Rise of the Guardians

Rise of the Guardians

Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure 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. Peter Ramsey directed the film, while Joyce and Guillermo del Toro exec-produced. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it was released on November 21, 2012 to generally positive critical reception.

Director(s): Peter Ramsey
Production: Paramount Studios
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 14 wins & 31 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
PG
Year:
2012
97
$98,800,000
Website
5,539 Views
This November, legends become heroes.
Naughty, nice. You better believe.
Legends unite.
When darkness falls, the Guardians will rise.
From the Creators of How to Train Your Dragon.
Jack Frost Is More Than A Myth.
Santa Claus Is More Than A Legend.
The Easter Bunny Is More Than A Fable.
The Sandman Is More Than A Dream.
The Tooth Fairy Is More Than A Fairy Tale.
Pitch Is More Than A Nightmare.

[Jack and Baby Tooth follow a familiar voice to Pitch's lair]

Pitch:
(from the shadows) Looking for something? [Jack shoots some ice at the voice, and flies around, looking for Pitch] Don't be afraid, Jack. [steps out from the shadows] I'm not gonna hurt you.

Jack:
Afraid? I'm not afraid of you.

Pitch:
Maybe not, but you are afraid of something.

Jack:
You think so, huh?

Pitch:
I know so. It's the one thing I always know: People's greatest fears. Yours is that no one will ever believe in you. [Pitch disappears again] And worst of all, you're afraid you'll never know why. Why you? Why were you chosen? To be like this? Well, fear not. For the answer to that is right here. [holds out the canister containing Jack's childhood teeth] Do you want them, Jack? Your memories? [Jack reaches for the canister, but withdraws his hand. Pitch disappears again] Everything you wanted to know, in this little box. Why did you end up like this? Unseen. Unable to reach out to anyone. You want the answers so badly. You want to grab them and fly off with them, but you're afraid of what the Guardians will think. You're afraid of disappointing them. Well, let me ease your mind about one thing: They'll never accept you. Not really.

Jack:
Stop it! Stop it!

Pitch:
After all, you're not one of them.

Jack:
[firmly] You don't know what I am!

Pitch:
Course I do! You're Jack Frost. You make a mess wherever you go. Why, you're doing it right now. [tosses Jack the canister]

Jack:
What did you do?

Pitch:
More to the point, Jack, what did you do?

[Pitch disappears, laughing. Furious, Jack lunges at him, but instead finds himself in a dark tunnel. He suddenly remembers that he left Baby Tooth behind. He tries to go back, but finds the tunnel blocked.]

Jack:
Baby Tooth!

Pitch:
[disembodied] Happy Easter, Jack.

[Jack turns around and discovers, to his horror, that Pitch destroyed Bunny's Easter eggs.]

Jack:
No...

[The rabbit Jack conjured up explodes into snowflakes]

Jamie:
Whoa! [laughs, then stops, confused] Snow...? [a snowflake lands on Jamie's nose, and his eyes widen] ...Jack Frost!

Jack:
Did he just say...?

Jamie:
Jack Frost?

Jack:
[gasps, shocked] He said it again! He said... You said...

Jamie:
[finally turns around and gapes at Jack] Jack Frost!

Jack:
That's right! But-but that's me! Jack Frost! That's my name! [looks at Jamie, amazed] You said my name! [Jamie continues to gape at him, which he slowly realizes] Wait, can... Can you hear me? [Jamie nods] Can you... [leans in closer] Can you see me? [Jamie nods again, beginning to smile. Jack chokes out a laugh] He sees me! He... HE SEES ME! [laughs, and back flips onto Jamie's desk]

Jamie:
You just made it snow!

Jack:
I know!

Jamie:
In my room!

Jack:
[excitedly] I KNOW! [leaps off the desk]

Jamie:
You're real?!

Jack:
Yeah, man! Who do you think brings you all the blizzards, and-and the snow days?! And you remember when you went flying on that sled the other day?

Jamie:
That was you?!

Jack:
That was me!

Jamie:
Cool!

Jack:
Right?!

Jamie:
But... what about the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy? I mean, like, what about-?

Jack:
Real! Real, real! [picks up Jamie's toy rabbit] Every one of us is real.

Jamie:
I knew it!

Jamie's Mother:
[from downstairs] Jamie! Who are you talking to?

Jamie:
Um... [looks at Jack, who smiles and nods, as if to say; "go ahead"] Jack Frost?

Jamie's Mother:
[laughs, exasperated] Okay...

[Jack and Jamie laugh, but are then interrupted by a commotion outside]

[The sleigh crashes in the middle of the road in front of Jamie's house and the reindeer run off]

North:
Ah, moi deti! Come back!

Tooth:
North, are you okay?

North:
Is official: my powers are kaput.

Tooth:
[spots Jack flying down] Look! Jack! [climbs out of the sleigh and falls, unable to fly] Jack!

Jack:
[helps her back up] You okay?

Tooth:
(embarrassed) Mm-hmm.

North:
What are you doing here?

Jack:
Same as you.

[Jamie comes out of his house, looking at the Guardians in wonder]

North:
The last light!

Jamie:
Wow, it is you! I mean it is you! I knew it wasn't a dream! [beams at Jack]

North:
[realizes what this means] Jack, he sees you!

Jack:
[playfully nudges Jamie, but then realizes something] But... Where's Bunny?

North:
Losing Easter took its toll upon all of us. Bunny most of all.

[Bunny, now shrunken down to the size of a real rabbit, emerges from the sleigh]

Jack:
Oh, no...

Jamie:
[giggles, unsure] That's the Easter Bunny?

Bunny:
(frustrated) Now somebody sees me! I mean, where were you about an hour ago, mate?

Jamie:
[to the Guardians] What happened to him? He used to be huge and cool, and now he's... cute. [tickles Bunny under his chin, who begins to respond, before shaking him off]

Bunny:
[points to Jack] Did you tell him to say that? [attacks Jack's leg then takes up a fighting stance] That's it, let's go! Me and you, c'mon!

Jamie:
No! Actually, he told me you were real. Just when I started to think maybe you weren't.

Bunny:
(amazed) He made you believe? In me?

[Jamie nods and Bunny stares at Jack, touched]

Pitch:
[approaches Jack in Antarctica]: I thought this might happen. They never really believed in you. I was just trying to show you that. [As he spoke, Jack got angry] But I understand.

Jack:
[wheels around and shoots ice at him with his staff, but Pitch blocks it with his black sand]: You don't understand anything!

[he shoots more ice at him, but Pitch also blocks it]

Pitch:
No?! [he shoots black sand at Jack, but he avoids it. Jack leaps into the air and shoots ice at Pitch and their powers collide, causing snow to fly all over, then it clears]

Pitch:
I don't know what it's like to be cast out? To not be believed in. [a rage-filled Jack aims his staff at Pitch] To long for a family. [Jack lowers his staff] All those years in the shadows I thought, no one else knows what this feels like. But now I see I was wrong. We don't have to be alone, Jack. I believe in you. And I know children will too.

Jack:
In me?

Pitch:
Yes! Just look at what we can do! [gestures to the sculpture of ice and black sand during their fight] What goes better together than cold and dark? We can make them believe! We'll give them a world where everything, everything is--!

Jack:
Pitch black?

Pitch:
[beat] And Jack Frost, too. They'll believe in both us.

Jack:
No, they'll fear both of us. And that's not what I want. Now, for the last time, leave me alone.

[He walks away from him]

Pitch:
[confused and hurt] Very well. You want to be left alone? Done! But first... [Jack turns and sees Pitch holding Baby Tooth]

Jack:
Baby Tooth! [he aims his staff at Pitch]

Pitch:
The staff, Jack! You have a bad habit of interfering. Now hand it over, and I'll let her go. [Baby Tooth desperately shakes her head as Jack kept his staff aimed at Pitch until he lowers it, then gives it to Pitch, who takes it from him]

Jack:
[holds out her hand] Alright, now let her go.

Pitch:
[smirks] No. You said you wanted to be alone. So be alone! [Baby Tooth pecks his thumb with her beak, causing him to yell in pain and throw her into a chasm]

Jack:
No!

[Pitch breaks the staff. With a strangled cry, Jack feels pain in his chest, but before he could do anything, Pitch blasts him with black sand and Jack hits the wall of the chasm then falls into the hole. Pitch laughs evilly as he drops the broken staff into the hole]

North:
Hey, there he is! Jack Frost! [the guardians welcomingly look upon Jack Frost]

Jack:
Wow. You gotta be kidding me. [the Yetis grab him] Hey, put me down.

North:
[after Jack arrives at the North Pole] I hope the Yetis treated you well.

Jack:
[sardonically] Oh, yeah. I love being shoved in a sack and tossed through a magic portal.

North:
Oh, good. That was my idea! You know Bunny, obviously.

Jack:
Obviously.

North:
[offscreen] And the Tooth Fairy.

Tooth:
Hello, Jack. I've heard a lot about you. And your teeth!

Jack:
My-my what?

Tooth:
Open up! Are they really as wide as they say? Yes! [gasps] Oh, they really do sparkle like freshly fallen snow. [the Tooth Fairies chitter enthused by Jack's presence] Girls, pull yourselves together. Let's not disgrace the uniform. [she and her Fairies fly off]

North:
And Sandman. Sandy? [he doesn't wake up, he shoulder-bumps him] Sandy? WAKE UP! [he finally wakes up]

Jack:
Hey, ho, anyone wanna tell me why I'm here? [Sandy raises his hand and tries to explain the situation using sand pictograms, leaving Jack confused] Uh, that's not really helping, but thanks, little man. [freezes an elf] I must've done something really bad to get you four together... [brightly] Am I on the naughty list?

North:
Ha! On naughty list? You hold record. But no matter, we overlook. Now, we are wiping clean the slate.

Jack:
How come?

Bunny:
Ah, good question.

North:
"How come?" I'll tell you how come. Because now, you are Guardian!

[An extravagant ceremony starts]

Jack:
Hey, what are you doing? Get off me!

North:
This is the best part!

[As the ceremony continues, a Yeti gives North the Ceremonial Book of Guardianship, then Jack looks on dumbstruck until he stops it with an icy strike of his staff]

Jack:
What makes you think I want to be a Guardian?

[Beat, then North bursts into laughter]

North:
Of course, you do. MUSIC!

[Elves begin playing a fanfare]

Jack:
NO MUSIC! [An elf throws down its horn and stomps away. The Guardians stare at Jack in disbelief] This is all very flattering, but, uh, you don't want me. You're all hard work and deadlines, and I'm snowballs and fun times. I'm not a Guardian.

Bunny:
Heh! Hey, that's exactly what I said!

Tooth:
Jack, I don't think you understand what it is we do. [shows Jack the Globe of Belief] Each of those lights is a child.

North:
A child who believes. And good or bad, naughty or nice, we protect them. [hears Tooth looking at Jack's mouth] Tooth! Fingers out of mouth.

Tooth:
Oh, sorry. [to Jack, about his teeth] They're beautiful.

North:
Okay. No more wishy-washy. Pitch is out there doing who knows what!

Jack:
[laughs briefly] You mean the Boogeyman?

North:
Yes! When Pitch threatens us, he threatens them as well.

Jack:
All the more reason to pick someone more qualified.

North:
"Pick"? You think we "pick"? No, you were chosen, like we were all chosen...by Man in Moon.

Jack:
[looks at the Moon] What?

Tooth:
Last night, Jack, he chose you.

Bunny:
Maybe.

Jack:
Man in the Moon? He talks to you?

North:
You see, you cannot say "no", it is destiny.

Jack:
W-Why wouldn't he tell me that himself? [pause] Oh, after 300 years, this is his answer? To spend eternity like you guys, cooped up in some...some hideout thinking of-of-of new ways to bride kids? No, no. That's NOT FOR ME!!! No offense.

Bunny:
H-H-How is that not offensive?! Y'know what I think, I think we just dodged a bullet. I mean, what's this clown know about bringing joy to children, anyway?

Jack:
Uh, ya ever hear of a snow day? I know it's no "hard-boiled egg," but kids like what I do.

Bunny:
But none of 'em believe in you, do they? Y'see, you're invisible, mate. It's like you don't even exist.

Tooth:
Bunny! Enough!

Jack:
No. The kangaroo's right.

Bunny:
The what? What did you call me? I'm not a kangaroo, mate!

Jack:
[sarcastically] Oh, and this whole time I thought you were. If you're not a kangaroo, what are you?

Bunny:
I'm a bunny. The Easter Bunny! People believe in me.

[Sandy exhales and bumps North's leg with his hand]

North:
Jack, walk with me.


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