Magic in cinema: Final Fantasy
Its a nice movie, visually astonishing, but the story remains in clishees and - especially if you know some animes - walked out pathways. The magical aspect is the concept of the earth having a soul and the aggressors being ghosts. The problem with this: Neither of these concepts is vital to the plot. It just could as well be aliens with just a special kind of unknown lifeform instead of ghosts and the earth could just be healed or threatened by some form of energy instead of a planetary soul. So the magical aspect is not as important as it seems. Pity.