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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole is a 2010 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film based on the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky. Zack Snyder directed the film as an animation debut, Zareh Nalbandian produced the film, John Orloff and Emil Stern wrote the film, with Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Joel Edgerton, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Barclay, Sam Neill, Miriam Margolyes, Helen Mirren, Ryan Kwanten, Anthony LaPaglia, David Wenham and Richard Roxburgh. Legend of the Guardians was theatrically released in RealD 3D and IMAX 3D in North America on September 24, 2010, and in Australia on September 30, 2010 by Warner Bros. Pictures; it was accompanied by a new 3D Looney Tunes cartoon entitled Fur of Flying.

Plot
A father owl's tales of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole enthrall his son Soren, but an older son scoffs at the stories of winged warriors who fought an epic battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. Later the brothers become captives of the Pure Ones, but Soren makes a daring escape and, with the help of other young owls, seeks out the Guardians and brings them back to defend their people once again.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Unlike most of live action films for Zack Snyder, it is one of the first animated film of Zack Snyder, which does a good job for directing this movie.
 * 2) It stays true faithful to the book series, while some of them are differences, such as Kludd not being the leader of the Pure Ones and Metal Beak being fully physical appearance.
 * 3) Great voice performance of Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, ect.
 * 4) Very likable and well-written characters.
 * 5) Soren is an adolescent Barn Owl, son of Noctus and Marella, and brother of Kludd and Eglantine. Unlike Kludd, Soren is a dreamer, and loves the legends of Ga'hoole.
 * 6) Gylfie is an adolescent female Elf Owl from the Desert of Kuneer. She and Soren escape from St. Aggie's after nearly falling to her death and getting her leg slashed by a Pure One and found Twilight and Digger.
 * 7) Digger is a male Burrowing Owl, who is seen where Soren and Gylfie unknowingly go after a moth he was hunting. After a slight confrontation, he introduces them to Twilight, and the two join them on their journey to find the Guardians.
 * 8) Twilight is loud and boastful, but genuinely cares for his friends. He often carries his lute around with him, and enjoys singing despite the fact that he's not particularly good at it.
 * 9) Metal Beak's death is very well done and emotional scene.
 * 10) The soundtrack is excellent by David Hirschfelder.
 * 11) The animation looks fantastic for the most part courtesy of Animal Logic.
 * 12) Surtr/Metal Beak is very threatening and excellent villain, who was the leader of the Pure Ones and the mate of Nyra, and he resided in the stone palace. His greatest desire was to create a world ruled by Tyto owls, who he believed to be superior to all other owl species and Joel Edgerton's voice performance is impressive.
 * 13) *In addition, Kludd is useful and interesting villain as well.
 * 14) There is the scene where Kludd becomes the Pure Ones draws the great inspiration of Anakin Skywalker becoming the dark side in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.
 * 15) It continue the charm of Zack Snyder's career, following the well-received of Watchmen, before it, unfortunately, decline the charm, when Sucker Punch was released.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Overused of slow motion, since it feel like a Zack Snyder movie.
 * 2) Nyra is really much uninteresting villain.

Reception
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and audiences, who praised the soundtrack, voice performances and visual effects but criticized the story, and characters. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 51% of 128 sampled critics gave the film positive reviews and that it has received an average rating of 5.7 out of 10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Legend of the Guardians' dark tone and dazzling visuals are to be admired, even if they're ultimately let down by a story that never lives up to its full potential.". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100 based on 21 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

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