The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs

Watched the movie again to celebrate its 1 year anniversary: still love it! Even if there's never a sequel, Epic will always be able to stand on its own as a true classic.

I'm wondering if anyone else who loves the movie has ever seen the original children's book it was based on: William Joyce's The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs. For those of you who haven't, let me just say that it's very, almost ENTIRELY different from the movie. In fact, probably the ONLY things the two have in common is the phrase "leaf men" and a general sense of good will. There was a HUGE imaginative jump from a quiet, almost old-fashioned children's book to the action-oriented movie. That being said, the book does still have a place in my heart, but for entirely different reasons than the movie does. Again, it's drastically removed from Epic. So what does anyone else who has seen the book think?


"Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity, there is no growth." C.S.Lewis, 1942