THE LEGEND OF SARILA

Children's fantasy

PRINCIPAL VOICE MEMBERS

Christopher Plummer: the old shaman Croolik

Rachel Lefevre: beautiful teenager Apik

Dustin Milligan: the young shaman Markussi

Geneviève Bujold: the old widow Saya

Tyrone Bsnskin: village chief Itak

Tim Rozon: his son Poutoulik

REVIEW

Geared to the younger audience the dialogue is kept simple (‘We must go after them. Yes we must.”) and lacks the sophisticated realistic rendering of clothing and hair we have become accustomed to from Pixar and the other big studios.

The story too is unsophisticated: an evil Inuit shaman has put a curse on the village and a young shaman with his friends will attempt to save their clan from starvation. Any bets on the outcome?

CLASSIFICATION

LEGENDS OF THE GUARDIANS

Fantasy

PRINCIPAL VOICES
Jim Sturgess: Soren, a little barn owl
Ryan Kwanten: his older brother Kludd
Hugo Weaving: their father Noctus
Joel Edgerton: Metalbeak, leader of the “Pure Ones”
Helen Mirren: his mate Nyra
and others no doubt

REVIEW
I’m glad these books were not around when I was reading children’s literature: what a dreadful, awful experience that would have been. As far as the movie version goes if I had a young child I would not let him/her even look at the poster much less go see the movie.

Here’s the premise; you judge for yourself:
A cute little barn owl named Soren in learning to fly winds up on the ground along with his brother Kludd. After being attacked and scared to death by a Tasmanian devil they are then captured by menacing looking owls who swoop down and take them to an dark evil looking place brimming with smoke and fire. They are told they will now become soldiers whereupon they are pounced upon by a very realistic bat with big teeth who will be their guardian.

All this in the first half hour.

With that I got up and left.

CLASSIFICATION
for some sequences of scary action.