Friday, 9 December 2022

Critique: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (Film)

*****SPOILERS*****


The animation was fantastic. The feathers behaved and looked like they should in flight, when groomed, when in the rain. The way that the beaks moved made convincing shapes for words.

 

It felt like it should have been two, maybe three films. It didn’t feel overly crowded or rushed and the characters were developed fully. But its timeframe spanned over years and there were distinct story arcs within the plot. More films wouldn’t have gone amiss.

 

Many owls gathered from, presumably (if the different habitats and species are to go by) the whole world. Yet they all spoke the same language. A language they shared with the nurse-snake. Unless they all learn it as a lingua franca I don’t find that believable. Humans are the same species and even people from the same part of the world speak completely different languages. There’s no reason why the rules of linguistics wouldn’t play out in owl society, too.

 

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