Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: September 24, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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8
Mixed:
10
Negative:
3
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40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
The sketchy visual traits that differentiate the many characters in this avian universe will leave viewers crying, "Who, who" along with the owls. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria Vizcarrondo
Directorially, the film takes a few too many trips into prosaic slow motion. Read full review
60
EmpireDan Jolin
This is unlikely to win Kathryn Lansky's antipodean owl fantasy any new fans, but even the bemused (and confused) can luxuriate in some grand-scale visual storytelling. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyNick Schager
Issues of faith, courage, loyalty, sacrifice and betrayal (the last perpetrated by Soren's brother) are all tackled by Snyder with understated maturity, though a series of slightly repetitive aerial skirmishes can't quite match the inventiveness of Feet's buoyant song-and-dance mash-ups. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The script is merely serviceable and too reminiscent of similar fantasy tales. But kids will instantly relate to the gentle Soren, while watching wide-eyed as he faces each challenge. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
Legend of the Guardians sounds as if it were scripted by a team of 11-year-old boys, with too much plot for its 91-minute running time, a script that steals liberally from "Star Wars" and some occasionally eye-roll-worthy weirdness. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
Unfortunately, the story rarely rises above cookie-cutter kids'-fantasy tropes. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAndy Webster
Legend of the Guardians may be a hoot, but for all its pyrotechnics, it fails to soar. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith Uhlich
Zack Snyder's films have some of the best opening-credits sequences in cinema; the unfortunate thing is that there's always a movie after them. Read full review
50
VarietyAndrew Barker
Though visually stunning and blessed with immaculate 3D work, film is fatally bogged down by tackling an essentially ridiculous premise (gladiator-attired owls fight genocide) with stony solemnity, and by subsisting on a note of sustained menace and terror in what is ostensibly a children's film. Read full review
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