The Sorcerers Apprentice Movie Review

Yesterday I went out with my friends and we saw a movie at the local theater. So today my post is going to be a review of the movie we saw.

*Slight Spoiler Alert*

The Sorcerers Apprentice

Cast:

Nicolas Cage as Balthazar Blake: A sorcerer who is over a thousand years old who was once an apprentice of Merlin and becomes the mentor of Dave.
Jay Baruchel as Dave Stutler: An average college student who becomes the reluctant apprentice of Balthazer and is the Prime Merlinian.
Jake Cherry as Young Dave Stutler
Alfed Molina as Maxim Horvath: The evil sorcerer who is Balthazar's main rival and is trying to release the even more evil sorceress Morgana from her imprisonment in the Grimhold.

Teresa Palmer as Becky Barnes: Dave's Love interest.
Peyton R. List as Young Becky
Toby Kebbell as Drake Stone: A celebrity illusionist/sorcerer whom Horvath enlists to help steal back the Grimhold.
Omar Benson Miller as Bennett: Dave's roomate
Monica Belluccia as Veronica: A Sorceress who is the long lost love of Balthazar and imprisoned Morgana in her body when so she could be put in the Grimhold
Alice Krige as Morgana Le Fay: The evil sorceress who tried to take over the world and Merlin Greatest enemy
James A. Stephens as Merlin: The Legendary Wizard killed by Horvath and Morgan in 740 A.D.

Summary

The movie started with a prologue about how Merlin was killed, Morgana and Veronica were imprisoned and why Balthazar is still alive now, to find the Prime Merlinian. It then fast forwards to the year 2000 A.D. to a field trip for the main character, Dave Stutler, in 4th grade. Dave follows a note from his crush about whether she likes him or not that got blown in the wind. He follows it to a store owned by Balthazar. Balthazar sees him and on a whim has him try on the dragon ring. Which morphs into a ring for him which proves he is the prime merlinian. Balthazar then leaves for a minute to find a book for him. Dave however accidently releases Horvath from the outer layer of the grimhold. Balthazar and Horvath fight in a battle that ends leaving them both ending up imprisoned for 10 years in an urn and Dave seemingly crazy. Fast Forward again to the year 2010. Dave is now a physics student at New York University. Now that the 10 years are up Balthazar and Horvath both escape from the urn and Balthazar finds Dave and makes him his apprentice after being attacked by Horvath in Chinatown. Now Dave must learn how to be a sorcerer, get the girl and Save the World!

The Good

I thought the story line was great it was funny at the right parts and serious at the right parts. I enjoy movies about magic and I think the special effects were pretty good. The acting was also pretty good. My favorite character would have to be Drake Stone. He served as good comic relief for the evil side. Also the relationship between Dave and Balthazar seemed realistic.

The Bad

I don't think there were many bad parts. Somethings didn't make sense to me however. Like the Grimhold. If each layer held a person who tried to free Morgana shouldn't Horvath have been in the second to last layer not the outer layer. I would like to think that after they imprisoned Morgana they would have imprisoned Horvath at the same time. Also how Horvath found Drake Stone didn't make much sense to me. He just went to some food cart guy and showed him a symbol and the guy commented how he hadn't seen it in a long time. Who was this guy and how did he know about sorcerers and how did he live so long?

The Verdict

On the whole I really liked this movie so I give it 4 out of 5 Stars.

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