The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)

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	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure 1-2)
	Actors: Nicolas Cage (Knowing, Face-Off), Jay Baruchel (This is the End), Alfred Molina (Species, Spider-man 2)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: 26.02.2014, SD VOD, Home cinema
Synopsis: In spite of being a physicist, Dave (Baruchel) is the chosen one, destined to defeat the evil Morgana with help of the magician Balthazar (Cage), former apprentice of Merlin.
Review: In the middle of the movie there is a scene which is largely inspired from the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment from Disney's Fantasia (including the music), and I actually learned at the end of the credits that whole movie was inspired from the short cartoon! It belongs to the category of movies that explore a magical world hidden within our real world (secret societies of vampires and werewolves, super heroes that don't reveal themselves, ...), in that case it deals with pure magic, i.e. bending matter to one's will. The movie is entertaining but has some severe flaws like the intrusive music, the poor editing and the ellipses, the illogical reactions and the average actors. Nicolas Cage is actually very good in this role. Jay Baruchel looks like he was an acceptable replacement between Shia LaBoeuf (in Transformers) and Justin Long (in Die Hard 4). There are some nice elements however, like the Fantasia scene, or the whole sub-story with the famous TV magician. Special effects are also quite good.
Rating: 4 /10