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Reviewing all Rise Of The Guardians related media

I found as much media in this franchise that I could (I know there’s some more that aren’t available anymore, like the apps) and I’m here to give my opinion on all of them. Even if I gave something a low rating, I still love and cherish it as a part of my collection!

There’s four sections: movie tie-in books, online comics, Guardians Of Childhood, and miscellaneous pieces of media I can’t sort easily

Movie tie-in books

The Art Of Rise Of The Guardians

Setting - 4 stars

Plot - 3 stars

Engagement - 5 stars

Characters - 5 stars

Style - 5 stars

Enjoyment - 5 stars

Overall rating - 5 stars

Recommendation - 5 stars

I love the concept art book so much. I find it very interesting to see how movies are made, especially animated ones. All of the different details and story elements and decisions are so cool. I had to do a double take on them calling Jack a 'hunk' that's so funny. And the art is just so gorgeous!

Guide To The Guardians

Setting - 3 stars

Plot - 2.5 stars

Engagement - 4.5 stars

Characters - 5 stars

Style - 3.5 stars

Enjoyment - 5 stars

Overall rating - 3.5 stars

Recommendation - 4 stars

I love fun facts so much! Each guardian gets a section w/ information, and an activity to do. I really like it! It's my second favorite of the movie-tie in books! Has trading cards with even more fun facts! (I found high quality pictures of the cards from GoldenDragon on DeviantArt, if you wanna take a peek at them.)

Hidden Truths and Other Stories

Setting - 3.5 stars

Plot - 5 stars

Engagement - 5 stars

Characters - 5 stars

Style - 4.5 stars

Enjoyment - 5 stars

Overall rating - 5 stars

Recommendation - 5 stars

It has two original stories:

Monty and Jamie discussing their experiences with the Guardians before the events of the movie

How the elves came to work for North!

Getting something from this world that I haven't seen before was so fun and exciting! My favorite of the movie tie-in books!

Hidden Truths:

The story of Jamie and Monty is really cute. Jamie keeps a book to keep track of the magical things that he sees. Monty shares a time when he was at a boys scout camp and got attacked by a stray dog, only to see ice appear out of nowhere.

With Friends Like These:

The elves are funny, and North and the yetis reaction to them is hilarious. They help North, and he decides to let them stay.

Worlds Of Wonder

Setting - 2.5 stars

Plot - 1.5 stars

Engagement - 4 stars

Characters - 3 stars

Style - 3.5 stars

Enjoyment - 4 stars

Overall rating - 3.5 stars

Recommendation - 3 stars

I actually really like this. The play-set is cute and the little booklet gives some information about all the characters. It's something that I would've adored as a kid. It’s got a mixed rating bc it’s a pop-up play-set with mini paper cutouts of the characters, not a story. It’s a bit hard to rate with all the others.

Rise Of The Guardians: Movie Novelization

Setting - 3.5 stars

Plot - 3 stars

Engagement - 3.5 stars

Characters - 4 stars

Style - 3 stars

Enjoyment - 3 stars

Overall rating - 3.5 stars

Recommendation - 3.5 stars

It's not as well written as I hoped it would've been, but it isn't a terrible read. Overall, I like it, but it does change, add, and exclude lines that were in the movie. Some changes I like, some I don't. It's not bad, not good.

Just meh. If you're a fan of rotg, you'll enjoy it well enough.

Jamie To The Rescue!

Setting - 3 stars

Plot - 3.5 stars

Engagement - 3 stars

Characters - 3 stars

Style - 3.5 stars

Enjoyment - 3 stars

Overall rating - 3 stars

Recommendation - 3 stars

It's a cute illustrated version of Jamie's view of the events of the movie. It’s a picture book for children, I can’t really enjoy this in the way it was intended to be read, because I’m not a kid. I like it, but it's not my favorite by a long shot.

The Story Of Jack Frost

Setting - 3 stars

Plot - 3.5 stars

Engagement - 3 stars

Characters - 3 stars

Style - 3.5 stars

Enjoyment - 3 stars

Overall rating - 3 stars

Recommendation - 3 stars

It's another cute illustrated version of Jack's view of the events of the movie. I like it, but it's in the same category as Jamie To The Rescue! in terms of kid books that an adult is reading.

Rise of the Guardians: A Deluxe Pop-Up Book

Setting - 4.5 stars

Plot - 3 stars

Engagement - 3.5 stars

Characters - 3 stars

Style - 2.5 stars

Enjoyment - 3 stars

Overall rating - 3 stars

Recommendation - 3 stars

It's fun to see the events of the movie in an interactive book! But some of the art is... just not very good? It's fine for the most part, but then Jack's eyes are suddenly in two different places and the characters look uncanny. Overall, I like it but the art leaves much to be desired.

Made In The North Pole

Setting - 2.5 stars

Plot - 2 stars

Engagement - 3 stars

Characters - 3 stars

Style - 2.5 stars

Enjoyment - 2.5 stars

Overall rating - 2.5 stars

Recommendation - 2 stars

It's fun, but it's just screenshots from the movie and pngs with related text

Not a lot of effort was put into this as other books and it shows. It's cute tho, definitely a kids book meant for children.

Rise Of The Guardians: Mix & Match

Setting - 2 stars

Plot - 2 stars

Engagement - 3 stars

Characters - 3 stars

Style - 4 stars

Enjoyment - 2 stars

Overall rating - 2.5 stars

Recommendation - 2.5 stars

Not my favorite but I can recognize that I am not the target audience for this kids book. Probably my least favorite personality. It would be fun for a kid though, the interactive element is good but overall it's not the best. It's just not for me.

Online comics

Learning To Fly

Setting - 4.5 stars

Plot - 5 stars

Engagement - 5 stars

Characters - 5 stars

Style - 5 stars

Enjoyment - 5 stars

Overall rating - 5 stars

Recommendation - 5 stars

I like how he sees how the world works and learns from it. It shows how smart he actually is, and how much he had to learn in those 300 years. I also really like the panel where he is looking up at the birds. Very cool. Just Jack flying with a flock of birds is really cool.

Spring 1968

Setting - 4 stars

Plot - 4.5 stars

Engagement - 5 stars

Characters - 5 stars

Style - 5 stars

Enjoyment - 5 stars

Overall rating - 5 stars

Recommendation - 5 stars

This art is just GORGEOUS. Short and sweet, although I do wish we got to see more about the blizzard of '68. You just know Jack is laughing in the background somewhere. I seriously cannot get over how pretty this comic is. I want this art tattooed on my SOUL

Cat Nap

Setting - 4 stars

Plot - 5 stars

Engagement - 5 stars

Characters - 5 stars

Style - 5 stars

Enjoyment - 5 stars

Overall rating - 5 stars

Recommendation - 5 stars

This is so adorable I can't even. Sandy's attempts to entertain the cat and the cat just not having it. Short and sweet and it's Sandy and a cat. What's not there to love?

The art is gorgeous. So cute!

Winter Spirit

Setting - 3.5 stars

Plot - 5 stars

Engagement - 5 stars

Characters - 5 stars

Style - 5 stars

Enjoyment - 5 stars

Overall rating - 5 stars

Recommendation - 5 stars

Jack making snowmen for a group of kids. Adorable. Also, new Jack outfit besides his colonial one and modern one. I love how the snowmen glow with Jack's magic it's such a cool detail. Jack making things fun for a group of bored kids is so on brand. Very cute and fun!

Pitch Black

Setting - 5 stars

Plot - 5 stars

Engagement - 5 stars

Characters - 5 stars

Style - 5 stars

Enjoyment - 5 stars

Overall rating - 5 stars

Recommendation - 5 stars

Pitch gets offered to be a Guardian, but he refuses and takes offense to it. It's so interesting to see Pitch being more friendly to the Guardians, especially because this is the moment that started their fight. I love the different lore here. The books by William Joyce would've never had this happen. (Also ties in super well with Johane Matte's unofficial comics. I recommend reading those as well. This is her tumblr and this her deviantart)

Guardians of Childhood

The Man In The Moon

Setting - 4 stars

Plot - 4 stars

Engagement - 4 stars

Characters - 4 stars

Style - 5 stars

Enjoyment - 4 stars

Overall rating - 4 stars

Recommendation - 4 stars

Very cute. The drawings are amazing. The story is obviously simple, but it's a bit awkward trying to fit Pitch and the lore in there when the story is mostly about MiM making a smile on the moon’s surface and balloons.

The Sandman

Setting - 4 stars

Plot - 4 stars

Engagement - 4 stars

Characters - 4.5 stars

Style - 5 stars

Enjoyment - 4 stars

Overall rating - 4 stars

Recommendation - 4 stars

Different from the novels, but still good. Very cute, and the art is gorgeous. Golden Age/Pitch stuff was less sudden and awkward.

Jack Frost

Setting - 4 stars

Plot - 4 stars

Engagement - 4 stars

Characters - 4 stars

Style - 5 stars

Enjoyment - 4 stars

Overall rating - 4 stars

Recommendation - 4 stars

Very cute! Pretty art. Less confusion about the Pitch/Golden Age stuff, mostly because it was at the beginning as set up rather than just shoved in the middle as a long paragraph on one page.

Nicholas St. North And The Battle Of The Nightmare King

Setting - 4.5 stars

Plot - 5 stars

Engagement - 3 stars

Characters - 5 stars

Style - 3.5 stars

Enjoyment - 3 stars

Overall rating - 4 stars

Recommendation - 4 stars

Cute, whimsical. We see the very beginning of the Guardians- hints at Santa and Mother Goose. Start of the relics, the macguffins of the series (more on that later.)

E. Aster Bunnymund And The Warrior Eggs At The Earth's Core!

Setting - 4.5 stars

Plot - 5 stars

Engagement - 3.5 stars

Characters - 5 stars

Style - 3.5 stars

Enjoyment - 3.5 stars

Overall rating - 4 stars

Recommendation - 4 stars

I liked this book more than the first one. We set up Emily Jane, we get more characters, and the world is expanded on. I liked how Bunny is a dork, how Pitch's weapons absorb light, how Pitch touching Nightlight turned his hand human. I do wish there was more on Bunny's negative feelings towards Pitch, seeing as he did kill Bunny's people, rather than Bunny not really caring at all.

Toothiana Queen Of The Tooth Fairy Armies

Setting - 4.5 stars

Plot - 5 stars

Engagement - 3.5 stars

Characters - 4.5 stars

Style - 3 stars

Enjoyment - 3 stars

Overall rating - 4 stars

Recommendation - 4 stars

I wish we had more on Tooth's character. I love her so much. This book frustrates me because all of the other Guardians’ homes get exact locations, but Tooth's is just "Asia." Like where? Tooth's home is only implied, and it sucks. Plus, she's the only POC in this cast, and she's a bird. The book itself was okay (ignoring the orientalism). I liked some of Tooth's backstory and the build up to meeting Emily Jane.

The Sandman And The War Of Dreams

Setting - 4.5 stars

Plot - 5 stars

Engagement - 4.5 stars

Characters - 5 stars

Style - 4.5 stars

Enjoyment - 5 stars

Overall rating - 4.5 stars

Recommendation - 4.5 stars

I liked the full backstories and the pay off for Emily Jane, Nightlight, and the relics. It feels tied with the previous books. I don't like how rushed Sandy's parts are. Also the kiss thing is just weird. I love Emily Jane's character, wish we got more of her as Mother Nature. I liked how Sandy got blisters from the nightmare shield, it's reminiscent of his death in the movie. I liked it. Favorite book in the GOC series.

Jack Frost The End Becomes The Beginning

Setting - 4 stars

Plot - 3 stars

Engagement - 3.5 stars

Characters - 3 stars

Style - 3 stars

Enjoyment - 3 stars

Overall rating - 3.5 stars

Recommendation - 3.5 stars

This book is a WILD ride. But definitely a better read if you aren't expecting it to be like the movie at all. The ending was good. I liked Shadowbent. It's inconsistent with the other books, it retcons a bunch of things. Like the relics. They aren’t important anymore just because. This book has unnecessary details and tangents that could be cut out (or even just shown, rather than told) because they do not add anything to the story. Joyce should stop using real historical figures in this book. Jack's staff is alive, btw. I'm still not over that. Or that Tumblr sexyman Jack Frost, Elsa's boyfriend or whatever, is besties with Winston Churchill (????????????????)

Miscellaneous pieces of media I can’t sort easily

Rise Of The Guardians: The Video Game (3DS version)

Setting - 3.5 stars

Plot - 3.5 stars

Engagement - 3 stars

Characters - 2.5 stars

Style - 3 stars

Enjoyment - 3.5 stars

Overall rating - 3.5 stars

Recommendation - 3.5 stars

I'm gonna be completely honest here: this game is a low effort cash grab. It’s a movie video game, my expectations are low and it met them. It's enjoyable if you like beating things up, but the gameplay gets repetitive quickly. I liked it well enough played it twice even but I wouldn't say it's the best. The game looks much better (better graphics, gameplay, voice acting, and multiplayer) on Wii/PS3/Xbox 360, I just don't have those consoles.

The Man in The Moon (2005 short film)

Setting - 3.5 stars

Plot - 4 stars

Engagement - 3 stars

Characters - 3 stars

Style - 3.5 stars

Enjoyment - 3 stars

Overall rating - 3.5 stars

Recommendation - 3.5 stars

The art style is a 3D version of William Joyce's art style (which is fine but gives me Coraline book cover vibes.) The bowler hat is apparently the boogeyman's, which is hilarious (because Joyce wrote the book that became Meet The Robinsons.) VERY early concept of this universe, used to pitch the idea to Dreamworks. It's funny how the core concept is there, but how different it is to both the movie and the books. It's alright, I do find it more interesting than entertaining, because of how much the concept changed. Can't have William Joyce without the robots.

#rise of the guardians #rotg #jack frost #pitch black #sanderson mansnoozie #e. aster bunnymund #toothiana #nicholas st. north #guardians of childhood #Goc #rotgoc #william joyce #Peter Ramsey #Johane matte

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