Film Review - Epic (2013)

Epic is the latest animated film from Blue Sky studios makes of Ice Age and Rio and the story concerns Mary Katherine (Amanda Seyfried) who is sent to live with her eccentric father after her mother dies, her father is a Scientist who believes that tiny people live in the forest and are fighting it out for control, a battle Mary herself may find herself involved in.

Epic is sadly a disappointment for me, the trailers I saw for the film a few months ago looked Intriguing and it reminded me somewhat of Avatar in terms of its look and feel.

But alas as I was watching the film a lot of it fell flat as a lot of the film's quiet moments don't have any life to them as they look rather dull and the voice acting is only passable at best, Seyfried is probably the best of the lot here because she at least has a try at bringing something to her role that wasn't there and her scientist father should've been voiced by Rene Auberjonois who was Odo on Deep Space Nine as the character looked like him and his voice tried to sound like him somewhat, then again he isn't a celebrity so we can't do that.

There was however one thing I did like and that was the battle visuals, they are actually pretty good with the swooping camera and flowing edits it really gives you a sense of life that the film around them does not which is a really sad shame to say given that when you're watching them they really do impress you.

But alas, they can't save Epic from being one of the year's disappointments for me and sadly unless you have kids, then skip it, 1.5 out of 5.