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Summary: A young barn owl and his brother fall from their nest and are kidnapped and enslaved by Nazi in all but name owls. The barn owl befriends a similarly enslaved young elf owl and the two escape and befriend a young great grey owl and burrowing owl and set off to find a nigh mythical group of owl nights to stop the owl nazis.
Based on the first three books of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky.
Rating: 6/10
Sexual Assult Drinking Game: N/A
(+) Holy fucking hell is this beautiful animated and designed. They deserved the award that they won.
-those fight scenes! Pure excellence
-the music fits very well
-Owl City has a song in it and frankly, I like puns
-I generally don’t like high fantasy but I loved this
- War is bad but under certain circumstances, the right thing to do is to fight
- White Tyto supremacists and slavery is bad
- Snakes are good guys
- the visual worldbuilding is just lovely
(-) dear gods the pacing. Way too fast.
- We do not get Twilight or Digger’s backstories and their characters are exaggerated
- Glyfie doesn’t get her time to shine since much of the St. Aggies stuff just isn’t in the movie
-Bats are bad guys
- The movie hits only the most important plot beats of the books outside of the fights and doesn’t linger long enough to let emotion settle in
-The film is set in Australia and not N. America
Overall: It’s a beautiful, absolutely lovely looking film. But you’d probably like it better if you didn’t read the books and don’t pay much attention to ecology stuff. The pacing really does the whole thing dirty and would have made a better mini-series than a film. I recommend it purely on the visuals.