This Memorial Day weekend's big animated kid flick Epic, based on the book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs by William Joyce, isn't as thrilling or imaginative as the title would have you believe, but it's decent. It's good enough, let's say. Children won't care that the actual story and fantasy elements are undercooked and parents won't completely suffer for a hundred minutes.
The first thing that stands out here, and not in a complimentary way, is the ragtag crew of voice actors that were thrown together for this "nature vs. rot" adventure story. Giving the film an acceptable Celtic vibe, Colin Farrell plays the stalwart "Leafman" Ronin, the leader of a miniature humanoid army that protects the forest from an evil, decay-loving thing called Mandrake, curiously voiced by Christoph Waltz. Why does Mandrake, a Boggan, want to see everything wither and die? Because reasons.
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