Strange Magic (2015)

Directed by

Gary Rydstrom

Genre

fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 574 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fairy tale about a fairy princess and the Bog King who both dislike love. When an elf tries to use a love potion, it brings characters together and changes their feelings.

whimsicalromanticlightheartedmusicalfantasticalplayfulbrightupbeat

What happens

Strange Magic is a 2015 American animated jukebox musical fantasy film directed by Gary Rydstrom, screenplay written by Rydstrom, David Berenbaum, and Irene Mecchi based on a story written by George Lucas and inspired by William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The film stars the voices of Alan Cumming, Evan Rachel Wood, Elijah Kelley, Meredith Anne Bull, Kristin Chenoweth, Maya Rudolph, Sam Palladio, and Alfred Molina. It follows the leader of the Dark Forest known as the Bog King, who hates the notion of love and orders the destruction of all primroses, a flower used to create love potions. However, he begins to change his mind upon meeting the feisty fairy princess Marianne whose heart was broken by her philandering fiancé Roland. Meanwhile, the elf Sunny seeks to have a love potion made so he may make Marianne's sister Dawn fall in love with him. George Lucas, who had long wanted to make a film for his three daughters, had been developing the project for 15 years before production began, and described the film as Star Wars for a female audience. The musical score was composed by Marius de Vries, and the soundtrack consists of numerous historical pop songs spanning several decades. Strange Magic was released in theaters in the United States on January 23, 2015, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through the Miramax Films banner. The film received negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing $13.6 million against a $70–100 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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