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- "Strange Magic," a new animated film, is a madcap fairy tale musical inspired by "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Popular songs from the past six decades help tell the tale of a colorful cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their hilarious misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion.
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The film's screenplay, by Rydstrom, David Berenbaum, and Irene Mecchi, is based on a story by George Lucas 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 ...
Jul 28, 2023 · The film riffs on Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream as follows: a love potion, derived from primroses that form a border between two realms in an enchanted forest, prompts a range of romantic confusions to unfold. Central in this playful confusion, is the relationship between the fairy Marianne and the moody, mean spirited Bog ...
With dazzling visuals, Strange Magic utilizes innovative CG animation matched with a star-studded cast that leaves audiences enveloped in an entirely new world inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”.
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In a magical realm divided between the fairy kingdom and dark forest, life has always been difficult. After Marianne discovers her fiancé has been cheating on her, she vows to be done with love forever. The Bog King wants nothing to do with love either. Through natural curiosity and coincidences that bring the two sides together, the kingdoms will ...
The animation is incredible. For a make belief world, it truly is amazing what can be made on a computer and brought to life through the visuals of animation. The cast is talented beyond belief. From Alfred Molina, Evan Rachel Wood, Kristen Chenoweth, and Alan Cumming, Strange Magicis stacked with a cast of actors that make every performance incred...
Another adaptation of a Shakespeare play that falls off the rails. The story is great, but the inclusion of songs from the last sixty years with characters breaking out into a wide range of music throughout the story, just doesn’t work. The music is distracting, it does not help further the story but rather takes away from the narrative. The fact t...
{The following four categories are based on a Film Reel scale. 1 Reel-Bored and Killing Time, 2 Reels-When You Have Some Time,3 Reels-Make Some Time, 4 Reels-Big Screen Event} Strange Magic gets a ½ a reel rating. While I can appreciate the magic and wonder behind the film, and for George Lucas to want to create a film for such pure and wondrous in...
Directed by Gary Rydstrom Produced byTouchstone Pictures / Filmbox / Industrial Light and Magic / Lucasfilm Animation Singapore Release Date: January 23, 2015 Box Office Gross Domestic:$12,429,583 Worldwide Total: $13,603,453
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Jan 9, 2015 · Strange Magic is a madcap fairy tale musical inspired by "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Popular songs from the past six decades help tell the tale of a colorful cast of goblins, elves,...
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Jan 22, 2015 · Inspired by William Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, George Lucas’ STRANGE MAGIC features familiar fairy tale creatures, such as fairies and goblins, in a world riddled with pop songs and fantasy.
Feb 6, 2015 · Lucas claims that Strange Magic is an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c1595), although the connection is strained. Both works feature central characters that are fairies and concern themselves with the twists of fate that occur when a love potion is given to the wrong people.
