Rise of the Guardians

Incredible Movie!
Disney has disappointed me, as you all know if you read my blog... DreamWorks on the other hand... They continue to amaze me and never disappoint! ... Except for Bee Movie... And Kung Fu Panda 2... Other than that! They're great!

Anyway! Rise of the Guardians! It's about believe and hope and all that good stuff in kids movies. Every kid believes in the easterbunny, the toothfairy, Santa Claus and Sandman! But nobody believes in the Boogyman. So the Boogyman wants to proove to the kids that he's real. But to do that he needs to take away their hope first. Can't be afraid if you're hopeful. So one by one the kids start to doubt the Guardians and get more afraid for each day. And if you don't believe in the holidays... they disappear.

Ok, negatives! ... There's only one negative element that I can remember... And that's the ending. So we're gonna take that last. So what I'm gonna talk about now is some good parts and this movie had a lot.

First off the design. The animation in this movie is GORGEOUS!! It blew me away, not as much as Legend of the Guardians.... But still some great animation! And the angles, the shadows and the design for everything is great! I love the hair and the sandmans.. sand! It was just great to look at and they kept building it! At first it was grand with some nice colors and some animals that the kids were dreaming about and they kept building it to the larges animal in history! It was just beautiful and amazing. It was a nice movie to look at and I'm so pissed I didn't get to see it in the cinema.. Sweden, they only showed it in swedish... Oh well!

Then we have the characters and they were great! I remember every character that was in this movie (I think, most of them anyway) and that's hard to do. I can't even pick favourite character because everyone was unique in their own way and likeable in their own way! And yes, everyonw stayed true to their character... You should know what that means by now. I think I've explained it in every blog post here!

The story.. I didn't expect this story when I saw the trailer and the poster, even if it was kind of predictable.. And let me tell you, I follow DreamWorks on their FaceBook and.. I was hyped to see this movie! I waited for it to come to Sweden days after it aired in America! ... And then it only came in swedish and... I have to hear Jude Law as the Boogyman! And Alec Baldwin as Santa! So I had to wait until it came on Blu-ray... Damn that I missed it on the cinema... Oh well! Liked the story exept for the ending that was weak!

The jokes... I don't really like when the whole movie is all jokes.. I didn't like Pirates of the Caribbean 2 because of that and many other Disney movies because they make it all about jokes. This movie kind of does that too.. In the middle of the battle they can throw in a joke or before the villain is supposed to be threatning they throw in a joke. At one point it flew me off, first I was laughing but I cut the laugh because right after the villain was doing his thing. So that's not really good.... But I think I laughed at every joke they put in. I have no idea how they did it, but I was just a little bothered by the jokes, not by much and to do that... that's good job. I guess something with the story and the characters... It worked! So yeah, good job!

And the music... I want to listen to this music seperatly because I heard some good tunes, but I couldn't concentrate on the music because everything else was so awesome! So it caught my ear and I wanna hear more about it. It worked perfectly with the movie for the mood setting though and everything like that so.. Well done on that part too!

Now! Finally we get to the negative stuff... The ending, well.. I guess I'm just saying that it's a little weak. Not that I didn't like it but for everything else to be so amazing and they kept building it up and everything like that... It was a pretty weak ending. Maybe it would've worked if the guardians decide not to cast of the boogyman but they're saying that they need him to help kids with the hope. Without fear you can't have hopes, something like that, and maybe after that the kids can finally see him even though they're not so scared of him anymore, give him some happy ending too instead of the whole "you're evil so we don't want you here!", that's been done in every fairy tale. They tried to give him depth with the same story as Jack Frost, but they didn't quite get that right... So that was a little weak, but yeah.. What are you gonna do?

So that's it! I really liked this movie, and I'm definitly gonna see it again and again and again and again... and listen to the soundtrack while I'm waiting for the next DreamWorks movie to come to Sweden IN ENGLISH! .. Thank you for reading! See this movie!