A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.
A 3D eco-fantasy whose mantra-like insistence that we're all connected by nature is one of the main things that underscores the abject insincerity of the sentiment as the movie articulates it, "Epic" is very nearly epic in its stifling mediocrity.
– Glenn Kenny,
MSN Movies,
24 May 2013
fresh:
With its array of goofy sidekicks (Aziz Ansari as a slug almost runs away with the whole picture) and carefully crafted relationships, Epic certainly manages to tell a compelling tale.
– Zachary Wigon,
Village Voice,
24 May 2013
rotten:
Director Chris Wedge falls into the common animator's trap of making the "human" characters a lot duller than the nonhuman creepy-crawlies.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
24 May 2013
rotten:
Although the basic story is too juvenile and simplistic to entertain anyone with an age in the double-digit range, the themes and underlying ideas are too complicated to capture the attention of someone younger.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
27 May 2013
rotten:
For all its attempts at wonder and spectacle and play, Epic is mostly a slog.