Epic Reviews
The Patriot Ledger
Movies just don't get more derivative than this one, which - true to its green theme - fervently believes in recycling.
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| Original Score: C-
The Playlist
...despite several moments of thoughtful, quiet near-bliss and well-crafted action beats, the overall product is underwhelming. Visuals aside, the film's title belies a story that's anything but.
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| Original Score: C+
We Got This Covered
Epic is very pleasing on a visual level, but its story of good versus evil is no different than the ones we grew up reading about and watching.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Examiner.com
"Epic" is not a bad animated film, but it is a pretty forgettable one.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The List
A big, brash but ultimately somewhat boring fairy story that relies too heavily on celebrity casting for appeal.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticChildren may enjoy it, but even they will be able to see all the boxes it systematically ticks.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Suburban Journals of St. Louis
The biggest problem with "Epic" is that it doesn't present a world that feels wondrous and ancient and lived in, but instead gives us a world that feels like it was workshopped over a long lunch meeting.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
AV Club
Epic is heavy on celebrity voices and light on imagination.
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| Original Score: C
Las Vegas Weekly
A serviceable animated adventure movie for kids, hitting all the requisite family-friendly beats without ever transcending them.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
So generic it might as well come in a black-and-white box: Animated Adventure TBD.
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| Original Score: C-
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
This woodland fairy tale is not nearly as Epic as the title would suggest.
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| Original Score: 5/10
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
It's difficult to keep its story and characters, or even its visual design, in your mind's eye, in part because the five credited screenwriters overload the narrative with incident and threatening complication.
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| Original Score: 2/4
St. Paul Pioneer Press
"Epic" is not a musical exactly. It's also not especially funny. And neither the nature story nor the dull parent one amounts to much.
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| Original Score: 1/4
The emotional connection that should have the crowd cheering wildly for the heroes and booing the villains never clicks in.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Tulsa World
An unfortunate name for such a simplistic, sleepy little eco-goofy animated movie.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Film Geek Central
Why does Hollywood always feel the need to pander to kids by throwing in annoying comic characters and out of place humor in a story that doesn't need it?
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| Original Score: 2/4
Film Racket
It will probably make money. Making memories is another story all together.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Even young would-be botanists will find this charmless animated adventure as exciting as watching grass grow.
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| Original Score: 1/5
