Newly released movie and one in my list to watch...today we made it to watch the Rise of the Guardians. We managed to sneak a 90-mins of time in between of my girls' piano classes. My girls are having their final already and I prefer them to focus studying during this weekend (but who knows, perhaps we are going to re-watch it on the 3D IMAX version this weekend). As expected from Dreamworks, the details of picture, image and animation were AWESOME (yes, in capital letters). I Ŀ♡√Ɛ how Jack Frost made those fancy looking snowflakes or how the globe in Santa's castle was being devoured by the pitch-black-sand.
Now, let's meet the characters. The first one to be introduced was Jack Frost (of course - being the center of the whole story) who forgot about himself when he died, fell into a frozen lake, sacrificing himself when he saved his little sister. That event qualified him as the guardian. Though when he was being resuscitated and since nobody could neither see nor hear him, he became the naughty lonely person who made mess everywhere he went...leaving an icing trail. When in fact, he was a kind yet fun and fearless figure.
Then there was fun, positive thinking and jolly Santa of the North Pole. Resided inside a pretty craving castle, nestled on an icing hills, he was not the Santa that you normally see either on the book or movie. Here, he was more carefree, a little bit rough but still had a pretty big eyes to see a wonder in every single thing. With 'naughty' word being tattoed on his right hand and 'nice' on his left, he loved to crave a toy out of an ice. Then the ice prototype would be duplicated by the yeti (yes - not by elf like we all believed) into toys for Christmas presents. While the elves (with bell attached to its pointy hat) were busy running errands for Santa.
Next on the list was this easter bunny, the guardian of Easter day who cherished the fresh beginning. With boomerang as his weapon, this brave guardian was not so brave when he get onto Santa's sledge. He preferred his tunnel to his warren, with egg-shape-stuff and egg-popping-flowers. There was a colourful stream to colour the egg as well...ehm some fancy place *yes, i wouldn't imagine so...it looked like Alice in Wonderland*
But my favourite would be the Sandman - Sandy, who spread good dream to every child at night. The cute and small golden figure which could not speak...but he had a charming way to show you what he meant. And do not get fooled by his cute figure, since he could be quite scary and freaking when he was angry...i would not be on his bad side when he was holding a golden long lash *grinning* The last one was my girls' favourite, the pretty greenish peacock tooth fairy (I love the details...and the castle too...awesome). With a bunch of tooth fairy babies, they collected the came-off-tooth from each child around the world and preserve the childhood memories that come with the tooth.
Then, meet the Boogeyman, the pitch-black figure that represented the fear and the dark side of everybody. He stole some sand of the Sandman and manipulated it to deliver the nightmare to every child...every night...Apparently, he was on his revenge toward the guardians, for outcasting him for almost...forever. Now, by spreading the nightmare, he made every child forgot about the guardians and the guardian would ceased to exist too. I was expecting more action at the final encounter between the good and the bad ones, however the pitch black sand was turned to the golden-sandy-sand as quickly as a single touch of believing child. At the end, Boogeyman was just a very lonely figure who sought for some recognition.
I enjoyed the movie so much, first because of the animation was pretty good and the story itself was easy to understand. If you are watching it on 3D screen, then prepare for lots of slide and fun (with a little bit of dizziness). Last thing that you should do is face your fear...open your eyes for wonders...and keep your dream and hope afloat...be a guardian
Enjoy the show
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