Rise of the Guardians

Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated action fantasy-comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Peter Ramsey (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire based on the book series The Guardians of Childhood and the short film The Man in the Moon by William Joyce. It stars Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Isla Fisher, and Hugh Jackman. The film tells a story about Guardians Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and the Sandman, who enlist Jack Frost to stop the evil Pitch Black from engulfing the world in darkness in a fight of dreams.

This article is about the film. For the video game, see Rise of the Guardians: The Video Game.
Rise of the Guardians
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Ramsey
Produced byChristina Steinberg
Nancy Bernstein
Screenplay byDavid Lindsay-Abaire
Based onThe Guardians of Childhood and The Man in the Moon
by William Joyce
StarringChris Pine
Alec Baldwin
Jude Law
Isla Fisher
Hugh Jackman
Music byAlexandre Desplat
Edited byJoyce Arrastia
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
Running time
97 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$145 million[3]
Box office$306.9 million[4]

The film was released in the United States on November 21, 2012, and grossed $306.9 million worldwide against its $145 million budget, but lost an estimated $83 million due to marketing and distribution costs.[5][6] It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature.[7]

It was the last DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. Starting with The Croods (2013), 20th Century Fox would distribute DreamWorks' films until Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)

Plot

Jack Frost awakens from a frozen pond with amnesia. Upon realizing no one can see or hear him, he disappears. Three hundred years later, Jack, as the young Spirit of Winter, enjoys delivering snow days to school kids, but resents that they do not believe in him. At the North Pole, the Man in the Moon warns Nicholas St. North that Pitch Black is threatening the children of the world with his nightmares. He calls E. Aster Bunnymund/Bunny, the Sandman, and the Tooth Fairy to arms. They are told that Jack Frost has been chosen to be a new Guardian, and Bunny brings him to the North Pole. North explains to Jack that every Guardian has a center, something they are the Guardian of, but a call for help from Tooth's fairies ends the conversation.

Visiting Tooth's world, which resembles a palace in India, Jack learns that each and every baby tooth contains childhood memories of the children who lost it, Jack's teeth included. However, Pitch raids Tooth's home, kidnapping all of her subordinate tooth fairies except Baby Tooth and stealing all the teeth, thus preventing Tooth from sharing Jack's memories and weakening children's belief in her. In order to thwart Pitch's plan, the group decides to collect children's teeth. During their journey, a quarrel between North and Bunny awakens a boy, Jamie. Since he still believes, he can see everybody except for Jack. Pitch's nightmares then attack, provoking Sandy as the Guardian of Dreams. Jack tries to intervene, but Pitch aims a bow at Sandy, who is overwhelmed and disappears.

As Easter approaches, the dejected Guardians gather in Bunny’s home. With the unexpected aid of Jamie's little sister, Sophie, they begin the process of painting eggs for Easter. After Jack takes Sophie home, he is lured to Pitch's lair by a voice. Pitch taunts him with his memories and fear of non-belief, distracting him long enough for Pitch to destroy the eggs, causing children to stop believing in Easter and Bunny. With the Guardians' trust in him lost, a shamed Jack isolates himself in Antarctica, where Pitch tries to convince him to join his side. When Jack refuses, Pitch threatens to kill Baby Tooth unless Jack gives him his staff, the source of his magic. He agrees, but Pitch breaks Jack's staff and throws him down a chasm. Unlocking his memories inside his tooth, he learns that he was a mortal teenager who fell to his death in the frozen pond while saving his younger sister. Inspired, Jack repairs his staff and returns to the lair to rescue the kidnapped baby fairies.

Due to Pitch, every child in the world except Jamie disbelieves, drastically weakening the Guardians. Finding Jamie's belief wavering, Jack makes it snow in his room, renewing Jamie's belief and letting him become the first person to ever believe in and see Jack. They gather the boy's friends, whose renewed belief bolsters their fight against Pitch. He threatens them, but their dreams prove stronger than his nightmares, resulting in Sandy's resurrection and the Guardians reuniting. Defeated and no longer believed in, Pitch tries to retreat, but his nightmares, sensing his own fears, turn on him and drag him to the underworld. Afterward, Jamie and his friends bid goodbye to the Guardians as Jack accepts his place as the Guardian of Fun.

Cast and characters
  • Chris Pine as Jack Frost, the Spirit of Winter.[8] Jack is a teenage hellion who enjoys creating mischief and has no interest in being bound by rules or obligations; he just wants to use his staff to spread his winter magic for the sake of fun, but also wants to be believed in. At the end of the film, Jack became the Guardian of Fun. While he cannot fly, per se, he can be carried on currents of wind, allowing him to span great distances.
  • Jude Law as Pitch Black, the essence of fear and the Nightmare King. He has dark hair and wears a black robe/cloak. At the ending, he's scared of his own nightmares after being forgotten.[8] One reviewer of the film five years after its release incorrectly listed Paul Bettany as the voice of Pitch. [9]
  • Alec Baldwin as Nicholas St. North, the leader of the Guardians,[8] and the Guardian of Wonder. He lives at the North Pole in the Ice Castle and is served by loyal North Pole natives, the Yetis (who built the castle and workshop) and the Christmas Elves. He has a Russian accent/culture persona.[10]
  • Hugh Jackman as E. Aster Bunnymund, called Bunny for short, the keeper and bringer of Easter eggs as the Easter Bunny and Guardian of Hope. He shares his voice actor's Australian accent.[8]
  • Isla Fisher as Toothiana, called Tooth for short, the tooth collector known as the Tooth Fairy and the Guardian of Memories.[8] Tooth is part human and part hummingbird, resembling a Kinnari. Assisted by mini fairies that are split-off extensions of herself, she collects the children's teeth, which hold their most precious memories. Tooth stores them in her palace and returns memories when they are needed the most.[11]
  • Sandy the Sandman is the Guardian of Dreams and the oldest of the Guardians,[12] being the first Guardian chosen by the Man in the Moon.[13] He does not speak, but communicates through sand images that he conjures above his head.[14]
  • Dakota Goyo as Jamie Bennett, a child who has not given up on believing in the Guardians.[15]
  • Georgie Grieve as Sophie Bennett, Jamie's little sister
  • Jacob Bertrand as Monty
  • Dominique Grund as Cupcake
  • Olivia Mattingly as Mary, Jack's sister

Production

In 2005, William Joyce and Reel FX launched a joint venture, Aimesworth Amusements,[16] to produce CG-animated feature films,[17] one of which was set to be The Guardians of Childhood, based on Joyce's idea.[18] The film was not realized, but they did create a short animated film, The Man in the Moon, directed by Joyce, which introduced the Guardians idea,[18] and served as an inspiration for the film.[2]

Early in 2008, Joyce sold the film rights to DreamWorks Animation,[19] after the studio assured him it would respect his vision for the characters and that he would be involved with the creative process.[20] In November 2009, it was revealed that DreamWorks had hired Peter Ramsey to make his feature debut as director of what was then titled The Guardians, and playwright David Lindsay-Abaire to script.[21] Joyce acted as a co-director for the first few years, but left this position after the death of his daughter Mary Katherine,[19] who died of a brain tumor.[20] Joyce continued to assist as an executive producer, while Ramsey took over full directing, making him the first African American to direct a big-budget CG animated film.[22] As with some previous DreamWorks films, Guillermo del Toro came on board as an executive producer. Present almost from the beginning,[23] he was able to help shape the story, character design, theme and structure of the film.[24] He said he was proud that the filmmakers were making parts of the film "dark and moody and poetic," and expressed hope this might "set a different tone for family movies, for entertainment movies."[23] The final title, Rise of the Guardians was announced in early 2011, along with the first cast.[8]

Roger Deakins, the cinematographer who had already worked on the previous DreamWorks' film, How to Train Your Dragon, advised on the lighting to achieve its real look. He selected photographic references for color keys, and during the production gave notes on contrast, saturation, depth of field and light intensity.[25] The film contains a lot of special effects, particularly the volumetric particles for depicting Sandman and Pitch.[26] For this, DreamWorks Animation developed OpenVDB, a more efficient tool and format for manipulating and storing volume data, like smoke and other amorphous materials. OpenVDB had been already used on Puss in Boots and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, and was released in August 2012 for free as an open-source project with a hope to become an industry standard.[27]

Although the film is based on the Joyce's book series, it contains differences from the books. The book series, begun in 2011, explains the origins of the characters, while the film takes place about 300 years after the books, and shows how the characters function in present time. Joyce explained, "Because I don't want people to read the book and then go see the movie and go, 'Oh, I like the book better,' and I also didn't want them to know what happens in the movie. And I also knew that during the progress of film production, a lot of things can change. So I wanted to have a sort of distance, so we were able to invoke the books and use them to help us figure out the world of the movie, but I didn't want them to be openly competitive to each other."[19] The idea for the Guardians came from Joyce's daughter, who asked him "if he thought Santa Claus had ever met the Easter Bunny." The film includes a dedication to her,[20] as well a song, "Still Dream," sung over the end credits.[28]

Originally, the film was set to be released on November 2, 2012, but DreamWorks Animation pushed the film to November 21, 2012 to avoid competition with Pixar's upcoming film Monsters University, which in turn had been pushed to November 2, 2012 to avoid competition with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2.[29] Monsters University was then pushed to June 21, 2013, with Disney's Wreck-It Ralph taking its place.[30]

Soundtrack

French composer Alexandre Desplat composed the original music for the film, which was released on November 13, 2012 by Varèse Sarabande. The score was recorded in London at Abbey Road Studios and Air Studios, and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, with a choral contribution by London Voices. David Lindsay-Abaire wrote the lyrics for the end-credit song, "Still Dream," which was performed by soprano Renée Fleming.[31] Stravinsky's Firebird Suite can also be heard during the scene where North first appears. This film marks the first time that a Dream Works Animation film has not been composed by Hans Zimmer or a member of his Remote Control Productions family of composers (mainly John Powell, Henry Jackman, Harry Gregson-Williams or his brother Rupert Gregson-Williams).

Rise of the Guardians
Film score by
Alexandre Desplat
ReleasedNovember 13, 2012
Recorded2012
GenreScore
Length67:47
LabelVarèse Sarabande
ProducerAlexandre Desplat
Alexandre Desplat film scores chronology
Argo
(2012)		 Rise of the Guardians
(2012)		 Zero Dark Thirty
(2012)
Track listing:[32]
No.TitleLength
1."Still Dream" (performed by Renée Fleming)3:12
2."Calling the Guardians"2:06
3."Alone in the World"2:04
4."Fanfare of the Elves"0:53
5."Wind Take Me Home!"1:28
6."Dreamsand"2:03
7."Pitch on the Globe"0:57
8."The Moon"1:32
9."Snowballs"1:31
10."Busy Workshop"1:33
11."Sleigh Launch"1:45
12."Nightmares Attack"7:17
13."Tooth Collection"2:22
14."Jamie's Bedroom"2:31
15."Jack & Sandman"4:18
16."Memorial"1:21
17."Guardians Regroup"0:58
18."Easter"3:39
19."Jack Betrays"3:20
20."Kids Stop Believing"2:35
21."Jack's Memories"2:24
22."Pitch at North Pole"2:00
23."Jamie Believes"3:01
24."Jack's Center"4:52
25."Sandman Returns"2:36
26."Dreamsand Miracles"2:18
27."Oath of the Guardians"3:11
Total length:67:47

Release
Rise of the Guardians premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival: Christina Steinberg, producer; Peter Ramsey, director; Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation's CEO; Nancy Bernstein, producer; Bill Damaschke, DreamWorks Animation's Chief Creative Officer

Rise of the Guardians had its premiere on October 10, 2012, at The Mill Valley Film Festival in Mill Valley, California,[1] followed by the international premiere at The International Rome Film Festival on November 13, 2012.[33][34] Under distribution by Paramount Pictures, the film was released on November 21, 2012, in American theaters.[29] Digitally re-mastered into IMAX 3D, it was shown in limited international and domestic IMAX theaters.[35] It was the second film released in the firm Barco's Auro 11.1 3D audio format, after Red Tails.[36] The film was also shown in Dolby Atmos, a surround sound technology introduced in 2012.[37] Rise of the Guardians was the last DreamWorks Animation film distributed by Paramount, as DreamWorks has signed a five-year distribution deal with 20th Century Fox, which started in 2013 with The Croods.[38]

Home media

Rise of the Guardians was released on Blu-ray Disc (2D and 3D) and DVD on March 12, 2013.[39]

That was the last DreamWorks Animation home media release to be distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, since 20th Century Fox announced its distribution agreement with DreamWorks Animation a few months before the theatrical release.[38] The film was more successful at home media sales than at the box office, having at the end of the second quarter of 2013 "the highest box office to DVD conversion ratio among major releases."[40] In the first quarter of 2013, it sold 3.2 million home entertainment units worldwide,[41] and in the second quarter 0.9 million units, for a total of 4.1 million units.[42]

It was re-released on DVD on November 5, 2013 and comes with a wind-up marching elf toy.[43]

As of October 2014, 5.8 million home entertainment units were sold worldwide.[44]

It was re-released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 5, 2018 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Reception

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 75% based on 161 reviews and an average score of 6.60/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "A sort of Avengers for the elementary school set, Rise of the Guardians is wonderfully animated and briskly paced, but it's only so-so in the storytelling department." [45] Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 58 based on 37 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews". [46] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an "A" grade on an A+-to-F scale.[47]

Carrie Rickey of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars and found the film's characters to have "a primal familiarity, as though they were developed by a tag team of Maurice Sendak and Walt Disney."[48] Olly Richards of Empire wrote, "It's gorgeously designed, deftly written and frequently laugh-out-loud funny. For child or adult, this is a fantasy to get lost in."[49] The Washington Post's Michael O'Sullivan also gave the film a positive review and said, "Thoughts become things. That's the message of Rise of the Guardians, a charming if slightly dark and cobwebbed animated feature about how believing in something makes it real, or real enough."[50] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars and wrote in his review, "There's an audience for this film. It's not me. I gather younger children will like the breakneck action, the magical ability to fly and the young hero who has tired of only being a name." Though he did say, "Their parents and older siblings may find the 89-minute running time quite long enough."[51]

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a lively but derivative 3D storybook spree for some unlikely action heroes."[2] Conversely, Justin Chang in Variety said, "Even tots may emerge feeling slightly browbeaten by this colorful, strenuous and hyperactive fantasy, which has moments of charm and beauty but often resembles an exploding toy factory rather than a work of honest enchantment."[52] Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal found that the film "lacks a resonant center," and that the script, "seems to have been written by committee, with members lobbying for each major character, and the action, set in vast environments all over the map, spreads itself so thin that a surfeit of motion vitiates emotion."[53]

Box office

Rise of the Guardians grossed $103.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $203.5 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $306.9 million.[4]

In North America, the film opened to $32.3 million over its extended five-day weekend, and with $23.8 million over the three-day weekend, it reached fourth place behind The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Skyfall, and Lincoln. The film's opening was the lowest debut for a DreamWorks Animation film since Flushed Away.[47] While the film did gross more than double of its $145 million budget, it still did not turn a profit for DreamWorks Animation due to its high production and marketing costs, forcing the studio to take an $83 million write-down.[5] This marked the first time that the studio had lost money on an animated film since Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.[5][6] As a result of this combined with other factors, in February 2013, the studio announced it was laying off 350 employees as part of a company-wide restructuring.[6]

Accolades

The Rome Film Festival and Vanity Fair magazine awarded the new Vanity Fair International Award for Cinematic Excellence in November 2012 to Rise of the Guardians.[33] The film also received the Hollywood Animation Award at the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Festival, held on October 22, 2012.[54]

List of awards and nominations
Award Category Recipients Result
African-American Film Critics Association Best Animation Won
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Animated Female Isla Fisher (Tooth) Nominated
American Cinema Editors Best Edited Animated Feature Film Joyce Arrastia
Annie Awards[55][56] Best Animated Feature
Animated Effects in an Animated Production Andy Hayes, Carl Hooper, David Lipton Won
Character Animation in a Feature Production David Pate Nominated
Phillppe LeBrun
Pierre Perifel
Music in an Animated Feature Production Alexandre Desplat
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Patrick Hanenberger, Max Boas, Jayee Borcar
Woonyoung Jung, Perry Maple, Peter Maynez
Stan Seo, Felix Yoon
Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production Johanne Matte Won
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Jude Law Nominated
Editorial in an Animated Feature Production Joyce Arrastia
Critics Choice Awards[57] Best Animated Feature
Cinema Audio Society Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures Animated
Golden Globe Awards[58] Best Animated Feature Film
Golden Reel Awards Best Sound Editing in an Animated Feature Film
Hollywood Film Festival[54] Best Animated Feature Peter Ramsey Won
International Film Music Critics Association Awards Film Composer of the Year Alexandre Desplat, also for Argo, Moonrise Kingdom, Rust and Bone, and Zero Dark Thirty Nominated
Best Original Score for an Animated Feature Alexandre Desplat Won
Mill Valley Film Festival[59] Audience Favorite Children's Film Peter Ramsey
Producers Guild of America Outstanding Producer of An Animated Theatrical Motion Picture Nancy Bernstein, Christina Steinberg Nominated
Satellite Awards 2012[60] Best Animated or Mixed Media Won
Visual Effects Society[61][62] Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Nancy Bernstein, David Prescott, Peter Ramsey, Christina Steinberg Nominated
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture The North Pole: Eric Bouffard, Sonja Burchard, Andy Harbeck, Peter Maynez Nominated
Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Last Stand: Andy Hayes, Carl Hooper, Andrew Wheeler, Stephen Wood Nominated
Women Film Critics Circle[63] Best Family Film Rise of the Guardians – tied with Life of Pi Won

Video game
Main article: Rise of the Guardians: The Video Game

A video game based on the film was released by D3 Publisher on November 20, 2012 in North America,[64] and released on November 23, 2012 in Europe.[65] It allows gamers to lead the Guardians in their battle against Pitch. The game is a 3D beat-em-up, where the player travels through each of the worlds: Burgess, North Pole, Bunnymund Valley, Tooth Palace, and Sandman's Ship, to fight Pitch's army of Nightmares. The player can switch between all five guardians at any time, and freely customize their powers, and they learn new special abilities as they level up. All the game versions support up to 4-player gameplay.[66] It is available on the Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS.[67]

Possible sequel

After the release of the film, the creators of Rise of the Guardians expressed hope that the strong A Cinemascore average for the film and an enthusiastic word-of-mouth would gather support for the "chance to make a sequel or two."[68] Author and co-producer of the series, William Joyce, also mentioned in March 2013 that he was still in talks about a sequel with DreamWorks Animation: "There is something that we are proposing that we hope they will want to do."[69]

Notes
  1. ^ In July 2014, the film's distribution rights were purchased by DreamWorks Animation from Paramount Pictures and transferred to 20th Century Fox.[70] The rights were moved to Universal Pictures in 2018 after the buyout of DreamWorks Animation by Comcast/NBCUniversal.

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