EPIC – 3D!!!

Wednesday,8th of May 2013
Chennai::Epic’ which is based on William Joyce’s famous children’s book, ‘ The Leaf Men’ and the Brave Good Bugs’ is a American 3D  computer animated fantasy – adventure comedy – drama film that is also being released in Tamil and Hindi.

Directed by Chris Wedge, the maker of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005), this colorful visual treat for summer features the voices of Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Aziz Ansari, Chris O’Dowd, Pitbull, Jason Sudeikis, with Steven Tyler and Beyonce Knwles.

The film tells the story of a teenage girl who finds herself magically transported in a secret world. Once there, she faces the responsibility of helping a rag-tag team of fun and whimsical characters to save their world and in the process save the real world as well.

The screenplay follows Mary Katherine, (Amanda Seyfried) a teenage girl who somehow manages to get shrunken down and transported to a mini wonderland forest, where a cast of talking slugs (Aziz Ansari) and small soldiers are preparing for a war with the ruthless villain Mandrake (ChristophWaltz) and his tiny evil army.

 A young girl named Mary Katherine lives in a cabin in the woods with her father and dog. Her father, Professor Bomba, has long studied a group of warriors who live in the forest and protect it as guardians of good. He often will go into the forest and survey them.

One day, the professor does not return from a hike in the forest, so Mary Katherine sets out to look for him. Hours later, she comes upon a group of glowing, falling leaves. Catching one of them, she is suddenly shrunken down.

In her minuscule state, she discovers the group of warriors Prof. Bomba has studied, who are known as the Leaf Men. Soon she is forced to assist them in a war against forces of evil known as the Boggans and their villainous leader Mandrake, while trying to find out how to return home!