- Starring: Elijah Kelley, Evan Rachel Wood, Kristin Chenoweth, Maya Rudolph
- Summary: Popular songs from the past six decades help tell the tale of a colorful cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their hilarious misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion.
- Director: Gary Rydstrom
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Animation, Family, Musical
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 11
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Mixed: 2 out of 11
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Negative: 7 out of 11
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Strange Magic, an animated film from Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic, borrows its sensibility from another movie from the summer of 2001: "Moulin Rouge." The new film’s composer and music director, Marius De Vries, even arranged songs for Baz Luhrmann’s phantasmagorical musical.
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Strange Magic is messy and uneven and occasionally annoying, but it also dares to be different.
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Strange Magic is strange all right, but hardly magical.
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A jaw-droppingly terrible animated musical that mismatches George Lucas’ inane story about a pair of fairy princesses to an oddball selection of the “Star Wars’’ creator’s favorite pop tunes.
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Jan 21, 2015The eerie wood was exquisitely designed. Disastrously, what goes on there suggests a Californian mall during spring break.
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A thoroughly derivative and unengaging fantasy.
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Terrible character design, combined with a painful lack of laughs and a crushing plethora of ghastly songs, makes Strange Magic perhaps the worst animated feature ever to come out of Disney (which might explain why the studio is releasing the film under its now-rarely-used Touchstone label). Compared to other Lucas missteps of recent years, it’ll make you nostalgic for Jar Jar Binks.
