Strange Magic

For Strange Magic, I went in hoping to see something comical and lighthearted that I'd welcome watching on repeat with the little ones after its home release. What I found instead was what I imagine an hour-and-a-half Glee episode to look like…

Strange Magic is hardly more than what should have been a straight to video animated feature. At best, it is a tunefully cheerful collection of pop songs with decent animation.

Stylistically speaking, even the animated lead characters have about as much warmth and definition as gaming system avatars.

Devoid of charm, mirth or inspiration, the movie is quick to distract you with the nearest weapon at hand (...).

The problem with Strange Magic isn't so much its derivative story as it is the odd, half-complete way it unfolds. You can sense the weird mixture of tones, influences, ideas — as if the whole thing were still in its planning stages.

That terrible character design, combined with a painful lack of laughs and a crushing plethora of ghastly songs, makes Strange Magic perhaps the worst animated feature ever to come out of Disney (...).

To wit, Strange Magic is essentially a jukebox musical so song-laden as to practically be an operetta, and the songs are so eclectic that they never quite fit into the movie’s flying-insect world, which is divided into dark and light forests.

De fait, beaucoup de séquences servent simplement de prétexte à l'interprétation de ces différents succès, avec des résultats mitigés au plan de l'émotion.