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SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

farahtayone He is nerd and physicist but too dumb being a sorcerer. Very crappy movie.

cinemajesty "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" produced as kind of spin-off of a Walt Disney animated short subject from the 1940s brought to scale in production slate season 2009/2010 by Jerry Bruckheimer Films with a production budget of 150 Million U.S. Dollars, building a state of the art symbiosis between production design and computer-generated visual effects, but denies itself to find a center sequence of spectator-transcending magical matter.In that sense, the director Jon Turteltaub misses its chance to find a wide audience, giving itself to a weakly written script full of teenage-day-dreaming cliché, followed by miss-cast actor Jay Baruchel in the leading role as the apprentice. Nicolas Cage and counterpart Alfred Molina do stay best to keep face in a times physical confronting intimate scenes. Nevertheless the subject matter gives it away, leaving the first-rate actors no space to unfold improvisations, which might have done the trick to keep the movie last in the spectator's mind.One hundred minutes running time without credits has been well paced by editor William Goldenberg. But once again suspensions gets lost by eye-popping product placements for ice cream, soda, cell phones and premium cars - in times of sky-high-scaled production budgets, unfortunately still of matter. Nevertheless screenwriters and directors alike need to learn ways to capture those advertisements in a subconscious way in order to fulfill scene suspension requirements.What is left of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" seven years after its initial release is the charming homage to Mickey's broomstick scene from Walt Disney's Production of "Fantasia (1940)".

mark.waltz Moderately entertaining, this fantasy of evil traveling 1500 years to the big Apple is mixed to the core. Fortunately, it's a story of good first evil but as its is center around Hollywood obsession with black magic, it gets to be weather disturbing in spots. At least history is used, with the legendary magician Merlin at the center of the opening of the film we're good and evil are locked together in some sort of mythical bottle and end up in modern- day New York in the hands of a troubled youngster who find himself humiliated in front of his classmates when he encounters good and evil magicians in a building and ends up coming out looking like he's with his pants. Ten years go by, and he is apparently back to normal, sorcerers both good and evil are after him for completely different reasons.Nicolas Cage represents good while Alfred Molina is definitely on the side of the dark hearts, desperate to get his hands on the bottle that contains the spirit of sorceress Morgan La Fey, the thistle in the side of Merlin during the King Arthur era. So with magic both black and white going all over Manhattan in order to keep Le Fey from escaping in order to bring out all the evil dead back to destroy the world, Cage becomes mentor towards Merlin's alleged descendant who has the common sense of a central park pigeon.This is OK family fare for ages 10 up, it gets rather silly at times, leaving adults often looking at their watches. It also gets rather repetitive, seemingly taking forever to get to its conclusion. Dozens of similar movies have dominated the big screen since the beginning of the millennium, and this is no better or worse than the mist mediocre. A tribute to the sequence in "Fantasia" is most obviously the highlight. Otherwise, this is just formula fluff with little point.

jessegehrig So this movie was inspired by the Fantasia cartoon, The Sorcerer's Apprentice? Why? Is screen writing really as difficult as Hollywood makes it out to be? Surely many many other writers were able to create better scripts that this movie's script. I felt like I had already seen this movie long before I ever did, Nic Cage in a bad wig, Disney seemingly selling me jailbait yet again, a plot that consists of name- dropping and C.G.I. effects... A movie that's sole purpose of being made was to enable the movie's producers to sleep with young naive actresses, well, and probably a few young but not so naive actresses in addition, allegedly. Sex is where babies come from.