Epic Review

Epic

Release Date: 13th June 2013 - Australia 

Production Companies

20th Century Fox (presents)

Blue Sky Studios

Distribution 

20th Century Fox Australia

Genre: Animation/Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 102 minutes


Budget: $93,000,000

Box Office Gross: $268,426,634
(Worldwide)

Plot Summary

Transported to a 

magical world, a 

teenager is recruited by

a nature spirit, Queen 

Tara to help the 

"Leafmen" save their 

forest from evil warriors. 

Voice Cast

Amanda Seyfreid - Mary Katherine 

Josh Hutcherson - Non

Colin Farrell - Ronin

Beyoncé Knowles - Queen Tara 

Christoph Waltz - Mandrake 

Aziz Anzari - Mub

Chris O'Dowd - Grub

Steven Tyler - Nim Galuu

Jason Sudekis - Professor 

Bomba

Pitbull - Bufo
Blake Anderson - Dagda

Crew

Story/Director - Chris Wedge

Leafmen Creator/Story/

Screenplay/Executive 
Producer/Production 

Designer - William Joyce

Story/Screenplay/Executive Producer - James V. Hart 

Screenplay - Dan Shere, Tom 

J. Astle and Matt Ember
Additional Dialogue - Joe Tracz

Producers - Lori Forte and 

Jerry Davis
Co-Producer - Michael J. Travers
Production Designer - Greg
Couch
Lead Character Designer -
Sang Jun Lee
Supervising Animators - Galen T. Chu
and Melvin Tan
Cinematography - Renato Falcao
Head of Camera and Staging - Robert Cardone
Film Editor - Andy Keir
Supervising Sound Designer/Editor (Uncredited)/
Re-Recording Mixer - Randy Thom

Music - Danny Elfman

Review

I do take it that the title is very misleading and this is not what we anticipated for an animated movie. Get this mates, 'EPIC' is shamelessly a mixed package with less and less instincts of becoming the 'Avatar' for children. With any disrespects to the film, it feels the story is overdone and clichéd and it shows little promise to any of the viewers. The visual animation design is so significantly a rare beauty and with the nature backdrops helps guaranteed that this can be so realistically done through research in time. Much of the voice cast are somehow not used to the characters or not doing as properly like Christopher Waltz trying to be as bad as his lead villain. Colin Farrell and Josh Hutcherson are the only actors to preserve their good skills and frankly Farrell voices better with an Scottish accent as Ronin. 

Finally, I watched a few movies where comic reliefs are actually contributing to the plot rather than to annoy viewers. Two notable examples are of C3PO and R2D2 or Timon and Pumbaa. The duo Mub and Grub that we are presented in 'EPIC' are definitely an inadequate piece of filmmaking since Jar Jar in 'Star Wars'. Those snails deserve to be stomped than to make laughs for the kiddies parents.

I never want to watch 'EPIC' again and it's deeply in the rank of the below average movies. This is beyond the classic animation realm, a good thing that the movie won't be called epic for sure.

Star rating: (4/10) Below Average

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