Epic

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Epic

PG

2013

1h 43m

Kids & Family

Adventure

Action

Comedy

Fantasy

Animation

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Mary Katherine (Amanda Seyfried), or M.K., is a headstrong, spirited teenager who has a strained relationship with her father (Jason Sudeikis). She loses patience with her dad's tales of unseen people who live in the woods, but when she is magically transported to that mythic realm, she gains new perspective. M.K. joins a race of beings known as the Leafmen in their battle to protect their queen (Beyoncé Knowles) from their enemies, evil Mandrake (Christoph Waltz) and his crew of Boggans.

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Critics Consensus

Though its narrative themes are all too familiar, Epic is beautifully animated and crafted with just enough flair to make for solid family entertainment.

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Steven D. Greydanus

National Catholic Register

Produces images of poetic power ... The catch is that the world the filmmakers create is far more interesting than the story they tell in it in it or the characters they put in it.

Rated: B-

May 31, 2013

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Bilge Ebiri

New York Magazine/Vulture

For all its attempts at wonder and spectacle and play, Epic is mostly a slog.

May 27, 2013

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Nell Minow

Movie Mom

The visuals are pure magic.

Rated: B+

May 26, 2013

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Only the very young will draw much from the generic storytelling, while the handsome animation of the natural world is wasted on dull characters and unexciting situations.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 6, 2022

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

The more I allowed myself to be immersed in the visuals of Epic the more satisfied I became.

Rated: 2.5/4.0

Sep 7, 2020

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Leslie Combemale

Cinema Siren

Knowing the state of the animation industry, and how artists and animators put their hearts and souls into their craft, hoping to create something truly special, makes this end result very disappointing indeed.

Jul 30, 2019

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Chenay S

I love the story and the animation very cool concept

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

11/09/25

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Biggie B.

The plot line is a bit dark for a kids movie but the title truly speaks for itself

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/17/25

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james o

the film is based on Star Wars, Avatar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Smurfs, Life of Pi and FernGully: The Last Rainforest.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/04/25

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Karen A

The modern day FernGully! Visually beautiful, awesome voice work, and something I definitely want to see a sequel to! Even though with Disney's acquisition of Fox, and the ending of Blue sky studios, that's unlikely to happen. Which is a pity because if you're a nature girl/guy like me, or an enthusiastic kid, or simply just believe in magical possibilities- you will love this movie!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/27/25

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Anna S

It’s definitely not…epic, but certainly not the flop movie some people make it to be. On one hand, you have a story that has been told over and over a million times with a not so interesting way, main characters that seem dull at moments, and some parts where the slow pace of the movie is tiring. On the other, you have extraordinary visuals, a wonderfully built magical world, some secondary characters that (literally) carry the movie, and the battle sequences are carefully detailed and designed to magnetise your eyes on the screen. The concept behind the need to care and protect the environment is lost somewhere between the battles, the love story and the hilarious slugs, and at the end it is more of a story about letting things (and people) go, and how the world will keep spinning and we’ll have to move to its pace if we don’t want to get stuck in the past. That is, of course, a very nice message, but that’s not something that its target audience could absorb, and as a child it was a pretty pointless movie for me. As an adult, I learned to appreciate the hidden meanings of each scene and how it affected not only the plot, but the characters’ development as well. Is it my go-to movie? Definitely not. Is it a movie that I urge everyone to see at least once? Yes!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/23/25

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Audience Member

Ugh, yeah, no, thank you!! Trust me, this movie is anything but the title of it!! Trust me, I'd rather watch paint dry, then watch this!! At all cost, don't watch it, It's a complete waste of time!!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/12/25

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Synopsis

Mary Katherine (Amanda Seyfried), or M.K., is a headstrong, spirited teenager who has a strained relationship with her father (Jason Sudeikis). She loses patience with her dad's tales of unseen people who live in the woods, but when she is magically transported to that mythic realm, she gains new perspective. M.K. joins a race of beings known as the Leafmen in their battle to protect their queen (Beyoncé Knowles) from their enemies, evil Mandrake (Christoph Waltz) and his crew of Boggans.

Director: Chris Wedge
Producer: Lori Forte, Jerry Davis
Screenwriter: James V. Hart, William Joyce, Dan Shere, Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Blue Sky Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Animation
Rating: PG (Mild Action|Brief Rude Language|Some Scary Images)
Genre: Kids & Family, Adventure, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 24, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 1, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $107.5M
Runtime: 1h 43m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, Datasat, SDDS

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