Best movie of this year hands down!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Blistering performances.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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)

Sigh. Why is this called "Epic"? It has no relevance to the subject or story, & it's an annoying common word misused too much today. A better title would have been "Generic Forest Film" or "Buy a Ticket.. Beyonce's in it".Seriously though, Beyonce's over-dub is the worst I've heard since Bruce Lee voiced the Russian! Why is she in this film? Did she go to Drama School? Is she stage trained? Because she doesn't know how to act!! Terrible decision.The animation is great if a little sequenced with the same constant lens focus effect. Even some of the music is touching when we're not just hearing cue after cue. But it's just the characters aren't particularly that interesting or realistic. The only person I ever connected with was the Farther & his plight.No one is ever in danger from falling it seems as they keep getting up upon falling flat on their face. And Ronin is invincible. I also think how the villain was defeated is cheap & highly questionable too.Ferngully is a very similar film, but they surprisingly have more creative ideas & Tim Curry as the villain felt very sinister & foreboding.It's an OK film. Don't expect too much & you'll be surprised with some of the gags maybe. But you won't be blown away like with Disney/Pixar.

Epic is a very good, fun-filled film for the entire family and I enjoyed it for the most part, though it clearly ripoff some films such as Ferngully and Avatar as these films show some common themes. Though this is an animated film, it's seen more as a crowdpleaser. Families seemed to be happy about this product, but it can be dark at times and the subject matter may be a little too much for younger children.Chris Wedge directs a film about a girl named M.K who moves in with her crazy scientist father who has a weird belief about leafmen being real. M.K is skeptic at first, but she encounters Queen Tara of the forest during an unfortunate time and now M.K must join the ranks to save the people of the forest from the evil Boggans.This film boasts a wonderful voice cast and they all do a good job. There are such talent like Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Beyoncé, and even the great Christoph Waltz lending their voices to such good, fantastical roles. I was surprised to see Steven Tyler, but he was able to make a good rock'n'roll riff for the film.Overall, this is a good, action-packed film for the family. It may be dark at times, but it should be relatively safe for younger kids. This film may seem derivative off bigger and better films such as Avatar, but this is a kind of movie you can still enjoy. It's no Toy Story, but then it doesn't have to be. I rate this film 8/10.

I thought this had the best animation rendering I have seen and I have seen them all. There were great camera shots, coloring, lighting, and illustrations. I was in awe. The story was wonderful as well with a lot of action, interesting creatures and alive plants in this unique world. I liked the main characters as well. I would have liked more character development on the young male but in animation, there usually isn't that much character arc and the conflicts are not like regular films. I was shocked this didn't get nominated for the Oscars because I thought it would win. This was a lot better than many of the ones that were nominated. People should enjoy the ride to this fantastical world.