Epic, the animated movie, was an epic disappointment

I won't give away too many details of the movie, though I wouldn't recommend anybody watch it. The ending frustrated me, the symbolism was beyond obvious, and the beastiality references-do slugs count as beasts?-was disturbing, to say the least.

The "heroine" of the movie is named Mary Katherine, but she insists upon being called MK. Beyonce's forest Queen character bestows upon her the task of caring for this pod (pictured above) which contains "the life of the forest". Basically, they seem to be mocking God impregnating Mary in a manner that goes above most viewers heads. The slug, also pictured above, is enamoured with Mary Katherine and consistently makes fairly dirty comments regarding her. In one scene, he believes its her pulling on his eye tentacles and remarks that she's so into him. Y'know, a slug version of a penis-pulling joke. Gross.

Throughout the film, you believe that Mary will be "crowned" the new Queen (I mean, she IS the heroine) and get together with the hero (flying the bird, pictured above) and live happily ever after as a little forest creature. Yeah, not quite. Spoiler ahead...

Spoiler: a character who seems quite useless to the film becomes Queen, sends Mary away (who clearly is reluctant to leave), and it gets more confusing from there. The end. Yeah, not Epic, and kind of a piss-off.