IMDb plot summary: 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 of characters in order to save their world -- and ours.
Directed by Chris Wedge. Starring Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Colin Farrell, and Christoph Waltz.
This is an incredibly difficult movie to figure out how to review because it feels like such a nonentity. While on one hand I dig the simplicity (but uniqueness) of the mythology surrounding these competing tribes of life and rot. It's a cool concept. But it plays out in a very run-of-the-mill way, down to the tiresome comic relief characters (I love Aziz Ansari and Chris O'Dowd, but it's so hard to do so in this movie). There are weird emotional threads that never get followed through on - MK dealing with her mother's death, Nod not finding a kinship within his people, and so on. It's as if there was a fuller draft that brought all these emotional plotlines to some sort of conclusion, but then it got cut for time, because the setups are all still there. It's all right as a movie, one or two good moments, but nothing that really stands out.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Epic < Three Amigos
Epic < The Trouble With Angels
Epic > The Talk of the Town
Epic > Miss Congeniality
Epic > Scarface (1983)
Epic < The Passion of Joan of Arc
Epic > Passion
Epic > On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Epic > There's Something About Mary
Epic < A Scanner Darkly
Final spot: #2229 out of 2903.
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