Whether it be because of the attempts at family friendliness or whatever, this film's bite to consequence and depth is limited, even in concept, where the story feels held back, and, of course, further watered down by sheer familiarity. Subtlety issues and a sense of kiddiness mark particularly glaring missteps in inspiration consistency within storytelling, although I can't say that substance is often, if at all all that inspired. The tonal inconsistencies limit impact, and it doesn't help that the film's tonal extremes at least keep consistent in cheesiness, which sometimes plagues the more dramatic attributes with bloated moments in atmospheric kick, while delivering more frequently of somewhat corny dialogue and characterization thinness. Now, with all of my joking about how this cast is somewhat all over the place in its seriousness and whatnot (Everyone from Christoph Waltz to Pitbull what is up with this?), the film itself is somewhat all over the place with its tone, carrying a generally lighthearted energy that goes broken by overt heights in fluff and humor, if not heights in dramatic kick, and whose breaking leaves the humor and depth to go diluted in its effectiveness. like the not-so-serious "Horrible Bosses" (Ironic how Sudeikis wanted to kill his Colin Farrell-played boss in that film, now can't get off of Farrell's back), but hey, I'd consider his track record better than plenty are saying, with this effort being yet another fair addition to the charming and Irish vial of box office poison's resume, in spite of rough patches.
Shoot, it's not like Farrell hasn't been in some laughable stuff. Well, the two comedians must have mistaken Farrell for Will Ferrell, and as for Waltz, come on, he's just too charming for you to not find him a little bit funny. I'd say that the big-eyed Amanda Seyfried, as beautiful as she is in real life, is also fulfilling her destiny of being a cartoon, but after "Lovelace", I'm starting to rethink her family-friendliness, or at least how diverse a performer can be in selecting subject matter, which isn't to say that I'm not still weirded out by the fact that this film features such serious acting talents as Colin Farrell and Christoph Waltz teaming up with Aziz Ansari, Chris O'Dowd and Jason Sudeikis. You know that this is a mere pop film, not just because it's by no means sweeping enough to be an actual epic, but because it features Josh Hutcherson fulfilling his obligation to be in as many family fantasy/sci-fi films as possible, Beyoncé Knowles and Pitbull fulfilling their roles of selling this to the hip-hop heads, and Steven Tyler fulfilling his destiny of being a cartoon. Forget you, Drake, and forget Blue Sky Studios for this film, not because I don't like this film, but because, with this effort, they just have to be trying to revive both that meme movement of using the term "epic" as an informal adjective, as well as Homer, just long enough to roll over in his grave. Man, this title would have been lazy years ago, long before the web geeks came along and started applying it as an adjective to just about everything, to where the once-awesome term became annoying, which isn't that surprising, seeing as how kids have lately figured out a way to make "You only live once" grating. Oh yeah, kids, this is going to be totally. Rating: PG (Mild Action|Brief Rude Language|Some Scary Images) joins a race of beings known as the Leafmen in their battle to protect their queen (Beyoncé Knowles) from their enemies, evil Mandrake (Christoph Waltz) and his crew of Boggans. She loses patience with her dad's tales of unseen people who live in the woods, but when she is magically transported to that mythic realm, she gains new perspective.
Mary Katherine (Amanda Seyfried), or M.K., is a headstrong, spirited teenager who has a strained relationship with her father (Jason Sudeikis).
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