Based on the books by William Joyce, RISE OF THE GUARDIANS tells about Jack Frost, a carefree immortal figure who creates winter fun for children who don't really believe in him. Everything changes when Pitch Black rallies his nightmare forces to cause worldwide despair and make children stop believing in the Guardians of Childhood: Santa Claus , the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman. When the Man in the Moon tells the existing Guardians that Jack Frost has been chosen to join them, they must convince him to take up the cause before Pitch can snuff out the light of hope in every child of the world.
A major success of this movie is the creative approach taken to visualize these characters and their environments in a new way. The human world is fairly realistic – something made very apparent during a roller-coater-like sled ride through busy urban streets early on. Adversely, the worlds of North, Tooth, Bunny and Sandy are direct reflections of the characters themselves; colorful, material-rich and quite frankly… just plain cool. The animators did an amazing job of utilizing long panning and tracking shots to show the vast spaces the audience has been taken to. There are probably some of the more fun flying shots I’ve seen in an animated film as well – the camera even shakes during fast descents, making you feel like you’re free-falling through the air with the characters.
The main point of this movie is that childhood is about having fun. Jack Frost took a while to find his center, and when he did, horror and desperation brought by Pitch Black were all gone. We have grown up and we don’t have that purity of children anymore. Life has taught us a lot. It’s never easy. It is full of stress and unknown. We could fall into asleep as soon as our head touched our pillows, or we could be afraid of unknowns and stop advancing anywhere. As the movie told us, whenever we feel stressed, our teeth took by Tooth Fairies will always keep our memories and remind us that life is about having fun, too.
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