Film · Prime Video · 2015
Strange Magic
The potion is the villain. That is the correct instinct. The film is loud around it.
A love potion is a theft, and the story knows it. The people who brew it are not romantics. They are kidnappers with a bottle. The bog king, played as a monster, is the one who will not be drugged into a feeling. That reversal is the only reason to keep the film.
The rest is a jukebox turned up too high, and a fairy court that learns more slowly than the children watching. If you put it on, say the quiet part at the end: a feeling you poured into someone's cup is not a vow. It is an assault.
The eight
Industry
3/10
Little craft. A lot of sugar.
Household
4/10
Sisters, a father, a courtship that starts as a con.
Piety
3/10
Magic as a drug.
Courage
6/10
He refuses the potion. She crosses the bog.
Republic
3/10
A fairy kingdom of moods.
Temperance
7/10
The potion is condemned. Desire is not allowed to be the law.
Truth
7/10
Forced love is named as a lie.
Stewardship
5/10
The sisters get a truer ending than the potion wanted.
Live historicallyRefuse one shortcut that claims to manufacture love.