Epic - animation movie

Last week went slowly, most of the time spent driving to and fro for my girl's chiropractic therapy. It wasn't something big, just a bit posture correction due to her flat-feet. But my girls still enjoyed the week due to their latest addition toward their Lalaloopsy's collection. As promised, I bought them the Tree House as reward for their achievement in school. My girls got into the big ten уααу!└(^o^)┘ \^o^/ └(^o^)┘уααу! Believe me...it was a better result compared to last semester or last year.

Image taken from www.imdb.com

Though my hubby was a bit disappointed this week since we still haven't catch the lastest Star Trek movie (well - mainly his fault since he was deep in neck with work) but we watched Epic, one of my must-see-movie ↖(^ω^)↗...уιρρєу!...ㄟ(￣▽￣ㄟ). This time, we chose the 3D version and thru 100mins, the back of my ears itched and were hurt (well, using 2glasses at the same time was too much a burden for my delicate ears).

My girls' award

Anyway, despite the discomfort, I enjoyed the movie a lot. It was totally epic (๑'⌣'๑)づ . It is about a girl called MK who lived with her mother but due to the mother's recent death, she was about to live with her father. Prof Bomba is an eccentric guy who has been spending almost his entire life in his study about tiny people who lives in the forest near his house. MK totally thought his father was a freak (can't blame her though...her father seemed pay more attention toward his study anyway) and decided to leave the house. However, accidentally MK had to chase Ozzie (their three-legs-dog) into the forest.

On the other part of the forest, at the same time, Tara (the forest guardian or queen) was chosing her heir when Boggans (basically the bad guy - it was pretty difficult to explain what Boggans were - I didn't get a close look neither unless that they were bad and smelly and definitely not good looking) attacked them. Ronin (the head of leafmen - leafmen were the soldier who protect the forest) run into her rescue by riding a colibri (or hummingbird - well, it looked like it anyway). And apparently colibri was the trending vehicle especially for soldier since it was small enough yet fast. However, one of Boggans' arrow hit Tara and she fell.

Fate arranged their meeting. Tara fell onto MK and on her last breath, Tara handing the lotus bud/pod (the chosen heir) to MK and asked MK to bring the pod to Nim Glu. Unexpectedly, the magic of Tara shrunk MK into their size. Together with Ronin, Nom (the resigned leafmen but handy rider), and the hillarious slimey duo of Grub the wanted-to-be-leafmen-snail and Mud the big proud slug, MK began her journey to Nim Glu. Nim Glu was a place where the wise caterpilar lived with its scrolls of knowledge (yes...the wise animal was the silly caterpilar...not the serious looking owl as I have thought). Nim, the caterpillar explained that for the new queen to be born, the pod should bloom under the moonlight at that specific night. Too bad, Mandrake (the leader of Boggans) attacked Nim Glu and stole the pod.

Terrible thing would happen to the forest if the pod was blooming in the darkness of the Boggans. Therefore, MK, Nom and Ronin disquised themselves into Boggans and retrieved back the pod. Trouble didn't stop there. Boggans re-attacked and destroyed the forest right before the pod was blooming. Leafmen were desperately fighting back until MK realized that the only person who could help them was his father. Upon Prof Bomba's help, the pod was successfully bloomed under the moonlight and new queen was finally chosen. MK was back to her-own-self but at the end, both worlds keep their friendship intact.

This movie was actually so cliche just like any other children animation movie, where the good guy versus bad guy, and upon critical time, good guy managed to win. Anyway I like several things on it like the amazing sound and image effect. I like the leaves boat with Lotus pod as the core, and being pulled by the dragonflies. I like how the forest assented their queen, curling and uncurling of fern leaves or how the lotus leaves joined together so that Tara could walk on the pond gracefully. Everything about the forest was breath-takingly beautiful. I also like the moral stories of this movie. First, it was about leafmen principal of 'many leaves one tree' which means we are actually connected to the other, never alone. Therefore, in time of need, it is ok to ask for help of other and vice versa. Second, it tought us to keep trying...to keep fighting and never give up. Just like Nom and the leafmen, realized that they were outnumbered and have lots of handicaps, however they kept attacking the Boggans...trully EPIC!