While most American youngsters may acknowledge Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin), the model of him that exists on this film is faraway from the favored creativeness. While not precisely on the extent of David Harbour’s Santa in 2022’s “Violent Night,” it is nonetheless a reasonably onerous flip. Besides his imprecise Russian accent (he makes use of the names of Russian composers as exclamations) and decidedly not-cozy demeanor, his position within the film is much less involved with delivering presents to youngsters and extra with defending the world from boogeyman Pitch Black (Jude Law). To that finish, he leads a bunch referred to as the Guardians.
But Santa is a supporting participant, identical to different Guardians E. Aster Bunny (Hugh Jackman), the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher), and the Sandman, who does not converse however represents the safety of youngsters’s desires. Where Santa is the Guardian of Wonder, Bunny is the Guardian of Hope, and Tooth is the Guardian of Memories. As Santa receives information of the arrival of Pitch Black shortly earlier than Easter, strikes are made to summon a brand new Guardian. This seems to be Jack Frost (Chris Pine), a 300-year-old ghostly adolescent prankster with ice powers who Bunny claims is simply good for freezing pipes and “messing with egg hunts.” This is set on by The Man In The Moon, a godlike determine to whom the Guardians reply.
The lore within the film does not actually let up apart from scenes the place Jack pulls pranks on civilians who cannot see him, together with a baby named Jamie (Dakota Goyo). Jack hates not being seen, and his invisibility represents a fancy existential downside for him, one which he solutions by performing out. The film isn’t working on the extent of the acquainted lowest frequent denominator youngsters’ film by any stretch.