I Watched This Underrated Owl Movie LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE for the first time

[@wolfwing1]

I love how 14 years later this is probably still one of the best looking CGI. Especially the storm/fire.

[@StarRoseAngelic]

Seriously?! I didn't realize this was so old.If you told me it came out last year I would've believed it lol

[@sabertoothno34]

You could really tell the animators took their observations seriously when making this movie.

[@wolfwing1]

@@StarRoseAngelic I know, just the details on the feathers and everything else.

[@seanhutley3820]

I feel the same about Htttyd ngl. like, 14 years later and both movies look better than some films made recently.

[@ralv511]

i remember this movie came out when I was 7 and my mom wanted me to go watch a movie with her and told me to guess, I said “as long as it’s not that owl movie that keeps playing during commercials” she was so annoyed for the rest of the day😭😭

[@RedCaio]

oh no, your poor mom. I'm not saying you did anything wrong. I just know how it feels to try to do something nice and it fails miserably. I would've cried that night :(

[@ralv511]

@@RedCaio nah she’s fine, i watched the movie while she fell asleep next to me and i kept having to wake her up💀

[@stay_fromnz5605]

​@@ralv511 the irony 😂

[@Thebeezzkneezz.]

I was completly obessed with this movie as a kid, i watched it countless times, my dad even got me a mini video player so i could watch it on my own cuz my sister hated it xD I was being a total "soren" beinf obeseesed and my sister was being a claud, so tierd of the same story so funny xD

[@twist_ending7545]

​@@ralv511 parents are always like that at the movies, aren't they? What is it about the place that just knocks them out like that? Lol

[@itsmxtwist]

The snake is a species of eyeless snakes who in the books the owls keep in their nest to eat bugs that could spread disease

[@berryonce3067]

THERE ARE BOOKS??

[@justchillin.....]

They are amazing! ​@@berryonce3067

[@ggrarl]

​@@berryonce3067An idea as out there as a fantasy world with owls going to war could only be a book.

[@brainstorm9560]

It's not just in the book. Some owls, in real life, also keep blind snakes in their nests for pest control. It's a symbiotic relationship where the owls get a house cleaner, and the snake gets food and shelter.

[@petthequeenofmaddness8592]

@@berryonce3067 there are ton's of "kids" books about animals going to war or fighting, warriors cats, wing's of fire there are probably more

[@imkevinberry]

My soul will forever ache because it deeply needs a sequel that we will likely never get

[@lilscenechick1995]

We might! We got a sequel to the Incredibles. I’ll hold out some hope…

[@human-tk2fo]

You could always read the books

[@AMStryx]

It'd be better if they redid it as a TV series for like teens keeping more faith to the books(of which there are 15).

[@SCR33NH3AD]

​@@AMStryxyeah! They could use Aaron Ehasz (Avatar and Dragon Prince) to write the series

[@GoldenSoulSilveredHeart]

@@AMStryx Not every series needs a completely story accurate show or movie, it's cool to have different continuities or versions. It gets boring to have the same things over and over again. Not to say it wouldn't be neat, though. But I would love a sequel to this movie as well.

[@mariagalvez2003]

since they aren’t making a second movie, imma spoil the books a bit LOL. in the books, kludd is wearing a helmet when he falls into the flames. he lives, but the helmet is melted onto him forever, and he is the next metal beak. he and nyra are now mates, and they become the antagonists for most of the remainder of the series. ain’t that crazy.

[@ggrarl]

@@mariagalvez2003 you're confusing the books with the movie. Kludd is Metal Beak in the books, although we don't find out until book 3. Nyra recruited him. He fought the previous leader of the Pure Ones for leadership (and Nyra). Kludd won at the cost of an eye and his beak. A blacksmith made him a beak and helmet, thus the name Metal Beak. In book 3, Soren shoves a burning branch into the helmet, causing it to slightly melt, but Kludd plunges into a pond. He recovers and leads a war against the Guardians, and later St. Aggie's. It all comes to a head in book 6.

[@mariagalvez2003]

@@ggrarl you’re right, my bad. it’s been so long since i’ve read the series, i believe i was around 10 or 11. i’m in my 20’s now LOL but yea.. there are a bunch of things that the movies switched around or combined that mess me up sometimes, like how they combined the pure ones and st aggies and whatnot

[@mariagalvez2003]

@@ggrarl i actually emailed back and forth with kathryn lasky back when i was age 11, kept asking her for more ga’hoole books LOL. i’m glad to see so many other ppl in these comments were also huge fans of it

[@fablethewolf825]

Owls can't digest the bones and fur of their pray, so it gets separated from the meat (which is passed normally) and into the gizzard where it is packed into a pellet that the owl hacks up like a hairball. One liberty this movie did take, probably for the sake of character expression, is that owls also can't move their eyes; their eyes are too big to move around in their sockets, that's why they can move their heads the way they do.

[@ggrarl]

@@fablethewolf825 yeah, they also changed the eye colors of all the Tyto owls (barn owls, that is), which are supposed to be black or brown. What really stood out to me was the fact that they didn't know female owls are larger than males (with a few exceptions).

[@Sam_the_aro_ace]

In the books kludd becomes the leader of the pure ones. Hes metal beak

[@itsmxtwist]

Also he was older than Soren and purposely pushed him out of the nest and knew about the pure ones

[@GedanJ]

Yeah, a lot more dark than the movie due to the runtime of the movie being general length and never getting any second length

[@aly1541]

How does it end??😮 I never read the books as a kid but I was mortified the movie didn't get a sequel

[@silversamurai0267]

​​@@aly1541 It's a 15 book series, and this movie only "covers" the first three books. (Ignoring the fact that the movie is essentially a completely different story, just with the same characters and setting.) To just tell you how it ends would mean skipping all the parts that would help you understand the ending. 😅 But to give you a quick rundown of how Kludd and the Pure Ones and all that comes to an end. (Spoilers, I guess) The cult that was kidnapping and brainwashing owlets in the first book ends up getting conquered by and absorbed into the Pure Ones. The Pure Ones are eventually defeated after many, many, MANY battles, and multiple leadership changes. (The old Pure One leader -> Kludd/Metal Beak -> Nyra) Kludd is eventually killed by Twilight. (Gruesomely, might I add) Nyra dies after being stabbed during battle and falling into the sea.

[@aly1541]

@@silversamurai0267 thank you for this🥰and wow 15 BOOKS!?!? yeah as much as I'd like the grusome details there's no way 8 year old me would've have the patience to get through it all.

[@CantinhodaAgatha]

This movie is actually based on a 17 book series. If i remember it right, the 6 firt books to me more specific. So yeah, it has the potential to a show

[@ggrarl]

18 total, but yes, the film uses material from at least 6 of the books.

[@jordanyoung1836]

I love this movie, when this came out, I was only a 9 year old, I'm 23 now but I still manage to watch anytime I want 😊

[@anahiaguilera277]

And I’m still waiting for a second movie

[@jordanyoung1836]

@@anahiaguilera277 unfortunately, it's been 14 years since it's release so that's probably not going to happen

[@nightstar497]

Same, I wish they make a sequel but ik it won’t happen

[@anahiaguilera277]

@@jordanyoung1836 no yeah ofc just sucks cause it had potential yk going into depth about the story

[@jordanyoung1836]

@@anahiaguilera277 I understand 100%

[@AmsYourRave]

It's so funny that you say Soren is such a dad because [spoilers] in the books, he eventually becomes a dad to 3 daughters.

[@NotNaudiz]

Im glad you liked lyze of kiel so much! I adore his character too--i appreciate that a "kid's" movie didnt romanticize war or anything. Lyze is a battered, scarred, and bitter old owl and he doesnt hide it. And when the fight for good comes back around, hes on it, even though hes already done so much. Sorry i just love him so much lol

[@isabellabrown9298]

The gizzard thing is supposed to represent their gut, like feeling "I can feel it in my gut!"

[@whitneygrace4733]

I loved this movie when I was a kid! The animation still holds up after all this time. Less popular animated movies: Happy Feet, Thumbelina, Kubo and the Two Strings, Weathering with You, The Last Unicorn, and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.

[@RedCaio]

Kubo is sooo good.

[@jinphany.]

i always thought happy feet was well known 😭

[@whitneygrace4733]

@@jinphany. I think it is, but I don’t see commentaries on it.

[@sav2823]

I think Spirit is pretty popular even the nonhorse kids know about it lol, but it's such a good movie and as a horse girl who loves 2D animation, the holy Grail of my childhood

[@Futurebound_jpg]

Happy feet was insanely popular was it not????

[@kikilala9371]

12:38 in the movies the parents may be alive but in the books both of them got killed

[@ggrarl]

@@kikilala9371 and by Kludd/Metal Beak no less

[@lyndseystrait1513]

OK, the owls have Australian accents & the animals are Australian animals. 3:26 That looks like a Tazmanian Devil (which they made look as creepy as possible) & 13:10 that's an echidna. NAH HOLD UP WHAT IS ALLOMERE DOING BACK AT THE GUARDIANS' HIDEOUT AFTER THE PURE ONES WERE DEFEATED?! And yes, would love Lakia's suggestion of turning into a more fleshed-out series!

[@r-giireactions2235]

Wait a second, but the Wolves of the Beyond are clearly either in the northern parts of Eurasia or Alaska, and the Distant Blue is in the other place, so how do the Owls live in Australia if the Sea of Ga'Hoole has to be no bigger than the Hudson Bay??? And yes, I'm pretty sure it's confirmed to be Earth, given they mentioned Others like Shakespeare or someone like him.

[@ggrarl]

@@r-giireactions2235 the owls only have Australian or Kiwi accents because the special effects studio is in Australia, so all the actors are from the surrounding area. The books, while clearly taking place on Earth, are in a fantasy setting with owl species living together that you wouldn't find in the wild. I mean, you can find a barn owl in Aus, but not the pygmy, the burrowing, or the great grey. The books also had dire wolves, polar bears, snow leopards, puffins, seagulls, crows, vultures, flying snakes, and several other animals.

[@astoroidea6502]

@@ggrarlside note but we do have crows in Australia, they’re a native species too.

[@ggrarl]

@@astoroidea6502 so I see, the Australian crow and the little crow. Although they species swapped the bald eagle for a wedge-tailed eagle, and there's concept art of Trader Mags, but instead of being a Eurasian magpie, she's an Australian magpie, which aren't related to corvids.

[@Royaltyinthelongdarkcoat]

this was one of the few movies that was so good in 3d the rain scene is *chefs kiss* so good

[@wolfwing1]

I would still argue most of the movie still holds up in the cgi department especially the fire/storm scenes.

[@Royaltyinthelongdarkcoat]

@@wolfwing1 whole heartedly agree

[@lyndseystrait1513]

Honestly, I agree it's an underrated movie. For me, this and Once Upon a Forest were core memories but I am frequently surprised when people tend to forget them. The moon hypnosis & the dark characters were very impressionable features of the movie. Also, people forget Over the Hedge which I find absolutely criminal. Loved all of Lakia's commentary & getting to rewatch it after so long with her. Great reaction!

[@SorenAlba54]

Believe it or not, Lakia. This movie is based on a series of books of the very same name for elementary kids and I recall seeing one of those in person but never read it. My first time seeing this was cut short when my mom saw it as too dark for me. Years later, when I finally had the chance, I was amazed of how this one came to be. Like you mentioned, the animation was stunning that every detail is so refined that they look so real. When you noticed that it was directed by Zach Synder, imagine my surprise when I found that out and after taking a closer look, it was definitely his work since he’s known for making dramatic slow-mo scenes. So much so that one scene in a episode of the Animaniacs reboot made a joke about it for doing a slow-mo shot themselves. On a personal note, this is the one movie where I appreciated the beauty and the grace of an owl, especially barn owls like Soren and his family. It’s also interesting that they chose this kind of owl as an imperial force since , their scientific name, are found everywhere from here to Australia. Speaking of which, that’s exactly what they are: Australians, not British as you thought. In fact, they were hints of that with the Tasmanian Devil, the creature that attacked both Soren and Kludd and the Echidna, the spiny guide who showed them the way to the tree. Lastly, it is very fitting that Owl City sang the theme song, hence the name and like you, I too added this to my playlist for Movie Soundtracks. 😁

[@mariagalvez2003]

the books actually aren’t for young children, they’re pretty gruesome and gorey 😭😭 the books were in my elementary school library but they were in the section for the older kids. and i never knew why until i finally got to the age where i was allowed to read them… the movie is a lot more tame and they cut out most of the violence

[@SorenAlba54]

@@mariagalvez2003 I thought that was the case. I also recall that there some changes like Nyra is Kludd’s mate since he’s Metal a Beak and that Digger is actually a wise character.

[@MintSkys]

I'm on the first book. I like the movie still.

[@ggrarl]

​@@SorenAlba54that's correct, they changed several things, like personalities and species, for whatever reason

[@SorenAlba54]

@@ggrarl Well, stuff like this tends to have certain alternations for the sake of the film and to avoid having a copyright strike. You know what they, either love it or leave it.

[@danielcervera8010]

Little fun fact about the movie the character that Soren considers his mentor the screech owl is voiced by the actor who plays Barbosa in Disney pirates of the Caribbean!!!!

[@ijlayugan4149]

lakia having beef with owls wasnt what i expected

[@xBloodxFangx]

Seeing this movie in 3D at the theaters was SO GOOD

[@ally-hb8vk]

Omgg the guardians of ga’hoole books were peak in elementary school

[@0w0nashy]

I was 5 when this came out and when I watched the movie I got traumatized. But I watchet it again when I was 8-9 and it became one of my favorites. In fact, it still is one of the animated movies closer to my heart 🙂‍↕️💖

[@jayeef2313]

28:37 wait till ya’ll find out it was a book series first. And that im pretty sure it was a spin off of another book series about wolves.

[@ApricityGlow]

Other way around. Wolves of the Beyond is a spin-off of GoG.

[@jayeef2313]

@@ApricityGlow got it. I read wolves of the beyond first lol

[@ApricityGlow]

@@jayeef2313 Same, because the whole series was in my school library. I read part GoG before it and got a huge spoiler at the end of the series dropped casually into Wolves.

[@kaepiper]

OMFG!!! girl i’m so fckin happy you watched this!! it’s sooooo extremely underrated!!

[@miraculerlukanette8202]

a Guardians of Ga´Hoole reaction ?!!! let´s GOOOOOO my life is complete now

[@lily_pad597]

this movie is based on a book series i read when i was younger. the movie is based in Australia so all the voice actors have aussie accents.

[@kyliebenz2080]

This movie traumatized me!!!

[@dovethesimp]

I have a love hate relationship with this movie, it’s so good, so underrated and I love it- but I think it sucks so much that his brother chose the wrong side, like it’s so sad

[@chaoticallycalm6277]

Kathryn Lasky honestly ate SO HARD with her books especially with so many intertwined like with the wolves and the owls and the horses LIKE GURL!!!! Obsessed

[@PlantBasedLaughter]

This is my favorite movie for so many reasons!! The book series is also incredible and filled with actual educational facts along with maintaining a fantasy storyline.

[@Noryelle]

3:26 that mate is a Tasmanian devil.

[@RebekahSmithChildofGod7]

I was looking for rise of the guardians for my mom to watch, but we found this one and watched them both. I love each of them! 🤩

[@twist_ending7545]

2:03 yep! Well, the kinds of owls their family is and the type of snake she is! It's a real thing!

[@clarad6109]

This movie changed ALOT from the books, probably mostly due to time constraints and lack of sequels. It's an amazing film on its own and did a fantastic job of depicting the tree and following the basic plot. However, if you're interested, here's the changes I noticed: - Kludd did not get kidnapped; he pushed Sorren out of the nest one night in hopes he'd die on the ground (but Saint Aggies snatched him). This was part of his initiation into the Pure Ones. He later killed his parents and gave them Eglentine. - The Pure Ones and the Owls of Saint Aggies are two different evil groups. The Aggies owls join the Gaurdians in their war against the Pure Ones later on. - Sorren and Gylfie are stuck at Saint Aggies for months, learning to fly from Grimble and gathering information. To avoid moon blinking but still get enough sleep; the canyon doesn't have enough open space to have everyone under the moon at once, so they march the owlets to change position every hour. They sleep while under a columns shadow and tell each other stories about the Gaurdians to stay awake when they're under the moons' gaze. - Digger is not a goofy comic relief character. He's described as philosophical, always digging for answers or deeper meanings. When he speaks, owls listen. He also refuses to fly when they first meet because he's looking for his parents. Jatt and Jutt (the Aggies owls that stole Sorren) killed and ate his brother while Digger escaped. He doesn't join them on their journey to Ga'Hoole until he learns his parents died, too. - The Journey itself is much longer, lots of cut events. Most memorable was when one of them got injured by a crow mob and they decided to rest by this beautiful lake until they healed. They slowly grew complacent and didn't want to leave. Turns out the lake is called Mirror Lake and enchanted them to be obsessed with themselves and boast about their own beauty while staring into the lake. Mrs. P realizes the danger and forces them to leave, one of the few times she gets angry with them. - The flight over the sea to the tree is much worse. They get lost in the snow storm and fly past the tree. They land in the Northern Kingdoms and are hosted by a family of puffins. When the storm clears they fly back south to the tree. - Ezylryb's depiction is close to accurate. However, he does not fight. He took a vow to never fight again after the last war he was in. Before he came to the tree he fought for the Kielian League against the League of Ice Talons. His brother betrayed him, the love of his life died, and he lost several talons. He joined the Glauxian Brothers and became a famous author. They convinced him to move to the tree to teach. - The Band (Sorren, Gylfie, Digger, and Twilight) spend a great deal of time learning, going to classes in groups (called Chaws) with other owls, and getting their certification as Gaurdians. Lots of cut events before they fight the Pure ones, including Ezylryb going missing and being captured. He gets stuck in a Devils Triangle of Flecks that confuse his sense of direction, almost like moonblinking. Metal Beak wants his vast knowledge and The Band go to rescue him. - After Ezylryb is rescued, The Band, Otulissa, and two others (This group is called The Chaw of Chaws) are sent to Saint Aggies to spy because there was rumor that the Pure Ones were infiltrating Saint Aggies to steal their huge supply of Flecks. They discovered the Pure Ones were gathering in mass to attack the tree and go back to warn them and prepare for war. The Gaurdians manage to rebuff the Pure Ones by multiple tactics, safeguards, and with allies from other Kingdoms. - There is no interspecies attraction. Sorren does not like Otulissa. She is a spotted owl, he is a barn owl. EVERYONE (Sorren included) finds her annoying; teachers pet, history obsessed, rule follower. She goes through a lot of characters development: her teacher dies during the Pure Ones attack on the tree, driving her to become obsessed with invading the Pure Ones for revenge, during this time she falls in love with a pacifist; a healer and prince of an ancient dynasty, Cleve. I still chuckle when I remember how she screeched at him during a silent meditation flight when she learned he doesn't believe in war. They become mates later on. - The turn feather is not Allomere, who I don't remember existing in the books, but an owl named Dewlap, a ryb at the tree. She's repeatedly tries to ban certain books/subjects, enjoys giving harsh punishments to students, is obsessed with the welfare of the tree itself, and smuggles information to the Pure Ones. After the invasion she has a nervous breakdown, not being able to come to terms with Strix Struma's death. She was sent to the Glauxian Sisters Retreat to live out her shattered life. - Eglentine was not taken to Saint Aggies, she was taken by the Pure Ones to a castle stronghold. She and other owlets were forced to sleep in the crypts with the bones of Others (humans), this made them loose their identities, similar to moon blinking. At some point Saint Aggies invaded and stole the owlets. The Pure Ones caught up to them and the battle resulted in the owlets being dropped from the sky, known as The Great Downing. Digger and Twilight rescued many of them including Eglentine on a search-and-rescue Chaw. Her trace was broken by chance when she looked at the moon through a peice of glass being sold by Trader Mags and her apprentice Bubbles, who come to the tree a few times a year to sell her wares. - There was no Metal Beak before Kludd. He and Nyra conspire and he challenges the previous High Tyto to a duel, killing him but getting his scarred face. Kludd becomes known as Metal Beak because he starts wearing the mask to cover his face and protect his brain against Flecks. The final showdown between Metal Beak (Kludd) and the Gaurdians comes after the invasion of the tree. The Pure Ones retreat to the canyons (they stole from Saint Aggies) and the Gaurdians team up with the Saint Aggies owls to invade the Pure Ones. During the invasion Kludd takes Digger prisoner and forces Sorren to come alone. Sorren and Kludd fight, but it's Twilight who kills Kludd, sparing Sorren from killing his own brother. -There's also a lot of characters cut, including: -Skench and Sproon, the leaders of Saint Aggies, who kidnapped and moonblinked owlets because they weren't very smart and needed to feel superior. When the Pures Ones invaded the canyons, they sought refuge with the Gaurdians and then tried to betray them to Metal Beak. Skench was killed by Sorren in the attempt and Sproon was killed by Martin. -Hortense, another moonblinked pretender who smuggles stolen eggs away from Saint Aggies to return the their parents. Zan and Streak, a bald eagle couple who help Hortense and later help Sorren and the gang kill Jatt and Jutt. Streak is the one who informs Digger of his parents passing. -Ruby and Martin are the two other characters in the Chaw of Chaws who go with Otulissa and The Band to Saint Aggies as spies. Ruby was a short eared owl, Martin a northern saw-whet (tiny like Gylfie). -Strix Struma was the navigation ryb, Otulissa's teacher, who is killed by Nyra during the invasion of the tree. Nyra tore her wings off and dropped her into the sea. Otulissa was right next to her and slashed Nyra's face in retaliation (leaving a scar on her perfect face that is very important to future book events). There are 15 books, so you're absolutely correct in saying this would make a good show. I left out a ton, trying to keep it within the events of the movie, which is like the first six books smashed together. I still had to leave out a lot of events, but I hope this was interesting at least :)

[@foranzo1582]

I didn't know a movie like that even existed!! I'm in love already, I love owls!! :}

[@TiredShyCreator]

The way you keep reacting to movies from my childhood makes me feel validated

[@B363]

14:39 as a german this is too funny

[@MiinaaBaibee]

This is a pivotal movie from my childhood!!!! How exciting you are watching it!! And the Owl City song… better days 😭🥰

[@xie-iz5jo]

this movie is insanely beautiful

[@malaikakhan28]

This is my favorite childhood movie. Loved the characters, the soundtrack, the plot, the lack of romance. Just a good old good vs. evil story founded on friendship. And when I read the books it's (loosely) based on, I realized how similar the Pure Ones' ideology is to white supremacy and how it comnects to us humans, and liked the movie even more 🦉❤

[@mariagalvez2003]

i watched this movie back when i was 8, i’m 21 now. i ended up reading all the books too (which are a lot more gorey and intense surprisingly). i loved them so much i even wrote to the author, and she wrote back.

[@RainierFajardoProduction]

*THIS IS MY CHILDHOOD!! AND THE FACT THAT THEY USE OWL CITY'S TO THE SKY SONG MADE IT SOOO MUCH NOSTALGIC FOR ME!!* *I MISS THESE ERAS MAN*

[@ivy5935]

NO OMG THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE EVER!!! Since I was a child 😭😭✋🏻✋🏻✋🏻 finally someone reacts to this

[@Jo87654]

Man I wish they would make a second movie I want to know what happened to Kludd

[@projectpatientanarchy7550]

Read the books the movie was based off of

[@chelseyhill7774]

This was and still is my favorite movie of all time. Absolutely ridiculously under rated

[@kayrr4612]

WATCH HAPPY FEET, THE SAME STUDIO MADE IT😭☝🏽

[@lilscenechick1995]

Happy Feet is SO GOOD. One of my favorite animated films ever.

[@azriellee2013]

I remember picking up this as a DVD from the store when I was nine years old with no idea what it was. I rewatched it recently and oml, it takes itself so seriously. It was one of the most immersive, epic, and beautiful things I had seen at that age and I can safely say this movie influenced my love of epic fantasy.

[@17thcentury_girl]

I always thought this movie was a dream

[@samthelion3925]

I remember this movie came out when I was 9 in 3rd grade. I had REALLYYY bad strep throat and needed to stay home for 3 days. I was bored out of my mind!! My mom bought me this movie to play in my room while I tried getting better. For the next 3 days this was played and replayed about a million times. I had drawn all the scenes and stuck them all over my walls. I made my mom buy me fake plastic leaves that I hung up all over to pretend I was an owl living in a tree. This shit was my entire world, definitely for those 3 days, but even months after I couldn't let it go. Never gonna forget the hype I had over these damn owls. Had to read the books too. So sad it will never get a sequal.

[@silversamurai0267]

So, a few fun facts about the books this movie was adapted from: (Book Spoilers Ahead) 1) The books are SO much darker. The owls who kidnap the owlets and force them to work (not the Pure Ones) are a straight up cult. They don't just kidnap owlets, but also steal eggs from their nests. One of the adults in charge of "looking after" the owlets engages in cannibalism of said owlets, and eggs. It's only spoken about, never described, but... Jesus. Direct moonblinking is a punishment for owlets who prove to be difficult. Before that, they use indirect moonblinking and force the owlets to march in place while saying their names over and over. This generally gives the wanted effect of "brainwashing" the owlets, as it makes their names meaningless and muddles up their brains, like a fog. Direct moonblinking can destroy their minds entirely. 2) Soren and Gylfie (especially Soren) are a lot younger in the first book than what is shown in the movie, and consequently, they are trapped by the cult for longer. Soren is still a fledgling (meaning he still has his baby feathers, not flight feathers) at the start of the book. Which means that, for the first half of the book, it's actually a waiting game of survival, as Gylfie and Soren need their flight feathers to grow in first before they can even think of escaping. 3) Moving away from the cult to the one you actually know about. The Pure Ones aren't mentioned in the first book. (That I can remember) Rather than an enslavement cult, like St. Aggies (the cult Soren is in) they're a fascist cult. 4) Kludd is cruel from the start, and Mrs. P points out that he's a bad egg, without realizing to what extent. It isn't until a later book that it's revealed that Kludd PUSHED Soren out of the nest. He did so because it was an initiation test to get into the Pure Ones. The goal was to murder his baby brother. He then later has Eglantine kidnapped into the Pure Ones, after they have merged with St. Aggies. 5) Soren never sees his parents [alive] again. He encounters their ghosts in a much later book, but they die before he could truly reunite with them. 6) The world is STRONGLY implied to be a post-apocalyptic version of OUR world. A world where humans have died out and owls (along with some other animals) have taken over as the dominant species. They find human objects and treat them like ancient artifacts from a long lost civilization. This is all just off the top of my head, years after actually reading the books. The story acts like a great fantasy-adventure book, but it's got some crazy dark vibes and story beats going on that really test the "child-friendly" genre. Like, had these owls been HUMAN? No way would it be a series for kids. Least of all a third grader like I was, when I first started reading them. 😅

[@Melcii_draws]

OMG OOVED THIS MOVIE AS A KID! i woukd never remeber the name though so i just called it the owl fughting movie but honestly i feel like that movie made owls one of my favorite animals

[@CeaselessEnemy]

Lyze of Keel is a screech owl, while all the "Pure Ones" are varieties of Tyto (barn owls.) Barn owls are a larger sort, while Screech owls are smaller by comparison, hence why Lyze is so small compared to Metal Beak. Essentially, Pure Ones are just owl fascists. In the books, it goes more in-depth. They only see Barn Owls specifically as the PUREST ones, while other sorts of Tyto are seen as lesser tiers.

[@CeaselessEnemy]

Also, another interesting thing- the Pure Ones were a different faction from St. Aggies. St. Aggies was a cult, and a secondary big bad, while the main big bad were the Pure Ones with an in-depth commentary on fascism and how it can infect those like Kludd at a shockingly young age, when gone unchecked. Lemme tell you what, Kludd is COLD. When he becomes metal beak, someone nurses him to health, and he kills them because he views them as a lesser owl. Mind you, he started this mindset when he couldn't fly yet. When he was a TEENAGER. Which is the prime demographic to be groomed into a fascist mindset, if they already have questionable morals to work off of. I think the book series is so much more fleshed out than the movie, but I wish the movie had had a chance to have sequels. I like to think it would have tried connecting to the book plot in a much different way.

[@Vannannah]

I cried too many times watching this movie as a kid.... aaannnd maybe even as an adult too..

[@witchcraft222]

I was randomly gifted this dvd as a kid and I just remember being so confused when I watched it.😭

[@lilly-is-tired]

my mom and i loved these books when I was a kid, and as much as I love the movie and think it so visually amazing, they changed a lot from the the books. kludd had so much more depth in the books and was a really well written morally gray character. he even had his own little redeption arc. but this movie was so ahead of its time with animation and the scene where soren is flying through the storm was carved into my brain as a kid.

[@discord1607]

The movie came out when I was 5 and I watched it then. Ever since then it has always been my favorite movie. It’s also the movie that got me to like animation and writing but also become the thing that made me like owls so much. I wish I still had the CD for it.

[@tatyanarodriguez1561]

I love this movie and it never got a sequal, I want more.

[@projectpatientanarchy7550]

There's books the movie was based on

[@tatyanarodriguez1561]

@@projectpatientanarchy7550 thanks, I thought that was just a rumor

[@brandonwilliams6221]

The animation for this movie has no right looking this good after all this time.

[@marly8784]

Yeah nah that’s the Australian accent. That was a Tasmanian Devil that attacked them and the foretold guy is an Echidna.

[@ratchetcakezvani7435]

I remember watching this movie and really liking it, then finding & buying the Wii game and I was absolutely OBSESSED with it 😅

[@F1guRas]

I remember my dad played this movie and I got so scared about the owls I never finished it, now I can finally see it

[@robertfrancis9877]

I remember seeing this as a kid saying to myself: "Is it just me, or does this feel like a starwars remake." The main character's brother turns evil due to a greater being giving him praise to then be *allegedly* killed by fire. That's Obi-wan and Anakin's story.

[@ggrarl]

@@robertfrancis9877 which is kind of funny considering it wasn't like that at all in the books

[@typhoonindatoybox3351]

it has gorgeous graphics that are timeless, i watched this movie when i was younger still one of the most gorgeous movies ive seen to this day, and the animations of the creatures and plants are phenomenal

[@Beel3-t9t]

Fun fact about owls: a group of owls is called a parliament. Fun fact about one of the VA's: the voice actor for Noctus, Hugo Weaving, played Noah in Happy Feet. Fun fact about me: I think this is where I got my love of owls (mostly elf owls, I love Gylfie XD)

[@ijlayugan4149]

i had a very faint memory of this movie- all i knew was that it was about owls being soldiers and a lot of fighting- im glad i get to rewatch it again

[@Ros3299]

i was obsessed with owls when i was younger and this was my favorite movie!!! which now that i think about it is really weird because i was a really big wuss…

[@thealien9539]

Saw this movie in 3D my first time watching it. Freaking epic. Got the DVD when it came out and now it's one of my comfort movies.

[@mogwiawolf4354]

Grew up watching it and love it

[@itskimberlycarter]

please watch Arthur and the invisibles, yes, I’m begging

[@OfficialPotatoPalace]

I literally love this movie, i watched it when i was little with my dad and i still watch it now

[@c5l6t4]

I had an obsession with owls because of this movie. It’s so sad that not a lot of people know this movie. Me and my friend watched this when we were in high school and started reading the books after seeing it on cinema.

[@2unapiiano]

MY FAVORITE MOVIE EVER RAHHHHHH

[@TessaxMusic95]

I was obsessed with the books as a kid in middle school!!

[@HarpyHeartz]

The animal who attacked the owls in the first scene was a Tasmanian devil, and the ‘porcupine’ was an echidna, this seems to be set in Australia and is featuring native wildlife lol

[@roseinskyrim]

I forgot this movie existed, thank you for reminding me. It was pretty dang good.

[@Daughter-of-Adam-and-Eve]

3:28 that is a tasmainian devil from tasmania (would've guessed?) Its a small, carnivorous marsupial (so it has a pouch like a kangaroo like most animals down in the outback) that screeches and looks cute as a baby but dont be fooled. Dont be fooled.

[@Thebeezzkneezz.]

I was completly obessed with this movie as a kid, i watched it countless times, my dad even got me a mini video player so i could watch it on my own cuz my older sister hated it xD

[@jaybirdrosewater-holmes7071]

Such a good movie, it made me go and collect the whole book series and when i tell you i was NOT expecting for how dark it was

[@LiT-m2u]

I am sooooo happy you watched this, I don't know many people who have seen it :))

[@janessathao7299]

I loved the book series! I was so excited when a movie came out when I was a kid

[@Iquitdragonpuppets]

I remember watching this when I was very young, I completely forgot about it until your video, I really like your reaction videos, new sub for sure!

[@InfiGlo]

The moonblinked thing used to freak me out when i was little thats the main thing i remember about this movie😭

[@Futurebound_jpg]

2:50 when i was little in school we went out in the forest, collected and dissected owl pellets, and tried to guess what they had eaten. It was disgusting and awesome. 😂

[@Fandom_Girl00]

I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH

[@eri55]

Loved this movie when it came out, saw it in theaters

[@chaoticallycalm6277]

I started reading the books back in elementary when I found out there was a movie little me went CRAZY trying to find out where to watch it and I ended up watching it the very same day I think

[@maxieboom9951]

I watched this when it came out and I always loved it. I had ADHD and as a kid I couldn’t sit down and relax as much so whenever my dad put it on I didn’t pay much attention to it but I did love it. Also there’s a book series this movie was based off of and sadly this movie didn’t get enough views back then for any development for the movie series. Most of the fans of the book didn’t like the movie (many changes ect…) so that also had a huge part in no continuation.. Sadness.. I know… 😢

[@giftsandfriends9689]

Just wait until she finds the one about the rabbits

[@Shadowcat107]

I love watching this movie. I love Owls. 🖤😍🦉

[@Ghostfoxkori]

This dug up memories that I thought were a fever dream

[@salt7625]

I want this redone as a tv show like...got level too bad that will not happen but it'd be AMAZING but having this as a series of movies or a tv show would fix the story issues alot that is why the movie failed mostly, but honestly the story still ain't that bad even! Suffers from people trying to put too many books in one short timeline Also i will say this i admire so much how they animate the owls without dipping into uncanny territory, they know how to match stylization with realism and researched owls for soooo long to gwt everything right you can tell they put so much love into it. There is also the added fact that every owl has clear weight to em. And how they animate around death, for the kiddies is masterful. The sound design is peak too omg!

[@darkflames9789]

I haven't seen this movie in a good minute and that soundtrack plus owl city whoever composed the music didn't have to go that hard lol

[@EmbertheHiveWinghybrid]

OMG, this movie is so underrated

[@Ashley-vc2gy]

I wish the Owls of Ga’hoole got more movies

[@Dragon_queen6776]

I love this show as well it’s a childhood favorite

[@sav2823]

This movie is underrated. I was very young when it came out but in middle school I really got into the series and made my dad get the movie for me again. I think I made it to book 13 but by then the series was kind of becoming incredibly confusing and random, involving wolves, shape shifting crows, and blue owls...?

[@Arkis1207]

In the book Kludd pushes Soren out the nest.

[@MiraiChimera716]

You have such good energy ^^ subbed!

[@holl3iemarie]

Such a good movie!!!! Stunning animation and a great story ❤❤❤❤ thankyou for reacting