Hollywood Product: ‘Rise of the Guardians’
Iimagine if Hallmark Greeting Cards created a super-team like The Avengers.
- Courtesty of DreamWorks Animation
- UNCLE SANTA WANTS YOU: Sandy, Bunny, Santa Claus, Tooth, Jack and an unidentified yeti at the North Pole
GENRE: Holiday movie/superhero mash-up
THE PITCH: The four “guardians of childhood” - Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin), the Eater Bunny (Hugh Jackman), the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher) and the voiceless Sandman - recruit mischievous Jack Frost (Chris Pine) to combat the boogeyman Pitch Black (Jude Law) and his scheme to supplant children’s faith in the guardians with fear.
BEST LINE: “We’re very busy bringing joy to children. We don’t have time... for children,” Santa protests when Jack suggests they spend more time playing with young ones. Guardians briefly resembles one of those family movies about workaholic parents who neglect their kids.
WORSE LINE: “We’ll always be there. And now, we’ll always be here,” Jack tells his young pal Jamie (Dakota Goyo) while pointing at his heart.
BEST LINE READING: Baldwin gives Santa Claus an extravagant Russian accent, and when the Guardians think Jack was meeting with the boogeyman, it sounds like he asks, “You were with Bitch?”