Strange Magic

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Strange Magic

PG

Released Jan 23, 2015

1h 39m

Kids & Family

Musical

Comedy

Fantasy

Animation

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Bog King (Alan Cumming) leader of the Dark Forest, hates the notion of love and has ordered the destruction of all primroses, which are an essential ingredient of love potions. However, when he meets Marianne (Evan Rachel Wood), a feisty fairy princess whose heart was broken by a philandering fiance, he begins to change his mind. Meanwhile, an elf named Sunny (Elijah Kelley) makes his way to the Dark Forest to collect enough primrose petals for a potion of his own.

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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.

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Helen O'Hara

Empire Magazine

While there are fun moments, the whole is an odd mix of grotesquerie and cutesiness.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 27, 2015

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Alan Scherstuhl

Village Voice

The best Lucas film in 25 years: funny, idiosyncratic, hippy-dippy, packed with creatures and visions worth beholding.

Feb 2, 2015

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Steve Davis

Austin Chronicle

By the time the film's ending upends traditional conventions with its unlikely couplings, you're too distracted to fully appreciate the chutzpah, instead cringing at the opening chords of "Wild Thing."

Rated: 1/5

Jan 29, 2015

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

Takes some simple ideas-beauty is only skin deep and love conquers all-and sprinkles them with fairy dust to create a musical that plays like Moulin Rouge for kids.

Rated: 3.5/5

Feb 2, 2021

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Bogged down by insipid dialogue.

Rated: 1.5/4.0

Sep 24, 2020

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

As it stands, this is the sort of project for which the term 'colossal misfire' seems purposefully coined.

Rated: 3/10

Feb 24, 2020

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Roman Juilus V

My wife thinks the animation is beautiful and loves the attention to detail. The pacing is a bit off, and it IS a bit cliche. But it still has a lot of charm to it, and is a guilty pleasure of her. It also still looks great for being a movie from 2015.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/01/24

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Audience Member

Songs are actually a vibe. The love is sweet, weird but cute. Better than I remember. Every time you watch it it gets better. Predictable and you forget the details of the plot after a while, but nice to re-watch when bored.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/30/24

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RAU

This is my favorite animated movie. Love the music. Appreciated the good looking guy was not the love interest.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/09/24

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Carter E

This is an awkward watch, is it medieval fairies or just magic moth elves and what is the story, magic potion? And the music is TERRIBLE, my kid watches it, she’s three and I bet she stops by 4, 5 at the latest. So great for 3yrs olds and that’s my half star. George, this shouldn’t have cost 100M.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/20/24

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Dale R

This film is based loosely on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and written by George Lucas. Two opposing factions fight over a love potion. This film is a jukebox musical, taking pop and rock songs with altered lyrics to help tell the story. The musical performances were not really well done or innovative. The story was fine, but I didn’t connect with any of the characters. I also felt that the story was bogged down with the insistence of including musical numbers way too frequently, to a point where even the characters in the movie were annoyed by it. There are some good ideas presented here, but they are drowned in the mediocrity of the rest of the movie. Skip this film.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/07/24

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shirayuki M

Is about love Between a fairy and moth And also the magic ❤️😍🥹💋🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♂️

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/27/24

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Gary Rydstrom

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Alan Cumming

Bog King

Evan Rachel Wood

Marianne

Kristin Chenoweth

Sugar Plum Fairy

Maya Rudolph

Griselda

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Synopsis

Bog King (Alan Cumming) leader of the Dark Forest, hates the notion of love and has ordered the destruction of all primroses, which are an essential ingredient of love potions. However, when he meets Marianne (Evan Rachel Wood), a feisty fairy princess whose heart was broken by a philandering fiance, he begins to change his mind. Meanwhile, an elf named Sunny (Elijah Kelley) makes his way to the Dark Forest to collect enough primrose petals for a potion of his own.

Director: Gary Rydstrom
Producer: Mark S. Miller
Screenwriter: David Berenbaum, Irene Mecchi, Gary Rydstrom
Distributor: Walt Disney
Production Co: Lucasfilm Ltd.
Rating: PG (Some Action|Scary Images)
Genre: Kids & Family, Musical, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 23, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 7, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $12.4M
Runtime: 1h 39m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos

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