Film review: Epic

Dir. Chris Wedge. Voices Amanda Seyfried, Colin Farrell, 102mins

In the frantic new digital animation from Blue Sky studios, which also produced Ice Age and Rio, an American teenager is miniaturised and becomes involved in an age-old battle for the life of a forest waged between the "Leafmen" – warriors small enough to ride on the backs of kingfishers – and the goblin-like "Boggans".

The animators have outdone themselves and every frame is alive with lush verdancy, even if the story is pretty boggan-standard.