Epic

Epic (stylized as  epic) is a 2013 American 3D  computer animated  fantasy- adventure  comedy-drama film loosely based on  William Joyce's children's book  The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs. [6]  It was produced by  Blue Sky Studios, and directed by  Chris Wedge, the director of Ice Age (2002) and  Robots (2005). It stars the voices of  Amanda Seyfried,  Josh Hutcherson,  Colin Farrell<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;">,  Christoph Waltz<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;">,  Aziz Ansari<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;">,  Chris O'Dowd<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;">,  Pitbull<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;">,  Jason Sudeikis<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;">, with  Steven Tyler<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;"> and  Beyoncé Knowles<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;">. The film was released on May 24, 2013. .

Contents

 * 1 Plot
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Production
 * 4 Release
 * 4.1 Box office
 * 4.2 Critical reception
 * 4.3 Home media
 * 5 Soundtrack
 * 6 References
 * 7 External links

Plot
== The queen of the forest, Queen Tara ( Beyoncé Knowles ), must choose an heir to her throne and goes out to a field of leaf pods, guarded by a laid-back  slug  named Mub ( Aziz Ansari ) and a wannabe Leafman  snail  named Grub ( Chris O'Dowd ). Tara chooses the smallest pod as the heir. Immediately after she does so, the Boggans attack. Tara flees the area with the pod, and though her bodyguards do their best to protect her, they are soon overwhelmed by the sheer number of Boggans. Tara uses her magic to slow down her pursuers, and is at one point rescued by a flower child who idolizes her. Eventually, Ronin arrives for her and the pair fly off on Ronin's  hummingbird  mount. They are then attacked by Mandrake and his son Dagda ( Blake Anderson ). Dagda is killed by Ronin, but Tara is fatally wounded when Mandrake shoots her with an arrow. Seventeen-year-old Mary Katherine, or M.K., ( Amanda Seyfried ) moves in with her eccentric  scientist  father, Professor Bomba ( Jason Sudeikis ), who has been searching for tiny human soldiers called Leafmen. They protect the forest Bomba lives near from evil creatures called Boggans and their malevolent leader Mandrake ( Christoph Waltz ). An independent young soldier, Nod ( Josh Hutcherson ) decides to quit, much to the ire of the no-nonsense Leafmen leader Ronin ( Colin Farrell ). == ==<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;">Meanwhile, M.K., annoyed at her father, decides to leave and leaves a note on one of his computer monitors. Before she can leave, the family's one-eyed, three-legged dog, Ozzy, runs into the woods. While looking for Ozzy, M.K. sees Tara falling. A dying Tara gives her the pod and uses her magic to shrink her. She tells M.K. to take the pod to a  Glowworm<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;"> named Nim Galuu ( Steven Tyler<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;">) before she dies. After meeting Ronin and the Leafmen, along with Mub and Grub, a confused and scared M.K. joins them. Ronin discovers that Nod has entered a race against other creatures and  bugs<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;"> on birds. He goes back on a deal with a tough  bullfrog<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;"> named Bufo ( Pitbull<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:19.18402862548828px;">) to lose the race. Before Bufo and his two henchmen can kill Nod, Ronin intervenes and orders them to leave. A reluctant Nod joins him, M.K., Mub, and Grub after hearing about Tara's death. ==

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">They eventually find Nim Galuu, who, after learning about Tara's death, leads the group down to the scroll library, where M.K. discovers Tara's brief message before shrinking her, and a message that will get her back to normal size. When Ronin leaves, Nod takes M.K. on a deer ride, and they begin to fall in love. Mandrake (to whom Bufo fearfully reveals the location of the pod, which he overheard from Ronin and Nod) arrives and kidnaps Mub and Grub and imprisons them, along with the pod, which he hopes to bloom in darkness then to use to destroy the forest. To get into Boggan territory undiscovered, M.K., Nod, and Ronin set out to Bomba's house to get some disguises, where M.K. learns that her father is what the Leafmen call a "stomper" and that the Leafmen have been leading Bomba off their trail. After getting the disguises, Ozzy sees M.K. and chases her, catching Bomba's attention. He sees the group and catches M.K., but faints after seeing her. Before leaving, she marks where the Leafmen territory is on one of Bomba's maps with a red push-pin.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">When they reach the Boggan land Ronin distracts the Boggans while M.K. and Nod rescue Mub, Grub, and the pod. They are eventually found out by Mandrake, who summons the Boggans to stop them. M.K., Nod, Mub, and Grub escape alive, but Ronin sacrifices himself to ensure their escape. Before the full moon can sprout the pod at Moonhaven, Mandrake's bats block the light, causing the pod to begin sprouting in darkness. As the Leafmen set out to fight the Boggans, M.K. sets out to get her father for assistance. However, upon regaining consciousness, Bomba believes that he didn't really see M.K. and that he has been insane all these years, and shuts down all his cameras, but changes his mind when he sees the push-pin in his map.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">Bomba is overjoyed to see that he has been right and when he follows M.K. to Moonhaven, he uses his iPod to make bat sounds, causing the bats to follow Bomba. Meanwhile, Mub and Nim Galuu try to stop Mandrake from reaching the pod, but are unsuccessful. Just then, Ronin appears, bearing scars and bruises from the Boggans. Mandrake manages to outdo him, but Ronin is defended by Nod, who finally realizes the importance of teamwork. Before Mandrake can obtain his victory, the moonlight takes over the pod before it blooms in darkness, causing it to bloom in light and defeat the Boggans.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">The chosen heir is the flower child who helped save Tara earlier in the film. Grub becomes a Leafman, Nod and Ronin reconcile, and Nod and M.K. kiss before M.K. is returned to her original size. After reuniting with Bomba and becoming his assistant, the human family still keeps regular contact with their small friends as they continue the research of their world. ==Cast<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==

==Production<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==
 * Amanda Seyfried as Mary Katherine (a.k.a. M.K.), Professor Bomba's 17-year old daughter.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Deadline1_7-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Philstar_8-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  She is named after William Joyce's deceased daughter.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ASImmersed_9-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]
 * Josh Hutcherson as Nod, a rookie Leafman warrior<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Deadline1_7-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]
 * Colin Farrell as Ronin, a seasoned Leafman warrior and leader of the Leaf-Men, Nod's guardian and teacher<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Deadline1_7-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]
 * Christoph Waltz as Mandrake, the leader of the Boggans<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USATodaySneak_10-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]
 * Beyoncé Knowles as Queen Tara, the Mother Nature-like queen of the forest and Ronin's childhood love<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Deadline1_7-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]
 * Aziz Ansari as Mub, a slug and caretaker of the pods<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Deadline1_7-4" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USATodaySneak_10-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]
 * Chris O'Dowd as Grub, a snail, Mub's best friend and fellow caretaker<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USATodaySneak_10-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]
 * Pitbull as Bufo, a bullfrog and business man<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Deadline1_7-5" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]
 * Jason Sudeikis as Professor Bomba, Mary Katherine's father and a scientist<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Deadline1_7-6" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USATodaySneak_10-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]
 * Steven Tyler as Nim Galuu, a Glowworm, a showman and keeper of magic scrolls that tell what has occurred during the times, in a tree<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Deadline1_7-7" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]
 * Blake Anderson as Dagda, Mandrake's son and the Boggan general <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Philstar_8-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Business_11-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]
 * Judah Friedlander as Larry, a cab driver<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Business_11-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]
 * Jim Conroy as Race Announcer
 * John DiMaggio as Pinecone Jinn
 * Troy Evans as Thistle Jinn
 * Kyle Kinane as Biker Dude
 * Malikha Mallette as Jinn Mom
 * Edie Mirman as Flower Jinn
 * Rosa Salazar as Roller Derby Girl

<p style="line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">In 2006, it was reported that Chris Wedge would be directing an animated feature film based on William Joyce's book, The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs for Fox Animation. Joyce, who had already collaborated with Wedge as a designer and producer on the 2005 film Robots, was set to produce the film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  At one point, Wedge got permission to find a new home for the film and turned to Pixar, led by John Lasseter, whom Wedge knew from working on Tron. When Pixar tried to close the rights for the film and start development, Fox changed their mind, and the film returned to Fox. The film was officially greenlit in 2009, under the title Leaf Men.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Variety1_6-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  In May 2012, Fox announced the final title for the film (Epic), its first cast details, and a plot.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Deadline1_7-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  According to Wedge, he was not satisfied with the renaming, which was decided by the marketing department. He also expressed dissatisfaction with subtitles given to the film in some non-English countries, including the French subtitle, The Battle of the Secret Kingdom.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">Although the film is based on and borrow's many characters from Joyce's book, its plot has been significantly changed. Wedge explained: "But while Bill wrote a wonderful book, it is a quaint story. We wanted to make a gigantic action-adventure movie." To address online speculations about whether the film is similar to other films, like FernGully: The Last Rainforest orAvatar, Wedge said: "I hate to associate it with other movies. It is adventure on the scale of Star Wars. And it does immerse the audience completely in a world like Avatar. But it has its own personality."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USATodaySneak_10-4" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10] ==Release<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==

<p style="line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">The film was released publicly on May 16, 2013, in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Germany, Peru, Puerto Rico and Switzerland.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  The film was released in the United States on May 24, 2013.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-USATodaySneak_10-5" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10] ===Box office<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ===

<p style="line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">Produced on a budget of $93 million,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-VarietyWeekend_3-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DeadlineWeekend_4-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  Epic grossed $107,518,682 in North America, and $156,400,000 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $263,918,682.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mojo_5-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  In North America, the film earned $9.3 million on its opening day,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  and opened to #4 in its first weekend, with $33,531,068, behind Fast & Furious 6, The Hangover Part III and Star Trek Into Darkness.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]  In its second weekend, Epic opened to #5, grossing an additional $16,616,310.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17]  While the film was overshadowed by other animated films that summer includingMonsters University and Despicable Me 2, the film finished in third out of six family films that summer, and became a moderate box office success.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18] ===Critical reception<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ===

<p style="line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">Epic received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 64% based on 117 reviews, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Though its narrative themes are all too familiar, Epic is beautifully animated and crafted with just enough flair to make for solid family entertainment."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19]  Another review aggregation website Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 52 out of 100 based on 29 reviews.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]  Audiences polled by the market research firm CinemaScore gave Epic an "A" grade on average and an "A+" among kids.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">Stephan Lee of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B+, saying "The story lacks the specialness of a Pixar movie — it retreads the same eco-battle archetypes as FernGully and Avatar— but it's a perfectly appealing explosion of color for a lazy summer day."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22]  Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a mixed review, saying "Where the animated film comes up short is on the inspiration front -- despite the intriguing terrain, its stock inhabitants lack the sort of unique personality traits that would prevent them from feeling overly familiar."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23]  Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two stars, saying "It's difficult to keep its story and characters, or even its visual design, in your mind's eye, in part because the five credited screenwriters overload the narrative with incident and threatening complication."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[24]  Kyle Smith of the New York Post gave the film one star and a half out of four, saying "It’s not that the plot of Epic is complex; it’s just untidy. There’s a lot going on that goes nowhere."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[25]  Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "The story's simple enough to appeal to young kids (the 8-year-old with me pronounced the movie "awesome"), but adults will enjoy the beautiful animation, whether 3D or 2D."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[26]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "Epic's visuals are enthralling enough for little and big folks to offset a predictable, albeit sweet, story."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27] Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News gave the film one star out of five, saying "Even young would-be botanists will find this charmless animated adventure as exciting as watching grass grow."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28]  Bill Goodykoontz of The Arizona Republic gave the film three out of five stars, saying "The film looks terrific, with a fantastical forest coming to 3-D life. Swooping birds, flying arrows and more make good use of the technology. But the best films use technology as a storytelling device, not as a substitute for story itself."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29]  Sam Adams of Time Out gave the film a C–, saying "Though technology has made massive leaps in the 15 years since A Bug’s Life, this tiny-creature toon can’t muster anything like the Pixar classic’s sense of wonder at seeing the minute made massive. Wonder requires a point of view—and Epic has none."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[30]  Zachary Wigon of The Village Voice gave the film a positive review, saying "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."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[31]  James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film two out of four stars, saying "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."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[32]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">Stephen Holden of the New York Times gave the film two and a half stars out of five, saying "As beautiful as it is, Epic is fatally lacking in visceral momentum and dramatic edge."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[33] Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times gave the film two stars and a half out of five, saying "The emotional connection that should have the crowd cheering wildly for the heroes and booing the villains never clicks in."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[34]  Steven Rea of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the two and a half stars out of four, saying "It's one of those - generic entertainment with a brave heroine, cutesy-poo supporting characters, parental figures who are either absent or absent-minded, etcetera, etcetera."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35]  Tom Russo of The Boston Globe gave the film two stars out of four, saying "Their fantastical great-outdoors adventure is certainly very pretty to look at, and has a general agreeability about it. But the movie would need to engage us far more powerfully for that hyperbolic title to fit."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[36]  Stephen Whitty of the Newark Star-Ledger gave the film two stars out of four, saying "Anyone over the age of 7 or so - not to mention their accompanying adults - isn't going to find too much here to truly engage them, let alone linger past the final fade out."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[37]  Andrew Barker of Variety gave the film a positive review, saying "If this is all familiar territory even to film-literate young children, it's nonetheless executed with professionalism and a few dashes of panache."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[38]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">Steve Rose of The Guardian gave the film three out of five stars, saying "What stands out is the animation. The microcosmic woodland world is luminous and detailed, and there's a nice disconnect of scale whereby humans appear as lumbering, slow-motion giants."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[39]  Glenn Kenny of MSN Movies gave the film two out of five stars, saying "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."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[40]  Colin Covert of the Star Tribune gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "Epic" may be the thinking family's best Saturday matinee of the summer. And the date movie of the season."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[41]  Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club gave the film a C, saying "Epic is heavy on celebrity voices and light on imagination."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-42" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[42]  Alonso Duralde of The Wrap gave the film a positive review, saying "When the filmmakers take little detours from the reluctant-warrior-accepts-his/her-destiny plot, it brings some desperately needed livening up to what otherwise feels like a crushingly by-the-numbers kid saga."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[43]  Jenny McCartney of The Daily Telegraph gave the film three out of five stars, saying "The diminution works its appeal once again in Epic – the latest film from the creators of "Ice Age" and "Rio" – which is just as well, because the rest of the narrative follows a rather predictable route.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[44] ===Home media<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ===

<p style="line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">Epic was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on August 20, 2013.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[45] ==Soundtrack<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==

<p style="line-height:19.18402862548828px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;">Danny Elfman composed the original music for the film, which was released on May 28, 2013 by Sony Classics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-46" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[46] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-47" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[47]  Beyoncé performed and co-wrote with Sia an original song, titled "Rise Up."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-48" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[48]  The song was released as a digital single<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-49" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[49]  and as part of the digital version of the soundtrack.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-50" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[50] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-51" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[51]  This is the first time that a film produced by Blue Sky Studios has not been scored by John Powell since the first Ice Ageinstallment, which was composed by David Newman.

All music composed by Danny Elfman, except where noted. ==References<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==
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 * Official website
 * Epic at the Internet Movie Database
 * Epic at the Big Cartoon DataBase
 * Epic at allmovie
 * Epic at Rotten Tomatoes
 * Epic at Metacritic
 * Epic at Box Office Mojo