Epic (2013)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 117
Fresh: 75 | Rotten: 42
Though its narrative themes are all too familiar, Epic is beautifully animated and crafted with just enough flair to make for solid family entertainment.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 14
Though its narrative themes are all too familiar, Epic is beautifully animated and crafted with just enough flair to make for solid family entertainment.
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Movie Info
EPIC is a 3D CG adventure comedy that reveals a fantastical world unlike any other. From the creators of ICE AGE and RIO, EPIC tells the story of an ongoing battle between the forces of good, who keep the natural world alive, and the forces of evil, who wish to destroy it. When a teenage girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she teams up with an elite band of warriors and a crew of comical, larger-than-life figures, to save their world...and ours. -- (C) Fox
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Cast
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Beyonce Knowles
Queen Tara -
Colin Farrell
Ronin -
Josh Hutcherson
Nod -
Amanda Seyfried
M.K., Mary Katherine -
Christoph Waltz
Mandrake -
Steven Tyler
Nim Galuu -
Aziz Ansari
Mub -
Chris O'Dowd
Grub -
Jason Sudeikis
Bomba -
Pitbull
Bufo -
Blake Anderson
Dagda -
Judah Friedlander
Larry
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All Critics (117) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (75) | Rotten (42) | DVD (1)
Although the basic story is too juvenile and simplistic to entertain anyone with an age in the double-digit range, the themes and underlying ideas are too complicated to capture the attention of someone younger.
Top CriticDirector Chris Wedge falls into the common animator's trap of making the "human" characters a lot duller than the nonhuman creepy-crawlies.
With its array of goofy sidekicks (Aziz Ansari as a slug almost runs away with the whole picture) and carefully crafted relationships, Epic certainly manages to tell a compelling tale.
A 3D eco-fantasy whose mantra-like insistence that we're all connected by nature is one of the main things that underscores the abject insincerity of the sentiment as the movie articulates it, "Epic" is very nearly epic in its stifling mediocrity.
Anyone over the age of 7 or so - not to mention their accompanying adults - isn't going to find too much here to truly engage them, let alone linger past the final fade out.
Children may enjoy it, but even they will be able to see all the boxes it systematically ticks.
The story is pretty routine, but it's the vivid colors and sense of excitement that comes with the crisp animation that makes it really work.
Boasts sometimes photorealistic animation and some cool concepts (the heroic 'Leafmen' ride hummingbirds like horses), but it's grounded by the cliche aspects of everything else.
The story has a nice combination of reconciliation, drama and humor. There are some very funny jokes and pratfalls in the film. The kids in the audience laughed at the jokes aimed at them, but this film works for adults too.
However closely you look, "Epic" is epically gorgeous in its art design and animation.
Boasts plenty of thrills, good humour and an empowering, tall and angular female protagonist - even if things sometimes feel a little rushed and aren't always in balance.
An absolute delight from start to finish, Epic features an award-worthy sequence where giant figures in extreme close-up move in slow motion as the tiny heroes scatter about. There's a freshness and originality to it that we see all-too-rarely.
Though the story may be slight, the film is stacked with brilliantly colourful characters, a fabulous voice cast and simply spectacular animation.
Sure there's not much original here ... but it's well done, and that can't always be expected. Like a dandelion thistle, Epic is light and fluffy and quickly lost in the breeze.
A fantasy forest is a fabulous setting for animation; it is filled with all shapes and sizes and colours of flowers and animals ... Sweet and funny and sometimes exciting, Epic is a cleverly made visual delight, certain to keep younger kids entertained
... has enough excitement and visual flair to appeal to moviegoers of any age.
Beautiful 3D animation coupled with a compelling story and fantastic writing make this the best animated movies since Rise of the Guardians.
Beautifully animated forest fantasy for undemanding families.
I will now review this movie using the lyrics to the song "Epic" by Faith No More, which I think you'll find are eerily fitting.
I remember, not so very long ago, when most of the protagonists in children's movies were male. The change in recent years has been, well, 'Epic.'
Extraordinary! A magical and wondrous - and blessedly original - animated movie experience for everyone.
Produces images of poetic power ... The catch is that the world the filmmakers create is far more interesting than the story they tell in it in it or the characters they put in it.
At least it's pretty.
It's not quite an animated masterpiece, but it's still a fun, sweet-hearted kid-pleaser that boasts some downright lovely animation.
Apart from the visuals, it's pretty undistinguished.
Great animation, good voice talent but something is just a little flat about the storyline.
Audience Reviews for Epic
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- Ronin: Many leaves, one tree. We're all individuals, but we're still connected. No one's alone.
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- M.K.: Put your arms around me.
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- Grub: I'm a slug, baby. No shell over here.
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- M.K.: I had a nightmare, I was a tiny little person surrounded by tiny little people and a talking snail.
- Grub: Hello.
- M.K.: Oh man.
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- Mub: Ugly says what?
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- Grub: This is my chance to be a- [is run over]
- Mub: What? Your chance to be a what?
Discussion Forum
| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
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| Guess the tomatometer! | 3 months ago | 39 |
| what's more dumb,escape from planet earth,the croods,or epic | 3 months ago | 18 |
| Message from the director to the online people. | 4 months ago | 12 |
| Epic Fail | 3 months ago | 10 |
| Why would it rip off fern gully? | 3 months ago | 5 |
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- Epic - Verborgenes Königreich (DE)
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Great animated movie! There's a lot to love about the film, including its production design, visual artistry, and the 3D, which are as dazzling, grand, spectacular, and innovative as, say, Avatar. Danny Elfman did a very good job with the music score as he captured the spirit, excitement, essence, and heart of the film. Epic goes to prove to people that animated films can also really handle the action-adventure genre as much as live-action films do, just like how Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Akira, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, The Incredibles, and Kung Fu Panda trilogy did. With this film, Blue Sky Studios wanted to prove everyone that they can do so much more than pop culture references, cheap jokes, and unimaginative storytelling. They've not only exceeded that, they surpassed it and beyond. With this film, this is a promising launch of the new Blue Sky Studios, which has declared war on DreamWorks, Disney Animation, and Pixar. You will be laughing, astonished, amazed, blown away, and inspired, because Epic truly stands out as one of the most surprising film experiences of the year.
Young Mary Katherine (M.K.) returns to her eccentric scientist father's home, but his all-consuming quest to discover a tiny civilization in the neighboring forest drives them apart. However, M.K. soon finds herself shrunken down by Queen Tara of that forest who was mortally wounded by the putrefying Boggans, and charged to deliver a pod bearing the new Queen to safety. Together with a veteran Leafman warrior, two goofy mollusks and a young maverick, M.K. agrees to help. As the villainous Boggan leader, Mandrake closes in, M.K. and her new friends must draw on the best of themselves together and discover what they have to save their world.