Epic

I love animated fantasy adventures. For instance I'm a huge fan of How to Train Your Dragon, Rise of the Guardians, and many other such films so when I saw a preview for the new movie Epic I knew that I had to see it. While I'm not sure that I would put Epic on quite the same level as those, it was still a pretty good movie.

Epic tells the story of a young woman, M.K, who has to go and live with her 'crazy scientist' father after her mother's death. M.K.'s father believes that there is an advanced civilization of tiny people who live in the forest and had spent many years trying to prove this. Initially M.K, who is voiced by Amanda Seyfried, thinks her father is a crazy as everyone else says. However, while out looking for her lost dog in the forest, she encounters the tiny Queen Tara, (Beyoncé Knowles), who shrinks her down to the size of the Leafmen. Tara and the Leafmen guards, are responsible for protecting the forest and bringing life to it, but they are at war with evil bugs who want to turn the forest to decay. In her adventures M.K. also meets Ronin (Colin Farrell) who is the Captain of the Leafmen, and the young, reluctant Leafman, Nod (Josh Hutcherson). In the end, it is up to M.K. and a few of her new friends, to save the entire forest from Mandrake (Christopher Waltz) the leader of the evil bugs.

The movie Epic was certainly a fun adventure story that would be great for kids in particular, but still enjoyable to most adults. It is at times reminiscent of movies like Alice in Wonderland, or A Bug's Life, but never so much so as to seem like an unoriginal copy. There are beautifully animated scenes, as well as some funny moments, and intense sequences. All in all it is a pretty good children's movie and something for the child in all of us. If you want a movie for kids, or just enjoy animated movies, it is certainly one to consider watching.

-Lynx