2010 · animation · adventure · family
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Directed by Zack Snyder1h 37m2010
When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.
Our read: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · adventure · family entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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“You want lush animated owl battles with mythic stakes and Snyder-style slow-motion.”
Skip it tonight — Younger kids scare easily; the 3-D combat is darker and more intense than expected.
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