This was not a good movie by any stretch of the word, but it was entertaining. I was practically rolling on the floor laughing the entire time. Blacksmith owls? Owls with "battle talons"? Owls with swords? Zombified owls? Really, really bad owl jokes told by an owl who digs holes? Apparently "Trust your gizzard" is the new "Trust in the force"? "Metalbeak"? An owl that plays a lute and sings? Yes, please!

You don't hire Hugo Weaving for two scenes. You just don't, especially when the actor you hired to play the bad guy does an incompetent job. And why is every owl Austrailian? Why do they never explain what the mysterious substance the bad guys are hoarding actually is? Why did they write a story that's so predictable you know how it ends even before it's halfway through? Why does Zach Snyder throw so many slow-motion shots at us? Why is there no depth when I am watching this movie in 3D?

If you're willing to waste some money, you will be thoroughly entertained by this failure. There isn't another place where you can see an owl run another owl through with a small scimitar.

I'm trying to wrap my head around "blacksmith owls." Do they explain in the movie how a frikin owl is able to melt and forge steel?

With their gizzards, obviously. Sheesh. :P

This movie looks beautiful, but man does it just sound retarded. And that's bizarre, because we've had movies about sentient animals before. Watership Down, Secret of NIHM, all that, but this one just seems...there, I guess. I don't know how to describe it. It's like they took a story meant for humans, and then got high and said oh man, this would be so much better with owls. You never hear them coming.

Wait, this movie is about owls? I thought it was some badass Greek mythology thing.

Bwahahahaha.

I saw the trailer... I was not impressed.

So, we can have a fantasy movie about owls. But good adaptations of Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer are out of the question? Are directors only brave enough to put out films about Scholastics fantasy back catalog?

Let us never speak of the D&D movies again. Ever. Not even to make fun of the vile one Tom Hanks was in that said D&D impressionable players go crazy and kill people because they can't tell fantasy from reality.

there is nothing worse then Bruce Payne with blue lips.

*groan* Reminds me of the new Conan movie.

There's a new Conan movie? I really wish Ron Perlman would play Conan, because even though that game he was in was not so good, the one thing it taught me was if they ever wanted to make another movie, he should be the go-to guy. Funny thing is, that's exactly how I felt. It really is like someone wrote a script for the most generic fantasy story ever told, then realized that no one would actually go see it if they didn't have a gimmick. OWLS!

Speaking of sentient animal movies, I would LOVE a Redwall movie. That would be the best thing ever, if treated properly.

Out of curiosity, how would you handle a Redwall film? Would you use CGI, or something else?

I think a Redwall film would have to be CG, but very lifelike CG. One thing I did appreciate about Legend of the Guardians was that the owls looked very similar to their real-life counterparts, yet the animators could still express clear emotions with them.

Another very important part of the process would be creating fight scenes that could be taken seriously. The main reason I feel like "Guardians" failed is they couldn't make a fight scene that I didn't chuckle at when watching. Of course a mouse couldn't fight enemies with swords, but the trick is to make the animation make it plausible. You have to convince the audience that the world you've created follows concrete rules, and through those rules these animals can feasibly accomplish the actions they're taking on screen.

The movie Inception would be a good example of what I'm talking about. You have characters doing all sorts of crazy things on screen, yet the film makes the audience aware of why their actions are possible in the particular world of the film. They completely understand when they're seeing the gravity-defying fight in the hotel, or when one character is able to dream up a grenade launcher.