It’s hard to criticize an animated holiday family adventure
that means so well like “Rise of the Guardians.” For once, we have a family
holiday movie that doesn’t pander to five year-olds by just knocking people in
the head or making creepy sexual innuendos that fly over kids’ heads.
“Guardians” is a fun take on the holiday mascot mythology that includes Santa
Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, and even Jack Frost as
real beings who sort of work together to protect children all over the world.
Sort of a holiday Justice League if you will. But why didn’t this movie quite
gel for me? Perhaps it’s best to be a young kid who believes in these guys but,
spoiler, Santa ain’t real kiddo.
There’s nothing outwardly wrong with “Rise of the Guardians”
but I found a few things to nitpick about. And the first thing is that there’s
way too much going on here. What exactly is the story in “Rise of the
Guardians?” Is it a Jack Frost original story? Is the story of a young boy
named Jamie who still believes in Santa? Is it about the evil Bogeyman who uses
children’s fear to make him stronger? Is it about a Russian Santa Claus? Is it
about an Australian Easter Bunny? There’s way too much going on here in David Lindsay-Abaire's script and not
enough focus.
It’s interesting to have Jack Frost interpreted as a real
character, but Chris Pine who provides his voice seems all wrong for what the
animators have cooked up. Pine’s deep masculine voice doesn’t fit the skinny,
Justin Bieber looking character. I found myself not quite caring about children
not being able to see Jack because they don’t “believe” in him. What kid
“believes” in Jack Frost in the first place? On the contrary, the Bogeyman
character named Pitch Black (voiced by Jude Law) is a perfectly realized Tim
Burton inspired character. I wish the film was more about him and less about
Santa and the others.
DreamWorks Animation who produced the film has also found a
way to capitalize on audience’s strange fascination with Despicable Me’s yellow
minion characters by making Santa’s tiny elves loony little mute sidekicks.
Santa has tricked them into thinking they make the presents in the North Pole
even though he employs a bunch of mute yetis to do that for them. The elves are
cute and funny yes, but they’re sense of humor is oddly shoehorned into a
rather serious story about evil taking over the world.
“Rise of the Guardians” is far from the worse in animated
fare this year. But due to the high standards set by movies like “Wreck-It
Ralph” and the stop motion instant classics “Frankenweenie” and “ParaNorman”
it’s subpar in comparison. It’s odd to think that both Pixar (with the not
quite spectacular “Brave”) and DreamWorks, both pioneers in computer animated
entertainment, took a slight backseat this year allowing for other to have a
moment to shine. At this point, that Animated Feature Oscar is anybody’s to
win. GRADE: C+
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