@@w1ndgeneral226 Events mentioned with a specific date in movies usually refers to real events in order to make the story more relatable/grounded in the real world.
Fun Fact: The reason Bunny is Australian was because his voice actor was Australian and they thought I’d be funny to make the character Aussie especially since his book character didn’t mesh well with the group
That's an interesting piece of subtle world-building. For the longest time, I thought it was his bed from the day he died or something. Awesome dragon icon by the way.
I remember Wreck-It Ralph being the last Disney animated film he reviewed. I often wonder what he would’ve thought of the other Disney animated films that followed like Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Moana and Encanto?
There's a theory that Jaime is a descendant of Jack's little sister, since they look a lot alike. I find that adorable. Also, the Boogeyman is such an underrated DreamWorks villain.
Boogeyman here reminds me of Mr. Dark from Fables, though in his case, he's more than just the Boogeyman, almost an embodiment of fear itself in a way.
Its a tragedy that this didn't do well in the box office. It's so beautifully animated with a great story, great characters, and so heartwarming. Also, Nicholas St. North is the best Santa.
Online moviegoers complain how Hollywood has no original ideas and just pump out sequels but these same moviegoers ignore RoG and that's why we're getting a Shrek 5
I LOVE THIS MOVIE literally made me crush 😍 on Jack frost and Gave US BADASS SANTA AND FREAKING EASTER BUNNY and I could of seen more potential maybe a new urban legend or childhood story/holiday spirit like groundhog for groundhog day or idk new year baby etc
@@thechoseone509joseberrios2 Yes! The Guardians of Childhood by William Joyce! It delves way into the backstory of Pitch, North, even Jack Frost. It's an amazing read that I never get tired of, and I'm 25!
A recent example of a celebrity playing a role and being completely unrecognizable is Peter Dinklage as Professor Dillamond in Wicked. When I saw his name in the credits, I was in disbelief that that was Peter Dinklage. Peter Dinklage has a distinctive voice and in his previous voice performances like Captain Gutt in Ice Age: Continental Drift and the Mighty Eagle in the Angry Birds films, you can recognize his voice. I would never have guessed that was Peter Dinklage as the voice.
I think the emotional investment is there with Jack's desire just to be seen, to have that acknowledgment that he even exists at all. When the kid is able to see him and he tearfully responds, "You see me," I cry every time. It's an emotion so simple, but so powerful when done right and this movie definitely does it right
I think Jack's desire is what a lot of people have. Especially now that so many people feel alone and invisible. Having just one person acknowledge them means a lot.
Personally, I think it’s karma that bunny got to feel what jack felt for years because he made fun of Jack for being invisible. It’s sad that he never realized that his one day of being invisible was nothing compared to Jack’s
Another Sad Fact: A post-film dedication appears, "For Mary Katherine Joyce. A Guardian fierce and true." This refers to William Joyce's daughter, who died at age 18 from a brain tumor. The movie was based on Joyce's book series "Guardians of Childhood", which was inspired by stories he told his daughter. MK, the main protagonist in Epic, is based on her.
You cannot deny that Jack Frost has one of the saddest backstories in any DreamWorks movie (not quite to the degree of Po from KFP2, but it is certainly up there). He saved his younger sister from a frozen lake that was starting to crack from right under their feet at the cost of his own life and lost all memories upon being reborn. Forcing him to spend three hundred years all by himself while nobody else could see him.
Unrelated but Considering how Jack feel very Peter pan like I've always wondered if His origin was a reference to One of J.M Barries real life inspiration for Peter that being his Brother who died in a freeze lake accident.
@@jadenbryant9283 William Joyce, the author of the books and creator of Jack Frost, actually has confirmed that the character was loosely based on Peter Pan.
Toothania (fairy) was equally bad. Her mutation caused hate in her village, adults wanted her dead or at least captured like a zoo animal. Laid traps and hired professional hunters. She escapes with parents to the wooded area for hiding. Her parents are captured and slaughtered despite her efforts. She spend decades in hiding all the while hiding gifts under childrens' pillows in exchange for teeth. Parents find out and get pissed she's still alive and hire hunters to go after her AGAIN. The colony of fairies who aided in raising her were also petrified until the end of time. In the end she had to just keep putting on a happy face while taken on those duties of collecting teeth.
@@Devious_Reviews Good LORD, that is dark...these books were for CHILDREN??😱I wanna know Pitch's backstory more than ever now; the movie showing the bed above a black hole is SO unsettling and creepy!!
Honestly, my favorite thing about this movie is how it associates each of the Guardians with an aspect of childhood in a way that makes sense. Santa represents wonder, seeing the wonder in everything ("lights in the trees and magic in the air") and putting that wonder into the world and the hearts of children. Bunny represents hope, and honestly when he talks about Easter being about new life and new beginnings, you could read that as just being about the coming of Spring after a long winter or go into the biblical aspect of Easter. The different themes of the characters make me want to know what other themes could be explored
i believe that the tooth fairy represents clearly the value of the memories of childhood, the good and the bad that makes the foundations of a person, and Sandman, well, maybe he represents the dreams of Children, in a literal and metaphorical way, the dreams to go into the future without falling into fear, dreams of a good tomorrow.
I read a fanfic for RoTG that mixed in Seelie/Unseelie fae mythology into the plot and it made it really interesting because something I didn't know before was that in some fae lore, they have some singular concept/drive within them as their core and that might've been the original inspiration for the Guardians'
18:36 I think the color palette gets grayer the stronger Pitch grows. It makes sense that as belief fades, the colors would get less vibrant. It literally explodes back into vibrancy when Sandman returns, and it's colorful on the final frozen lake. I like it 😊
Honestly I do like Jack's design because it is more modern. He keeps up with the times and sees what humans wear, so it's a nice little detail of contrast with the other guardians who either don't know or wouldn't care about stuff like that since they don't interact with children regularly and are more stuck in their ways. How he can change his clothes? I don't know I assume he stole a hoodie and it magically became invisible too.
In the original books it was said that Jack helped a group of fairies, and in return for his good deed they helped create his hoodie - as he had to long abandon his old tattered shirt. Absolutely agree with that. Another thing that’s important to distinguish about his outfit choices is that it’s meant to help the viewer to see just how much of an oddity and isolated he looks compared to the other Guardians; like he doesn’t literally belong with them - this imagine can also carry out to him not quite belonging with the children and Pitch as well. He spent years on his own and grew slightly jaded and cynical towards others. Resorting to becoming a nuisance and thorn in everyone’s side just to have the smallest bit of attention. Having his design simple and almost that of an 18 year old getting kicked out of home and is living in the streets makes sense for the character at this stage of the story. If this movie ever got a sequel of any kind he would’ve likely gotten an outfit update to match his role as a Guardian.
Personally I always kinda interpreted it as being because unlike the Guardians there aren’t really any holidays, traditions or beliefs associated with Jack to impact how he looks so he kinda just looks like a regular guy. That being said I like your explanation too
The author and illustrator of the books, William Joyce, also helped in creating Rolie Polie Olie (which started off as a book series created by him), designed some of the characters for the movie Robots, and even helped in the character design for Woody from Toy Story. Another book of his, The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, would get a loose adaptation by Blue Sky better known as “Epic”. He also wrote children’s books like Santa Calls, The Mischievians, and Dinosaur Bob, illustrated for the New Yorker a couple times, and helped with the making of this movie, which was dedicated to his late daughter.
Oh my God, this man designed basically my whole childhood!!! I loved Rolie Polie Olie as a kid, I still love the movie Robots, and I still love Toy Story!!
I agree 100%. While it isn't perfect, there is so much here that works so well. The characters are likeable, which includes the villain. The jokes can fall flat, but they have a few laughs out of me. This is just a really fun movie to explore as the Guardians' personality bounces of each other so well.
Gotta say tho, renaming the Boogeyman as "Pitch Black" or just "pitch" and make him the incarnation of the fear of the dark was a really good move. I don't think ANYONE would be able to take seriously a villain they call "boogeyman" the whole movie. Now "Pitch" can easily sound treatening. It's a name that can roll off the tongue in any serious conversation without breaking the atmosphere. Design-wise he is also perfect. Very minimalistic but with a silhouette that still go as unique.
There are times it works, but I think it’s mostly when someone’s truly afraid. Think Laurie asking if Micheal Myers was the boogie man. Or you set the boogie man up as a joke only for it be really terrifying
It's a pity the creative process ended there. One might think a villain who represented fear, nightmares and darkness would do more than just conjure evil horses. Or have a design that doesn't look like budged-Hades. Perhaps he also wouldn't be voiced by the world's most boring man.
I'm glad you praised the Matryoshka doll scene. That has stuck with me ever since I saw it, the idea of a center that defines an individual! That is beautiful!
Interestingly enough, this movie is based on a book series that asserts things such as pitch black being the million year old general of an interstellar empire posessed by extradimensional evils, Jack being the reincarnation of the Guardian of the prince of that exact empire, and the man in the moon being that prince and having decided to protect the children of earth. Its actually amazing. And Santa? A bolshevik bandit who fought a nightmare possessing a bear
Rise of the Guardians is such an overlooked movie, I can’t believe Dreamworks didn’t put enough effort into the marketing! Also I can’t believe Frozen helped make this movie popular than when it was released!
Not sure if that's a good thing cause that movie is gonna get 2 more sequels while this movie just remains forgotten by people and even think Jack is a fan made creation.
@ I’m not a fan of Frozen, but I’m glad for its success that brought attention to Jack Frost, but the origin of character is public domain. Dreamworks should make their own spinoff movie with Jack Frost.
I like the fact that Santa is Russian like the saint that ispired him, Saint Nick. Fun fact: his bones are now in Bari, in the south Italy. I’m from Bari, so visit it, it’s really nice
A Nightmare Fact: Although Pitch's nightmares are literally "Nightmares" the word nightmare originally derives from Mare, a malicious entity in Germanic and Slavic folklore that rides on people's chests while they sleep, bringing on nightmares. In german it is called Mahr, Nachtmahr (Nightmare) or Nachtalb (hence the german word Albtraum).
I also like to point out nobody except Bunny having issues running barefoot through the cold. Jack (when he was alive), Jamie, and the few of the kids run around barefoot on the frozen pond or through the snowy town like it was nothing. First that is dangerous and second I tried that and I didn't last 3 minutes before I ran back inside my house.
I'm always a sucker for the villains own powers turning back on them. The idea of the villains using fear as a weapon and it turning back on them is just such a cool way to beat them. That's the reason I prefer how Steppenwolf was beaten in the Justice League movie instead of his head getting cut off. Him being taken away by fear just feels more satisfying to me :)
I love this movie and I kinda wished this film had a sequel. Like showing Sandman's home/realm, making Jack Frost's resident and showing other holidays, myths and other figures. Like Halloween/Samhain, Selkies and so on.
4:48 I'm surprised Doug makes a joke about this character looking like Gru in drag without mentioning the scene in the beginning of Despicable Me 2 where he literally is dressed in drag.
I have the art design book for this movie and the whole process is so fascinating. Obviously, most movie characters get multiple designs before a final is chosen, but the concept artist boiled them down to their most basic shapes and colors first and built up from there. For instance, Santa as a red square, sandman was a yellow triangle, i think? You get the idea. I can't remember his shape, but Jack was always going to be blue. In the books, Jack does change his clothes to match the modern times. And while I too would've loved a more icy-looking outfit or maybe a 150 yr old in-between version to show his evolving style, I get wanting to follow the books but also if his colors were TOO cool, he wouldn't stand out next to Bunny. Highly recommend checking out the book if you can. It's amazing
I know what you mean, it would have been cool if he had a design that felt more like a costume, but I also really like the importance placed on how he kept constantly involved with the humans all those years while the others stuck to their ways over the centuries mostly just interacting directly with other spirits or whatever they are, you know? The simple change from a cloak to a hoodie instantly conveys that to us, he's open minded where they aren't and I gotta appreciate a design that does it's job that well 😅
Yeah and the books are so exciting. I got the whole book-set for my niece two years ago. There are so many ideas, themes and potential in the books that the movies just left out.
The way they handled Pitch Black in the film was such a let down because he was actually a deeply tragic character in the same lines as Mr Freeze in The Animated Series in the books. But the movie made him a generic "I'm so bad I'm gonna take over the world! Mwahahahah!!!" approach. Not that it's necessarily bad, but it's just forgettable unless they made him more threatening or scarier looking like the original Shane Prigmore concept art where more of a ghostly entity.
Alot of his book get adapted like Rolie Polie Olie,Meet The Robinson,George Shrink,this,Epic,and Ollie's Odyssey. Right now he direct the animated adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
The book series was also based on stories Joyce told to his son and daughter. Sadly, Mary Katherine Joyce (Joyce's daughter) passed away from a brain tumor in 2010 before the book were published. This movie was dedicated to her memory.
Honestly, I'm pleasantly surprised by how you lasted the entire review without making a crack about how furries absolutely fell in love with this version of the Easter Bunny.
So I don’t know if it was intentional, the writer of the Book series (William Joyce, and his daughter’s memory was dedicated to in this film) Birthday is today.
Remind me again how Trolls got two sequels, an animated series, AND a bunch of holiday shorts and the masterpiece Rise of the Guardians didn't get crap!?
You know what I liked about this "mature santa" compared to other interpretations? He still has a really soft spot for children and christmas and he is not scared to show it. He is proud of it even, he doesnt care if he is goofy thats just who he is
Funny story: After seeing this movie as kids, my sweet little sister legitimately thought i was the real tooth fairy both from real life and the movie. Years later she said it was because she thought i looked a little like Tooth and acted like her (I don't know how true that is XD) but what sealed the deal was that a couple nights after seeing the movie, my parents forgot to leave my sister a quarter and take her tooth. So I volunteered to do it, and apparently she wasn't fully asleep. So thanks to the Guardians movie i was accidentally believed to be the tooth fairy for a year. I'm just glad i got to spread some genuine childhood wonder for my sister, which coincidentally is my favorite thing about the movie. Capturing that childhood wonder is a pretty special thing, whether intentionally from the movie, or accidentally like me.
My only real note about this movie is they establish that the power the guardians have is directly related to children believing in them, but Jack has power despite kids not actually believing in him. I would have liked if Pitch showed that he gets HIS power by feeding on fear instead of belief and trying to convince Jack to join him, but Jack realizes that he got his power from the kid's love of snow and winter fun which leads him on his path to embracing his role as a guardian.
"Jack has power despite kids not actually believing in him" Because he wasn't a Guardian yet. He becomes one at the end. And the Guardians share the belief pool, that's why they all get weaker even though only Sandy and Bunny suffered (they fixed Tooth's). North says it "Easter took a toll on all of us".
There’s a popular fan theory that the boy, Jamie, is a descendant of Jacks sister. That would explain the connection between them and the genetics would line up.
Here's an interesting thought. So he says it was a little weird to spend so much time on the Guardians mourning Sandman, because he wasn't like Mufasa, but rather more like Lurch. Well, had the Guardians moved on from it quickly, people would have just found THAT odd. Like, they would have said "they acted like Sandy was one of their best friends, yet they got over his death in like 5 minutes." So really, his death and their mourning wasn't meant to make us necessarily feel sad. It was to show us how much Sandy meant to the others, and why they're even MORE determined to stop Pitch.
There are early storyboards depicting a very different plot of the story, in which Bunnymund is still a professor-rabbit, Toothiana meets Jack before anyone else did and is the only one in the group who never questions him, she promises to get his teeth back, etc. Some artwork from the creators hint that she was also going to be kidnapped once or twice. There was more Tooth x Jack Ship Tease; in the earlier versions of the movie, they have Belligerent Sexual Tension.
The professor rabbit style I believe would have been inspired by his book design. Look it up, it's pretty cool. All their designs are inspired by the book illustrations
I'm really glad that they just kept it to a crush and didn't put in any romance between Tooth and Jack. Feels like it would've just been a distraction to the main plot.
Fun Fact: In one scene, the Tooth Fairy finds a mouse beneath a pillow and identifies it as "one of us, European division." Ratoncito (Little Mouse) Perez, or "The Tooth Mouse", is a children's book character created by Spanish author Luis Coloma in 1894 said to replace lost baby teeth with gifts in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and Latin America. In the Spanish dub of the movie, it is even called "Pérez". In Austria it is simply called the "Zahnmauserl" or "Zahnmäuschen" (Tiny Tooth Mouse).
The sad thing is i think most people don't realise this is based on a book series which is why the world building is stella, they kinda took bits from 3 books (and two picture books)
Mhm! Although it still impresses me that they even managed to make this film using an incomplete book series and did it well (having the writer on board probably helped, but then again Jack was supposed to appear in the fourth book - as mentioned at the end of the third - but never did and eventually got his own book)
Another Fun Fact: Whenever North is surprised or alarmed, he exclaims loudly with the name of a classical Russian composer. For example, he yells, "Shostakovich!'' just before he falls down the rabbit hole, and "Rimsky-Korsakov! That's a lot of eggs!" in Bunnymund's warren (relevant composers: Dmitri Shostakovich and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov). This may be an homage to the "Rocky & Bullwinkle" cartoons, where Boris Badenov's favorite expression was "Raskolnikov!," the criminal from Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment." It may also be a nod to Ira Gershwin's and Kurt Weill's famous novelty song from Lady In The Dark, "Tchaikovsky," the lyrics of which consist entirely of the names of various famous Russian composers, including the ones used by North. In the beginning of the movie, when North is making a train set out of ice, he can also be heard humming to famous Russian composer Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite". All of this could also be a reference to Alec Baldwin's (who voices North) love of classical music.
My favorite part of this movie is always North's speech to Jack about his eyes being full of wonder. Not only is it a beautiful idea, that it's SANTA giving it? Also, the movie gets more emotional (especially the scene in...I don't know, Antarctica?) when you've read the middle grade books that inspired the movie.
Another Fun Fact: Bunnymund opens a rabbit hole and jumps down it. This is a reference to Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", where a rabbit hole leads into another dimension.
I love that we aee glimpses into the Guardians interpersonal relationships, too - they're work colleagues but also friends, they have nicknames for one another (North, Bunny). It's a cool dynamic.
6:34 Fun fact in the books (yes there are books) Santa clause or Nicholas Saint north used to be an outlaw bandit unitil he reformed. 7:36 Also in the books Jack was never human it turns out that he was actually an alien. I'm not joking in the books there are aliens the easter bunny is an alien. 13:45 Jack and pitch also have a shared past and are both connected to the man in the moon.
I feel like it's older than that, with Jack Frost as a concept being this guy that just draws random patterns on frost appearing on your window. But yeah, that film was interesting, especially in bringing up Groundhog Day, explicitly Punksatawny Phil
I'm in Puerto Rico, and i was raised with the "El Ratoncito de los dientes". Same concept as the tooth fairy, except it's a mouse, so when I saw that they included him in this movie, I was thrilled.
I'm 24 now, 12 when this came out, and even to this day, Pitch still leaves this uncomfortable, terrifying feeling in my gut. THAT'S how you know you created a good villain.
This film has so many lore bits that when woven together, shows that in my opinion, these characters are the greatest representation of the titular holiday and fairytale characters they’re based on. Such as each one having a specific role to play when protecting the children, and a specific reason as to why they do what they do. North delivers gifts to instil wonder in children; tooth doesn’t collect teeth just to have teeth, but to gain memories and show those memories at a pivotal point. And above that, each one also teaches these virtues to the children; Bunny teaches them to explore the world around them, tooth teaches them to remember the best time of theyre life, sandy teaches them to dream, north teaches them to see the wonder in everything, and jack teaches them to have fun and just enjoy live.
You got the order wrong. Jack/Hiccup were first. Then came Rapunzel-Jack-Hiccup-Merida, which were the Big 4. They started the crossover. Elsa came later.
When I tell you I SCREAMED when I saw that notification. This is the movie I went to see the most times in theater when it came out. It's one of my Christmas classics. I love the fact that it kinda follows the codes and rules of a superhero teamup movie. It actually came out the same year as Avengers!
This is one of Dreamworks Best Projects that should have been praised more and definitely deserves a Trilogy as there’s so much potential in this Movie to be a Franchise.
Its interesting how pitch can use sandmans sand, essentially using one of their own team mates against them and can create night mares but then is also suprised that the nightmares that are manifestation of fear will collectively capture and possibly murder him by scaring him to death
Having never seen this movie, I watch it now through your video and am actually impressed with how they animated everyone's expressions. They're so lifelike and relatable. Not even Frozen got that across for me.
THANK you for calling out the Tiny Toons reboot issue: I dont' mind retcons... but one of the funniest jokes in the orignal is, after introducing themselves as Buster Bunny and Babs Bunny they'd ad "No relation". I feel that's ONE lelement that's hard to forget for fans of the original, so making them now siblings kinda grates
To quote the late great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure Jude Law might be thinking about right now is "Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.”
Budget $145 million. Box office: $306.9 million. That may seem like it's barely enough to make it break even, but that's not counting the distribution costs of the film. The movie lost the studio $87 million. The losses forced DreamWorks to lay off over three hundred workers.
Rise of the Guardians has become one of my all-time favorite Christmas films, right next to The Santa Clause. I love the message, the villain, the animation, the characters - I LOVE IT SO MUCH
Dang man, back when you talked about this film when it first came out I was always disappointed you never brought up much about The Easter Bunny. And now that you’ve made a proper video on it, you still barely mentioned him! When I saw this for the first time, he quickly became one of my favorite animated movie characters of all time, and I was completely blown away with how they managed to turn the Easter Bunny into something so badass but still funny.
Similar to the witch in Paranorman- without exactly saying it you can tell that Jammie was Jacks descendent. He looked just like his little sister, same brown hair and face, and has a J in the beginning of his name. Thats kinda why Jack stays around there the most even if he doesn’t realize it.
I'm pretty sure it's the same town, just 300 years later. Like, the lake that he takes the oath on at the end is the lake he rose from at the start and is revealed to have died in which...means there's his 300 year old skeleton below them during that scene 😅
Hi. 🇮🇹 Great video as always. I discovered that the Tooth Fairy is based on Saint Apollonia, who fulfills the same role. Here in Italy, it has several variations: in Sicily it is Saint Nicholas who brings the money, while more specifically in the Veneto there is the tradition of a little tooth ant, which acts in a similar way to the fairy. So we have the fairy, the mouse and the ant.😊
I could definitely see a sequel where they take on villains like Stingy Jack and Krampus as well as adding new Guardians like Cupid and the Leprechaun.
My favorite bit of trivia for this movie has to be years after it premiered, a movie theater in the states kept mixing up the reels of Guardians of the Galaxy with Rise of the Guardians, swapping them out multiple times with a spare "Guardians" Reel but each time they kept playing Rise of the Guardians until they came to the conclusion they don't actually have Guardians of the Galaxy in the building except multiple copies of Rise of the Guardians lol
Looking at jacks design, if anything, he could use a button up jacket with a white sweater underneath to replace the hoodie, and let’s add in a long muffler style scarf to let him have more volume to the design and some more feel of someone in the cold, boom easy fix, fanfic writers, this is all yours
Sad Fact: This movie is based on William Joyce's "Guardians of Childhood" book series written for his daughter Mary Katherine Joyce and son. The book were based on unique fairy tales Joyce told to his children with two characters in the book named after his actual children. However, Joyce's daughter passed away from a brain tumor in 2010 at the age of 18 before the books were published. This movie was dedicated to Joyce's daughter.
I knew he'd do this. 2:42 HA! Good one. 11:12 "Enchanted chainsaw"? Is Santa Claus THE DOOM SLAYER? 12:39 The Boogie Man briefly turned into David Bowie for a bit. 16:00 "They did WHAT with my name?! Do I even WANT royalties from them?" 17:01 "FATALITY!" Haven't seen it, but I could tell Baldwin and Jackman had a ball playing Santa and the Easter Bunny.
My friend you are a genetic rarity. cherish that celebrate your uniqueness because it’s gift very few people and animals are born with. And I think albinism looks really cool. 😎 🎉 🎊
This movie was such a unqiue foundation for further sequels and/or shows that it really is a shame it never got the chance to be that. The amount of additional world-building and characters that could be presented is a cool idea in and of itself. Exploring the backstories of the other Guardians alone sounds amazing It is one of my favorite DreamWorks movies based on creativity alone and I genuinely wish that it had more room to grow. But alas, I am happy with what we got and I'm glad the director has only gone up from here, especially since this was already an impressively well-done projet for a new director to tackle
Genuinely one of the most underrated animated movies Dreamworks has ever made, at least to me. Such a shame it never got a follow up and likely never will
If you like fanfics, I STRONGLY recommend reading the Shadows & Light series (From The Darkness We Rise+Into Shadows We fall), as well as The Golden Age That Never Was by not_poignant. The former is set 20+ years after the events of Rise of the Guardians, and brings in Seelie/Unseelie fae mythology. The latter is an alternate universe set in space and incorporates some of Pitch's lore from the books. They were incredible reads and had me genuinely care for the characters, I felt that they also managed to voice the Guardians and Pitch in-character as well.
I have always enjoy this movie, in particular Santa (One of the few on screen adaptations I genuinely like) and the themes about finding your center and also protecting the innocence and wonder of children. Especially now as a parent, that hits even harder.
One Last Couple of Facts: Pitch's realm's entrance being under a bed is symbolic of the first bed he ever hid under, The film takes place some 300 years after the source novels, Although the film made over $300 million worldwide, it actually lost DreamWorks about $80 million because of its high budget. Its failure was instrumental in the company having to lay off over 300 members of staff, Grossed $103 million domestically, the lowest figure for a Dreamworks Animation film since The Prince of Egypt, Bunny mentions that the meaning of Easter is springtime. Ironically, in Hugh Jackman's native Australia, Easter typically occurs mid-Autumn, On any globe in the film, the island state of Tasmania (off the southeast coast of Australia) is non-existent, despite it being quite large, Hugh Jackman's second Dreamworks Animation film, after Flushed Away, When Jack Frost is first kidnapped to the North Pole, there is a tapestry on the wall behind North that depicts North and the yetis shaking hands. This could be from a time when North asked the yetis to work for him, When Sandy is signaling everyone to look at the Man in the Moon, a crescent moon appears above his head. This is otherwise known as the DreamWorks Animation logo, Similar to the title character of the 1979 animated television special 'Jack Frost,' the Jack Frost in this movie is invisible to people and wants to join in the fun but cannot, Dreamworks Animation's fourth non-original computer animated film, after Shrek which is based off a picture book but with a different story, Over the Hedge which is based off a comic strip, and How to Train Your Dragon which is based off a children's book. Rise of the Guardians is based off the Guardians of Childhood book series by William Joyce, Leading cinematographer Roger Deakins advised on lighting and the look and feel of the film, The story summary on the back of the DVD cover claims the movie features "Jack Frost, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and Sandman - together for the the first time!" However, all these characters appear in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, released six years earlier. In both films Jack Frost is treated as an outcast by the other legendary characters, Christopher Lee, Dwayne Johnson, Natalie Portman, Hugh Laurie, Ian McShane, and voice actor Tom Kenny were all rumored to be involved in this movie at various points of production, Jude Law's 2nd voice over performance in a film, after A Series of Unfortunate Events, When Jack Frost, voiced by Chris Pine, who portrayed Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond, refuses to join The Guardians, North says to Jack, "Walk with me." In Star Trek, Captain Robau of the U.S.S. Kelvin, says this in the same fashion to James Kirk's father, First Officer George Kirk, thus promoting him to Captain, before Robau is transported to the Romulan ship to meet his death, The tooth fairies resemble hummingbirds, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Albert Finney, & Kevin Costner were considered for the role of North; Jim Sturgess, Jason Bateman, & Sam Rockwell were considered for the role of Jack Frost; Maya Rudolph, Mandy Moore, Geena Davis, & Mia Wasikowska were considered for the role of Tooth; Christopher Lloyd, Patrick Stewart, & Jeff Goldblum were considered for the role of Pitch Black; Bill Hader, Ed O'Neill, Daniel Stern, Eddie Redmayne, & Michael Keaton were considered for the role of Bunny, In early stages of the film: Leonardo DiCaprio would voice Jack Frost, (pop singer) Mandy Moore would voice Toothiana, Kevin Costner would voice North, Jeff Goldblum would voice Pitch & Ed O'Neil would voice the Easter Bunny before being casted with Chris Pine, Isla Fisher, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law & Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin's 2nd Dreamworks Animation film after Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Isla Fisher's 3rd Animated film, after Horton Hears a Who! and Rango, 53 years before this film, Santa Claus fought an adversary named Pitch (a red devil) in the Mexican film, Santa Claus. The Pitch in this film, Pitch Black, is a boogeyman. The third animated film to involve William Joyce after Robots and Meet the Robinsons, Natalie Portman was considered for the role of Toothiana, This marks the first time of DreamWorks Animations where at least two or more follow-up films are released in between two original films with this case being Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted between Megamind and Rise of the Guardians, Hugh Jackman & Dakota Goyo featured in Real Steel, First Dreamworks Animation film to release on Thanksgiving. The 2nd would later be Penguins of Madagascar in 2014, Paul Bettany was considered for the role of Pitch, Mandy Moore was considered for the role of Toothiana. Moore earlier voiced Rapunzel in Tangled, DreamWorks Animation's second film to not be composed by John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams, Hans Zimmer, Christophe Beck, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Henry Jackman, Lorne Balfe, or Theodore Shapiro after The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (composed by Julian Nott), as this film's composer is Alexandre Desplat, Jason Bateman was considered for the role of Jack Frost, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was considered for the role of Jack Frost, Patrick Stewart was considered for the role of Pitch, Christopher Lee was considered for the role of North, Hugh Laurie was considered for the role of Bunnymund, Sam Rockwell was considered for the role of Jack Frost, Ian McShane was considered for a role in the film, Christopher Lloyd was considered for the role of Pitch, Maya Rudolph was considered for the role of Toothiana, Mia Wasikowska was considered for the role of Toothiana, Daniel Stern was considered for the role of Bunnymund, Jim Sturgess was considered for the role of Jack Frost, Michael Keaton was considered for the role of Bunnymund, Kevin Spacey was considered for the role of North, Jeff Goldblum was considered for the role of Pitch, Jeff Bridges was considered for the role of North, Bill Hader was considered for the role of Bunnymund, Eddie Redmayne was considered for the role of Bunnymund, Geena Davis was considered for the role of Toothiana, Albert Finney was considered for the role of North, Ed O'Neill was considered for the role of Bunnymund.
Omg Rise of the Guardians! I absolutely love this movie 😭 it's honestly my top favorite from DreamWorks. Does it have issues? Yes. It's not perfect but i still love it. On a side note, i agree about Jack being remembered as just Elsa's boyfriend is horrible. Jack is a great protagonist and he shouldn't be remembered for a pointless crossover ship that wouldn't even happen.
One thing I kinda noticed, and I don't know if I'm just overthinking this, is that I think that Pitch could have been a Guardian himself if he'd just been less concerned with being believed in and just followed the role that he was clearly having fun doing anyway by scaring children at the right times. I realize that sounds VERY odd, but given the time period that both he and Jack are implicated to have died/formed in, 'the boogieman' likely saved a whole lot of lives by making the unmapped forests and otger dangerous places a lot spookier and more threatening than most kids are willing to deal with. Hell, there's even a case to be made for his necessity in less dire situations if he were to set up only kinda spooky, and less dangerous, areas to help kids learn to be brave.
Have you been Naughty or Nice this year?
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Nice, hopefully
I was Nice but depressed THIS year!
What's the correct answer?
Rise of The Guardians Time to see who's naughty & who's nice & P.S I been niced from time to time
Another Fun Fact: Bunny mentions that Jack Frost caused a blizzard on Easter Sunday of 1968, a reference to an actual event.
I always had a feeling if it was based on something that happened.
@@w1ndgeneral226 Events mentioned with a specific date in movies usually refers to real events in order to make the story more relatable/grounded in the real world.
...I'm gonna assume a few accidents happened back then.
Damn Jack must be really strong because that thing lasted six weeks. Also,he was clearly hoping somebody would die 😅
Fun Fact: The reason Bunny is Australian was because his voice actor was Australian and they thought I’d be funny to make the character Aussie especially since his book character didn’t mesh well with the group
Fun fact: Pitch/Boogeyman’s lair/hideout is actually underneath a broken bed because the Boogeyman is supposed to hide under children’s beds
Sometimes the closet too.
That's an interesting piece of subtle world-building. For the longest time, I thought it was his bed from the day he died or something.
Awesome dragon icon by the way.
@@Aslimb6gd dawww thanks
It's also his daughter's bed, because she became mother earth.
@@fatalrob0t True
A Sad Fact: This was the last Christmas movie Roger Ebert ever wrote a review for. He did give it a good one.
RIP to him.
I remember reading that one. RIP Mr Ebert 😢
I remember Wreck-It Ralph being the last Disney animated film he reviewed. I often wonder what he would’ve thought of the other Disney animated films that followed like Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Moana and Encanto?
@@SoranotRoxas RIP to a legend
@@hunterolaughlin He would’ve liked them, I hope And he would’ve despised the Disney remakes.
There's a theory that Jaime is a descendant of Jack's little sister, since they look a lot alike. I find that adorable. Also, the Boogeyman is such an underrated DreamWorks villain.
hes Pitch perfect
It’s honestly really sweet that the first person to believe in Jack could potentially be his nephew
Boogeyman here reminds me of Mr. Dark from Fables, though in his case, he's more than just the Boogeyman, almost an embodiment of fear itself in a way.
@@sparrowskeleton1831more like great great great whatever nephew
> Underrated
Uhm, no. He is pretty bland.
Its a tragedy that this didn't do well in the box office. It's so beautifully animated with a great story, great characters, and so heartwarming. Also, Nicholas St. North is the best Santa.
Online moviegoers complain how Hollywood has no original ideas and just pump out sequels but these same moviegoers ignore RoG and that's why we're getting a Shrek 5
I LOVE THIS MOVIE literally made me crush 😍 on Jack frost and Gave US BADASS SANTA AND FREAKING EASTER BUNNY and I could of seen more potential maybe a new urban legend or childhood story/holiday spirit like groundhog for groundhog day or idk new year baby etc
The fact this didn't get anything else is saddening...
I mean, it was okay, but it didn't really have that great of a story, nor was it that heartwarming either. I can totally understand that it bombed
I will always remember this Santa. He is my favorite
And he may be the same character as in Violent Night. He's also great ! :D
It’s a shame these Guardians never got multiple sequels to go with the book series. They could’ve easily made Despicable Me status in popularity.
Book series? There's a book series?
Except I like this movie and none of the Despicable Me series.
Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing that didn't happen.
I agree! There's so much stories to tell with this franhcise but we got Toy story 5 and Shrek 5... yay 😐
@@thechoseone509joseberrios2 Yes! The Guardians of Childhood by William Joyce! It delves way into the backstory of Pitch, North, even Jack Frost. It's an amazing read that I never get tired of, and I'm 25!
Never knew Santa was played by Baldwin. It's rare to hear celebrity voices playing a character instead of themselves
A recent example of a celebrity playing a role and being completely unrecognizable is Peter Dinklage as Professor Dillamond in Wicked. When I saw his name in the credits, I was in disbelief that that was Peter Dinklage. Peter Dinklage has a distinctive voice and in his previous voice performances like Captain Gutt in Ice Age: Continental Drift and the Mighty Eagle in the Angry Birds films, you can recognize his voice. I would never have guessed that was Peter Dinklage as the voice.
I never knew Hugh Jackman was Bunny! Man, age and knowledge do things to you.
@@hunterolaughlinI also quite like Chris Hemsworth as Orion Pax in Transformers One.
@@luigipowdemo6458I knew there was a reason I liked him lol
Honestly I thought Alec Baldwin played played Jack Frost
I think the emotional investment is there with Jack's desire just to be seen, to have that acknowledgment that he even exists at all. When the kid is able to see him and he tearfully responds, "You see me," I cry every time. It's an emotion so simple, but so powerful when done right and this movie definitely does it right
I think Jack's desire is what a lot of people have. Especially now that so many people feel alone and invisible. Having just one person acknowledge them means a lot.
Personally, I think it’s karma that bunny got to feel what jack felt for years because he made fun of Jack for being invisible. It’s sad that he never realized that his one day of being invisible was nothing compared to Jack’s
Oh yeah, I teared up at that scene too; it's just SO good!!
Another Sad Fact: A post-film dedication appears, "For Mary Katherine Joyce. A Guardian fierce and true." This refers to William Joyce's daughter, who died at age 18 from a brain tumor. The movie was based on Joyce's book series "Guardians of Childhood", which was inspired by stories he told his daughter. MK, the main protagonist in Epic, is based on her.
Oh god...
F**k...
Holy cow
You cannot deny that Jack Frost has one of the saddest backstories in any DreamWorks movie (not quite to the degree of Po from KFP2, but it is certainly up there). He saved his younger sister from a frozen lake that was starting to crack from right under their feet at the cost of his own life and lost all memories upon being reborn. Forcing him to spend three hundred years all by himself while nobody else could see him.
Unrelated but Considering how Jack feel very Peter pan like I've always wondered if His origin was a reference to One of J.M Barries real life inspiration for Peter that being his Brother who died in a freeze lake accident.
@@jadenbryant9283 William Joyce, the author of the books and creator of Jack Frost, actually has confirmed that the character was loosely based on Peter Pan.
Toothania (fairy) was equally bad. Her mutation caused hate in her village, adults wanted her dead or at least captured like a zoo animal. Laid traps and hired professional hunters. She escapes with parents to the wooded area for hiding. Her parents are captured and slaughtered despite her efforts. She spend decades in hiding all the while hiding gifts under childrens' pillows in exchange for teeth. Parents find out and get pissed she's still alive and hire hunters to go after her AGAIN. The colony of fairies who aided in raising her were also petrified until the end of time. In the end she had to just keep putting on a happy face while taken on those duties of collecting teeth.
@@Devious_Reviews Good LORD, that is dark...these books were for CHILDREN??😱I wanna know Pitch's backstory more than ever now; the movie showing the bed above a black hole is SO unsettling and creepy!!
Yet people ship elsa to him. There is a youtuber who put too much thought in the ship
Honestly, my favorite thing about this movie is how it associates each of the Guardians with an aspect of childhood in a way that makes sense. Santa represents wonder, seeing the wonder in everything ("lights in the trees and magic in the air") and putting that wonder into the world and the hearts of children. Bunny represents hope, and honestly when he talks about Easter being about new life and new beginnings, you could read that as just being about the coming of Spring after a long winter or go into the biblical aspect of Easter. The different themes of the characters make me want to know what other themes could be explored
i believe that the tooth fairy represents clearly the value of the memories of childhood, the good and the bad that makes the foundations of a person, and Sandman, well, maybe he represents the dreams of Children, in a literal and metaphorical way, the dreams to go into the future without falling into fear, dreams of a good tomorrow.
Jack Frost represents playfulness and fun, I think.
I read a fanfic for RoTG that mixed in Seelie/Unseelie fae mythology into the plot and it made it really interesting because something I didn't know before was that in some fae lore, they have some singular concept/drive within them as their core and that might've been the original inspiration for the Guardians'
@@FlowerEmblem that sounds beautiful! could you forward the fanfic here?
@@FlowerEmblem fanfic name please? that sounds really interesting :o
Easter Bunny roasting Santa’s ass in the chimney was a realization of the evil thoughts I had when I was a little kid and I adored it
After this movie's release, my little sister ignored Easter Bunny in the mall and said this one was the superior Easter Bunny.
I mean, when The Wolverine is his voice actor…..
She isn't wrong
Hugh Jackman works his magic
Heck yeah!! I’ve always LOVED this version of the Easter Bunny!!!
Funny since he's voiced by The Wolverine.
18:36 I think the color palette gets grayer the stronger Pitch grows. It makes sense that as belief fades, the colors would get less vibrant. It literally explodes back into vibrancy when Sandman returns, and it's colorful on the final frozen lake. I like it 😊
Honestly I do like Jack's design because it is more modern. He keeps up with the times and sees what humans wear, so it's a nice little detail of contrast with the other guardians who either don't know or wouldn't care about stuff like that since they don't interact with children regularly and are more stuck in their ways.
How he can change his clothes? I don't know I assume he stole a hoodie and it magically became invisible too.
I agree as when he did turn he had time appropriate attire and he is the only guardian who spent time with the children often.
That was my headcanon too, Jack just kept changing his outfit as the years went by knowing he was so close to the people of the world
@@Glitch_Comicz I want a scene now with the other guardians giving him shit for past outfits that didn't age well. 😂
In the original books it was said that Jack helped a group of fairies, and in return for his good deed they helped create his hoodie - as he had to long abandon his old tattered shirt.
Absolutely agree with that. Another thing that’s important to distinguish about his outfit choices is that it’s meant to help the viewer to see just how much of an oddity and isolated he looks compared to the other Guardians; like he doesn’t literally belong with them - this imagine can also carry out to him not quite belonging with the children and Pitch as well. He spent years on his own and grew slightly jaded and cynical towards others. Resorting to becoming a nuisance and thorn in everyone’s side just to have the smallest bit of attention. Having his design simple and almost that of an 18 year old getting kicked out of home and is living in the streets makes sense for the character at this stage of the story.
If this movie ever got a sequel of any kind he would’ve likely gotten an outfit update to match his role as a Guardian.
Personally I always kinda interpreted it as being because unlike the Guardians there aren’t really any holidays, traditions or beliefs associated with Jack to impact how he looks so he kinda just looks like a regular guy.
That being said I like your explanation too
The fact that Doug remembers The Woman in Black when literally no one else does, it made me smile.
Need to watch that movie
The mad skit the woman in back reminded me of it
Daniel Radcliffe's first major film outside of Harry Potter :)
One of Daniel Radcliffe’s best movies.
English GCSE Students
The author and illustrator of the books, William Joyce, also helped in creating Rolie Polie Olie (which started off as a book series created by him), designed some of the characters for the movie Robots, and even helped in the character design for Woody from Toy Story.
Another book of his, The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, would get a loose adaptation by Blue Sky better known as “Epic”. He also wrote children’s books like Santa Calls, The Mischievians, and Dinosaur Bob, illustrated for the New Yorker a couple times, and helped with the making of this movie, which was dedicated to his late daughter.
And Meet in the Robinsons
@@matityaloran9157 which was in turn loosely based on another book of his
Oh my God, this man designed basically my whole childhood!!! I loved Rolie Polie Olie as a kid, I still love the movie Robots, and I still love Toy Story!!
I always wondered why robots looked vaguely familiar
One of DreamWorks most underrated movies that deserved better and more
I love this film.
@@chasehedges6775I love it too
@@chasehedges6775 I could not agree with this and more.
@@ProphecyPhrase Same
I agree 100%. While it isn't perfect, there is so much here that works so well. The characters are likeable, which includes the villain. The jokes can fall flat, but they have a few laughs out of me. This is just a really fun movie to explore as the Guardians' personality bounces of each other so well.
I think the cinematography in this movie is fantastic, and really underrated. The first shot of Jack and the moon is GORGEOUS.
“Some roles of his(Alec) roles don’t work, like Thomas the tank engine.”
But Doug…
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FUCK YEAH, SPARKLE SPARKLE SPARKLE!
Fucking bubbles
Sparkle sparkle sparkle!!
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Also for me, I’m more partial to George Carlin or Ringo Star as Mr. Conductor
Gotta say tho, renaming the Boogeyman as "Pitch Black" or just "pitch" and make him the incarnation of the fear of the dark was a really good move. I don't think ANYONE would be able to take seriously a villain they call "boogeyman" the whole movie. Now "Pitch" can easily sound treatening. It's a name that can roll off the tongue in any serious conversation without breaking the atmosphere.
Design-wise he is also perfect. Very minimalistic but with a silhouette that still go as unique.
There are times it works, but I think it’s mostly when someone’s truly afraid. Think Laurie asking if Micheal Myers was the boogie man. Or you set the boogie man up as a joke only for it be really terrifying
It's a pity the creative process ended there. One might think a villain who represented fear, nightmares and darkness would do more than just conjure evil horses. Or have a design that doesn't look like budged-Hades. Perhaps he also wouldn't be voiced by the world's most boring man.
The horses are based off what people thought nightmares were in the old days, even the name itself is a reference to horses @@dr.cliche7560
The horror movie Boogeyman should take notes
I'm glad you praised the Matryoshka doll scene. That has stuck with me ever since I saw it, the idea of a center that defines an individual! That is beautiful!
Interestingly enough, this movie is based on a book series that asserts things such as pitch black being the million year old general of an interstellar empire posessed by extradimensional evils, Jack being the reincarnation of the Guardian of the prince of that exact empire, and the man in the moon being that prince and having decided to protect the children of earth. Its actually amazing. And Santa? A bolshevik bandit who fought a nightmare possessing a bear
So the book series is just holiday-themed Sailor Moon?
@@jordanhunter3375 guardians of childhood, man. It's a great series.
Rise of the Guardians is such an overlooked movie, I can’t believe Dreamworks didn’t put enough effort into the marketing! Also I can’t believe Frozen helped make this movie popular than when it was released!
Not sure if that's a good thing cause that movie is gonna get 2 more sequels while this movie just remains forgotten by people and even think Jack is a fan made creation.
@ I’m not a fan of Frozen, but I’m glad for its success that brought attention to Jack Frost, but the origin of character is public domain. Dreamworks should make their own spinoff movie with Jack Frost.
You mean the ship between elsa and jack?
@@skootergirl22 not the only reason, it was about wanting Jack Frost to get his own winter story after Christmas.
I like the fact that Santa is Russian like the saint that ispired him, Saint Nick. Fun fact: his bones are now in Bari, in the south Italy. I’m from Bari, so visit it, it’s really nice
Saint Nicholas was Greek
Place hat on skull to resurrect
(emergencies only!)
@@BongBing11 He was a Turk, more accurately. Born in Anatolia, but of Greek descent.
Saint nick was not russian. he was of Greek descent and he was born in modern day Turkey
@scottydu81 The Turks migrated in much later, he was a Greek Anatolian.
A Nightmare Fact: Although Pitch's nightmares are literally "Nightmares" the word nightmare originally derives from Mare, a malicious entity in Germanic and Slavic folklore that rides on people's chests while they sleep, bringing on nightmares. In german it is called Mahr, Nachtmahr (Nightmare) or Nachtalb (hence the german word Albtraum).
That's a pretty cool name. Thanks for the fact!
So it has nothing to do with a female horse?
You're reading too much into this. It's a pun - they're nightMARES.
I also like to point out nobody except Bunny having issues running barefoot through the cold. Jack (when he was alive), Jamie, and the few of the kids run around barefoot on the frozen pond or through the snowy town like it was nothing. First that is dangerous and second I tried that and I didn't last 3 minutes before I ran back inside my house.
3 minutes? I wouldn't last 10 seconds.
I'm always a sucker for the villains own powers turning back on them. The idea of the villains using fear as a weapon and it turning back on them is just such a cool way to beat them. That's the reason I prefer how Steppenwolf was beaten in the Justice League movie instead of his head getting cut off. Him being taken away by fear just feels more satisfying to me :)
I love this movie and I kinda wished this film had a sequel. Like showing Sandman's home/realm, making Jack Frost's resident and showing other holidays, myths and other figures. Like Halloween/Samhain, Selkies and so on.
The tooth fairy represents growth, Jack represents mischief, the sand man represents fantasy
A Santa Claus that kicks ass! Somehow this fits for the Holiday Avengers that Dreamworks cooked up for us.
Sooo true
Nahh fr this has to be my favorite version of Santa in any media lol
@@theoguncleslappy9150 Same.
Duel sword Wheeling Santa.
4:48 I'm surprised Doug makes a joke about this character looking like Gru in drag without mentioning the scene in the beginning of Despicable Me 2 where he literally is dressed in drag.
I kinda wish Jack's clothes were the same as when he fell through the ice, but with a colder palette
I have the art design book for this movie and the whole process is so fascinating. Obviously, most movie characters get multiple designs before a final is chosen, but the concept artist boiled them down to their most basic shapes and colors first and built up from there. For instance, Santa as a red square, sandman was a yellow triangle, i think? You get the idea. I can't remember his shape, but Jack was always going to be blue. In the books, Jack does change his clothes to match the modern times. And while I too would've loved a more icy-looking outfit or maybe a 150 yr old in-between version to show his evolving style, I get wanting to follow the books but also if his colors were TOO cool, he wouldn't stand out next to Bunny.
Highly recommend checking out the book if you can. It's amazing
I know what you mean, it would have been cool if he had a design that felt more like a costume, but I also really like the importance placed on how he kept constantly involved with the humans all those years while the others stuck to their ways over the centuries mostly just interacting directly with other spirits or whatever they are, you know? The simple change from a cloak to a hoodie instantly conveys that to us, he's open minded where they aren't and I gotta appreciate a design that does it's job that well 😅
This Movie is Based on The Guardians of Childhood Paperback Books and Picture Books Created By William Joyce.
This Movie Extreme Underrated.
Yeah and the books are so exciting. I got the whole book-set for my niece two years ago. There are so many ideas, themes and potential in the books that the movies just left out.
The way they handled Pitch Black in the film was such a let down because he was actually a deeply tragic character in the same lines as Mr Freeze in The Animated Series in the books. But the movie made him a generic "I'm so bad I'm gonna take over the world! Mwahahahah!!!" approach. Not that it's necessarily bad, but it's just forgettable unless they made him more threatening or scarier looking like the original Shane Prigmore concept art where more of a ghostly entity.
Alot of his book get adapted like Rolie Polie Olie,Meet The Robinson,George Shrink,this,Epic,and Ollie's Odyssey. Right now he direct the animated adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
The book series was also based on stories Joyce told to his son and daughter. Sadly, Mary Katherine Joyce (Joyce's daughter) passed away from a brain tumor in 2010 before the book were published. This movie was dedicated to her memory.
Honestly, I'm pleasantly surprised by how you lasted the entire review without making a crack about how furries absolutely fell in love with this version of the Easter Bunny.
To be fair, it’s been played out, plus we all know that’s the truth lol
So I don’t know if it was intentional, the writer of the Book series (William Joyce, and his daughter’s memory was dedicated to in this film) Birthday is today.
The Santa and Jack scene talking about what a center is, is one of my favorite animated movie moment of all time.
Remind me again how Trolls got two sequels, an animated series, AND a bunch of holiday shorts and the masterpiece Rise of the Guardians didn't get crap!?
Pretty much dreamworks version of minons
Should've won the Oscar over Brave...
You said it, best friend!
With the Lamest Boogeyman ever created? Come on, THIS is the Guy if you think about BOOGEYMAN? Even CARE BARES had better designed Villains
@DasKame tell me you're a Disney fan without telling me you're a Disney fan
You know what I liked about this "mature santa" compared to other interpretations? He still has a really soft spot for children and christmas and he is not scared to show it. He is proud of it even, he doesnt care if he is goofy thats just who he is
Funny story: After seeing this movie as kids, my sweet little sister legitimately thought i was the real tooth fairy both from real life and the movie. Years later she said it was because she thought i looked a little like Tooth and acted like her (I don't know how true that is XD) but what sealed the deal was that a couple nights after seeing the movie, my parents forgot to leave my sister a quarter and take her tooth. So I volunteered to do it, and apparently she wasn't fully asleep. So thanks to the Guardians movie i was accidentally believed to be the tooth fairy for a year. I'm just glad i got to spread some genuine childhood wonder for my sister, which coincidentally is my favorite thing about the movie. Capturing that childhood wonder is a pretty special thing, whether intentionally from the movie, or accidentally like me.
@@liv.H5174 that's adorable
My only real note about this movie is they establish that the power the guardians have is directly related to children believing in them, but Jack has power despite kids not actually believing in him. I would have liked if Pitch showed that he gets HIS power by feeding on fear instead of belief and trying to convince Jack to join him, but Jack realizes that he got his power from the kid's love of snow and winter fun which leads him on his path to embracing his role as a guardian.
"Jack has power despite kids not actually believing in him" Because he wasn't a Guardian yet. He becomes one at the end. And the Guardians share the belief pool, that's why they all get weaker even though only Sandy and Bunny suffered (they fixed Tooth's). North says it "Easter took a toll on all of us".
Imagine if they gave this movie a sequel with the Puss in Boots: The Last Wish treatment. With those colors, this could look phenomenal.
There’s a popular fan theory that the boy, Jamie, is a descendant of Jacks sister. That would explain the connection between them and the genetics would line up.
Rise of the Guardians is so overlooked and absolutely deserved to have become a huge franchise. So many possibilities for storytelling and characters.
Here's an interesting thought. So he says it was a little weird to spend so much time on the Guardians mourning Sandman, because he wasn't like Mufasa, but rather more like Lurch. Well, had the Guardians moved on from it quickly, people would have just found THAT odd. Like, they would have said "they acted like Sandy was one of their best friends, yet they got over his death in like 5 minutes." So really, his death and their mourning wasn't meant to make us necessarily feel sad. It was to show us how much Sandy meant to the others, and why they're even MORE determined to stop Pitch.
There are early storyboards depicting a very different plot of the story, in which Bunnymund is still a professor-rabbit, Toothiana meets Jack before anyone else did and is the only one in the group who never questions him, she promises to get his teeth back, etc. Some artwork from the creators hint that she was also going to be kidnapped once or twice. There was more Tooth x Jack Ship Tease; in the earlier versions of the movie, they have Belligerent Sexual Tension.
The professor rabbit style I believe would have been inspired by his book design. Look it up, it's pretty cool. All their designs are inspired by the book illustrations
I'm really glad that they just kept it to a crush and didn't put in any romance between Tooth and Jack. Feels like it would've just been a distraction to the main plot.
Fun Fact: In one scene, the Tooth Fairy finds a mouse beneath a pillow and identifies it as "one of us, European division." Ratoncito (Little Mouse) Perez, or "The Tooth Mouse", is a children's book character created by Spanish author Luis Coloma in 1894 said to replace lost baby teeth with gifts in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and Latin America. In the Spanish dub of the movie, it is even called "Pérez". In Austria it is simply called the "Zahnmauserl" or "Zahnmäuschen" (Tiny Tooth Mouse).
Not another “fun” fact
There is no Tooth Fairy, there is no Easter Bunny and there's no fun in this fact
8:04 welp, guess this comment is worthless
Also look up Celestine and Ernest
@@MoreRicey Who pissed in your cereal?
The sad thing is i think most people don't realise this is based on a book series which is why the world building is stella, they kinda took bits from 3 books (and two picture books)
Mhm! Although it still impresses me that they even managed to make this film using an incomplete book series and did it well (having the writer on board probably helped, but then again Jack was supposed to appear in the fourth book - as mentioned at the end of the third - but never did and eventually got his own book)
Another Fun Fact: Whenever North is surprised or alarmed, he exclaims loudly with the name of a classical Russian composer. For example, he yells, "Shostakovich!'' just before he falls down the rabbit hole, and "Rimsky-Korsakov! That's a lot of eggs!" in Bunnymund's warren (relevant composers: Dmitri Shostakovich and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov). This may be an homage to the "Rocky & Bullwinkle" cartoons, where Boris Badenov's favorite expression was "Raskolnikov!," the criminal from Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment." It may also be a nod to Ira Gershwin's and Kurt Weill's famous novelty song from Lady In The Dark, "Tchaikovsky," the lyrics of which consist entirely of the names of various famous Russian composers, including the ones used by North. In the beginning of the movie, when North is making a train set out of ice, he can also be heard humming to famous Russian composer Igor Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite". All of this could also be a reference to Alec Baldwin's (who voices North) love of classical music.
My favorite part of this movie is always North's speech to Jack about his eyes being full of wonder. Not only is it a beautiful idea, that it's SANTA giving it? Also, the movie gets more emotional (especially the scene in...I don't know, Antarctica?) when you've read the middle grade books that inspired the movie.
i think this movie is very underrated, it's a shame it didn't make that money at the box office
They should make mor out of the Boogeyman, every Guardian looks gorgeous, but the Boogeyman? Lame as F
Another Fun Fact: Bunnymund opens a rabbit hole and jumps down it. This is a reference to Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", where a rabbit hole leads into another dimension.
I love the Critics little head wiggle when he says "Hello I'm the Nostalgia Critic"
It always reminded me of Snoopy for some reason. 😅
I love that we aee glimpses into the Guardians interpersonal relationships, too - they're work colleagues but also friends, they have nicknames for one another (North, Bunny). It's a cool dynamic.
6:34 Fun fact in the books (yes there are books) Santa clause or Nicholas Saint north used to be an outlaw bandit unitil he reformed.
7:36 Also in the books Jack was never human it turns out that he was actually an alien. I'm not joking in the books there are aliens the easter bunny is an alien.
13:45 Jack and pitch also have a shared past and are both connected to the man in the moon.
I love how the whole plot line of Jack being sad the kids can't see him is an homage to the Rankin/Bass classic "Jack Frost."
Omg yes.
I feel like it's older than that, with Jack Frost as a concept being this guy that just draws random patterns on frost appearing on your window. But yeah, that film was interesting, especially in bringing up Groundhog Day, explicitly Punksatawny Phil
I'm in Puerto Rico, and i was raised with the "El Ratoncito de los dientes". Same concept as the tooth fairy, except it's a mouse, so when I saw that they included him in this movie, I was thrilled.
I'm 24 now, 12 when this came out, and even to this day, Pitch still leaves this uncomfortable, terrifying feeling in my gut. THAT'S how you know you created a good villain.
This film has so many lore bits that when woven together, shows that in my opinion, these characters are the greatest representation of the titular holiday and fairytale characters they’re based on.
Such as each one having a specific role to play when protecting the children, and a specific reason as to why they do what they do. North delivers gifts to instil wonder in children; tooth doesn’t collect teeth just to have teeth, but to gain memories and show those memories at a pivotal point.
And above that, each one also teaches these virtues to the children; Bunny teaches them to explore the world around them, tooth teaches them to remember the best time of theyre life, sandy teaches them to dream, north teaches them to see the wonder in everything, and jack teaches them to have fun and just enjoy live.
All the shipping with Elsa and Jack.
And then the 4 came: Elsa, Jack Hiccup and Mérida 😂🤣
And rapunzel too, don’t forget that Trent that hapoen
And then Barry B. Benson, Shrek, Johnny Test and Cory Baxter
Oh dear lord I hate Elsa/Jack ship. If fire didn't exist, I would invent it simply to burn whole Jelsa thing with it.
You got the order wrong. Jack/Hiccup were first. Then came Rapunzel-Jack-Hiccup-Merida, which were the Big 4. They started the crossover. Elsa came later.
@@a.r.e.j.1693I was there for rapunzel/jack before Elsa😅
Jack looks like a normal guy because THE ENTIRE POINT is that he's still connected to humanity, while the others have isolated themselves.
When I tell you I SCREAMED when I saw that notification. This is the movie I went to see the most times in theater when it came out. It's one of my Christmas classics. I love the fact that it kinda follows the codes and rules of a superhero teamup movie. It actually came out the same year as Avengers!
This is one of Dreamworks Best Projects that should have been praised more and definitely deserves a Trilogy as there’s so much potential in this Movie to be a Franchise.
Called it! This was an underrated movie!
A Christmas/Easter classic
I called it, too.
@@chasehedges6775I'd lean more on Easter
I saw this in theaters when it came out. I thought it was decent, but nothing amazing. Now it’s a forgotten film
Same here. Absolutely loved it.
Me to
My thoughts exactly
@@jacobdehaan4114 Very true.💯💯💯
Same here :)
Its interesting how pitch can use sandmans sand, essentially using one of their own team mates against them and can create night mares but then is also suprised that the nightmares that are manifestation of fear will collectively capture and possibly murder him by scaring him to death
One of the more under-appreciated dreamworks movies out there. Not exactly in my top 10, but still pretty decent nonetheless.
Having never seen this movie, I watch it now through your video and am actually impressed with how they animated everyone's expressions. They're so lifelike and relatable. Not even Frozen got that across for me.
THANK you for calling out the Tiny Toons reboot issue: I dont' mind retcons... but one of the funniest jokes in the orignal is, after introducing themselves as Buster Bunny and Babs Bunny they'd ad "No relation". I feel that's ONE lelement that's hard to forget for fans of the original, so making them now siblings kinda grates
It was probably the most famous running gag, especially in the "It's a Wonderful Life" episode.
To quote the late great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure Jude Law might be thinking about right now is "Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.”
Budget $145 million. Box office: $306.9 million. That may seem like it's barely enough to make it break even, but that's not counting the distribution costs of the film. The movie lost the studio $87 million. The losses forced DreamWorks to lay off over three hundred workers.
Yikes...
And now they’re outsourcing their animation to other studios to cutback on their losses, it’s a shame.
Rise of the Guardians has become one of my all-time favorite Christmas films, right next to The Santa Clause. I love the message, the villain, the animation, the characters - I LOVE IT SO MUCH
Dang man, back when you talked about this film when it first came out I was always disappointed you never brought up much about The Easter Bunny. And now that you’ve made a proper video on it, you still barely mentioned him!
When I saw this for the first time, he quickly became one of my favorite animated movie characters of all time, and I was completely blown away with how they managed to turn the Easter Bunny into something so badass but still funny.
Similar to the witch in Paranorman- without exactly saying it you can tell that Jammie was Jacks descendent. He looked just like his little sister, same brown hair and face, and has a J in the beginning of his name. Thats kinda why Jack stays around there the most even if he doesn’t realize it.
I'm pretty sure it's the same town, just 300 years later. Like, the lake that he takes the oath on at the end is the lake he rose from at the start and is revealed to have died in which...means there's his 300 year old skeleton below them during that scene 😅
@@pipedream2556 I don’t know whenever to laugh or cry at that last sentence. I never thought of it *that* way lol 😩
@@pipedream2556WAIT..Jacks skeleton- winter and Christmas- JACK SKELINGTON!!! It’s the nightmare before Christmas prequel we never knew!!! 😂
Hi. 🇮🇹 Great video as always.
I discovered that the Tooth Fairy is based on Saint Apollonia, who fulfills the same role.
Here in Italy, it has several variations: in Sicily it is Saint Nicholas who brings the money, while more specifically in the Veneto there is the tradition of a little tooth ant, which acts in a similar way to the fairy.
So we have the fairy, the mouse and the ant.😊
I could definitely see a sequel where they take on villains like Stingy Jack and Krampus as well as adding new Guardians like Cupid and the Leprechaun.
My favorite bit of trivia for this movie has to be years after it premiered, a movie theater in the states kept mixing up the reels of Guardians of the Galaxy with Rise of the Guardians, swapping them out multiple times with a spare "Guardians" Reel but each time they kept playing Rise of the Guardians until they came to the conclusion they don't actually have Guardians of the Galaxy in the building except multiple copies of Rise of the Guardians lol
They sometimes accidentally give Santa and Jack Frost Heterochromia, they're both the same different colors, but different eye. Look at 8:25 and 8:55.
17:18 Fun fact: The score *actually* plays a modified snippet of the Jurassic Park theme as both a reference and to evoke a similar sense of wonder.
Looking at jacks design, if anything, he could use a button up jacket with a white sweater underneath to replace the hoodie, and let’s add in a long muffler style scarf to let him have more volume to the design and some more feel of someone in the cold, boom easy fix, fanfic writers, this is all yours
Sad Fact: This movie is based on William Joyce's "Guardians of Childhood" book series written for his daughter Mary Katherine Joyce and son. The book were based on unique fairy tales Joyce told to his children with two characters in the book named after his actual children. However, Joyce's daughter passed away from a brain tumor in 2010 at the age of 18 before the books were published. This movie was dedicated to Joyce's daughter.
I knew he'd do this.
2:42 HA! Good one. 11:12 "Enchanted chainsaw"? Is Santa Claus THE DOOM SLAYER?
12:39 The Boogie Man briefly turned into David Bowie for a bit. 16:00 "They did WHAT with my name?! Do I even WANT royalties from them?" 17:01 "FATALITY!"
Haven't seen it, but I could tell Baldwin and Jackman had a ball playing Santa and the Easter Bunny.
13:43 I CAN’T BREATHE!
I like that Pitch isn't technically dead. He is the embodiement of fear and that's not something that can ever go away.
as a guy with albinism, everyone called me Jack Frost growing up, and now everyone thinks he's hot so
My friend you are a genetic rarity. cherish that celebrate your uniqueness because it’s gift very few people and animals are born with. And I think albinism looks really cool. 😎 🎉 🎊
This movie was such a unqiue foundation for further sequels and/or shows that it really is a shame it never got the chance to be that. The amount of additional world-building and characters that could be presented is a cool idea in and of itself. Exploring the backstories of the other Guardians alone sounds amazing
It is one of my favorite DreamWorks movies based on creativity alone and I genuinely wish that it had more room to grow. But alas, I am happy with what we got and I'm glad the director has only gone up from here, especially since this was already an impressively well-done projet for a new director to tackle
Genuinely one of the most underrated animated movies Dreamworks has ever made, at least to me. Such a shame it never got a follow up and likely never will
If you like fanfics, I STRONGLY recommend reading the Shadows & Light series (From The Darkness We Rise+Into Shadows We fall), as well as The Golden Age That Never Was by not_poignant. The former is set 20+ years after the events of Rise of the Guardians, and brings in Seelie/Unseelie fae mythology. The latter is an alternate universe set in space and incorporates some of Pitch's lore from the books. They were incredible reads and had me genuinely care for the characters, I felt that they also managed to voice the Guardians and Pitch in-character as well.
I have always enjoy this movie, in particular Santa (One of the few on screen adaptations I genuinely like) and the themes about finding your center and also protecting the innocence and wonder of children. Especially now as a parent, that hits even harder.
8:00 "This movie is suprisingly educational" Little Mouse Pérez is from Spain but the film uses the anthem of France
One Last Couple of Facts: Pitch's realm's entrance being under a bed is symbolic of the first bed he ever hid under, The film takes place some 300 years after the source novels, Although the film made over $300 million worldwide, it actually lost DreamWorks about $80 million because of its high budget. Its failure was instrumental in the company having to lay off over 300 members of staff, Grossed $103 million domestically, the lowest figure for a Dreamworks Animation film since The Prince of Egypt, Bunny mentions that the meaning of Easter is springtime. Ironically, in Hugh Jackman's native Australia, Easter typically occurs mid-Autumn, On any globe in the film, the island state of Tasmania (off the southeast coast of Australia) is non-existent, despite it being quite large, Hugh Jackman's second Dreamworks Animation film, after Flushed Away, When Jack Frost is first kidnapped to the North Pole, there is a tapestry on the wall behind North that depicts North and the yetis shaking hands. This could be from a time when North asked the yetis to work for him, When Sandy is signaling everyone to look at the Man in the Moon, a crescent moon appears above his head. This is otherwise known as the DreamWorks Animation logo, Similar to the title character of the 1979 animated television special 'Jack Frost,' the Jack Frost in this movie is invisible to people and wants to join in the fun but cannot, Dreamworks Animation's fourth non-original computer animated film, after Shrek which is based off a picture book but with a different story, Over the Hedge which is based off a comic strip, and How to Train Your Dragon which is based off a children's book. Rise of the Guardians is based off the Guardians of Childhood book series by William Joyce, Leading cinematographer Roger Deakins advised on lighting and the look and feel of the film, The story summary on the back of the DVD cover claims the movie features "Jack Frost, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and Sandman - together for the the first time!" However, all these characters appear in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, released six years earlier. In both films Jack Frost is treated as an outcast by the other legendary characters, Christopher Lee, Dwayne Johnson, Natalie Portman, Hugh Laurie, Ian McShane, and voice actor Tom Kenny were all rumored to be involved in this movie at various points of production, Jude Law's 2nd voice over performance in a film, after A Series of Unfortunate Events, When Jack Frost, voiced by Chris Pine, who portrayed Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond, refuses to join The Guardians, North says to Jack, "Walk with me." In Star Trek, Captain Robau of the U.S.S. Kelvin, says this in the same fashion to James Kirk's father, First Officer George Kirk, thus promoting him to Captain, before Robau is transported to the Romulan ship to meet his death, The tooth fairies resemble hummingbirds, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Albert Finney, & Kevin Costner were considered for the role of North; Jim Sturgess, Jason Bateman, & Sam Rockwell were considered for the role of Jack Frost; Maya Rudolph, Mandy Moore, Geena Davis, & Mia Wasikowska were considered for the role of Tooth; Christopher Lloyd, Patrick Stewart, & Jeff Goldblum were considered for the role of Pitch Black; Bill Hader, Ed O'Neill, Daniel Stern, Eddie Redmayne, & Michael Keaton were considered for the role of Bunny, In early stages of the film: Leonardo DiCaprio would voice Jack Frost, (pop singer) Mandy Moore would voice Toothiana, Kevin Costner would voice North, Jeff Goldblum would voice Pitch & Ed O'Neil would voice the Easter Bunny before being casted with Chris Pine, Isla Fisher, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law & Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin's 2nd Dreamworks Animation film after Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Isla Fisher's 3rd Animated film, after Horton Hears a Who! and Rango, 53 years before this film, Santa Claus fought an adversary named Pitch (a red devil) in the Mexican film, Santa Claus. The Pitch in this film, Pitch Black, is a boogeyman. The third animated film to involve William Joyce after Robots and Meet the Robinsons, Natalie Portman was considered for the role of Toothiana, This marks the first time of DreamWorks Animations where at least two or more follow-up films are released in between two original films with this case being Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted between Megamind and Rise of the Guardians, Hugh Jackman & Dakota Goyo featured in Real Steel, First Dreamworks Animation film to release on Thanksgiving. The 2nd would later be Penguins of Madagascar in 2014, Paul Bettany was considered for the role of Pitch, Mandy Moore was considered for the role of Toothiana. Moore earlier voiced Rapunzel in Tangled, DreamWorks Animation's second film to not be composed by John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams, Hans Zimmer, Christophe Beck, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Henry Jackman, Lorne Balfe, or Theodore Shapiro after The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (composed by Julian Nott), as this film's composer is Alexandre Desplat, Jason Bateman was considered for the role of Jack Frost, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was considered for the role of Jack Frost, Patrick Stewart was considered for the role of Pitch, Christopher Lee was considered for the role of North, Hugh Laurie was considered for the role of Bunnymund, Sam Rockwell was considered for the role of Jack Frost, Ian McShane was considered for a role in the film, Christopher Lloyd was considered for the role of Pitch, Maya Rudolph was considered for the role of Toothiana, Mia Wasikowska was considered for the role of Toothiana, Daniel Stern was considered for the role of Bunnymund, Jim Sturgess was considered for the role of Jack Frost, Michael Keaton was considered for the role of Bunnymund, Kevin Spacey was considered for the role of North, Jeff Goldblum was considered for the role of Pitch, Jeff Bridges was considered for the role of North, Bill Hader was considered for the role of Bunnymund, Eddie Redmayne was considered for the role of Bunnymund, Geena Davis was considered for the role of Toothiana, Albert Finney was considered for the role of North, Ed O'Neill was considered for the role of Bunnymund.
Can we all just agree that Sandman and Pitch Black have one of the coolest powers in all of fiction?
Omg Rise of the Guardians! I absolutely love this movie 😭 it's honestly my top favorite from DreamWorks. Does it have issues? Yes. It's not perfect but i still love it.
On a side note, i agree about Jack being remembered as just Elsa's boyfriend is horrible. Jack is a great protagonist and he shouldn't be remembered for a pointless crossover ship that wouldn't even happen.
One thing I kinda noticed, and I don't know if I'm just overthinking this, is that I think that Pitch could have been a Guardian himself if he'd just been less concerned with being believed in and just followed the role that he was clearly having fun doing anyway by scaring children at the right times. I realize that sounds VERY odd, but given the time period that both he and Jack are implicated to have died/formed in, 'the boogieman' likely saved a whole lot of lives by making the unmapped forests and otger dangerous places a lot spookier and more threatening than most kids are willing to deal with. Hell, there's even a case to be made for his necessity in less dire situations if he were to set up only kinda spooky, and less dangerous, areas to help kids learn to be brave.
13:03..."Yes. please say the whole thing if you would. Yes, that includes the 'A Pimp named' part. Yes, Tom, every time."
The author of the ROTG series also wrote the books that inspired Meet the Robinsons and Epic
17:36 Now everyone watching can see where Joss-tice League got the inspiration for the villain’s demise
That's what I thought too
This is an underrated DreamWorks film.
I love it.
This was my favorite movie when it came out, for a WHILE. It is still one of my favorites to watch from time to time.