Epic (2013)
A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.
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Movie Review: "Epic" (2013)Produced by Blue Sky Animation Studios under exclusive distribution contracts with 20th Century Fox, which releases at a prestigeous spot in Mid-May of 2013, while "Iron Man 3" starring Robert Downing Jr. directed by Shane Black, takes all the glory at the box office, capable animation director Chris Wedge, known for realizing the highly-successful animation franchise "Ice Age" (2002), becomes overly ambition with a story of so-called "Leaf people", living in the forest nearby within a real-time slowing parallel world - nevertheless some great visual effects work with elements of earth and water - of amazingly-shot insect-riding battle sequences between light and darkness, when even vocal-beats participating actors Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried, Beyoncé Knowles and Josh Hutcherson as rookie "Leafman" warrior, seem to get wasted in an ambitious animation adventure movie, which has its spectacles in high-end-textured and shaded animation works, but simply falls flat in about-to-get-compromised writings in an all-too unidentitfiable character sketches by upto five screenwriters at a time, when also-producing writer initial book writer William Joyce and companion James V. Hart get lucky enough to have a score composer as Danny Elfman onboard to at least carry this stand-out-of-the-crowd animation feature to a the finish line after a stretching 95-Minute-Cut by editor Andy Feir, when any family-visit at the movies come out of auditorium with a fair feeling of just not-being cheated for their tickets.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
its desire to be original is the great sin. because it becomes a moralistic story, predictable and almost boring in the second part. the good part is the aspect of old fashion fairy tale, touching, delicate, full of flavor of classic stories from childhood. the great error - the not inspired title. because far to be epic, it is a small story about friendship, nature, heroism in ordinary rules, transformation of people in difficult conditions. nothing new. but comfortable if you ignore the new levels from the final part. short, a nice film. decent animation. far to be memorable. but a kind of oasis for the entertainment of entire family. and as good suggestion to return to the classic fairy tale books.
MK is a young girl who moves in with her father after her mother's death. However, her father is obsessed over proving that in the woods live an advance society of really small people. MK doesn't believe him, until she turns into one of those small people. Epic is a nice movie, not very good, but not horrible either. It's not Epic however. It sure has some action scenes, but the whole concept isn't adventurous. The script has some funny lines, and the story between father and daughter is good, but the romance... unnecessary in my opinion. The movie has many known actors (or their voices at least) and some of the scenes are beautiful, but the movie as a whole is so- so. So 4 out of 10, because I wouldn't watch it again.
Epic is a very good, fun-filled film for the entire family and I enjoyed it for the most part, though it clearly ripoff some films such as Ferngully and Avatar as these films show some common themes. Though this is an animated film, it's seen more as a crowdpleaser. Families seemed to be happy about this product, but it can be dark at times and the subject matter may be a little too much for younger children.Chris Wedge directs a film about a girl named M.K who moves in with her crazy scientist father who has a weird belief about leafmen being real. M.K is skeptic at first, but she encounters Queen Tara of the forest during an unfortunate time and now M.K must join the ranks to save the people of the forest from the evil Boggans.This film boasts a wonderful voice cast and they all do a good job. There are such talent like Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Beyoncé, and even the great Christoph Waltz lending their voices to such good, fantastical roles. I was surprised to see Steven Tyler, but he was able to make a good rock'n'roll riff for the film.Overall, this is a good, action-packed film for the family. It may be dark at times, but it should be relatively safe for younger kids. This film may seem derivative off bigger and better films such as Avatar, but this is a kind of movie you can still enjoy. It's no Toy Story, but then it doesn't have to be. I rate this film 8/10.