Taglines: When darkness falls, the Guardians will rise.
Jack Frost awakens from a frozen pond with amnesia. Upon realizing no one can see or hear him, he disappears. Three hundred years later, Jack, as the young Spirit of Winter, enjoys delivering snow days to school kids, but resents that they do not believe in him.
At the North Pole, the Man in the Moon warns Nicholas St. North that Pitch Black is threatening the children of the world with his nightmares. He calls E. Aster Bunnymund, Sandy, and Tooth, to arms. They are then told that Jack Frost has been chosen to be a new Guardian. Visiting Tooth’s world, Jack learns that each and every baby tooth contains childhood memories of the children who lost it, Jack’s teeth included.
However, Pitch raids Tooth’s home, kidnapping all of her subordinate tooth fairies except Baby Tooth and stealing all the teeth, thus preventing Tooth from sharing Jack’s memories and weakening children’s belief in Tooth. In order to thwart Pitch’s plan, the group decides to collect children’s teeth.
Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated action fantasy film based on William Joyce’s The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film by Joyce and Reel FX Creative Studios. Peter Ramsey directed the film, while Joyce and Guillermo del Toro were executive producers with voice acting by Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher, and Jude Law. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it was released on November 21, 2012.
Set about 300 years after the book series, the film tells a story about Guardians Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and the Sandman, who enlist Jack Frost to stop Pitch Black from engulfing the world in darkness. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. This was the last DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Rise of the Guardians (2012)
Directed by: Peter Ramsey
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Isla Fisher, Jude Law, Chris Pine, Dakota Goyo, Jacob Bertrand, Emily Nordwind, Dominique Grund, Olivia Mattingly, April Lawrence, Georgie Grieve
Screenplay by: David Lindsay-Abaire
Production Design by: Patrick Marc Hanenberger
Film Editing by: Joyce Arrastia
Art Direction by: Max Boas
Music by: Alexandre Desplat
MPAA Rating: PG for thematic elements and some mildly scary action.
Distributed by: DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures
Release Date: November 21, 2012
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