*RISE OF THE GUARDIANS* DESTROYS the AVENGERS!! | First Time Watching | (reaction/commentary/review) 

Imagine dying, being reborn as a winter spirit, being invisible and spending 300 years in loneliness... 😭💔

this movie is so underrated, I love seeing people react to it and realize how awesome it is

I’ve seen other people talk about this…but if you think about it, Pitch could be considered a guardian; fear is an essential part of life, even if it’s not a pretty one, so theoretically, if he’d worked together with the other guardians, Pitch could have been part of the group instead of trying to recreate the dark ages just to be noticed again

"This is Dreamworks' Elsa" oh if he only knew about the wondrous world of Jelsa

"Look at the amount of fun he's causing" Man figured out the secret to Jack right away, even if he didn't realize it

Sandman came back from being killed because you can never kill a dream. It can change, or it can be overcome but it'll never die

Jack’s powers stopped working as well on Pitch because he got stronger over time as fear spread due to children not believing in the guardians and everyone having nightmares. The sandman didn’t die really rather he was corrupted. He’s made out of the same dream energy/dust as the children’s corrupted dreams so he was also turned into the nightmare unicorns. The kids facing & overcoming their fear/nightmares removed the corruption and when enough of the dream energy was purified Sandy was reconstituted.

"You're all hard work and deadlines, and I'm all snowballs and fun times." Fun Fact: This was the last Christmas movie Roger Ebert ever wrote a review for. He did give it a good one. Mythology Fact: In one scene, the Tooth Fairy (Isia Fisher) finds a mouse beneath a pillow. This is Ratoncito (Little Mouse) Perez, or The Tooth Mouse, a children's book character created by Spanish author Luis Coloma in 1894 said to replace lost baby teeth with gifts in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and Latin America. Historical Fact: Bunny (Hugh Jackman) mentions that Jack Frost (Chris Prine) caused a blizzard on Easter Sunday of 1968, a reference to an actual event. At the beginning of the movie, Jack Frost walks through a Colonial American village. In the background, the folk song "Kempe's Jig" is playing. This was a popular early eighteenth century English dance song, named in honor of William Kempe, a famous sixteenth century English comic stage actor, whose work influenced modern comedic acting, stand-up comedy, and improvisational comic skits.

I love how his face lights up when he discovers the Easter Bunny is an Aussie. I was waiting for that moment.

I don’t think it’s confirmed but a lot of ppl theorize that Jack is Jamie and Sofie’s great great great, maybe an extra great, uncle since Jack’s sister lived. I adore this theory because it makes their bond even more special. Also speaking of Elsa there is a ship for them called Jelsa 😂 I remember being like 12 and watching videos that ppl made out of clips of each movie to make it seem as if they came from the same movie, it had captions and some had an actual plot and went on for so many parts! There was a whole community of videos like this on YT for this movie, Brave, HTTYD, Tangled, and Frozen specifically and I loved it so much, I think they were called like The Big Five or something? Idk but it was highlight of my life at that age and so far I’ve only met one other person who experienced this and we talked abt it for hours 😂

What made me fall in love with this movie is that they made the fantasy characters into super heroes. Santa uses the power of Wonder, Jack Frost uses the power of fun, etc. And the fact that individually they are power entities. I mean the Easter Bunny has the power of hope? WOW....but TOGETHER, along with the belief of children are JUST UNSTOPPABLE. I loved this film as a child, and I still do....IF you are looking for a fantastic, beautiful Christmas animated film with character arcs, and the meaning of Christmas and believing then you simply MUST react to "The Polar Express"....not a true spoiler, but if you watch the film, I am an adult who can STILL hear the sleigh bell to this day....watch the film to understand what that means....

I haven’t seen anyone else mention it, but Pitch is voiced by Jude Law. Immaculate casting!

In the book series, Pitch is actually the Nightmare King, and he's determined to take over children's dreams and happiness and replace them by darkness. He's also able to actually turn children into Fearlings, which are literally his creatures of darkness, something that would be terrifying for kids. Imagine having your soul completely and utterly tainted, perverted and corrupted! Because he can manipulate shadows and can't stand the light, he's earned himself the name of Boogeyman

And this wonderful film came about because the little daughter of the author of the books asked if Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny were friends. So sweet!!

Its so understable that Tooth Fairy has a crush on Jack - he is the reason people slip on ice and often break their teeth. So Tooth Fairy most likely love him for that 😂 Also Jack and Easter bunny hating on each other? Well how many times we expected beautiful spring with sun and flowers for Easter and got ice, cold and snow instead? Totally Jack Frost "pranking" Easter bunny xd Also: in this movie Tooth Fairy meets a mouse and she says its European Division. Well mostly Western Europe. In Eastern Europe we have a tooth fairy too. And Santa Claus, and Easter Bunny. Ive heard about Jack Frost too. Only the Sandman is not that common

I think Pitch's original/base power is shadow manipulation- he does it a few times early on, but once he figures out how to corrupt the dream sand (which makes sense with shadows/fear, since a nightmare could be considered the scary shadow of a dream) thats VERY powerful and also his shiny new toy, so he leans on that for most of the rest of the movie. Shadow manipulation also makes sense for how he got so powerful in his era- when the sun went down the only light was candles or fires, everything else was shadows and the deep dark outside.

I think the kids brought back Sandman by believing in their dreams again. Fear can change a dream into a nightmare, but acknowledging your fear and still choosing to move forward can save a dream and make it a reality.

"Ankle biter" is used for tiny yappy dogs that tend to attack the ankles. Chihuahuas are the most common

jack is such a kind and gentle soul despite being mistreated and cast aside for 300 years for no reason. he means the world to me.

Alex Baldwin is Santa Chris Pine is Jack Frost Hugh Jack man is Easter Bunny (my favore) Jude Law is Pitch Black Great voicing!!!!⛄❄🌲🎅🤶🎅🌲❄⛄🤶🎅🌲❄

Rise of the Guardian is so underrated and forgotten. I rememeber when I first watch it as a kid. I was bawling in the scene when we see Jack's past, it was heartbraking, my dude died in frozen water. But he also died saving his sister. ROTG is so full of heart and the ending is so beautifull and hopefull ✨ I wish it would have been more recognized back then. We could have gotten a sequel or it could have become a Trilogy like Kung Fu Panda or HTTYD... And I would love it as much as those. But well, at lest sporadicly someone reacts to it mostly when Christmas is close

I think the children still do believe in pitch, but because they don’t fear him anymore they can’t see him since pitch gets power from the fear that people have for him. If that makes sense? Atleast that is what I always thought happend.

This is one of my absolute favourite films! It's such a clever and unique take on such well known characters! I can't even explain how goose bumpy I feel when Sandy comes back!! 🥲

"My name is Jack Frost... the moon told me so" How sad is it that he wakes up alone, is alone for centuries and the only reason he knows his own name is because the moon told him. Like Moon, could you not give him a little more info. 😅😢

This movie is criminally underrated. Glad you loved it too.

Also it looks like Jack's power brings out the good but also fun side of people

I love this movie and it still sucks to know it never got the attention it deserved at the time. I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've always loved how they just hinted at something between Jack and Tooth. It was made obvious but still subtle enough that it never really became part of the core plot. It just is and it's simple.

And I pity pitch cause kinda seems like the moon made him to motivate humans to live since fear is what back then helped us live but then the moon decided that pitches time was over and he was to powerful so he made the guardians or something along those lines

I think you would really enjoy Klaus as a story with a non traditional santa

I love all of your reaction videos-as a busy grad student, watching your videos my favorite way to unwind when there isn’t time to sit down and select/watch a full movie. Also makes my day seeing you react to movies I already love ❤️ I think if you enjoy the nostalgia/heartwarming themes of animated movies, you would really enjoy Spirit (Dreamworks, 2002). It was one of my favorite animated movies as a kid, and one with themes that I can still genuinely enjoy/appreciate as an adult. Thank you for all you do and the thought you put into your videos!!

Jude law played pitch, and Chris pine played Jack Frost. And you were right the was Hughe Jackman playing the Easter Bunny.

went to watch this when it was first released in theatres, fell in love, and have since made it a yearly tradition to rewatch nearing xmas

When I watch this, I think of Jelsa (Jack Frost and Elsa) and when I watch Frozen, I also think of Jelsa

If you look back, once Pitch breaks the staff, little ice crystals start forming in his shadows, just like w/ how he copied the dream sand to make the Nightmares; which funny enough all spawned from Cupcake's Unicorn dream...

I too love this movie. it sets off a rely good story telling, and give truth about believing, and believing into yourself. This movie good points in life. I just love Jack Frost's character growth. I also had the same theory about Jack Frost and Jamie are related through his sister. Also senes how much similar both Jack Frost's sister and Jamie look alike. I too wish they did another movie of Rise of the Guardians.

This is definitely in my top 5 dreamworks films! Loved your reaction to the Easter Bunny!! Its actually Hugh Jackman!!! ❤️❤️❤️

yep- I'm half hummingbird, half person. I don't think Jack understands what it is we do but his teeth really do sparkle!

Don't know if anyone told you or not, but you should DEFINITELY check out the credits. There are a few little scenes in the first ten minutes or so that are absolutely hilarious!!

What I got was that he was able to basically behave like an infection or disease; so once it infected someone’s dreams, that’s how he took over Sandy’s creations. So the sand was never really his. So when the kids caught back their own fears, they were able to banish the fear from the dream sand. Fast-acting antibiotic for dreams, lol.

Also I don't think he can fly but he does treat the wind as a friend so it helps him fly

I think jamie is a descendant of jack. He lives is jacks hometown and he looks alot like jacks sister

Funny that you mentioned Elsa because there is a popular fan pairing of Elsa and Jack Frost because they both have similar vibes of pale, blonde/white hair, ice powers, And both of them are lonely Elsa from spending her whole life locked in her room and Jack not being able to be seen for 300 years. Also I think if they ever make a second one I dont want Pitch to be a bad guy, I want them to not redeem him because he's not a good guy, but at least show that fear isn't always bad, it's what makes you jump out of the way of a car, or stay away from dangerous animals, not want to eat food that might be poisonous. A little fear is sometimes good.

I absolutely love this movie, and I don't think it gets the recognition it deserves, so I love when reactors discover this one. Thank you for a great reaction. 🥰

Hi, fellow Aussie here. As children we were called ankle biters. I in turn call my nieces and nephews ankle biters. My youngest nephew is crawling and is also know to bite the ankles of adults he wants attention from. I keep telling him he doesn't have to be so damn literal.

Grew up watching this and love it also it's technically an Easter movie not a Christmas movie also I believe Jack frost is actually Jamie's uncle since hacks sister lived on and he see's his sister in Jamie plus Jamie looks like his sister a bit that's probably his nephew also the town Jamie and his friends live in is probably the same village jack came from when he was human but also the one he found when he woke up in the beginning

"oh, rack off" omgggg i havent heard that since watching Heart break high in english 8 years ago...cuuute hahahahaha Sandy ready to freaking punch a kid will never not be hilarious i guess santa is russian since one of the oldest santa legends, back to roman times i think, was Grampa Winter. an equivalent dressed in blue who gives presents with the help of his granddaughter

One of my favorite headcanons is that HTTYD and ROTG are in the same universe and this stims from old Norse god history, one Norse god was known as Jokul Frosti who was they son of the wind god Kari and loved to spread the beauty of winter. Not to mention, supposedly it snowed 9 months of the year and hailed the other three in HTTYD. Meaning it was ALWAYS cold. It's would just be really cool of the universes were combined.

As an early 2000's born, I grew up with shows like Rise of the Guardians, HTTYD (How to Train your Dragon), LoTR (Lord of the Ring), CoN (Chronicles of Narnia), Twilight and a few others, when these shows came out, those were magical times that children should all experience and If I could re-live those times again, I definitely would. Also Sandman and Pitch (Boogeyman) have the same abilities, just that one is Dreams and the other is Nightmares, the thing is though is that I believe that Sandman and Pitch are the same beings split in half, I say this because I watched "The Sandman" series with the main character being Sandman, he have the title of "Sandman", he has the power to manipulate both dreams and nightmares, he has a pouch filled with sand, he looks just like Pitch and his name is Morpheus. What if Sandman and Pitch is just two personifications of one whole, which is Morpheus, an Eternal and Lord of Dreams and Nightmares?

I always thought that Jamie was a descendant of Jack's bloodline, through his little sister that he saved

I wondered how you'd react to an Australian Easter Bunny. Santa with naughty and nice tattoos on his forearms was a different vibe too.

PATIENTLY waiting for Maze Runner: Death Cure, Reaction. Gunna be SWEET.

I saw this movie in the cinema long yrs ago (that was a "solo-date" > from me to me :)), and I LOVED it. At this time I had a fantasy book idea (my first 4-5 chapter was done), and this movie gave me a huuuge inspiration :) about "dreams AND nightmares". The years passed, and my first two book is almost done. :)

I don’t really remember where I heard this theory, or even IF it’s a theory…but there’s a theory that Baby Tooth is Jack’s sister reincarnated….there’s also a theory that Jamie is his descendant Again, I don’t know if these are theories or if they’ve been confirmed

Pitch stole my baby teeth apparently because I can't remember my childhood lmao

Wow I just watched this movie today. I watch it every year at Christmas time. It not an official Christmas movie but it is to me. I have a Jack Frost tree ornament.

I think this Santa Claus was derived from his first incarnation as Odin the all father from Norse mythology

Pitch's voice is Jude Law btw!

This is one of my favourite animated movies. William Joyce is the author of a series of books that they put together to make this movie. He also wrote the stories that have become the movie Epic. I think you would like that one too.

just gonna give my owntheory on how Sandman revived. Its a mixture between wut i believe and wut ive heard. so before he died, Sandy put his last powers into Jamie, the boy he knew actually saw and would believe in him for a lon time, thus Jamie stillhaving dreams despite all his friends getting nightmares. And when he comes in contact with the nightmares, its like a trigger to the power inside him. This also triggers strength in the kids to conquer their nightmares, taking down the black horses and at the same time, spreading the sand-like dream powers around the entire place. By doing that, it makes a few kids start believing and it helps the guardians gain their strength for the final battle. And while all together, they couldnt do it alone. but with enough dream sand spread, sandman could rise up again wut ive learnt is when Bunny said 'I hope u like carrots'. Ive watched this movies a ton of times and i never understood that line till now which is pretty weird. im hoping for a 2nd movie of this but honestly I cant see where it would go.

I could gush about every aspect of this film for hours. One of my favorites, underrated imo.

Saw it in the theaters back in the day, still my winter holidays staple ❤ glad you've watched it ❤

6:03 (ish) "he can manipulate people's feelings?" He can *inspire* feelings I think is a better interpretation? Obviously you've seen the whole thing by the time of posting, so his center being "fun", he uses his magic to inspire a sense of joy and fun in people. Sometimes more directly than others, but less manipulation and more encouragement. You see after he hits Cupcake that he's waiting to see if it works - if she really was NOT feeling the fun it probably wouldn't have. But Jamie, and later Bunnymund with Sophie and the eggs, and the kids being woken up near the end, are already inclined in those moments to feel the fun, so it just helps bring that to the surface.

One of my favorites movies ever but it's about Easter mostly lol everyone thinks it's about Christmas. Jack is one of my favorite characters and he along with hiccup, rapunzel and Merida kinda was a thing

I love this movie! The way they represent the Guardians is awesome!

“Do adults get dreams? What’s the cut off?” Whenever you stop believing

After all, they basically are there, and personified Sandmans center was dreams. Oh, and Pitch never had the same power as Sandman. He had the power to infuse fear into Sandmans powers, in essence stealing his strength

I love this movie so much!! Please also watch Klaus, it's pretty new, but already a Christmas tradition in my house, it's such an amazing story and absolutely beautifully animated 🎄🎄

My first time watching this I saw the kid get hit by the couch in the beginning and all I could think was “final destination moment”

You should watch The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. I LOVE how you focus on putting so much work into your videos and posting frequently. Keep up the great work!❤❤❤

I love the Easter Kangaroo in this movie

I remember seeing this movie at the cinema as a kid and it was so cool! I still love it, but I only watch it around easter😅 It's actually a pet peeve of mine that people consider this a christmas movie although the events take place around easter😭

I kept hearing you mention how much he likes to have fun and I am screaming at my phone "that's right! FUN!"

There's a book series The Guardians of Childhood that this is based off of, and Pitch in the books is a very tragic character. He was a guard for the nightmares until they broke him by imitating his daughter's voice. Pitch opened the cage and was consumed by the nightmares becoming the Boogeyman as a result.

the lore and world building here is actually so freaking good ❤

Pretty much it was not Jack's fault of ruin Easter because it was his memories calling out to him and Pitch gave him his memories so the Gaurdians will think that Jack betrayed them

I just adore this movie since my first watch of it. and watching movies with is always a pleasure ❤ love this channel! makes my da every time

OH MY GOD! MY FAVORITE MOVIE THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤❤❤❤

Just finished watching this video. Still can't get over the into. Sorry, new here, God is good #grateful to have found this video! ❤ Loving the energy! Looking forward to more videos! Stay awesome! 💜

tooth fairy's crush on jack is real lmao, also jude law voiced pitch black he plays dumbledore in fantastic beasts, you should defenetly check that trilogy out it shows more about harry potter's world!

The designs for these characters is directly from the The Guardians Book Series by William Joyce, it also gives SO much more origins to Tooth and Bunny that is left of this movie and an impressively wonderfully painful backstory for Pitch. I will always recommend these books even though they're definitely a teenager level book series.

i love this movie so much!!!!

This is one of my favorite films ever. Dreamworks rarely disappoints.

Pitch is the legendary figure of the Black Man. Even today in Germany the story is told about a black man in black clothing who kidnaps children at night. In the past, stories were a method of education and were intended to ensure that children had no place to go outside at night. The origin of the character Pitch lies at the time of the black plague.People who did not survive were taken away by the undertakers dressed in black. Since these people didn't come back, it was always said that the black man took them. In Germany they also say that all fairy tales are war stories. For this reason, the fairy tales before the Brothers Grimm overhaul include cannibalism, rape, and deaths of the main characters.The fairy tales were intended to warn and deter children.

I love this movie!! Amazing ideas and characters. I would love to know more about the other guardians. I wonder if they were all living beings who died.

I absolutely love watching your videos, I really like your commentary and I'm glad that you don't overanalyze the films you react to. Thanks for putting so much effort into your videos!

You should watch Rango too! It's another super underrated one.

If you love this kind of animation style. I recomend you to watch Epic (2013)

How did I not know you're Australian? xD I always assumed you're British, but it all makes perfect sense now. I would consider myself a fairly new fan of yours, but your reactions are quickly growing on me. It doesn't happen often that a reaction channel with such a brilliant commentary has all the films I enjoy watching. The only thing missing is you reacting to Minority Report (and other Tom Cruise scifi films) and couple of TV shows from early 2010's and your channel would basically be my movie inventory. xD I was just thinking of watching Sixth sense, for example. What I like the most is that you don't react only to the latest hits of TV and cinema like majority of reaction channels. You don't even need a company to be entertaining and fun to watch (or to lead discussions). Keep it up, man! And Merry Christmas!! 🤍

If you enjoy this, I highly recommend Guardians of Gahool. Similar names, two different movies but the same vibes. At least to me anyway 😄

Rise of the Guardians is criminally underrated. It's one of my absolute favorite animated movies ever. Also, funny you said "aye aye captain" at the end when Chris Pine was the voice actor for Jack Frost, and also played Captain Kirk in the 2009 Star Trek reboot (unless that was intentional?).

This is one of my favourite animated movies of all time, was fun to rewatch it with you😊

I always thought the ending of this movie was off. Like the entire movie it's been pushing how much it sucks to be forgotten, and then all the guardians celebrate Pitch being forgotten. I know he's the bad guy, but fear can be useful in certain situations. I think it would've been better if Pitch was reformed?

One of my favourite animation ever ❤

I absolutely love this movie. I literally just recommended it to a coworker the other day. It's beautiful. The cast is amazing. The story is amazing. I'm so happy you checked it out. 🤗🎄

Thank you for such a thoughtful and wholesome review. This is one of my favourite movies and I think it's so underrated, so it's great to see it getting some love now. Thank you and have a wonderful festive season! ❄

It was SO much fun watching this movie with you. It's one of my favourites.

I'm subbed to you on an old account I lost access to, and then I couldn't recall your channel name, so when youtube suggested one of your videos and I saw your face in the thumbnail I was just like, "Oh, hell yes!" I'm excited to see all the movies you've covered in the last couple of months, especially the last few Harry Potter movies. I think you were around 10K subs back then, and to see you've doubled that in the last few months is really impressive and awesome, and I'm happy for you. :) Take care!

This is one of the most underrated movies ever. Fortunately I watch it with my kids all the time and they love it

ahh I love this movie!! been a while since I've seen it now, so this was such a lovely surprise to see you post a reaction to it! :'D

i really enjoy your commentary!!! i am excited to watch your other reactions but for now, i am going to sleep >:D amazing vid!