Production year: 2012
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine , Isla Fisher, Jude Law
Just to confirm that the noughties' golden age of animation is behind us, here's a bland, underpowered, humourless feature from DreamWorks. Rise of the Guardians is about an Avengers-style grouping of all the mythic heroes in your childish imagination: there's Santa Claus, voiced with a Russian accent by Alec Baldwin; the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman); the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher); and the silent Sandman, and they are all subordinate to the Man in the Moon. The story insists so fiercely on the moral superiority of saucer-eyed, childlike belief in these figures, that the film could be a massive satirical hoax by Richard Dawkins. Anyway, they're taking on an evil bogeyman with a prissy Brit accent named Pitch Black (Jude Law), who's attempting to poison kiddies' dreams. Unfortunately, he is often addressed simply as "Pitch!" I expected lines like: "You! Pitch!" and "Oh Pitch, please." To help combat this evil-doer, the Guardians try to recruit a new warrior, supercool teen badboy Jack Frost (Chris Pine). Jack is revealed to have a tragic, premythic, human existence that gives meaning to his heroic destiny: it's the film's one flicker of interest. Compare this moderate entertainment to, say, Monsters, Inc., and it really looks feeble.
Source : guardian
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