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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)
emmaandaugust
Not the worst, but not as epic as they seem to imply.Kind of lacking in big character arcs, there was an unnecessary and frankly odd romance that didn't seem to exist until they needed conflict and then it didn't happen anyway but they stayed friends? I think? Or they human girl was dating the inch tall man who "lives" faster than human so that she needed special equipment to even see him? I'm pretty sure that "living faster than humans" suggests that they'll die a lot quicker, too?The main character is sent to live with her father after something has happened to her mother but they never elaborate on that. All they say is that she is "mourning" and she needs to talk to her dad about that, but this is never resolved.Cool art, characters could have used more fleshing out, story needed some loose ends being tied up, and either make let the romance come naturally or don't add it at all, it really didn't make sense.
Kirpianuscus
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.
Ole Sandbaek Joergensen
Animation wise this is very good and it is a really beautiful film, the contrast between big and small and the effects of the giant "creatures" moving slow and talking slow works very well.It might not be so epic as the title would suggest, but it is very enjoyable for kids and grownups alike, there is more for the kids here and that is very reasonable, but also a few word plays that pan out better for the adult audience.I think all the bi-characters in this film make it very fun, they almost controls all the funny scenes and have a lot of goofy remarks and weird happenings.
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