Synopsis
A love potion works its devious charms on fairies, elves and the swamp-dwelling Bog King as they all try to possess the potion for themselves.
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Cast
- Alan CummingBog King (voice)
- Evan Rachel WoodMarianne (voice)
- Elijah KelleySunny (voice)
- Meredith Anne BullDawn (voice)
- Sam PalladioRoland (voice)
- Kristin ChenowethSugar Plum Fairy (voice)
- Maya RudolphGriselda (voice)
- Alfred MolinaFairy King (voice)
- Bob EinsteinStuff (voice)
- Peter StormareThang (voice)
Recommendations
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The Playlist
Strange Magic is messy and uneven and occasionally annoying, but it also dares to be different. - 67
The A.V. Club
Strange Magic, an animated film from Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic, borrows its sensibility from another movie from the summer of 2001: "Moulin Rouge." The new film’s composer and music director, Marius De Vries, even arranged songs for Baz Luhrmann’s phantasmagorical musical. - 50
USA Today
Strange Magic is strange all right, but hardly magical. - 25
New York Post
A jaw-droppingly terrible animated musical that mismatches George Lucas’ inane story about a pair of fairy princesses to an oddball selection of the “Star Wars’’ creator’s favorite pop tunes. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
The plot movement feels very much like an unpleasant formality, shoved forward by tiresome devices. - 20
Variety
A thoroughly derivative and unengaging fantasy. - 20
New York Daily News
The eerie wood was exquisitely designed. Disastrously, what goes on there suggests a Californian mall during spring break. - 12
Slant Magazine
As juvenile and frivolous a wish-fulfillment fantasy as one might expect from the visionary behind the lightsaber and Princess Leia hogtied to Jabba the Hut, Strange Magic depicts war as a series of scarcely muddied binary oppositions: between good and evil, the beautiful and the ugly, and singing and death by karaoke.
