Epic

Epic

Rating 6 out of 10

I look forward to animated movies coming to town these days not just because I'm a fan of cartoons.  It means I get a date with my granddaughters.  So when Epic came along I got to take both my granddaughters to an early show and this time the wife tagged along to help with the herding of the cats. : >

This is a cute enough movie about a world of small people that live in the forest.  The cute and colorful group are the good guys that protect the forest and the ugly bad guys want to destroy it.  It all boils down to getting this magic plant to a certain place by a certain time where it can bloom in the moonlight.  A teenage girl (voiced by Amanda Seyfried) is in the forest at the wrong time she gets magically shrunk down to tiny size and joins in on the fight.

The movie is cute enough for adults or older kids.  My three and two year old granddaughters found it over their heads and did not hold their attention at all.  As soon as the popcorn ran out they were all over.

I saw the 2D version of this movie.  I know I'm spoiled but I found the animation to be average at best. Maybe the 3D version is better.  The story is entertaining. The class of celebrities doing the voices is first rate.  It's just not for little kids and seems to me that is who animated films should be aimed at?