The Mansion Warrior

The Mansion Warrior is a 2014 3D computer-animated fantasy action-adventure musical film produced by Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures with Sony Pictures Imageworks providing its animation. It was directed by Vicky Jenson from the screenplay by Jon Vitti and Pamela Ribon and follows a warrior who seeks fairness from a waitress and a wizard in the mansion until he realizes that a goblin was taking everything from the mansion leading the warrior to recover all of it before the goblin disappears. It features the voices of Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, Rebecca Ferguson, Kate Winslet, J. K. Simmons, and Bruce Willis.

The film was released in the United States on May 23, 2014, by Sony Pictures Releasing. It grossed $142 million worldwide against its $60 million budget.

Plot
In 1971, a wizard, Ralph (Bruce Willis), was offered to defend the mansions from many goblins including Richie (J. K. Simmons), who led the goblins to steal many people and many of their stuff inside the mansions. After defending many mansions, Ralph feels stressed with all of his defense as he may never defend the mansions again.

Ten years later, a mansion was rebuilt following the goblins' attack. A warrior, Frank (Christian Bale), was willing to seek fairness from the waitress, Claire (Nicole Kidman), but she rejects his deal as he is not ready for his fairness yet. Instead of arguing with Claire, Frank then goes on his own adventure all the way to the wizard's castle. He is surrounded by Blair (Rebecca Ferguson), who tells him to follow her industry, which he refuses to do so. She then calls the goblin to get rid of his mansion.

Frank then reached the wizard's castle to ask Ralph for his fairness, which he rejects his deal as well. Begging for Frank, Ralph then orders him to defend the mansions in order to seek his fairness. Meanwhile, Richie and the goblins were prepared to attack Frank's mansion. Frank returns back to his home, which Claire thinks he may not be a good mansion warrior. At night, the goblins attack Frank's mansion while Frank wakes up to take care of it.

The next morning, Frank was ready to seek his fairness from Claire, but he realizes that she is gone missing as well as everything he has from his mansion. Nora (Kate Winslet) arrives and tells him that Claire has been taken away by the goblins. Frank then rushes to the wizard's castle and the wizard tells him that he will be brave enough to defeat the goblins and team up with Nora for his fairness. Nora then agrees his offer to find Claire and get his stuff back from the goblins. After arriving in the goblins' cave, he and Nora saw Claire in the cage and they both try to get her out, but they got surrendered by the goblins. Nora managed to help Frank to attack Richie and the goblins, get Nora out of the cage and destroy the goblins' cave so that they can return home. Richie survives from the cave destruction and tries to attack Frank behind while he goes back to the mansion with all of his stuff, but Frank thwarts Richie's attack and tells him that "he has to find his own stuff" before he sends him flying.

With Frank's mansion being renovated, he asks Claire if he is ready to seek his fairness and Claire finally accepts his deal. All mansions in the country are now peacefully safe with Frank's responsibility as "the fair mansion warrior".

Cast

 * Christian Bale as Frank, a warrior who seeks fairness from the waitress and the wizard in the mansion.
 * Nicole Kidman as Claire, a waitress in the mansion.
 * Rebecca Ferguson as Blair
 * Kate Winslet as Nora
 * J. K. Simmons as Richie, a goblin who took everything from the mansion.
 * Bruce Willis as Ralph, a wizard.

Production
In 2010, it was announced that the film was in development with Sony Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer co-financing the film. In 2011, it was announced that Upside Mystery director Vicky Jenson will direct The Mansion Warrior with Jon Vitti and Pamela Ribon co-writing the screenplay for its May 2014 release. In September 2012, Christian Bale was announced to voice the titular character after Jenson saw his performance in The Dark Knight Rises. The rest of the voice cast was announced in 2013.

Release
The Mansion Warrior was originally scheduled to be released on May 30, 2014 before moving up a week earlier to May 23, 2014 to avoid competition with Maleficent.

Home media
The Mansion Warrior was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 19, 2014, by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Box office
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Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 67%, based on 151 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "From exciting adventure to drowsy musical, The Mansion Warrior gives its warrior's origin story with slow songs and fantasy." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 24 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.