Michael Ledo
The film expresses the balance between life and death/decay as a battle between miniature creatures and beings not unlike ourselves. The theme is that man must help forests or Eco-systems to live or else they will die. The story is aimed at younger children with a simple formulaic plot.Mary Katherine comes home to visit her father who is considered unbalanced because he believes in said creatures. This is a special time that only happens once in a 100 years, when the queen of life gets to choose her heir...and then you guessed it. This was a puffs moment for me, but not as bad as when Aerith Gainsborough passed into the light. From here you can write the rest.Mildly entertaining for adults.
Kirpianuscus
its desire to be original is the great sin. because it becomes a moralistic story, predictable and almost boring in the second part. the good part is the aspect of old fashion fairy tale, touching, delicate, full of flavor of classic stories from childhood. the great error - the not inspired title. because far to be epic, it is a small story about friendship, nature, heroism in ordinary rules, transformation of people in difficult conditions. nothing new. but comfortable if you ignore the new levels from the final part. short, a nice film. decent animation. far to be memorable. but a kind of oasis for the entertainment of entire family. and as good suggestion to return to the classic fairy tale books.
Ole Sandbaek Joergensen
Animation wise this is very good and it is a really beautiful film, the contrast between big and small and the effects of the giant "creatures" moving slow and talking slow works very well.It might not be so epic as the title would suggest, but it is very enjoyable for kids and grownups alike, there is more for the kids here and that is very reasonable, but also a few word plays that pan out better for the adult audience.I think all the bi-characters in this film make it very fun, they almost controls all the funny scenes and have a lot of goofy remarks and weird happenings.
phoenix 2
MK is a young girl who moves in with her father after her mother's death. However, her father is obsessed over proving that in the woods live an advance society of really small people. MK doesn't believe him, until she turns into one of those small people. Epic is a nice movie, not very good, but not horrible either. It's not Epic however. It sure has some action scenes, but the whole concept isn't adventurous. The script has some funny lines, and the story between father and daughter is good, but the romance... unnecessary in my opinion. The movie has many known actors (or their voices at least) and some of the scenes are beautiful, but the movie as a whole is so- so. So 4 out of 10, because I wouldn't watch it again.