Fantasy movies are often, by their very nature, epic . While there are plenty of fantasy movies that deal with simpler magical realism or low-fantasy elements that don't require a grand scale to accomplish, the biggest and best fantasy movies write their stories across the widest canvas possible. These are the high fantasy movies set in far-off lands where amazing beasts and magical creatures live together, or those that expand our world with magic existing right underneath or alongside it. Either way, they transport audiences to a world that, even when it might resemble their own, is wondrous and unbelievable and could only exist on the silver screen.

Fantasy films have been an integral part of cinema since the earliest days of silent film, and as budgets and effects technology have

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