Strange Magic (2015)
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Critics Consensus: Like most modern animated movies, Strange Magic is lovely to look at; unfortunately, there isn't much going on beneath the surface.
Critics Consensus: Like most modern animated movies, Strange Magic is lovely to look at; unfortunately, there isn't much going on beneath the surface.
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"Strange Magic," a new animated film from Lucasfilm Ltd., is a madcap fairy tale musical inspired by "A Midsummer Night's Dream." 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. Lucasfilm Animation Singapore and Industrial Light & Magic bring to life the fanciful forest turned upside down with world-class animation and visual effects. (C) Disney
- Rating:
- PG (for some action and scary images)
- Genre:
- Animation
- Directed By:
- Gary Rydstrom
- Written By:
- David Berenbaum , Irene Mecchi , Gary Rydstrom
- In Theaters:
- Jan 23, 2015 Wide
- Runtime:
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Critics Consensus: Strange Magic is Less Than Enchanting
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While it's frankly weird & somewhat jarring at first, if you can wrap your head around the concept & accept it's not really a film for smaller kids nor for older teens, but for those somewhere in-between, you might find something to enjoy here after all.
Strange Magic may be a pretty picture that the kids can sing along to, but within the larger spectrum of animated features it is pretty forgettable.
At best, it is a tunefully cheerful collection of pop songs with decent animation. At worst, it is a meandering and dull hour and forty minutes of musical theatre that will be grating to anybody over the age of seven.
bound to be the House of Mouse's first big screen disaster of 2015
Pity poor Wood, Cumming, Kelly, Palladio and the rest of these actors. (Full Content Review -- Sex, Profanity, Violence, etc. -- for Parents also available)
It instantly rates as one of the most dismal animations ever released under the Disney umbrella.
A reminder that there's no one with influence enough to tell George Lucas when he's had a bad idea.
Skip this messed-up computer animated fantasy and purchase the soundtrack instead.
Strange Magic isn't very magical, but it sure is strange.
Wasting potential to be a kooky but grand journey into love and honor on musical ambitions better left on Lucas's encouragingly varied iTunes playlists.
Strange Magic is the kind of computer-animated film that makes you wish that hand-drawn animation could make a comeback, and soon.
If you're a hardcore animation person with not-very-demanding children you might take a chance.
I know we're talking about fairy tales here. But why does the king, who resembles a cockroach and talks like a Scot, have a mother who seems to be a slug and talks like a Jewish-mother joke?
Strange Magic isn't a good movie, but it's the kind of bad movie thats existence you can at least feel okay about.
Said to be inspired by "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the film plays more like "Avatar" scored to a karaoke competition.
A noxious cauldron of ingredients that shouldn't have been mixed: fairies, Shakespeare and classic rock.
"Strange Magic," the new animated musical fairy tale from the mind and the mixtape of George Lucas, is indeed strange. What's missing is the magic.
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.
One of the most stunningly beautiful bargain bin, straight-to-DVD releases of all time.
On the surface, [it] has all the makings of a fantasy cult classic: strange characters, musical interludes and a Jim Henson-like flair. Too bad the plot, music and jokes are lackluster. At most, it'll make you want to watch another, better fantasy film.
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