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it's the 2nd specail Strange Magic is a 2015 computer-animated musical fantasy film directed by Gary Rydstrom and produced by Lucasfilm, based on an idea by George Lucas inspired by William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The film was released on January 23, 2015 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under the Touchstone Pictures label as the first Lucasfilm production after the Disney purchase and the only non-Star Wars film by Lucasfilm Animation.

Contents

 * 1Plot
 * 2Why It Sucks
 * 3Redeeming Qualities
 * 4Reception
 * 5Videos
 * 6Trivia
 * 7External links
 * 8Comments

Plot
Bog King, the leader of the Dark Forest, hates the notion of love and has ordered the destruction of all primroses, which are an essential ingredient of love potions. However, when he meets Marianne, a feisty fairy princess whose heart was broken by a philandering fiance, he begins to change his mind. Meanwhile, an elf named Sunny makes his way to the Dark Forest to collect enough primrose petals for a potion of his own.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The plot uses every love cliché you can find in the book.
 * 2) * The "no one loves me because I'm hideous" cliché.
 * 3) * The forced love cliché combined with the love potion cliché.
 * 4) * The romantic chemistry built up via song cliché.
 * 5) * The misunderstanding cliché.
 * 6) * The "I want more in life" cliché.
 * 7) On the topic of clichés, the film blatantly rips off other movies.
 * 8) * Bog King is a ripoff of Shrek as he believes no one will ever love him because he is ugly. The misunderstanding cliche said above is also stolen from Shrek.
 * 9) * Roland is a direct copy of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast.
 * 10) * The elements of the film, such as the woodland creatures being the steed of the ferries, copy off Epic.
 * 11) The characters are unlikable and clichéd.
 * 12) * Dawn is very annoying. The film itself seems to be aware of this while she's affected by the love potion.
 * 13) * Bog King's minions are unfunny comic reliefs.
 * 14) * The Sugarplum Fairy is unbearable and obnoxious.
 * 15) * Sunny is absolutely stupid, seeing that he promised to take care of the love potion yet screwed everything up at the ball.
 * 16) * Roland is as much of a predictable villain as Hans from Frozen is.
 * 17) * The Fairy King forbade Marianne from searching for Dawn and his reason is never justified.
 * 18) The musical numbers are obnoxious as they're only pop-rock versions of popular hits including (but not limited to) "Can't Help Falling in Love", "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", "Strange Magic", and Tell Him", and "Wild Thing".
 * 19) Horrendous voice acting, especially from characters like Sunny.
 * 20) On the topic of the musical numbers, the characters not only refuse to shut up, but also never stop singing. The musical numbers come up so frequently that it makes never gives the audience a moment to breathe and even makes them appreciate the songs even less.
 * 21) While the animation is lovely to look at, the character designs of the fairies and elves have this uncanny feel to them.
 * 22) Bog King and Marianne's romantic chemistry is not developed properly as they only begin to fall in love near the end, with only 20 minutes left in the running time.
 * 23) The ending shot, although well-intentioned, can nauseate the viewer.
 * 24) The post-credits scene showing Roland kissing a fly is tasteless and not very funny.
 * 25) Misleading poster: The poster includes none of the fairies or elves or even Bog King appear on the poster. The only characters that contribute anything to the plot on the poster are Bog King's mother and the Imp.
 * 26) Bog King's death fake-out is pointless and cliched, especially when he emerges alive.
 * 27) It is never explained how the love potion failed to work on Marianne.
 * 28) Despite the movie titled Strange Magic, there is less magic in the movie.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Despite the uncanny designs, the animation is splendid to look at, as the visuals were done by Industrial Light and Magic, which also did the visual effects for Star Wars, Indiana Jones (both are also property of Lucasfilm), Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean (another property of Disney), Poseidon, Star Trek, The Avengers, and the live action Transformers films, as well as the animation of Rango.
 * 2) The Imp is at least cute.
 * 3) Some musical numbers can be enjoyable.
 * 4) Some funny moments, such as "You should see your face" and Dawn singing "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" and annoying Bog King and his minions.
 * 5) It was a sweet idea for George Lucas to make a film for his daughters, despite the idea being poorly executed.
 * 6) * Likewise, the concept of an evil person falling in love is nice although executed like crap.

Reception
Strange Magic received negative reviews from critics and audiences. The film currently holds a 16% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 61 reviews, with the consensus reading "Like most modern animated movies, Strange Magic is lovely to look at; unfortunately, there isn't much going on beneath the surface.". On Metacritic, the film has a score of 25 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". According to CinemaScore, audiences gave the film a grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.

The film was also a box-office bomb, losing around $40–50 million and grossing only $13.6 million against a $70–100 million budget