The biggest problem with “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” is the brutal violence and unrelenting sense of terror in this supposedly children’s film. There are throat slashings, impalements, flaming spikes, and tumbles into a lake of fire. A brother betrays his brother and leads his sister into enslavement. Another obstacle is trying to follow the narrative. “Legend of the Guardians” quickly introduces more than a dozen characters, most of which are difficult to distinguish from each other because they’re all, well, owls. And the script, adapted from three books in the “Guardians of Ga’Hoole” series, lacks coherency as chunks of narrative seem to be missing. How do the out-to-rule-the owl-kingdom owls make a super weapon out of metal flecks found in owl pellets? The visuals are beautiful, however, especially the sequence where an owl flies through a rainstorm. But this hardly makes up for this awful movie. Skip it. 9/25/10
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My problem with the "Guardians" is the total confusion of the characters and the lack of cohesiveness from one scene to the next. This toon is so hard to follow that all I saw were dozens of owls flying around in circles making the film impossible to follow. This movie needs to be unraveled and reassembled so that viewers can figure out whats going on????? This film is a flop!!
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