What seemed like a promising idea to turn Goethe’s 1797 poem and famous scene from Disney’s Fantasia into a full-length movie, Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, unfortunately lacks a sorcerer’s touch and instead remains to be more of a cheap magic act hired for a five-year-olds birthday party.
This isn’t to say it’s not a satisfying experience. It happens to be on the cute and sometimes funny side, it’s overflowing with “oohing” and “ahhing” special effects capable of only entertaining a child, but it leaves out the key principles of a balanced and complete story-line.
Spoilers and review after the jump!
To make things simple, Balthazar (Nicolas Cage) the sorcerer, who was an apprentice of Merlin, must find the next apprentice to prevent an evil and powerful sorcerer named Morgana from being released from her magical prison and taking over the world. When Balthazar comes across a young boy named David (Jay Baruchel), who’s a huge physics geek and responds to Merlin’s magical ring, he tries his best to make David his apprentice and teach him the ways of controlling magic.
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