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To be perfectly honest, the trailer looked typical Disney that combines fiction with reality just with live-action, not animation. I am not really a great big fan of live-action Disney films although there have been fantastic Disney live-action films over the years such as Pirates Of The Caribbean, Enchanted, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and few others but I am afraid to say that this is one of their weakest live-action films. Understandably, Disney try to take you to an enchanting world or to mix fiction with reality as I said but this wasn't gripping to hold on to and also it wasn't even fun to watch because the dialogue was so cheesy and unrealistic although the effects were fantastic.
Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protégé. The sorcerer gives his unwilling accomplice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and together, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces of darkness. It'll take all the courage Dave can muster to survive his training, save the city and get the girl as he becomes The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Jay Baruchel may have played the main character in How To Train Your Dragon but his performance as Dave in The Sorcerer's Apprentice is absolutely appalling! He brought nothing new to a character who has been dragged into magic and his life being changed forever. He was just another hopeless, teenage muppet who has absolutely no character whatsoever. I mean, with that girl that Dave met, I literally thought when they saw each other that she's gonna get herself involved and they're gonna end up kissing and guess what? To my shock horror, they did! The entire film was stupidly predictable! Nicolas Cage hasn't been a fantastic actor for quite a while (only just managed to create his breakthrough in Kick-Ass) but in all fairness to him, I don't think he was that awful in this one than he has been before in the past. Alfred Molina has portrayed a villain in pretty much every fantasy/sci-fi film that he has been involved in (let's not forget his fantastic portrayal of Dr. Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus) and I actually liked him in this one which did surprise me a lot. That is probably the best quality that the film had besides the effects despite the film overall was crap.
Jon Turterltaub, I'll give you credit: you did a decent job with both National Treasure films which are also produced by Disney but I'm sorry but this was just in a word; fail. You really need to wise up and make films that are actually entertaining and are gripping to the audience, not this extremely predictable, soppy and daft shit. I mean, I am usually really into fictional fantasy films that involve magic, magical creatures and objects etc but the characters within this film just didn't work for me at all. The script was crazy! I mean, one minute there is archaeology discussion then there's babbling on about wizards then about teenage lovers at school and so on and the lines that they come out with is like disgustingly hilarious!
Overall, The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a crap film that I really did not like and one that I wouldn't call an example just for entertainment. Nicolas Cage, you can do so much better! The effects were obviously brilliant but pretty much everything else was just shit. One of the worst films of 2010.
