Journey to the Blue Sky Episode 9: Epic

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia
discuss about the 2013 Blue Sky Studios animated film Epic.
Loosely based on the children's book The Leaf Men and the Brave
Good Bugs by William Joyce, Epic is about a teenage girl named
Mary Katherine who moves in with her father after her mother
dies. Her father, a professor who is dedicated to looking for a
group of creatures who live in the forest, ignores her and has no
urgency to reconnect with her after being estranged from her for
years. Mary Katherine starts leaving him behind, but gets caught
up with the creatures that her father has been searching for and
is shrunken by their queen to project the pod that would
determine who the next queen is from the evil mastermind who
wishes to turn the forest into decay.


When the film premiered in theaters, it made $268 million dollars
out of a $93 million dollar budget receiving mixed to positive
reviews praising its animation, but saying that the story was
derivative from Ferngully: The Last Rainforest and Avatar with
its environmental message, plot, and characters. What did Arun
and Patricia think of the film? Listen and find out.