Mason, Morgan, and Chelsea are taking on a new DreamWorks film with Rise of the Guardians! This episode hits the history of the film, all the highs and lows of the movie, characters and a million tangents!

Highlights:

■ What are we watching? Mini The Great Gatsby Review and My Little Ponies: Friendship Is Magic discussion. What are your opinions? Send us a voicemail!

■ The news! 8 Disney and Pixar animated films to be released from 2016 to 2018; WWE producing new animated Flinstones--Hilarity ensues.

■ Interview with our site writer: Meet Blake Taylor. Check out his website: blakeonline.com

■ Main Discussion: Rise of the Guardians.

■ Pokemon tangents! Can't get rid of 'em.

■ Box office: What happened?! Character analysis.

■ Twitter question and responses.

■ "Santa Claus…with swords." E. Aster Bunnymund: the cursing bunny.

■ Tooth Fairy fangirls out, slapstick comedy moment, Sandy (the Sandman)!

■ Manny aka the man in the moon, Religious references or Paganistic?

■ Pitch Black: some fan art is just not part of the cannon! 'Night-Mares' or 'The Night Mayor?!'

■ Simpsons references, Mason's animation pet peeves & Aladdin flashbacks.

■ "You dare have fun in MY presence?!" -Pitch, you're a nerd.

■  ”Kids rule!” More Unicorns! Pitch in the final fight and talking back to the moon!

■ The opera remix at the end is SOOO 2010's!

■ Final thoughts, our ratings and voicemails, 'Big 4' crossover fan fiction.

■ Podcast now posting on Fridays! Website pump-up week! Mason get's a twitter!

■ Bloopers: Disney throwback, Chelsea doesn't like direct to DVD sequels, Mason tries to pronounce Rise of the Guardians in many languages! 'The Great Gatsby' again, Not in Nottingham! Runtime: 1:40:11; 51.7 MB

Other links:

■ Interview with Rise of the Guardians' production assistant, Frankie Franco III: www.therotoscopers.com/27

■ Watch our video review of the Rise of the Guardians art-of book review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWtJ8eHzoNI

Where to Find Us:

■ Find us on the web: therotoscopers.com, twitter, facebook, YouTube, tumblr, hypable & Animated Views

■ Mason Smith: This Animated Life Blog, Twitter

■ Chelsea Robson: Facebook, Twitter

■ Morgan Stradling: Twitter

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■ Questions, comments, suggestions? Send us an email at [email protected]

■ Send us a voicemail at therotoscopers.com/voicemail

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