"Just because it's sung doesn't make it a song."Legend Of the Guardians is a bizarre film and seems like an oddity on Zack Snyder's CV, but its themes of male rivalry, power and heroism are actually a good fit for the director. Everything strives for 'epic': silly names, David Hirschfelder's bombastic and ominous score thunders away, most scenes are bathed in a sunset/sunrise glow, shots are either close-ups or incredibly distant and there are a variety of (unconscious) references to the likes of the Star Wars and Lord Of the Rings mythologies. The story is dense and draws in the viewer from the start, but the mid-section is bogged down by the weight of the film's sense of its own importance, not helped by the inclusion of a montage accompanied by a particularly limp Owl City track. The sense of depth created by the use of 3D is frequently astonishing, and the level of CG-detail is quite extraordinary - this is owls-do-Avatar. With some vicious attacks, an occasionally menacing score and some very weighty dialogue, this is not a film for little children, but at the same time it is difficult for anyone else take it seriously, for all its worthy intentions.
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