Rise of the Guardians (2012)

Director:

Peter Ramsey

Writers:

David Lindsay-Abaire (screenplay)
William Joyce (book)

Release Date:

21 November 2012 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Family | Fantasy

Tagline:

Naughty, nice. You better believe.

Plot:

When the evil spirit Pitch launches an assault on Earth, the Immortal Guardians team up to protect the innocence of children all around the world.

Plot Keywords:

Tooth Fairy | Santa Claus | Boogeyman | Easter Bunny | Bunny

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 7 wins & 20 nominations

Cast

Chris Pine	...	Jack Frost (voice)
Alec Baldwin	...	North (voice)
Jude Law	...	Pitch (voice)
Isla Fisher	...	Tooth (voice)
Hugh Jackman	...	Bunny (voice)
Dakota Goyo	...	Jamie Bennett (voice)
Khamani Griffin	...	Caleb (voice)
Kamil McFadden	...	Claude (voice)
Georgie Grieve	...	Sophie Bennett (voice)
Emily Nordwind	...	Jamie's Mom / Jack's Mother (voice)
Jacob Bertrand	...	Monty (voice)
Olivia Mattingly	...	Pippa / Jack's Sister (voice)
Dominique Grund	...	Cupcake (voice)
Ryan Crego	...	Burgess Dog Walker (voice)
April Lawrence	...	Burgess Pedestrian #1 (voice)
Peter Ramsey	...	Burgess Pedestrian #2 (voice)
Isabella Blake-Thomas	...	British Girl (voice)
Stuart Allan	...	British Boy (voice) (as Stuart Allan Bertman)
Rich Dietl	...	Yeti (voice)

Directed by
Peter Ramsey

Writing credits
David Lindsay-Abaire		(screenplay)
William Joyce		(book "The Guardians of Childhood")

Produced by
Nancy Bernstein	....	producer
Guillermo del Toro	....	executive producer
Arin Finger	....	associate producer
Tom Jacomb	....	associate producer
William Joyce	....	executive producer
Michael Siegel	....	executive producer
Christina Steinberg	....	producer

Original Music by
Alexandre Desplat

Film Editing by
Joyce Arrastia

Production Design by
Patrick Marc Hanenberger		(as Patrick Hanenberger)

Art Direction by
Max Boas

Production Management
David Farley	....	post-production supervisor
Spencer Filichia	....	production supervisor
Ryan Harris	....	production manager
Laura Howe	....	production supervisor
April Lawrence	....	production supervisor
Camille Leganza	....	production supervisor
Alex Loots	....	production supervisor
Kelly Matthews	....	production supervisor
Peter McCown	....	production supervisor
Brendan O'Connor	....	production supervisor
Kara Oropallo	....	production supervisor (as Kara Ulseth)
Cindy Azada Whitman	....	production supervisor
Debbie G. Yu	....	production supervisor
John Swanson	....	production supervisor (uncredited)

Art Department
Vlad Bina	....	3D concept designer
Jayee Borcar	....	visual development artist
Joel Crawford	....	storyboard artist
Louie del Carmen	....	storyboard artist
David G. Derrick Jr.	....	storyboard artist
Walt Dohrn	....	additional story artist
Todd Gibbs	....	visual development artist
Brandon Holmes	....	coordinator: art
Jake Isaacs	....	art department production coordinator
Woon Jung	....	visual development artist
Perry Maple	....	visual development artist
William Mata	....	storyboard artist
Johane Matte	....	storyboard artist
Peter Maynez	....	visual development artist
Sam Michlap	....	visual development artist
Desiree Montalvo	....	art department intern
Brett Nystul	....	visual development artist
Javier Recio Gracia	....	storyboard artist
Simon Rodgers	....	concept artist
Jason William Scheier	....	visual development artist
Christian Scheurer	....	concept artist
Stan Seo	....	visual development artist
William T. Silvers Jr.	....	matte painter
Rachel Tiep-Daniels	....	design/visual development
Margaret Wuller	....	additional visual development artist
Felix Yoon	....	visual development artist
Anthony Zierhut	....	storyboard artist
Jessie Greenberg	....	art department intern (uncredited)

Sound Department
Paul Berolzheimer	....	sound effects editor
James Bolt	....	sound re-recording mixer
Dominic Boucher	....	dialogue recording engineer
Steve Bucino	....	additional original dialog mixer
Tom Burns	....	mix technician
Ryan Cole	....	re-recording recordist
Christopher Flick	....	supervising foley editor
Steve Jamerson	....	recording engineer
Tom Lalley	....	sound re-recording engineer
Mary Jo Lang	....	foley mixer (as Maryjo Lang)
Roy Latham	....	original dialogue mixer
Alyson Dee Moore	....	foley artist
Andy Nelson	....	sound re-recording mixer
Eric Potter	....	sound effects recording
Kyle Rochlin	....	foley mixer
John Roesch	....	foley artist
Tighe Sheldon	....	original dialogue mixer
Timothy Siddall	....	assistant dialogue mixer: UK
Carlos Sotolongo	....	original dialogue mixer
Roland N. Thai	....	sound effects editor
Linda Yeaney	....	first assistant sound editor
Blake Collins	....	additional re-recording mixer (uncredited)
Jessica Gallavan	....	supervising dialogue editor (uncredited)
Richard King	....	sound designer (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Jonathan Leaders	....	render & light engineer: research & development

Visual Effects by
Evrim Akyilmaz	....	visual effects artist
Shinsaku Arima	....	visual effects artist
Ashin Ashroff	....	lighting & compositing artist
Nicholas Augello	....	character effects artist
Ricky Baba	....	surfacing artist
David Badgerow	....	final layout artist
Negin Bairami	....	senior texture and look dev artist
Jasper M. Baltzersen	....	image finaling artist: PDI/DreamWorks
Michael Baula	....	image finaling artist: PDI/DreamWorks
David Bazelon	....	crowds developer
Greg Beckman	....	visual effects artist
Matthew Beightol	....	stereo paint fix artist
Alena Bejenarou	....	character technical director
Herve Bizira	....	technical director
Corey Bolwyn	....	character effects artist
Silviu Borac	....	senior fx r&d engineer
Eric Bouffard	....	matte painting supervisor
Margarita Bratkova	....	research and development
Billy Brooks	....	production testing (as William J. Brooks)
Sonja Burchard	....	lighting supervisor
Markus Burki	....	visual effects artist
Ian D. Butterfield	....	texture artist
Mark T. Carlson	....	effects engineer
Kevin Chaohwa Chang	....	character effects technical director
Alan Cheney	....	visual effects lead
Wes Chilton	....	visual effects artist
Lita Cho	....	lighting technical director
Joong-ryang Choi	....	character effects lead
Shaun Collaco	....	lead lighting and compositing artist: Dreamworks Animation
Clint Colver	....	lighting artist
Stephen Timothy Cooney	....	visual effects artist
Martin Costello	....	character technical director
Gentry Davidson	....	image finaling artist
Kwesi Davis	....	production engineer
Gilbert Davoud	....	global character technical director
Alain De Hoe	....	visual effects supervisor
Andrew Dehner	....	lighting technical assistant
Greg Denton	....	lighting technical director
Antoine Deschamps	....	lead lighter
Justin Dobies	....	lighter
Archie Donato	....	lighting supervisor
Willem Drees	....	stereoscopic supervisor
David Drell	....	character technical director
Christopher Lynn Edwards	....	production testing
Kevin Edwards	....	lighting artist
Avedis Ekmekjian	....	lead lighter
Charles Ellison	....	modeler
Adam J. Ely	....	matte painter: Dreamworks Animation
Valentina Ercolani	....	character technical director
Tyson Erze	....	visual effects artist
Cassandra Fanning	....	image finaling
Aaron Florez	....	surfacing artist
Nathan Fok	....	head of character effects
Julien Forest	....	lighting artist
Mariana Galindo	....	character effects animator
Rafael Garrido	....	production coordinator
Amber Geisler	....	stereo paint fix artist
Francesco Giroldini	....	shot lighting artist
Greg Gladstone	....	effects animator
Zach Glynn	....	visual effects
Shaun Graham	....	visual effects
Caroleen Green	....	senior matte painter
Bill Gumina	....	image finaling artist
Alex Gurevich	....	production engineer
Jon Gutman	....	final layout artist
Andy Harbeck	....	surfacing supervisor
Christian Hatfield	....	effects lead (as Christian A. Hatfield)
Susan Hayden	....	lighting supervisor
Andy Hayes	....	lead effects developer
Ian Henckel	....	lighting technical director
Jorge Heredia	....	image finaling artist
George Ho	....	lighter
Robert Holder	....	lighter: DreamWorks
Carl Hooper	....	effects animation lead
Bobby Huebel	....	lighting technical assistant
Joe Hughes	....	character effects artist
Rohit Jain	....	character effects artist
Vimanyu Jain	....	lighting technical director
Aaron James McComas	....	effects animator
Jaskirat Singh Jassal	....	technical director lighting
Michael Cadwallader Jones	....	visual effects animator
Jeffrey Jose	....	technical director
Kurt Kaminski	....	lighting artist
Mayank Kanyal	....	lead compositing artist
Mayank Kanyal	....	lead lighting artist
Oth Khotsimeuang	....	lighting artist
Matthew Kiefer	....	lighting artist
Soo Kyung Kim	....	lighting artist
Jennifer Leigh King	....	lighting artist
Steven Kirchner	....	layout artist
Steven Knipping	....	character effects animator
Annmarie Koenig	....	lighting supervisor
Robert Kopinsky	....	visual effects artist
Parashar Krishnamachari	....	shader writer
Li-Lian Ku	....	character technical director
Brian Kulig	....	lighting lead
Debbie Langford	....	final layout artist
Bert Laonipon	....	effects technical director
Jennifer Lasrado	....	character effects artist
David C. Lawson	....	cg supervisor
David C. Lawson	....	lighting supervisor
Bernard Lebel	....	lighting technical director
Domin Lee	....	lead visual effects
Jaemin Lee	....	visual effects artist
Matthew Leishman	....	character effects artist
David Lewis	....	lighting technical assistant
Hamilton Lewis	....	rough layout artist
Linhan Li	....	lighting artist
Yancy Lindquist	....	head of effects
David Lipton	....	effects lead
Eric Lyman	....	cg modeler
Ilia Lyons	....	production testing
Marc Machuca	....	lead image finaling artist
Charana Mapatuna	....	image finaling artist
Marco Marquez	....	image finaling artist
Noé Martínez Ibarra	....	lighting technical director
Pietro Materossi	....	lead lighting
Jack Noriaki Matsumoto	....	effects animator
Kyle Maxwell	....	visual effects
Mike Meckler	....	lighting technical director
Peter Megow	....	character effects artist
Zeki Melek	....	research & development
Anthony Meschi	....	image finaling artist
Jaymie Miguel	....	effects artist
Taylor Moll	....	senior surfacing artist
Jonathan Fletcher Moore	....	lighting artist
Travis Mosley	....	image finaling techical director
William Moten	....	lighting technical assistant
Ken Museth	....	r&d supervisor
Mark Newport	....	visual effects artist
Betsy Nofsinger	....	lighting supervisor
Mark Orme	....	matte painting compositor
Christy Page	....	lighting technical assistant
Anand Palaniswamy	....	character effects
Devank Patel	....	visual effects
Andrew Pearce	....	director of reseach and development
Devon Penney	....	effects engineer
Alessandro Pepe	....	visual effects: technical director
Steve Petterborg	....	lighting technical director
Kaitlin Pollock	....	technical director: matte painting
Bryan Poon	....	character effects
Aditya Prabhu	....	lighting technical assistant
David Prescott	....	visual effects supervisor
Aitor Prieto	....	CFX technical director: Dreamworks Animation
Andrew Pungprakearti	....	digital effects artist
Heribert Raab	....	visual effects artist
Aneel Ramanath	....	lighting & compositing
Brian Ratchford	....	surfacing artist
Jason Rickwald	....	visual effects
Kevin Rodgers	....	character technical director
Wade Ryer	....	character technical director
Saswat Sahoo	....	technical director
Afonso Salcedo	....	lighting artist
Tim Schneider	....	lighting technical assistant
Aayush Sharma	....	lighter & compositor
Gaurav Shenai	....	character technical director
Ehsan Shokrgozar	....	technical director
Debanshu Singh	....	technical director
Marty Sixkiller	....	r&d supervisor
Javier Solsona	....	character technical director
Dug Stanat	....	lead character technical director
Timothy Steele	....	character effects lead
Chris Stover	....	rough layout artist
Hong Suck Suh	....	digital artist
Jeff Sullivan	....	crowd animator
Joe Ark Sun	....	character fx lead
Lana Chen Sun	....	visual effects artist
Bonnie Tai	....	lighting technical director (as Bonnie Tai Shimomi)
Suan Ching Tan	....	surfacing artist
Hector Tantoco	....	character effects artist
Cameron Taylor	....	surfacing
Randy R. Tecson	....	image finaling artist
Mark Theriault	....	visual effects artist
Ty Thomson	....	visual effects artist
Amy Rebecca Tucker	....	lighting artist
David Patrick Valera	....	layout artist
Katie Van Maanen	....	visual effects artist
Sakshi Verma	....	technical director
Koen Vroeijenstijn	....	visual effects lead
Marko Vukovic	....	senior lighting/compositing
Brian Walters	....	visual effects artist
Eric Walters	....	lighting technical assistant
Kai Wang	....	lighting technical assistant
Victor Wang	....	r&d technology
Michael Leon Ware	....	character technical director
Daniel Warom	....	crowds developer
Gina Warr	....	lead lighting artist
Brent Watkins	....	lead character technical director
Eugene Wen	....	lighter
Andrew Wheeler	....	visual effects lead
David I. White	....	light engineer
Gabriel White	....	lead lighter
Gregory M. White	....	lighting technical assistant
Jeffrey Wike	....	head of research and development
Rhiannon Leffanta Wilhelmi	....	layout artist
Stephen Wood	....	visual effects lead
Nate Yellig	....	character effects artist
Emily Yi	....	lighting artist
Ji Hyun Yoon	....	visual effects
Doug Yoshida	....	lighter
Phil Zucco	....	modeler
Paul Rivera	....	matte painting compositor (uncredited)

Animation Department
Drew Adams	....	animator
Manuel Almela	....	animator
Jason Anastas	....	animator
Andrew Anderson	....	character technical director
Kevin Andrus	....	animator
Manuel Aparicio	....	animator
Chris Appelhans	....	character designer
Chris Bancroft	....	animator (as Chris M. Bancroft)
Julien Bocabeille	....	animator
Patrick Bonneau	....	animator
Joe Bowers	....	animator
Laurent Caneiro	....	animator
Kenny Chung	....	animator
Joel Crawford	....	story artist
Robert Edward Crawford	....	rough layout artist
Bob Davies	....	lead character animator: Jamie
Louie del Carmen	....	story artist
Ares Deveaux	....	animator: cycles
Mark Donald	....	additional animation supervisor
Jason Doss	....	character effects
Adam Dotson	....	animator
Peter Farson	....	lead character technical director
W. Jacob Gardner	....	animator
Steven Pierre Gordon	....	animator
Antony Gray	....	animation supervisor
Antony Gray	....	lead character animator: Sandy
Matthieu Grospiron	....	lighting artist
Michael Guttman	....	final layout artist
Tomoyuki Harashima	....	animator
Dave Hardin	....	senior character animator
Andrew Harkins	....	animator: cycles
Martin Hopkins	....	animator (as Martin P. Hopkins)
Gabe Hordos	....	head of character animation
Steven Hornby	....	animation supervisor (as Steven 'Shaggy' Hornby)
Steven Hornby	....	lead character animator: Pitch (as Steven 'Shaggy' Hornby)
Mariko Hoshi	....	animator
Rodrigo Huerta	....	animator
Sully Jacome-Wilkes	....	surfacing artist
Leif Jeffers	....	animator
Jung Jin Kang	....	modeler
Jayesh Kapadia	....	character effects artist
Davide La Sala	....	character technical director
Philippe Le Brun	....	animation supervisor
Philippe Le Brun	....	lead character animator: Bunny
Eric Lees	....	animator
Peer Lemmers	....	animator (as Peer Annika Lemmers)
Tommie Löfqvist	....	animator
Pia Miniati	....	animation rig engineer
Lucia Modesto	....	character setup
Julie Nelson	....	animator
Takao Noguchi	....	character designer
Yuko Okumura	....	lighter and compositor
Irene Parkins	....	animator
David Pate	....	animation supervisor
David Pate	....	lead character animator: Jack
Prashant Pawar	....	surfacing artist
Pierre Perifel	....	animation supervisor
Pierre Perifel	....	lead character animator: North
Tyler Phillips	....	animator
Dan Pilgrim	....	layout artist
Antonin Plante	....	animator
Robert Porter	....	story artist
Alan Precourt	....	lighting technical director
Shane Prigmore	....	story artist
Shane Prigmore	....	visual development artist
Ron Pucherelli	....	animator
Carlos Fernandez Puertolas	....	additional animation supervisor
Marco Regina	....	animator
Jean-Francois Rey	....	animator
Brian Riley	....	layout artist
Carlos M. Rosas	....	senior character animator
Jalil Sadool	....	animator
Henry G. Sanchez	....	animator
Joe Sandstrom	....	animator
Juan Pablo Sans	....	animator
Matthew Schmidt	....	previs artist
Vaibhav Shah	....	modeling artist
Tal Shwarzman	....	animator
Mike Stern	....	animator
David Torres	....	animator
Theodore Ty	....	animator
Kendra Vander Vliet	....	layout artist
Alexis Wanneroy	....	lead character animator: Tooth
Tim Watts	....	animator
Darren R. Webb	....	story artist
Darren R. Webb	....	visual development artist
Peter Wilkins	....	animation engineer
Benjamin Willis	....	animator

Casting Department
Brittany Cope	....	casting assistant
Mollie Gamo	....	casting assistant
Barbara Harris	....	adr voice casting

Editorial Department
Allison Bernardi	....	senior media coordinator
Alex Cardullo	....	post-production assistant
Anthony Severin Cox	....	post-production engineer
C.K. Horness	....	associate editor
Gustav Lindquist	....	production assistant
Harry Muller	....	color timer
Paul Neal	....	digital conform editor
Jeff Olm	....	digital colorist: Dreamworks Animation
David M. Poole	....	assistant editor
Vivek 'Vic' Sharma	....	first assistant editor

Music Department
Chris Cozens	....	auricle control systems
Alexandre Desplat	....	conductor
Alexandre Desplat	....	orchestrator
Andrew Dudman	....	music scoring mixer
Andrew Dudman	....	score recording engineer
Xavier Forcioli	....	score coordinator
Xavier Forcioli	....	score programming
Charlene Ann Huang	....	music consultant
Joel Iwataki	....	music scoring mixer
Barbara McDermott	....	additional music editor
Sunny Park	....	executive in charge of music
Victor Pesavento	....	music preparation
Vladimir Podgoretsky	....	music preparation
Conrad Pope	....	orchestrator
Conrad Pope	....	supervising orchestrator
Roger Tang	....	music coordinator
Clifford J. Tasner	....	orchestrator
Susan Thampi	....	music manager

Other crew
Balaji Alahari	....	engineering system administrator
Loni J. Albertson	....	production coordinator
Rain Angeles	....	systems administrator
Patrick Angell	....	technical director
George Anthony Anisimow	....	child voice
Parimal Aswani	....	director of technology
Carl Bahor	....	technical resource administrator
Steve Baker	....	research and development
François Bertel	....	render engineer
Lauren Blackshear	....	production coordinator
Alan Blevins	....	research and development
Alyson Blume	....	production coordinator
Shawn Bohonos	....	operations system administrator
Lisa Briggs	....	production assistant
Cathleen Brown	....	clearance
Joanna 'Joey' Cade	....	development coordinator
Scott Chapin	....	engineering system administrator
Kelly Chow	....	production assistant
Malik Coates	....	r&d software engineer
Sean Cole	....	production supervisor
Sarah Counnas	....	senior technology production manager
Michael Cutler	....	principal engineer
Mark J. Davis	....	research and development
Mike Davis	....	production engineer
Roger Deakins	....	visual consultant
Jayson DeLancey	....	production engineer
Dave Dinsmore	....	operations system administrator
Dj Downey	....	operations system administrator
Brendan Duncan	....	r&d software engineer
Dennis Duong	....	infrastructure engineer
Alex Echols	....	creative marketing
Alireza Estakhrian	....	operations system administrator
Jason Evaristo	....	lighting production coordinator
Samantha Finkler	....	production coordinator
Victor Fuste	....	training and artistic development
Omar Garcia	....	technical resource administrator
Reid Gershbein	....	research and development
Chris Gibson	....	technical director
Greg Gibson	....	systems administrator
Nandhini Giri	....	production coordinator
Steph Gortz	....	production coordinator
Juli Gumbiner	....	technical resource supervisor
David Hail	....	publicist
Wayne Hellinger	....	post-production office supervisor
Taylar Hender	....	adr loop group
Guthrie S. Hennessey	....	training and technical development
Chris Hewitt	....	production assistant
Richard Holland	....	technical lead
Tripp Hudson	....	production executive
Vicki Hunter	....	finance, accounting and operations
Mark Jackels	....	research and development supervisor
Sean Kamath	....	supervisor
Gleb Kaminer	....	adr voice artist
Jason Kankiewicz	....	infrastructure engineer
Robert Knaack	....	research and development manager
Deepak Kumar	....	production coordinator
Tim Kwan	....	production coordinator
Glenn Lamb	....	engineering system administrator
Nicholas Long	....	technical lead
Swetha Madhavan	....	production coordinator: Character FX
Andrew Marshel	....	production coordinator
Andrew Martin	....	technical resource administrator
Peter C. Miller	....	software quality assurance
Liz Molholt	....	assistant production accountant
Jemson Montefalcon	....	hardware engineer
Bob Morgan	....	senior documentation specialist
Kristen Murtha	....	production coordinator
Anna Newman	....	research and development manager
John O'Sullivan	....	systems engineer
Paul Parmer	....	editorial systems engineer
Chuck Peil	....	business development
Devon Penney	....	global development
Shaun Potts	....	technical resource administrator
Renae Radford	....	production coordinator
Claudio Ramos	....	marketing and consumer products
Daniel Rich	....	engineering systems administrator
Jacquelyn Robbins	....	production accountant
Kevin Rose	....	infrastructure engineer
Stephen E. Ross	....	technical lead
Doug Sherman	....	infrastructure engineer
Cathy Sitzes	....	production coordinator
Joanna Lynne Smith	....	production coordinator
Christopher Sprunger	....	production tester
Brent St. Mary	....	production assistant
Allen Stetson	....	production engineer
Diana Stolpe	....	assistant production assistant
Areeg Sweis	....	production staff
Casey Sword	....	technical resource administrator
Julio C. Talavera	....	operations system administrator
Susan Thampi	....	production coordinator
Peter Tipton	....	production engineer
Mark M. Tokunaga	....	director of digital operations
Selim Tuvi	....	production engineer
Brandon Weil	....	digital strategy and new business development
Alissa Rowinsky Wright	....	business & legal affairs
Corie Zhang	....	production coordinator
Molly Hansen	....	business & legal affairs (uncredited)

Thanks
Kevin Althans	....	special thanks
Dale Carman	....	special thanks
Frank Pittenger	....	special thanks
Mike Roy	....	thanks

Production Companies

• DreamWorks Animation

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures Entertainment (2012) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Paramount Pictures (2012) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Paramount Pictures (2012) (France) (theatrical)
• Paramount Pictures (2012) (USA) (theatrical)
• Solar Entertainment (2012) (Philippines) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2012) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2012) (Greece) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2012) (Philippines) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2012) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Universal Pictures International (UPI) (2012) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment (2013) (USA) (DVD)
• DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment (2013) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2013) (USA) (DVD)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2013) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Zon Audiovisuais (2012) (Portugal) (all media)

Other Companies

• Abbey Road Studios  music recorded and mixed at
• Barco  sound mix
• Digital Media Services (DMS)  digital marketing asset management
• Digital Media Services (DMS)  on-line promotional material creation
• Dub Stage, The  Auro3-D Sound Mix
• London Symphony Orchestra, The (LSO)  music performed by
• Trevor Morris Studios  additional score mixing
• Varèse Sarabande  soundtrack

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated PG for thematic elements and some mildly scary action

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | Datasat | Dolby Atmos

Certification:

Hungary:6 | USA:PG (certificate #47911) | Ireland:G | Netherlands:6 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:7 | Canada:G (Ontario) | UK:PG | Denmark:7 | South Korea:All | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Portugal:M/6 | Philippines:G | Germany:6 | France:U | India:U | Hong Kong:I | Australia:PG

Company:

DreamWorks Animation

Trivia:

When Jack Frost is kidnapped to North's HQ, he calls Bunny a kangaroo. Later on, Frost apologizes for that, to what Bunny replies: "It's the accent, isn't it?". This is a reference to Hugh Jackman, who voices Bunny and was born in Australia, known as the land of kangaroos.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the Man in the Moon communicates to North to identify Jack as the new Guardian, the moon is full. One day later when viewing the moon from North's home, the moon is clearly 3/4 full. Way too much has disappeared over a period of 24 hours.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Jack Frost:Darkness. That's the first thing I remember. It was dark, and it was cold. And I was scared.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Maltin on Movies: Life of Pi (#1.95)" (2012)

Soundtrack:

The Firebird, Suite for Orchestra

I would see this again in a second I'm already making plans to take friends to it

Sean McQuillan www.thatsmye.com

Dreamworks animation has not quite had the success rate of Pixar, but if Rise of the Guardians is any example of where they're heading, they're on a good path. RotG is like a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen of children's fables that band together to protect the children of the world from fear itself. Led by Santa Claus, the Guardians include the Tooth Fairy, The Easter Bunny, and the Sandman. An old evil that thrives on the fear of children is returning, and the powers that be have chosen a new guardian to rise to the occasion, Jack Frost. Can Frost rise to legendary status of his peers? Will he be able to dispel fear and bring joy to the children? It's an amazing ride through fantastic worlds to find out.

The design of the characters really drew me into this one, when I first saw the trailer. Santa is an enormous, tattooed, urshanka wearing, sword wielding, commander of Yetis. Tooth Fairy is designed after a beautiful humming bird, as are her fairy minions. The villain has a sleek design with piercing eyes. I was not disappointed. This movie is beautiful. The set pieces are brilliant and epic, yet subtle. You can see the influence of Pan's Laberynth Director, Gillermo Del Torro, who was an executive producer here. The animation is great, and makes real good use of the 3D, which I fully admit I normally dislike.

The voice casting is superb, Chris Pine holds his own as Jack Frost, while Alec Balwin is almost unrecognizable as North (Santa). The biggest highlight for me is Jude Law as the villain. You can hear a snippet of him in the trailer. The children in the room have young voice actors, but are all greats.

The review might seem a little unbalanced, but I'm really struggling to come up with any big flaws. It is a great film for children and adults alike. Some people say it might be too scary for kids, but at its core the movie is about overcoming fear. It is an epic romp. It's not really a Christmas movie, as much as a winter movie. Go see it! Here's a trailer and character posters to hold you off until it's released.