It's at this point the movie starts and
you get to learn about all this stuff all over again.
Cue the snoring!
This is just one
example of the wobbly scripting that holds back what could, and should, have been a
fun film.
Instead The Sorcerer's Apprentice leaves viewers with a collection
of mis-matched puzzle pieces and not much of an idea how they are
supposed to fit together.
On the plus side, once the story gets going The Sorcerer's Apprentice is fairly straightforward.
Merlin's sole surviving good apprentice
Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage) has spent the last thousand years
looking for someone who can finally defeat Le Fay’s evil. Unfortunately when it turns out to be 10 year old New Yorker
"Dave", things start to go horribly wrong and Blake ends up trapped with his
arch-enemy Horvath (Alfred Molina) for over a decade.
Actually, even that
part isn't all that straightforward, though when Blake is re-united
with the now skittish 20 year old Dave (Jay Baruchel) things do settle
down a bit. Science nerd Dave gets some heavy-duty magical training,
while having to fend off various bad guys, and try to strike up an
unlikely relationship with Becky (Teresa Palmer).
But then things get
incoherent again!
You are better off focusing on the decent
performances from Cage and Baruchel. They are both cast firmly to type
here, but they’re good at being crazy and nerdy respectively, and
together they go a long way towards making this mess watchable.
But the
story is such a mess than in the end nothing here sticks : while there
seems to be a lot going on, it is hard to care about any of it.
And if
you're not going to care, why bother at all? DVD Special Features
With a production budget of over $160M and a marketing budget to match, Sorecer's Apprentice was the second major flop for Disney and the films producer in 2010 (that other flop being Prince of Persia) with the film only managing just over $60M in the USA... saved only by $150M in ticket sales worldwide.
Therefore - extras are a little skint.
What we've got here is "The Making Of The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and a sole Deleted Scene "Balthazar Recruits Dave".
Hardly a major sales point, but then again, either is the movie.
Conclusion - Movie: 50% Extras: 50%
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