Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated fantasy action-adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Peter Ramsey (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire based on the book series The Guardians of Childhood and the short film The Man in the Moon by William Joyce. It stars Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Isla Fisher, and Hugh Jackman. The film tells a story about Guardians Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and the Sandman, who enlist Jack Frost to stop the evil Pitch Black from engulfing the world in darkness in a fight of dreams.

The film was released in the United States on November 21, 2012. It grossed $306.9 million worldwide against a budget of $145 million but lost an estimated $87 million due to marketing and distribution costs. It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature.

It was the last DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. Starting with The Croods (2013), 20th Century Fox would distribute DreamWorks films until Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017).

Plot

Jack Frost awakens from a frozen pond with amnesia. Upon realizing that no one can see or hear him, he disappears. Three hundred years later, Jack, as the young Spirit of Winter, enjoys delivering snow days to school kids, but is upset that they do not believe in him. At the North Pole, the Man in the Moon warns Nicholas St. North that Pitch Black is threatening the children of the world with his nightmares. He calls E. Aster Bunnymund/Bunny, the Sandman, and the Tooth Fairy to arms. They are told that Jack Frost has been chosen to be a new Guardian, and Bunny brings him to the North Pole. North explains to Jack that every Guardian has a center, something they are the Guardian of, but a call for help from Tooth s fairies ends the conversation.

Visiting Tooth s world, which resembles a palace in India, Jack learns that each and every baby tooth contains childhood memories of the children who lost it, Jack s teeth included. However, Pitch raids Tooth s home, kidnapping all of her subordinate tooth fairies except Baby Tooth and stealing all the teeth, thus preventing Tooth from sharing Jack s memories and weakening children s belief in her. In order to thwart Pitch s plan, the group decides to collect children s teeth. During their journey, a quarrel between North and Bunny awakens a boy, Jamie. Since he still believes, he can see everybody except for Jack. Pitch s nightmares then attack, provoking Sandy as the Guardian of Dreams. Jack tries to intervene, but Pitch overwhelms Sandy, who seemingly disappears.

As Easter approaches, the dejected Guardians gather in Bunny s home. With the unexpected aid of Jamie s little sister, Sophie, they begin the process of painting eggs for Easter. After Jack takes Sophie home, he is lured to Pitch s lair by a voice. Pitch taunts him with his memories and fear of non-belief, distracting him long enough for Pitch to destroy the eggs, causing children to stop believing in Bunny, who furiously berates Jack. With the Guardians trust in him lost, a shamed Jack isolates himself in Antarctica, where Pitch tries to convince him to join his side. When Jack refuses, Pitch threatens to kill Baby Tooth unless Jack gives him his staff, the source of his magic. He agrees, but Pitch breaks Jack s staff and throws him down a chasm. Unlocking his memories inside his teeth, he learns that he was a mortal teenager who sacrificed himself to save his younger sister, dying from drowning. Inspired, Jack repairs his staff and returns to the lair to rescue the kidnapped tooth fairies.

Due to Pitch, every child in the world except Jamie disbelieves, drastically weakening the Guardians. Finding Jamie s belief wavering, Jack makes it snow in his room, renewing Jamie s belief and letting him become the first person to ever believe in and see Jack. They gather Jamie s friends, whose renewed belief bolsters their fight against Pitch. He threatens them, but their dreams prove stronger than his nightmares, resulting in Sandy s resurrection and the Guardians reuniting. Defeated and no longer believed in, Pitch tries to retreat, but his nightmares, sensing his own fears, turn on him and drag him to the underworld. Afterwards, Jamie and his friends bid goodbye to the Guardians as Jack accepts his place as the Guardian of Fun.

Cast and characters

• Chris Pine as Jack Frost, the Spirit of Winter. Jack is a teenage hellion who enjoys creating mischief and has no interest in being bound by rules or obligations; he just wants to use his staff to spread his winter magic for the sake of fun, but also wants to be believed in. At the end of the film, Jack became the Guardian of Fun. While he cannot fly, per se, he can be carried on currents of wind, allowing him to travel great distances. Additionally, via his staff, he possesses potent cryokinesis.
• Jude Law as Pitch Black/The Boogeyman, the essence of fear and the Nightmare King. He has dark hair and wears a black robe/cloak. He also has an English accent because of his voice actor. Despite being the literal embodiment of terror, ironically, at the resolution, he s scared of his own nightmares after being forgotten.
• Alec Baldwin as Nicholas St. North, the leader of the Guardians, and the Guardian of Wonder. He lives at the North Pole in the Ice Castle and is served by loyal North Pole natives, the Yetis (who built the castle and workshop) and the Christmas Elves. He has a Russian accent/culture persona.
• Hugh Jackman as E. Aster Bunnymund, called Bunny for short, the keeper and bringer of Easter eggs as the Easter Bunny and Guardian of Hope. He shares his voice actor s Australian accent.
• Isla Fisher as Toothiana, called Tooth for short, the tooth collector known as the Tooth Fairy and the Guardian of Memories. Tooth is part human and part hummingbird, loosely resembling a Kinnari. Assisted by mini fairies that are split-off extensions of herself, she collects the children s teeth, which hold their most precious memories. Tooth stores them in her palace and returns memories when they are needed the most.
• Sandy the Sandman is the Guardian of Dreams and the oldest of the Guardians, being the first Guardian chosen by the Man in the Moon. He doesn t/can t speak, but communicates through sand images that he conjures above his head.
• Dakota Goyo as Jamie Bennett, a child who has not given up on believing in the Guardians.
• Georgie Grieve as Sophie Bennett, Jamie s little sister
• Jacob Bertrand as Monty
• Dominique Grund as Cupcake
• Olivia Mattingly as Mary, Jack s sister
• Ryan Crego as Burgess Dog Walker
• Peter Ramsey and April Lawrence as Burgess Pedestrians

Production

In 2005, William Joyce and Reel FX launched a joint venture, Aimesworth Amusements, to produce CG-animated feature films, one of which was set to be The Guardians of Childhood, based on Joyce s idea. The film was not realized, but they did create a short animated film, The Man in the Moon, directed by Joyce, which introduced the Guardians idea, and served as an inspiration for the film.

Early in 2008, Joyce sold the film rights to DreamWorks Animation, after the studio assured him it would respect his vision for the characters and that he would be involved with the creative process. In November 2009, it was revealed that DreamWorks had hired Peter Ramsey to make his feature debut as director of what was then titled The Guardians, and playwright David Lindsay-Abaire to write the script, Lindsay-Abaire had previously worked with Joyce by co-writing the screenplay for Robots. Joyce acted as a co-director for the first few years, but left this position after the death of his daughter Mary Katherine, who died of a brain tumor. Joyce continued to work on the film only as an executive producer, while Ramsey took the helm solo as a full time director, making him the first African American to direct a big-budget CG animated film as well as making it one of the first Dreamworks films to have only one director instead of two and not have a co-director. As with some previous DreamWorks films, Guillermo del Toro came on board to join Joyce as an executive producer. Present almost from the beginning, he was able to help shape the story, character design, theme and structure of the film. He said he was proud that the filmmakers were making parts of the film dark and moody and poetic, and expressed hope this might set a different tone for family movies, for entertainment movies. The final title, Rise of the Guardians was announced in early 2011, along with the first cast.

Roger Deakins, the cinematographer who had already worked on the previous DreamWorks film, How to Train Your Dragon, advised on the lighting to achieve its real look. He selected photographic references for color keys, and during the production gave notes on contrast, saturation, depth of field and light intensity. The film contains a lot of special effects, particularly the volumetric particles for depicting Sandman and Pitch. For this, DreamWorks Animation developed OpenVDB, a more efficient tool and format for manipulating and storing volume data, like smoke and other amorphous materials. OpenVDB had been already used on Puss in Boots and Madagascar 3: Europe s Most Wanted, and was released in August 2012 for free as an open-source project with a hope to become an industry standard.

Although the film is based on the Joyce s book series, it contains differences from the books. The book series, begun in 2011, explains the origins of the characters, while the film takes place about 300 years after the books, and shows how the characters function in present time. Joyce explained, Because I don t want people to read the book and then go see the movie and go, Oh, I like the book better, and I also didn t want them to know what happens in the movie. And I also knew that during the progress of film production, a lot of things can change. So I wanted to have a sort of distance, so we were able to invoke the books and use them to help us figure out the world of the movie, but I didn t want them to be openly competitive to each other. The idea for the Guardians came from Joyce s daughter, who asked him if he thought Santa Claus had ever met the Easter Bunny. The film includes a dedication to her, as well a song, Still Dream, sung over the end credits.

Originally, the film was set to be released on November 2, 2012, but DreamWorks Animation pushed the film to November 21, 2012 to avoid competition with Pixar s upcoming film Monsters University, which in turn had been pushed to November 2, 2012 to avoid competition with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. Monsters University was then pushed to June 21, 2013, with Disney s Wreck-It Ralph taking its place.

Music

French composer Alexandre Desplat composed the original music for the film, which was released on November 13, 2012 by Varèse Sarabande. The score was recorded in London at Abbey Road Studios and Air Studios, and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, with a choral contribution by London Voices. David Lindsay-Abaire wrote the lyrics for the end-credit song, Still Dream, which was performed by soprano Renée Fleming. Stravinsky s Firebird Suite can also be heard during the scene where North first appears. This film marks the first time that a DreamWorks Animation film has not been composed by Hans Zimmer or a member of his Remote Control Productions family of composers (mainly John Powell, Henry Jackman, Lorne Balfe, Harry Gregson-Williams or his brother Rupert Gregson-Williams).

Release

Rise of the Guardians had its premiere on October 10, 2012, at The Mill Valley Film Festival in Mill Valley, California, followed by the international premiere at The International Rome Film Festival on November 13, 2012. Under distribution by Paramount Pictures, the film was released on November 21, 2012, in American theaters. Digitally re-mastered into IMAX 3D, it was shown in limited international and domestic IMAX theaters. It was the second film released in the firm Barco s Auro 11.1 3D audio format, after Red Tails. The film was also shown in Dolby Atmos, a surround sound technology introduced in 2012. Rise of the Guardians was the last DreamWorks Animation film distributed by Paramount, as DreamWorks has signed a five-year distribution deal with 20th Century Fox, which started in 2013 with The Croods.

Home media

Rise of the Guardians was released on Blu-ray Disc (2D and 3D) and DVD on March 12, 2013.

That was the last DreamWorks Animation home media release to be distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, since 20th Century Fox announced its distribution agreement with DreamWorks Animation a few months before the theatrical release. The film was more successful at home media sales than at the box office, having at the end of the second quarter of 2013 the highest box office to DVD conversion ratio among major releases. In the first quarter of 2013, it sold 3.2 million home entertainment units worldwide, and in the second quarter 0.9 million units, for a total of 4.1 million units.

It was re-released on DVD on November 5, 2013 and comes with a wind-up marching elf toy. As of October 2014, 5.8 million home entertainment units were sold worldwide. In July 2014, the film s distribution rights were purchased by DreamWorks Animation from Paramount Pictures and transferred to 20th Century Fox. The rights were moved to Universal Pictures in 2018 after the buyout of DreamWorks Animation by Comcast/NBCUniversal. It was re-released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 5, 2018 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 74% based on 160 reviews, with an average rating of 6.60/10. The website s critical consensus reads: A sort of Avengers for the elementary school set, Rise of the Guardians is wonderfully animated and briskly paced, but it s only so-so in the storytelling department. Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 58 based on 37 reviews, which indicates mixed or average reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A on an A+ to F scale.

Carrie Rickey of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film three and a half stars out of four and found that the film s characters have a primal familiarity, as though they were developed by a tag team of Maurice Sendak and Walt Disney. Olly Richards of Empire wrote, It s gorgeously designed, deftly written and frequently laugh-out-loud funny. For child or adult, this is a fantasy to get lost in. The Washington Post s Michael O Sullivan also gave the film a positive review and said, Thoughts become things. That s the message of Rise of the Guardians, a charming if slightly dark and cobwebbed animated feature about how believing in something makes it real, or real enough. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and wrote in his review, There s an audience for this film. It s not me. I gather younger children will like the breakneck action, the magical ability to fly and the young hero who has tired of only being a name. Though he did say, Their parents and older siblings may find the 89-minute running time quite long enough.

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter called the film a lively but derivative 3D storybook spree for some unlikely action heroes. Conversely, Justin Chang in Variety said, Even tots may emerge feeling slightly browbeaten by this colorful, strenuous and hyperactive fantasy, which has moments of charm and beauty but often resembles an exploding toy factory rather than a work of honest enchantment. Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal found that the film lacks a resonant center, and that the script, seems to have been written by committee, with members lobbying for each major character, and the action, set in vast environments all over the map, spreads itself so thin that a surfeit of motion vitiates emotion.

Box office

Rise of the Guardians grossed $103.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $203.5 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $306.9 million.

In North America, the film opened to $32.3 million over its extended five-day weekend, and with $23.8 million over the three-day weekend, it reached fourth place behind The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Skyfall, and Lincoln. The film s opening was the lowest debut for a DreamWorks Animation film since Flushed Away. While the film did gross more than double of its $145 million budget, it still did not turn a profit for DreamWorks Animation due to its high production and marketing costs, forcing the studio to take an $87 million write-down. This marked the first time that the studio had lost money on an animated film since Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. As a result of this combined with other factors, in February 2013, the studio announced it was laying off 350 employees as part of a company-wide restructuring.

Additionally, the studio was heavily dependent on the success of Rise of the Guardians to fund other studio projects, most notably, the ill-fated Me and My Shadow project. But due to the failure to gain a stable box office response, it heavily affected the studio s ability to release original movies.

Accolades

The Rome Film Festival and Vanity Fair magazine awarded the new Vanity Fair International Award for Cinematic Excellence in November 2012 to Rise of the Guardians. The film also received the Hollywood Animation Award at the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Festival, held on October 22, 2012.

List of awards and nominations

Award	Category	Recipients	Result
African-American Film Critics Association	Best Animation		Won
Alliance of Women Film Journalists	Best Animated Female	Isla Fisher (Tooth)	Nominated
American Cinema Editors	Best Edited Animated Feature Film	Joyce Arrastia
Annie Awards	Best Animated Feature
	Animated Effects in an Animated Production	Andy Hayes, Carl Hooper, David Lipton	Won
	Character Animation in a Feature Production	David Pate	Nominated
		Phillppe LeBrun
		Pierre Perifel
	Music in an Animated Feature Production	Alexandre Desplat
	Production Design in an Animated Feature Production	Patrick Hanenberger, Max Boas, Jayee Borcar Woonyoung Jung, Perry Maple, Peter Maynez Stan Seo, Felix Yoon
	Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production	Johanne Matte	Won
	Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production	Jude Law	Nominated
	Editorial in an Animated Feature Production	Joyce Arrastia
Critics Choice Awards	Best Animated Feature
Cinema Audio Society	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures Animated
Golden Globe Awards	Best Animated Feature Film
Golden Reel Awards	Best Sound Editing in an Animated Feature Film
Hollywood Film Festival	Best Animated Feature	Peter Ramsey	Won
International Film Music Critics Association Awards	Film Composer of the Year	Alexandre Desplat, also for Argo, Moonrise Kingdom, Rust and Bone, and Zero Dark Thirty	Nominated
	Best Original Score for an Animated Feature	Alexandre Desplat	Won
Mill Valley Film Festival	Audience Favorite Children s Film	Peter Ramsey
Producers Guild of America	Outstanding Producer of An Animated Theatrical Motion Picture	Nancy Bernstein, Christina Steinberg	Nominated
Satellite Awards 2012	Best Animated or Mixed Media		Won
Visual Effects Society	Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture	Nancy Bernstein, David Prescott, Peter Ramsey, Christina Steinberg	Nominated
	Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture	The North Pole: Eric Bouffard, Sonja Burchard, Andy Harbeck, Peter Maynez	Nominated
	Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture	Last Stand: Andy Hayes, Carl Hooper, Andrew Wheeler, Stephen Wood	Nominated
Women Film Critics Circle	Best Family Film	Rise of the Guardians – tied with Life of Pi	Won

Video game

A video game based on the film was released by D3 Publisher on November 20, 2012 in North America, and released on November 23, 2012 in Europe. It allows gamers to lead the Guardians in their battle against Pitch. The game is a 3D beat-em-up, where the player travels through each of the worlds: Burgess, North Pole, Bunnymund Valley, Tooth Palace, and Sandman s Ship, to fight Pitch s army of Nightmares. The player can switch between all five guardians at any time, and freely customize their powers, and they learn new special abilities as they level up. All the game versions support up to 4-player gameplay. It is available on the Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS.

Possible sequel

After the release of the film, the creators of Rise of the Guardians expressed hope that the strong average grade of A given to the film by audiences surveyed by CinemaScore and an enthusiastic word-of-mouth would gather support for the chance to make a sequel or two. Author and co-producer of the series, William Joyce, also mentioned in March 2013 that he was still in talks about a sequel with DreamWorks Animation: There is something that we are proposing that we hope they will want to do.

Year	2012
ReleaseDate	2012-11-21
RuntimeMins	97
RuntimeStr	1h 37min
Plot	When the evil spirit Pitch launches an assault on Earth, the Immortal Guardians team up to protect the innocence of children all around the world.
Awards	Awards, 14 wins & 32 nominations
Directors	Peter Ramsey
Writers	David Lindsay-Abaire, William Joyce
Stars	Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Isla Fisher
Produced by	Nancy Bernstein, Guillermo del Toro, Arin Finger, Tom Jacomb, William Joyce, Michael Siegel, Christina Steinberg, Cameron Stevning
Music by	Alexandre Desplat
Film Editing by	Joyce Arrastia
Casting By	Leslee Feldman, Christi Soper
Production Design by	Patrick Marc Hanenberger
Art Direction by	Max Boas
Production Management	Melissa Beery, David Farley, Spencer Filichia, Ryan Harris, Laura Hofmann, April Lawrence, Camille Leganza, Alex Loots, Kelly Matthews, Peter McCown, Kara Oropallo, Jason Pomerantz, Mary M. Quinn, Rachnatp, Cindy Azada Whitman, Debbie G. Yu, John Swanson
Art Department	Vlad Bina, Jayee Borcar, Joel Crawford, David G. Derrick Jr., Walt Dohrn, Todd Gibbs, Brandon Holmes, Jake Isaacs, Woon Jung, Maggie Kang, Timothy Lamb, Paul Lasaine, Perry Maple, William Mata, Johane Matte, Peter Maynez, Daniel McGraw, Sam Michlap, Desiree Montalvo, Joseph C. Moshier, Brett Nystul, Ryan O Loughlin, Robert Porter, Shane Prigmore, Javier Recio Gracia, Simon Rodgers, Jason William Scheier, Christian Scheurer, Stan Seo, William T. Silvers Jr., Kathleen Thorson Good, Rachel Tiep-Daniels, Ryan Walton, Zhaoping Wei, Margaret Wuller, Felix Yoon, Anthony Zierhut, James Baxter, Bibo Bergeron, Randy Cartwright, Jed Diffenderfer, Arthur Fong, Jessie Juwono, Emil Mitev, Griselda Sastrawinata, Steve Hickner, Christopher Zibach
Sound Department	Panos Asimenios, Paul Berolzheimer, Andrew Bock, James Bolt, Dominic Boucher, Steve Bucino, Tom Burns, Ryan Cole, Christopher Flick, Jessica Gallavan, Steve Jamerson, Richard King, Tom Lalley, Mary Jo Lang, Roy Latham, Alyson Dee Moore, Andy Nelson, Douglas Parker, Laura Post, Eric Potter, Andy Potvin, Kyle Rochlin, John Roesch, Diego Ruiz, Tighe Sheldon, Timothy Siddall, Carlos Sotolongo, Roland N. Thai, Linda Yeaney, Blake Collins, Jessica Gallavan, Jules Woods
Special Effects by	Jonathan Leaders
Visual Effects by	Adarsh Abraham, Evrim Akyilmaz, Nishok Alagesan, Kristi Valk Almassizadeh, Benjamin Andersen, Dustin Anderson, Daphne Apellanes-Ackerson, Shinsaku Arima, Mira Arte, Ashin Ashroff, Nicholas Augello, Ricky Baba, Trang Bach, David Badgerow, David Bailey, Matthew Bain, Negin Bairami, Jasper M. Baltzersen, Kelly Barschig, Michael Baula, David Bazelon, Greg Beckman, Matthew Beightol, Alena Bejenarou, Sucheta Bhatawadekar, Herve Bizira, Corey Bolwyn, Silviu Borac, Eric Bouffard, Margarita Bratkova, Gregory Brentin, Daniel J. Brick, Billy Brooks, Daniel Bunn, Sonja Burchard, Markus Burki, N. Joseph Burnette, Eduardo Bustillo, Ian D. Butterfield, Stephen Candell, Craig Cannon, Mark T. Carlson, Craig Caton, Scott Cegielski, Kevin Chaohwa Chang, Chloe Chao, Alan Cheney, Wes Chilton, Lita Cho, Joong-ryang Choi, Shaun Collaco, Clint Colver, Stephen Timothy Cooney, Martin Costello, Gentry Davidson, Matthew Davies, Kwesi Davis, Gilbert Davoud, Alain De Hoe, Paolo deGuzman, Andrew Dehner, Greg Denton, Antoine Deschamps, Justin Dobies, Archie Donato, Willem Drees, David Drell, Kirsten Drummond, Vaibhav Dube, Christopher Lynn Edwards, Kevin Edwards, Sarah Beth Eisinger, Avedis Ekmekjian, Barbara Ellison, Charles Ellison, Adam J. Ely, Valentina Ercolani, Tyson Erze, Cassandra Fanning, Sean Fennell, Aaron Florez, Nathan Fok, Julien Forest, Jennifer Fung, Mariana Galindo, Rafael Garrido, Jack Geckler, Amber Geisler, Nandhini Giri, Francesco Giroldini, Greg Gladstone, Philippe Gluckman, Zach Glynn, Dioselin Gonzalez, Shaun Graham, Caroleen Green, Nishkar Grover, Bill Gumina, Dorien Gunnels, Neha Gupta, Alex Gurevich, Andy Harbeck, Christian Hatfield, Susan Hayden, Andy Hayes, Ian Henckel, Jorge Heredia, Nathan Hughes Hillier, George Ho, Robert Holder, Carl Hooper, Milana Huang, Bobby Huebel, Joe Hughes, Rohit Jain, Vimanyu Jain, Aaron James McComas, Jaskirat Singh Jassal, Gregory Jennings, Michael Cadwallader Jones, Tobin Jones, Jeffrey Jose, Megha Juneja, Terry Kaleas, Kurt Kaminski, Mayank Kanyal, Patrick Kelly, Oth Khotsimeuang, Matthew Kiefer, Soo Kyung Kim, Jennifer Leigh King, Steven Kirchner, Steven Knipping, Annmarie Koenig, Robert Kopinsky, Ginka Kostova, Parashar Krishnamachari, Li-Lian Ku, Brian Kulig, Debbie Langford, Bert Laonipon, Jennifer Lasrado, David C. Lawson, Bernard Lebel, Domin Lee, Jaemin Lee, Matthew Leishman, Nick Levenduski, David Lewis, Hamilton Lewis, Linhan Li, Yancy Lindquist, David Lipton, Francis Liu, Philip K. Livingston Jr., Kieron Cheuk-Chi Lo, Amber Stewart Lunderville, Eric Lyman, Ilia Lyons, Marc Machuca, Charana Mapatuna, Marco Marquez, Noé Martínez Ibarra, Pietro Materossi, Jack Noriaki Matsumoto, Mark J. Matthews, Lucy Maxian, Kyle Maxwell, Mark A. McGuire, Mike Meckler, Peter Megow, Zeki Melek, Anthony Meschi, Jaymie Miguel, Brett Miller, Tony Mitzelfelt, Taylor Moll, Jonathan Fletcher Moore, Travis Mosley, William Moten, Ken Museth, Harshal Nachnolkar, Mark Newport, Ronman Yiu Yan Ng, Betsy Nofsinger, Mark Nonnenmacher, Justin Onstine, Mark Orme, Christy Page, Anand Palaniswamy, Prema Parab, Devank Patel, Mary Payne, Andrew Pearce, Devon Penney, Katie Penney, Alessandro Pepe, Steve Petterborg, Joseph Piercy, Kaitlin Pollock, Bryan Poon, Aditya Prabhu, David Prescott, Aitor Prieto, Nitin Punchail, Andrew Pungprakearti, Heribert Raab, Aneel Ramanath, Brian Ratchford, Jason Rickwald, Eli Rod, Kevin Rodgers, Justin Rosen, Krzysztof Rost, Wade Ryer, Saswat Sahoo, Afonso Salcedo, Amy McDonald Sandjideh, Tim Schneider, Javed Iqbal Shaikh, Aayush Sharma, Gaurav Shenai, Hannah Sherman, Richard Shiba, Ehsan Shokrgozar, Debanshu Singh, Marty Sixkiller, Aaron Smith, Javier Solsona, Jung Jin Song, Dug Stanat, Timothy Steele, Igor Stefanovic, Chris Stover, Josh Stratton, Vimal Subramaniam, Hong Suh, Jeff Sullivan, Joe Ark Sun, Lana Chen Sun, Ben Sutherland, Bonnie Tai, Suan Ching Tan, Marla Tanigawa, Hector Dante Tantoco, Cameron Taylor, Randy R. Tecson, Mark Theriault, Ty Thomson, Dave Tidgwell, Paul Timpson, Amy Rebecca Tucker, Sachin Tyagi, Anthony Tyler, Ajay Upadhyaya, David Patrick Valera, Pablo Valle, Baptiste Van Opstal, Henry Vera, Sakshi Verma, Brent Villalobos, Sharanya Viswamani, Koen Vroeijenstijn, Marko Vukovic, Zubin Wadia, Brian Walters, Eric Walters, Kai Wang, Victor Wang, Michael Leon Ware, Nathan Warner, Daniel Warom, Gina Warr, Brent Watkins, Eugene Wen, Andrew Wheeler, David I. White, Gabriel White, Gregory M. White, Jeffrey Wike, Rhiannon Leffanta Wilhelmi, Emanuel Williams, Stephen Wood, Nate Yellig, Emily Yi, Jeannie Yip, Ji Hyun Yoon, Doug Yoshida, Phil Zucco, Mihai Aldén, John Fuetsch, Jonathan Gibbs, Paul Rivera, Joseph Towe
Camera and Electrical Department	Kevin Estrada
Animation Department	Drew Adams, Manuel Almela, J.C. Alvarez, Jason Anastas, Andrew Anderson, Kevin Andrus, Manuel Aparicio, Chris Appelhans, Cortney Armitage, Ashima Taneja Arora, Chris Bancroft, Julien Bocabeille, Patrick Bonneau, Joe Bowers, Daniel Bunn, Darrin Butts, Won Young Byun, Laurent Caneiro, Kenny Chung, Robert Edward Crawford, Bob Davies, Paolo deGuzman, Louie del Carmen, Ares Deveaux, Mark Donald, Jason Doss, Adam Dotson, Peter Farson, Justin Fischer, Alex Garcia, W. Jacob Gardner, Steven Pierre Gordon, Antony Gray, Hamish Grieve, Matthieu Grospiron, Joshua Gunther, Jon Gutman, Michael Guttman, Tomoyuki Harashima, Dave Hardin, Andrew Harkins, Ki Jong Hong, Martin P. Hopkins, Gabe Hordos, Steven Hornby, Mariko Hoshi, Rodrigo Huerta, Hyun Huh, Yukinori Inagaki, Yujin Ito, Sully Jacome-Wilkes, Leif Jeffers, Jung Jin Kang, Jayesh Kapadia, Davide La Sala, Philippe Le Brun, Eric Lees, Peer Lemmers, Tommie Löfqvist, Kim Mackey, Jason McDade, Andre Medina, Pia Miniati, Lucia Modesto, Julie Nelson, Takao Noguchi, Damon O Beirne, Brendan O Connor, Ryan O Loughlin, Yuko Okumura, Irene Parkins, David Pate, Prashant Pawar, Mary Payne, Pierre Perifel, Tyler Phillips, Dan Pilgrim, Antonin Plante, Robert Porter, Alan Precourt, Shane Prigmore, Ron Pucherelli, Carlos Fernandez Puertolas, Dennis Recchia, Marco Regina, Jean-Francois Rey, Brian Riley, Carlos M. Rosas, Jalil Sadool, Henry G. Sanchez, Joe Sandstrom, JP Sans, Matthew Schmidt, Vaibhav Shah, Tal Shwarzman, Mike Stern, Bruce Tartaglia, David Torres, Theodore Ty, Kendra Vander Vliet, Adri Von Drehle, Alexis Wanneroy, Tim Watts, Darren Webb, Peter Wilkins, Ryan Williams, Benjamin Willis, Shawn Eddie, Stephen Heidelberg, David Lux
Casting Department	Brittany Cope, Mollie Gamo, Barbara Harris
Editorial Department	Mike Andrews, James Beshears, Alex Cardullo, Terry Claborn, Anthony Severin Cox, Christine Lojko Haslett, C.K. Horness, Gustav Lindquist, Harry Muller, Paul Neal, Baron Northrop, Jeff Olm, Kyle Pascucci, Timothy Peeler, David M. Poole, Vivek Vic Sharma, Allison Bernardi Stauth, Josh Wood, Lauren Flasher
Music Department	Jonathan Allen, Michael Allen, Romain Allender, David Arch, Barnaby Archer, Colette Barber, Tom Brown, Alison Burton, Julie Butchko, Dan Butler, Paul Clarvis, Phil Cobb, Chris Cozens, Fiona Cruickshank, Grace Davidson, Gareth Davies, Alexandre Desplat, Michael Dore, Andrew Dudman, Terry Edwards, Alex Firla, Xavier Forcioli, Mark Graham, Simon Haram, Charlene Ann Huang, Joel Iwataki, Matt Jones, Richard King, Richard King, Carmine Lauri, Dominique Lemonnier, London Symphony Orchestra, Tom MacDougall, Sue Mallet, Barbara McDermott, Liz McNicoll, Chris Montan, Bill Newlin, Sunny Park, Victor Pesavento, Vladimir Podgoretsky, Conrad Pope, John Prestage, Paul Pritchard, Joe E. Rand, Jennifer Schiller, Nan Schwartz, Linnea Snyder, Marc Stevens, Jack Sugden, Roger Tang, Clifford J. Tasner, Susan Thampi, Robert Townson, Helen Vollam, Joe Zimmerman, Karen Tanaka
Additional Crew	Balaji Alahari, Loni J. Albertson, Holly Allen, Terri Anderson, Rain Angeles, Patrick Angell, George Anthony Anisimow, Ashima Taneja Arora, Parimal Aswani, Leslie Atkins, Carl Bahor, Steve Baker, Christina C.G. Bambino, Jennifer Baram, Jessica Belkin, Todd Bergstrom, François Bertel, Nafees Bin Zafar, Lauren Blackshear, Alan Blevins, Alyson Blume, Derek Bly, Ashley Boettcher, Shawn Bohonos, Jeffrey Bradley, Samantha Finkler Brainerd, Brian Brecht, Joanna Joey Cade, Lans Carstensen, Cathy Cavadini, Ariandy Chandra, Scott Chapin, Mandy Cheng, Kelly Chow, Rick Clifton, Malik Coates, Sean Cole, Sarah Counnas, Lawrence D. Cutler, Michael Cutler, George Davenport, Mark J. Davis, Mike Davis, Vicki Davis, Roger Deakins, Margaret A. Decker, Mark A. Decker, Jayson DeLancey, John DeMita, Dave Dinsmore, Dj Downey, David Dufour, Brendan Duncan, Dennis Duong, Alex Echols, Alireza Estakhrian, Jason Evaristo, Anthony Fabrizio, Tiffany Feeney, Emmanuel C. Francisco, Frankie Franco III, Victor Fuste, Tim Garbutt, Omar Garcia, David A. Gardner, Reid Gershbein, John Alexander Gibb, Christopher Gibson, Greg Gibson, Cathleen Girdner, Nandhini Giri, Kyle Goins, Jorge Juan González, Steph Gortz, David Hail, Barbara Harris, Wayne Hellinger, Taylar Hender, Guthrie S. Hennessey, Chris Hewitt, Beth Hofer, Richard Holland, Christine E. Holmes, Tripp Hudson, Vicki Hunter, Mark Jackels, Ryan Jameson, Sarah Kaleel, Priyaa Kalkura, Alicia Kalvin, Sean Kamath, Alexander Kaminer, Jason Kankiewicz, Siva Kumar Kasetty, Robert Knaack, Deepak Kumar, Tim Kwan, Glenn Lamb, Joseph Lawson, Wen-Po Bobby Lee, Bonnie Lemon, Fabio Lissi, Nicholas Long, Nancy Losey, Jim Mainard, Amin Mammadov, Traci Tolman Mars, Andrew Marshel, Andrew Martin, Morgwn McCarty, Alex McDowell, Paule Merlin, David Michie, Laura Gorenstein Miller, Peter C. Miller, Liz Molholt, Jemson Montefalcon, Stacey Moreno, Bob Morgan, Annie Morita, Kristen Murtha, Jaimie Nakae, Anna Newman, John O Sullivan, Othieno Okong o, Jason Pace, Kelvin J. Padfield, Paul Parmer, Ariga Parseghian, Chuck Peil, Devon Penney, Margaret Plumley, Shaun Potts, Renae Radford, Claudio Ramos, Stacy Rentel, Daniel Rich, Jacquelyn Robbins, Matt Robertson, Mark Rogers, Kevin Rose, Stephen E. Ross, Lisa Briggs Sachs, Diana Sahagen, Lynelle Saunders, Scott Seiffert, Liza Seneca, Kerrin Piche Serna, Doug Sherman, Rob Sherwood, Edward Shkolnikov, Randy Shoemaker, Mona Shokrai, Cathy Sitzes, Connie W. Siu, Jennifer Smith, Joanna Lynne Smith, Ellie Soufi, Christopher Sprunger, Brent St. Mary, Allen Stetson, Diana Stolpe, Areeg Sweis, Madhavan Swetha, Julio C. Talavera, Susan Thampi, Curtis W. Thompson, James Thornton, Peter Tipton, Lana Titov, Mark M. Tokunaga, Darlene Annette Toledo, Betty Tom, Selim Tuvi, Sneha Venkatraman, Sneha Venkatraman, Martin Watt, Brandon Weil, Dustin Wheelen, Anita Y. Wong, Alissa Rowinsky Wright, Rogelio Yañez, Darci Zalvin, Corie Zhang, Amy Chen, Greg Ferris, Ashton Fontana, Molly Hansen
Thanks	Kevin Althans, Dale Carman, Frank Pittenger, Mike Roy
Genres	Animation, Action, Adventure
Companies	DreamWorks Animation
Countries	USA
Languages	English, French
ContentRating	PG
ImDbRating	7.2
ImDbRatingVotes	174002
MetacriticRating	58
Keywords	santa claus character,jack frost character,sandman character,tooth fairy character,easter bunny character