Epic Review

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Epic is an animated feature film directed by Chris Wedge based on William Joyce's children's book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs.  Epic is one of the biggest animated films in the year 2013 which took huge amount of time since 2006. This film was produced by Blue Sky Studios and it is noticeable that Chris Wedge is the co-founder of Blue Sky Studios and he directed this film for Fox Animation. Epic’s screenplay by William Joyce who originally narrated it as a children story. Epic included outstanding 3D animations and also contents eco-friendly lessons which can be an entertainment film for all type of people from children to matured people. 

Epic is basically is about tiny people living in forest like soldiers to protect the forest from being destroy by the baddies. Professor Bomba is the one researching about the tiny people for many years to get solid evidence about the tiny people. Professor Bomba has a daughter, Mary Katherine. MK came back to her father Professor Bomba after so long to ask her father to stop all his researches because MK initially won’t believe Professor’s Bomba ideology that tiny people are living in the forest.  The whole story starts to begin when the Queen of the forest, Tara begin to shrink the pod. Joyce William brought out eco-friendly lessons via this story; the important of protecting the forest seems forests are being destroyed due to development crisis at current time. The leader of Boggans, Mandrake representing the irresponsible people in real world who willing to kill the mother nature to get wealthier life. Bufo the bullfrog symbolizing the selfish investors in the business world and they willing to anything to keep on standing in the market. Another impressive thought brought by Joyce William when the Nod tells the leafman name Professor Bomba as Stomper to MK, that bring a realization to the audiences that they must conscious about tiny livings when they doing an activity like walking or running to make sure do not hurt the tiny livings which usually never bothered in the real life.

         The casts are impressively done their jobs, most importantly their voice for dub.  The casts are Colin Farrell as Ronin, Josh Hutcherson as Nod, Amanda Seyfried as Mary Katherine, Christoph Waltz as Mandrake, Aziz Ansari as Mub, Chris O'Dowd as Grub, Pitbull as Bufo, Jason Sudeikis as Professor Bomba, Steven Tyler as Nim Galuu, Beyoncé Knowles as Queen Tara, Blake Anderson as Dagda and many more. Danny Elfman has scored this film. His impressive sounds and effects make the audiences to go more the story especially for the battle scenes between Leafmans and Boggans. 

      Renato Falcão as the cinematographer of Epic has brought in wonderful movements throughout the story. Blue Sky Studios has done a great job by providing such a wonderful 3D animation characters which looks very fresh for the audiences including the colors and effects.  Epic distributed by 20^th Century Fox and whole budget of the film $93 million. Epic is running successfully in box office since the film released on 24^th May 2013.