However, being Snyder’s first animated film, he liberally uses slow-motion and speed-ramping to capture just how alive the movie’s owl-populated world is. He also puts both tools to use in ...

Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole ...