Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

Directed by

Zack Snyder

Genre

fantasy film, adventure film, children's film

Country

Australia, United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 2,507 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young barn owl named Soren is kidnapped and taken to a sinister academy where owlets are brainwashed into soldiers. He escapes with a friend and sets out to find a legendary group of warrior owls who can help him fight the evil army.

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What happens

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole is a 2010 animated fantasy adventure film directed by Zack Snyder. Based on the Guardians of Ga'Hoole book series by Kathryn Lasky, the film was written by John Orloff and Emil Stern and features the voices of Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Ryan Kwanten, Anthony LaPaglia, Miriam Margolyes, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh, and David Wenham. An international co-production between Australia and the United States, the film was produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Animal Logic, following their success with the 2006 film Happy Feet. In the film, Soren (Sturgess), a barn owl, is kidnapped and taken to St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls led by Metal Beak (Joel Edgerton) and Nyra (Mirren), where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He befriends a fellow owl named Gylfie (Barclay), and they later escape the facility to find the Island of Ga'Hoole with new-found friends and together fight against the evil army. 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. The film underperformed at the box office, grossing $140.1 million worldwide against a budget of $80 million, and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its dark tone, animation and voice acting, but criticized the changes made to the source material. However, in later years, it has developed a cult following. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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