There are good things in the animated musical fantasy “Strange Magic”: the ultra-detailed, photorealistic animation; the name-that-tune pleasures of a mashup-jukebox soundtrack; fine vocal ...

If you’ve ever longed for a movie with all the insistent life lessons of a Disney fairy tale, the tacky visual excesses of digital-era George Lucas, and enough glorified karaoke covers to fill half a ...

Now Playing "Strange Magic" orders up plenty of strange but not too much magic It doesn't take long into George Lucas' bizarre new animated movie "Strange Magic" to ask "What the heck am I watching?" ...

Every now and then, I find myself suddenly and unexpectedly angry at George Lucas, but not for reasons that have anything to do with “Star Wars.” There has been a refrain we've heard from him over and ...

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Well, now we know what a Las Vegas show designed for eight-year-olds would look like. The advance marketing on producer George Lucas’ “Strange Magic” suggested a retread of the not-all-that-memorable ...

The new animated film, "Strange Magic" is a hilarious musical fairy tale inspired by "A Midsummer Night's Dream." In this fun movie you will follow the misadventures of goblins, fairies, elves, and ...

Strange Magic is strange all right, but hardly magical. An oddly tone-deaf jukebox musical and computer-animated fantasy (** out of four; rated PG; opens Friday nationwide), its target audience seems ...

There are good things in the animated musical fantasy, “Strange Magic”: the ultra-detailed, photo-realistic animation; the name-that-tune pleasures of a mash-up-jukebox soundtrack; fine vocal ...

There are good things in the animated musical fantasy “Strange Magic”: the ultra-detailed, photorealistic animation; the name-that-tune pleasures of a mashup-jukebox soundtrack; fine vocal ...

Strange Magic isn’t very magical, but it sure is strange. So many of today’s kids’ films, both good and bad, wear their inspirations on their sleeves. You can reenact the pitch meetings as you watch ...