher as toothiana Tooth Fairy called tooth for short the guardian of memories tooth is part human and part hummingbird loosely resembling a kinari assisted by many fairies that are split off extensions of herself she collects the children’s teeth which hold their most precious memories tooth stores them in her Palace and returns memories when they are needed the most Hugh Jackman as e Aster bunnymund and Easter bunny called bunny for short the keeper and bringer of Easter eggs and guardian of hope he shares Jackman’s Australian accent Sandman is the guardian of dreams and the oldest of Guardians being the first Guardian chosen by the Man in the Moon he doesn’t speak but communicates through sand images that he conjures above his head Dakota goo is Jamie Bennett a child who has not given up on believing in the Guardians Georgie grieve as Sophie Bennett Jaime’s little sister Jacob bertron as Monty Dominque grund as cupcake Olivia Mattingly as Mary Jack’s sister production in 2005 William Jo and real FX launched a joint venture asworth amusements to produce CG animated feature films one of which was set to be the Guardians of Childhood based on Joy’s idea the film was not realized but they did create a short animated film The Man in the Moon directed by Joyce which introduced the Guardians idea and served as an inspiration for the film early in 2008 Joyce sold the film rights to Dreamworks Animation after the studio assured him it would respect his vision for the characters and that he would be involved with the creative process in November 2009 it was revealed that DreamWorks had hired Peter Ramsey to make his feature debut as director of what was then titled the Guardians and playright David Lindsay abay to write the script Lindsay abar previously co-wrote the screenplay for robots which Joyce previously produced the next month Leonardo DiCaprio was announced to make his animated feature film debut as the lead character of the film tentatively titled the Guardians Jack Frost Joyce acted as a co-director for the first few years but left this position after the death of his daughter Mary Katherine who died from complications relating to her brain cancer positive diagnosis in May 2010 Joyce continued to work on the film only as an executive producer while Ramsey took the helm solo was a full-time director making him the first African-American to direct a big budget CG animated film as well as making it one of the first DreamWorks films to have only one director instead of two and not have a co-director as with some previous DreamWorks films Giller mod Del Toro came on board to join Joyce as an executive producer present almost from the beginning he was able to help shape the story character design theme and structure of the film he said he he was proud that the filmmakers were making parts of the film dark and Moody and poetic and expressed hope this might set a different tone for family movies for entertainment movies the final title Rise of the Guardians was announced in early 2011 along with the First cast Roger deacons the cinematographer who had already worked on the previous DreamWorks film How to Train Your Dragon advised on the lighting to achieve its real look he selected photograph graic references for color keys and during the production gave notes on contrast saturation depth of field and light intensity the film contains a lot of special effects particularly the volumetric particles for depicting Sandman and pitch for this Dreamworks Animation developed open VDB a more efficient tool and format for manipulating and storing volume data like smoke and other amorphous materials open VDB had been already used on Puss in Boots in Madagascar 3 Europe’s Most Wanted and was released in August 2012 for free as an open-source project with a hope to become an industry standard although the film is based on Joyce’s book series it contains differences from the books the book series begun in 2011 explains the origins of the characters while the film takes place about 300 years after the books and shows how the characters function in present time Joyce explained because I don’t want people to read the book and then go see the movie and go oh I like the book better and I also didn’t want them to know what happens in the movie and I also knew that during the progress of Film Production a lot of things can change so I wanted to have a sort of distance so we were able to invoke the books and use them to help us figure out the world of the movie but I didn’t want them to be openly competitive to each other the idea for the Guardians came from Joyce’s daughter who asked him if he thought Santa Claus had ever met the Easter Bunny the film includes a dedication to her as well as song Still dream sung over the end credits originally the film was set to be released on November 2 2012 but Dreamworks Animation pushed the film to November 21st 2012 to avoid competition with Pixar’s upcoming film Monsters University which in turn had been pushed November 2nd 2012 to avoid competition with the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn part two Monsters University was then pushed to June 21st 2013 with Disney’s wet Ralph taking its place box office Rise of the Guardians grossed 103.4 million in the United States and Canada and 23.5 million in other countries for a worldwide total of 36.9 million in North America the film opened to $ 32.3 million over its extended 5-day weekend and with 23.8 million over the 3-day weekend it reached fourth place behind the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn part two Skyfall and Lincoln the film’s opening was the lowest debut for a Dreamworks Animation film since flushed away while the film did gross more than double of its $145 million budget it still did not turn a profit for Dreamworks Animation due to its high distribution and marketing costs forcing the studio to take an $87 million write down this marked the first time that the studio had lost money on an animated film since Sinbad legend of the seven C’s as a result of this combined with other factors in February 2013 the studio announced it was laying off 350 employees as part of a companywide restructuring here’s a quick quiz for you what does Jack Frost look like young or old I confess I’ve never had a mental image of Jack in fact until seeing Rise of the Guardians I never gave him any thought at all the kids around me at a preview screening seemed more expert perhaps because they know the inspiration for the film William Joyce’s book series Guardians of Childhood in those books unread by me Joyce imagines a Loosely knit Avengers style Federation of the Guardians of Childhood most of them are famous Santa Claus the Easter Bunny the Tooth Fairy the Sandman and so on Jack Frost’s reputation suffers sadly in comparison voiced in the film by Chris Pine he finds himself literally invisible when he visits Earth people are able to walk right through him since he is a sprightly boy he finds this depressing although many kids have probably felt the same way why is this so the Man in the Moon never explained it to him the man in the moon functions in the story as sort of a symbolic nature God who never does anything but shine enigmatically in the sky this is a hyperkinetic 3D action comedy with the characters forever racing on Santa’s sleigh hurtling down shoots and zooming through tunnels that rework the same 3D illusions over and over again the characters aren’t all referred to by what we might call their Earth names and we get such as North a broad shouldered Santa voice of Alec Baldwin tooth the fairy Isa Fisher and Bunny Hugh Jackman there’s also a villain called pitch by others and sometimes resentfully the Boogeyman by himself this dastardly fiend voice of Jude Law is envisioned as all Darkness teeth and Claws determined to put the Guardians out of business in this moment of Crisis the team calls on Jack Frost to lead their resistance and in the process he inevitably redeems himself becomes visible and achieves a personal Victory now we know what he looks like I was reminded of Peter Pan although he isn’t green there’s an audience for this film it’s not me I gather younger children will like the Breakneck action the magical ability to fly and the young hero who has tired of only being a name their parents and older siblings may find the 89 minute running time quite long enough still let it be said that director Peter Ramsey and his art team have created a crisp colorful fantasy world sharper edged than many featurelength children’s cartoons especially fetching the tooth’s countless followers called baby teeth bunnies ranks upon ranks of Easter eggs and pitches scary manifestations I thought by the end of the picture pitch had earned some sort of redemption but I guess he goes back to wherever pitch has come from I just saw this movie for the first time recently I vividly remember when this movie came out and it seemed like animation’s response to the Avengers seriously I really wasn’t all that interested with the marketing of this film and I didn’t do my research however I recently heard the plot of this movie and it sounded cool all of these mythological holiday characters in one movie yeah that sounds cool so how is the movie it’s good it’s very entertaining and it’s just fun the very best thing about the movie is the world I loved that this movie is just running with the fantasy element from the first scene in the movie I felt like a child in school listening to a really fun story I also really enjoyed the characters even though they don’t really share the wealth we’ll talk about that later though I really loved Hugh Jackman as the Easter Bunny I think that was very clever casting and I also really liked Alec Baldwin as North I thought that these were really fun takes on classic characters also I was really into pitch black Jude La was really awesome as a bad guy because he actually sounds Sinister I was a fan of his backstory and just how bad he was this film also spoilers has a very solid third act when the kid sees Jack Frost I was actually tearing up a little I also had a lot of fun cheering on the heroes in their climactic battle spoiler end now let’s talk about some issues that I have unfortunately my biggest flaw with this film is pretty big Chris Pine is the voice of Jack Frost Frost is supposed to be a rebellious teen but he has a deep husky voice yeah it grows on you but I never believed that voice and it was very distracting most people that I have spoken to have agreed with me I would like a sequel but if they plan on keeping Pine they should age the character like 12 Years also none of the things that the guardian hold dear don’t seem to match I don’t think the Easter Bunny is very hopeful I don’t understand the Tooth Fairy much and I don’t get that sense of wonder from Father Christmas sure they each have a minute or two where they really display this but it doesn’t carry throughout the whole movie very much however the dialogue makes these characters very fun to watch lastly The Man in the Moon the movie Never explains this is it a DreamWorks joke is this a famous Legend what is it at the end of the day this is a really fun movie pop this in when you’re with the family and you’ll have a good time Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 American animated fantasy action adventure film produced by Dreamworks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures the film was directed by Peter Ramsey in his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by David Lindsay AAR based on the book series The Guardians of Childhood and the short film The Man in the Moon by William Joyce it stars the voices of Chris Pine Alec Baldwin Jude Law eisa Fisher and Hugh Jackman the film tells a story about Guardian Santa Claus the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny and the Sandman who enlist Jack Frost to stop the evil Pitch Black from engulfing the world in darkness in a fight of Dreams Rise of the Guardians was released in the United States on November 21st 2012 the film received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences but despite grossing 36.9 million worldwide against a budget of $145 million it was a disappointment at the box office and lost the studio an estimated $87 million due to marketing and distribution costs it was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for best animated feature film and the Annie Award for best animated feature it was the last Dreamworks Animation film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures starting with the crudes in 2013 20th Century Fox would distribute DreamWorks films until Captain Underpants the first Epic movie in 2017 until the release of Ruby Gilman teenage Kraken in 2023 Rise of the Guardians was previously DreamWorks animation’s biggest box office bomb plot Jack Frost emerges from a Frozen pond with amnesia and finds himself invisible to the Mortal realm three centuries later The Man in the Moon alerts Nicholas St north of the Resurgence of pitch black who threatens to unleash nightmares upon children North rallies his fellow Guardians e ASA bunnymund Sanderson Mansi and toana and they discover that Jack has been chosen to join their ranks transported to the North Pole Jack is told by North that every Guardian has has a center which is something they Foster in children Jack knows nothing of his Center and resists the call to become a guardian while visiting tooth’s Palace Jack learns that every baby tooth holds the childhood memories of its owner pitch kidnaps tooth subordinate fairies and steals all of the teeth reducing children’s belief in tooth to counter pitch’s plan the other Guardians and Jack embark on a mission to collect teeth from children themselves in their Quest they visit Jamie Bennett a young boy who still clinging to his belief sees all of them except for Jack on their way back to the North Pole pitch’s nightmares attack the Guardians and Pitch kills Sandy with Easter approaching the Guardians travel to Bunny’s Warren and assist in the egg coloring preparations Jack is lured to pitch his lair where he finds his teeth pitch distracts Jack long enough for the nightmares to destroy all the eggs causing children to stop leaving in bunny ashamed Jack flees to Antarctica where pitch breaks his magic staff and throws him into a Chasm unlocking the memories inside his teeth Jack learns that he was once a human who sacrificed himself to save his younger sister inspired he repairs his staff and rescues the kidnapped fairies due to pitch every child in the world has stopped believing except jaie drastically weakening the Guardians finding Jaime’s belief wavering Jack Jack makes it snow in his room causing Jaime to be the first person to believe in him jack realizes that his Center is fun and uses it to gather Jaime’s friends play and diminish Their Fear leading to renewed belief that bolsters the Guardians and resurrects Sandy the children’s dreams prove stronger than the nightmares who turn on pitch and drag him to the underworld Jack finally accepts his place as the guardian of fun cast and characters Chris Pine as Jack Frost the spirit of winter Jack is a teenage Helen who enjoys creating mischief and has no interest in being bound by rules or obligations he just wants to use his staff to spread his winter magic for the sake of fun but also wants to be believed in Via his staff he possesses potent cryokinesis at the end of the film Jack became the guardian of fun Alec Baldwin as Nicholas s North Santa Claus the leader of the Guardians and the guardi of Wonder he lives at the North Pole in the ice castle and is served by loyal North Pole natives the yetis who built the castle and workshop and the Christmas elves he has a Russian accent culture Persona resembling dead moros Jude lore is Pitch Black Boogeyman the guardian of fear and the nightmare King he has dark hair and wears a black cloak despite being the literal embodiment of Terror ironically at the resolution he is scared of his own nightmares after being forgotten islafisher as toothiana Tooth Fairy called tooth for short the guardian of memories tooth is part human and part hummingbird Loosely resembling a kinari assisted by many fairies that are split off extensions of herself she collects the children’s teeth which hold their most precious memories tooth stores them in her Palace and returns memories when they are needed the most Hugh Jack as e Aster bunnymund an Easter bunny called bunny for short the keeper and bringer of Easter eggs and guardian of hope he shares Jackman’s Australian accent sanman is the guardian of dreams and the oldest of the Guardians being the first Guardian chosen by the Man in the Moon he doesn’t speak but communicates through sand images that he conjures above his head Dakota Goyo is Jamie Bennett a child who has not given up on believing in the Guardians Georgie grieve is Sophie Bennett J’s little sister Jacob bertron as Monty Dominique grund as cupcake Olivia mattingley as Mary Jack’s sister production in 2005 William Joyce and real FX launched a joint venture amesworth amusements to produce CG animated feature films one of which was set to be the Guardians of Childhood based on Joy’s idea the film was not realized but they did create a short animated film film The Man in the Moon directed by Joyce which introduced the Guardians idea and served as an inspiration for the film early in 2008 Joyce sold the film rights to Dreamworks Animation after the studio assured him it would respect his vision for the characters and that he would be involved with the creative process in November 2009 it was revealed that DreamWorks had hired Peter Ramsey to make his feature debut as director of what was then titled the Guardians and playright David Lindsay AAR to write the script Lindsay AAR previously co-wrote the screenplay for robots which Joyce previously produced the next month Leonardo DiCaprio was announced to make his animated feature film debut as the lead character of the film tentatively titled the Guardians Jack Frost Joyce acted as a co-director for the first few years but left this position after the death of his daughter Mary Cath who died from complications relating to her brain cancer positive diagnosis in May 2010 Joyce continued to work on the film only as an executive producer while Ramsey took the helm solo as a full-time director making him the first African-American to direct a big budget CG animated film as well as making it one of the first DreamWorks films to have only one director instead of two and not have a co-director as with some previous DreamWorks fil films Giller mod Del Toro came on board to join Joyce as an executive producer present almost from the beginning he was able to help shape the story character design theme and structure of the film he said he was proud that the filmmakers were making parts of the film dark and Moody and poetic and expressed hope this might set a different tone for family movies for entertainment movies the final title Rise of the Guardians was announced in early 201 11 along with the First cast Roger deacons the cinematographer who had already worked on the previous DreamWorks film How to Train Your Dragon advised on the lighting to achieve its real look he selected photographic references for color keys and during the production gave notes on contrast saturation depth of field and light intensity the film contains a lot of special effects particularly the volumetric particles for depicting Sandman and pitch for this Dreamworks Animation developed open VDB a more efficient tool and format for manipulating and storing volume data like smoke and other amorphous materials open VDB had been already used on Puss in Boots in Madagascar 3 Europe’s Most Wanted and was released in August 2012 for free as an open- source project with a hope to become an industry standard although the film is based on Joyce’s book series it contains different refences from the books the book series begun in 2011 explains the origins of the characters while the film takes place about 300 years after the books and shows how the characters function in present time Joyce explained because I don’t want people to read the book and then go see the movie and go oh I like the book better and I also didn’t want them to know what happens in the movie and I also knew that during the progress of Film Production a lot of things can change so I wanted to have a sort of distance so we were able to invoke the books and use them to help us figure out the world of the movie but I didn’t want them to be openly competitive to each other the idea for the Guardians came from Joyce’s daughter who asked him if he thought Santa Claus had ever met the Easter Bunny the film includes a dedication to her as well as song Still dream sung over the end credits originally the
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Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 American animated fantasy action-adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Peter Ramsey from a screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire, based on the book series The Guardians of Childhood and the short film The Man in the Moon by William Joyce. It stars the voices of Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Isla Fisher, and Hugh Jackman. The film tells a story about Guardians Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and the Sandman, who enlist Jack Frost to stop the evil Pitch Black from engulfing the world in darkness in a fight of dreams.