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Ah, remakes…you all know how I feel about remakes. But my mother asked to see this movie as part of her birth­day cel­e­bra­tion so it was inevitable that this was one I would put money on. Let’s not for­get that this par­tic­u­lar remake is based on part of the 1940 clas­sic, Fan­ta­sia. How­ever ridicu­lous that sounds, One should not count out The Sorcerer’s Appren­tice as it is a very enjoy­able film, espe­cially for fam­ily view­ing. While I wouldn’t call it a buddy movie, Dis­ney man­ages a rel­a­tively solid film by pair­ing Nic Cage and Jay Baruchel. (con­tinue reading…)

Dis­ney has always had a phe­nom­e­nal track record with ani­mated fea­tures but their live action movies are always hit and miss. For every Pirates Of The Caribbean there is a Herbie:Fully Loaded or a Flub­ber to undo their mas­ter­pieces. Their newest fea­ture bor­rows from the famous Fan­ta­sia short “The Sorcerer’s Appren­tice” in name only. Nico­las Cage and Jay Baruchel play the duo of sor­cerer and appren­tice. While their chem­istry is there it does feel like Cage is just in it for the quick pay day to pay for his pyra­mid tomb. I think Dis­ney will put every effort into mak­ing this a fran­chise since Pirates is get­ting ready to wrap up.

Do you think hobo Nic Cage and the nerd from every teen angst movie in the last six months have the tools to make this film successful?

So how I don’t see that happening!

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