When teenager Mary Katherine (Amanda Seyfried) loses her mother to illness, she is forced to go live with her eccentric father, Professor Bomba (Jason Sudeikis), a crackpot inventor completely obsessed with the idea that a community of miniature people exists in the forest.
Though initially skeptical, MK is magically transformed, in a chance encounter, into a tiny person by Queen Tara (Beyoncé Knowles) and tasked with saving the world of Moonhaven and its Leafmen inhabitants from falling into the evil hands of Mandrake (Christoph Waltz) and his army of Boggans.
Epic takes its inspiration from William Joyce’s book The Leaf Men and the Grave Good Bugs. Stephen Holden of The New York Times writes, “As you watch its characters zoom through a lush forest on the backs of hummingbirds, the gorgeous 3-D adventure comedy Epic suggests a warmer, fuzzier Avatar, with a green heart. Directed by Chris Wedge, the movie is a hymn to nature rendered in phantasmagoric detail as refined as anything I’ve seen in a computer-animated family film.”
HSX is predicting that Epic takes in $38.5M this weekend.
Rating: PG // Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family // Runtime: 1 hr. and 42 min. // Starring: Beyoncé Knowles, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Aziz Ansari, Chris O’Dowd, Pitbull, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler // Directed by: Chris Wedge // Based on the “The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs” by: William Joyce // Screenplay by: Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember, James V. Hart, William Joyce, Daniel Shere // Produced by: Twentieth Century Fox Animation, Blue Sky Studios // Distributed by: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
It’s been two years since the last Hangover movie, and three-quarters of the Wolf Pack have settled down: Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Doug (Justin Bartha) are happily living uneventful lives at home. But still lacking a sense of purpose is the group’s black sheep Alan, who has ditched his meds and given in to his natural impulses.
Or at least he does so until disaster strikes.
In the aftermath of a personal crisis, the Wolf Pack convinces Alan to check into a psychiatric treatment facility by promising to drive him there themselves. Things start to go wrong en route when the group is assaulted, and Doug is kidnapped by a gang of masked thugs led by crime-boss Marshall (John Goodman).
Now the one person that can help them is Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong), their partner in crime who inflicts as much trouble on them as is humanly possible.
Joe Neumaier of New York Daily News, “A hysterical crowd-pleaser, director Todd Phillips’ wild ride through the mind of the American guy that lopes easily from epic set-pieces to male rite-of-passage shenanigans.” HSX is predicting that The Hangover Part 3 earns $67.7M
Rating: R // Genre: Comedy // Runtime: 1 hr. and 40 min. // Starring: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, , Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, John Goodman // Directed by: Todd Phillips // Screenplay by: Todd Phillips, Craig Mazin // Produced by: Green Hat Films, Legendary Pictures // Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures