When a teenage girl named M.K. (Amanda Seyfried) finds herself magically shrunk to the size of these mythical creatures, she must help fight to protect a single blooming flower which will save the forest for everyone. The plot of Epic begins with the less-than-epic, hoary broken-home-disaffected-teen setup mentioned above, but fortunately for the audience gets to the real plot quickly. The Leafmen are about to select a new queen when the Boggans attack, hoping to disrupt the succession so that they can turn the whole forest into a dead, twisted fen. MK happens to come along just at the right moment and gets shrunk to the size of the Leafmen and pressed into service. She ends up paired with Nod, a young man who also has lost a parent, and Ronin, the commander of the Leafmen who has tried to mentor Nod. None of what follows is exactly a stunning surprise, but the execution and characters are more original than I expected, and we get pulled into the Leafman/Boggan world very effectively.
However, the movie-animation still has practically no character development. It is a pity that the movie tries to rely on just the aesthetics and creating a spectacular world never seen before. M.K. as a character is the best of all. She is likeable but that doesn’t complete the movie. Every other character that we come across is more of a dull and lifeless thing with humorless dialogues. Humor can be found here and there in the movie but not in the entirety.
At a runtime of 102 minutes, Epic is short but still feels stretchy at many places. Everything is wide open since the beginning and the movie walks on a plain path with no twist and turns. No doubt the 3D effects are fabulous and the virtual world that they have created is also fantastic. But that is the only Epic thing about this animated movie.
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