Epic
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 17-year-old Mary Katherine finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she bands together with a rag-tag group of characters in order to save their world, and ours.
16 February 1948, Missoula, Montana, USA
4 September 1981, Houston, Texas, USA
26 June 1991, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
26 July 1957, The Bronx, New York, USA
23 April 1969, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
6 August 1964, Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 30, 2016
The film's chief strength lies in its depiction of a new and exotic world and appreciating how Fox animators envisioned and created such a world. Epic is epically gorgeous in its art design and animation.
August 27, 2013
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.
May 24, 2013
Director Chris Wedge falls into the common animator's trap of making the "human" characters a lot duller than the nonhuman creepy-crawlies.
August 22, 2013
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.
May 24, 2013
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.
May 27, 2013
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.
May 24, 2013
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.
May 24, 2013
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.
May 05, 2015
At least the movie practices the green environmental message that it preaches: The entire screenplay is recycled.
May 27, 2013
For all its attempts at wonder and spectacle and play, Epic is mostly a slog.
August 26, 2013
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.
