I have read the books, but not watched the movie. There are a lot of books, so I assume that the movie only covers the first books. I thought Guardians of Ga'Hoole was an okay series. Some parts of it are really good, but some parts are not. I really liked the three prequel books (The First Coillier, The Coming of Hoole, and To Be A King) that are in the series, but I disliked certain characters in the new series. One thing I disliked was that when ever someone wanted to change their name, they just spelled it backwards. Take Nyroc, a character in the later books. To escape his past, he becomes Coryn, which is cool, just so unoriginal since Ezylryb does the same. Over all, its a good series, but some of the other ones are better.