Movie Classification: U
Genre: Adventure / Animation
Director: Chris Wedge
Starring:
- Amanda Seyfried (Mary Katherine (a.k.a. M.K.))
- Josh Hutcherson (Nod)
- Colin Farrell (Ronin)
- Beyoncé Knowles (Queen Tara)
- Christoph Waltz (Mandrake)
- Aziz Ansari (Mub)
- Chris O'Dowd (Grub)
- Pitbull (Bufo)
- Jason Sudeikis (Professor Bomba)
- Steven Tyler (Nim Galuu)
- Blake Anderson (Dagda)
- Judah Friedlander (Larry)
Running Time: 1 Hour 42 Minutes
Released Date: 23rd May 2013
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Language: English
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Epic Synopsis
Mary Katherine (a.k.a. M.K.) (Amanda Seyfried), a near-20s teenager, visits her estranged and eccentric scientist father, Professor Bomba(Jason Sudeikis), who has been searching for tiny human soldiers, to which M.K. is skeptical about and wishes for her father to stop his work. Unknown to the both of them, Bomba is correct as there are tiny soldiers called Leafmen who protect the forest Bomba lives around from evil creatures called Boggans, who shoot arrows that can kill any living thing, and their malevolent leader, Mandrake (Christoph Waltz), who plans to destroy the forest. A young soldier, Nod (Josh Hutcherson), filled with independence, decides to quit, much to the ire of the no-nonsense Leaf Men leader, Ronin (Colin Farrell), who wishes for Nod to learn about teamwork. The queen of the forest, Queen Tara (Beyonce Knowles), decides to choose an heir to her thrown and goes out to a field of leaf pods, guarded by a laid-back slug named Mub (Aziz Ansari) and an uptight snail named Grub (Chris O'Dowd), who wishes to become a leaf man, to set her magic on to choose. When she chooses, the Boggans attack. In the midst of the attack, Mandrake's son and lead general, Dagda (Blake Anderson), is killed by Ronin, but Tara is shot by Mandrake beforehand.
Meanwhile, M.K., annoyed at her father, decides to leave and leaves a note on one of his security moniters. Before she can leave, her and Bomba's three-legged dog, Ozzie, runs into the woods. While looking for Ozzie, M.K. sees Tara falling. A dying Tara gives her the pod and uses her magic to shrink her. She tells M.K. to take the pod to a Glowworm named Nim Galuu (Steven Tyler) before she dies. After meeting Ronin and the Leafmen, along with Mub and Grub, a confused and scared M.K. joins them. Ronin discovers that Nod has entered a race against other creatures and bugs on birds. He goes back on a deal with a tough frog named Bufo (Pitbull). Before Bufo and his goons can kill Nod, Ronin intervenes and orders the goons to leave. A reluctant Nod joins him, M.K., Mub, and Grub after hearing about Tara's death. They eventually find Nim Galuu, who is a showman and keeper of magic scrolls that tell what has occured during the times, in a tree. After learning about Tara's death, he leads the group down to the scrolls, where M.K. discovers Tara's brief message before shrinking her, and a message that will get her back to normal size.
When Ronin leaves, Nod takes M.K. on a deer ride and they fall in love. Mandrake (who Bufo fearfully reveals the location of the pod to as he overheard from Ronin and Nod) arrives and kidnaps and imprisons Mub and Grub, along with the pod, which he hopes to bloom in darkness to destroy the forest. To get into Boggan territory undiscovered, M.K., Nod, and Ronin set out to Bomba's house to get some disguises, where M.K. learns that her father is what the Leafmen call a "stomper" and have been leading Bomba off their trail. After getting the disguises, Ozzie (who earlier returns to Bomba's house) sees M.K. and chases her, catching Bomba's attention. He sees the group and catches M.K. but faints after seeing her. Before leaving, M.K. marks wear the Leafmen territory is on one of Bomba's maps with a red push-pin. When they reach the Boggan land, which is a wasteland of dead trees, Ronin distracts the Boggans while M.K. and Nod rescue Mub, Grub, and the pod. They are eventually found out by Mandrake, who summons the Boggans to stop them. M.K., Nod, Mub, and Grub escape alive, but Ronin sacrifices himself to ensure their escape.
Before the full moon can sprout the pod at Nim Galuu's place via light, Mandrake's bats block the light, causng the pod to sprout in darkness. When the Leafmen set out to fight the Boggans (with Grub unsuccessfully joining them) M.K. sets out to get her father for assistance, but an exasperated Bomba (after regaining consciousness) decides to give up on what he has been doing to find his daughter and shuts off all his cameras, believing that he didn't really see M.K. and that he's been insane all his years, but changes his mind when he sees the push-pin in his map. After locating M.K., Bomba is overjoyed to see that he has been right and when he follows M.K. to Nim Galuu's, he (with M.K.'s persuasion) uses his iPod to make bat sounds, causing the bats to follow Bomba. Meanwhile, Mub and Nim Galuu try to stop Mandrake from reaching the pod, but are unsuccessful. Just then, Ronin appears, bearing scars and bruises from Boggans. Mandrake manages to outdo him, but Ronin is defended by Nod, who earlier finally understands the importance of teamwork. Before Mandrake can obtain his victory, the moonlight takes over the pod before it blooms in darkness, causing it to bloom in light and it sends Mandrake to be imprisoned in a tree. It also heals the forest after much damage from the Boggans.
The chosen heir is a flower child, who idolizes and saves Tara earlier in the film. Grub becomes a Leafman, Nod and Ronin reconcile, and Nod and M.K. kiss and become a couple before the latter is given back her original height by the new queen. After reuniting with Bomba and becoming his assistant, M.K. is still in contact with her small friends she uses one of her dad's cameras to talk with Nod , who eventually fights with Mub (who has shown affection towards M.K.).
Epic Movie Review
The animation movie is very good, with the funny and creative joke as we saw in the movie <Ice Age> series. And what I found on the movie, is try to protect the forest from the antagonist. Actually forest give us the life, and also the place for us to relax our mind. But if the forest are destroyed, there are no longer hope in this world. Since M.K. is leaving her father because her father is not listen to her, and accidentally she was met with the accident which Queen Tara almost dies. She was involved in Leaf-Men ceremony to bring the pod to the Nim Galuu. But the most touching is, when her father find out her daughter is become shrink, he knew that he was done wrong. And at last, he and his daughter M.K. are become good again because M.K. asked her father for help at last, when the pod is blooming because the Borgan try to let the pod glow into darkness. But finally, the pod is bloomed successfully and M.K. become the normal person where her "boy friend", Nod come and find her through the security monitor.
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