Jerry Bruckheimer, Nicolas Cage and Disney have created the beginnings of a possible new franchise (a la Pirates of the Caribbean) with The Sorcerer's Apprentice. As with most Hollywood films, if the premier weekend doesn't break records or surpass a certain level it won't garner any additional love from the Studio that created it. Unfortunately, the potential has been shelved.
Any movie with a magical and size-changing book makes me happy! |
In all, this is a fun movie to watch with the whole family. There is plenty of humor and the main cast of the film create a sensible and likeable group. I have to admit that I really loved Alfred Molina as the arch-nemesis Maxim Horvath. He played a delightfully charming and malicious villain to Cage's more sympathetic and engaging character.
With the Harry Potter movie franchise drawing to a close, Disney has missed a potential series that will attract the teen and young adult audience. My youngest has been talking about the movie and I have seen him playing Sorcerer's Apprentice with a few of his toys. Is anyone listening?
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I took my 3 boys (15, 9 and 5) to see this in theater and they LOVED IT.
The younger two played Sorceror's Apprentice for a couple of weeks after, they even talked briefly about SA costumes for Halloween.
There is a ton of potential in this film!
Well, bummer, the Disney Movie Rewards web site is down. I called, and, if you try to login, you get a red error msg, something like 'disney.global.sdk.ApplicationException'. I called Customer Service and they are aware of the problem. No ETA. Bummer, b/c I wanted to print out coupons and watch Sorcerer's Apprentice w/ the kids tonite. Oh well.
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