Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

mark.waltz Moderately entertaining, this fantasy of evil traveling 1500 years to the big Apple is mixed to the core. Fortunately, it's a story of good first evil but as its is center around Hollywood obsession with black magic, it gets to be weather disturbing in spots. At least history is used, with the legendary magician Merlin at the center of the opening of the film we're good and evil are locked together in some sort of mythical bottle and end up in modern- day New York in the hands of a troubled youngster who find himself humiliated in front of his classmates when he encounters good and evil magicians in a building and ends up coming out looking like he's with his pants. Ten years go by, and he is apparently back to normal, sorcerers both good and evil are after him for completely different reasons.Nicolas Cage represents good while Alfred Molina is definitely on the side of the dark hearts, desperate to get his hands on the bottle that contains the spirit of sorceress Morgan La Fey, the thistle in the side of Merlin during the King Arthur era. So with magic both black and white going all over Manhattan in order to keep Le Fey from escaping in order to bring out all the evil dead back to destroy the world, Cage becomes mentor towards Merlin's alleged descendant who has the common sense of a central park pigeon.This is OK family fare for ages 10 up, it gets rather silly at times, leaving adults often looking at their watches. It also gets rather repetitive, seemingly taking forever to get to its conclusion. Dozens of similar movies have dominated the big screen since the beginning of the millennium, and this is no better or worse than the mist mediocre. A tribute to the sequence in "Fantasia" is most obviously the highlight. Otherwise, this is just formula fluff with little point.

leo_kade Nicolas Cage cant act and he ruins every movie he has ever been in! Ben Affleck is way worse but I'm sure the list could go on for a very long time. Wish he hadn't destroyed the sorcerers apprentice! WOW and I have to write more about how this guy sucks plays no emotions as I have to have so many words to post... ill say it again he sucks at acting! holy they want ten lines of text.... hopefully this works... because I don't know how to write anything more... about how much he sucks... also ghost rider was destroyed by him! I wont waste my time watching season of the witch because it looks to painful. Doubt I will waste another minute of my life watching a movie with him in it!

Ed from a "Merlinian" of sorts: OK, only because of my narrated Symphony no. 1 (Idylls of the King about King Arthur) on You Tube in which Merlin is a character.Both Nic Cage and Jay Baruchel ham it up predictably with the latter in the Mickey Mouse role; See the broom sequence with its brief quotation from Paul Dukas' composition of the same name. (He doesn't really outact Mickey though!) Alfred Molina, an admirable man in real life is the effective baddie here.The acting is mostly non-existent but what does anyone expect from a Disney film since the Disneys specialize in often very pretty teenagers of both genders who can't act. (The main heroine also is strictly generic.) The plot throughout is far-fetched but this is also expected under the same circumstances!You will go out humming the special effects!

Gian-luca Pietro Gangemi I saw the trailer to this film a while ago, it really didn't appeal to me I thought it would be pretty rubbish, but I am happy to report that I really enjoyed this film (aside from the beginning part that seemed a bit paedophilic) Nicolas cage is in fact one of my favourite actors purely because he's insane. He's played some rather diverse characters in his films and in all of them i've found a huge amount of entertainment whether it be trapping people in a pot or punching women in the face. There are a great many things I can talk about this movie relating to its attributes and ideas but I am only going to list a select few that are rather dominant. My very favourite one about the film is it's concept of magic. I loved how they mixed in magic and science together. The idea of using 100% of your brain to be able to produce acts of science like vibrating molecules faster to create fire. It makes magic in a way seem less fiction and more 'real'. The magic itself and how it looks is also pretty well done, I think dragon ball evolution could definitely learn a thing or two from balthazar's plasma bolt.The fantasia reference in this film was great, I absolutely loved that sequence. Nostalgia rushed through my blood and a large joker like smile appeared on my face so I would like to thank the film makers for that moment. I felt like a child again.I think the casting was very well chosen. Alfred Molina and Jay Baruchel along with the Cage was a fantastic mix. I do wish though, that Jay Baruchel would stop playing his usual useless, weak and socially awkward character- as much as it plays to his advantage in the film as he is meant to be an 'unlikely' candidate to be from merlin's bloodline- it would be nice for him to try and play a stronger and more diverse role. Molina very much succeeds in being the main antagonist of this film bringing a certain amount of empathy with the character making him more of a character that you shouldn't like but somehow do.There are a few questionable performances like in the beginning when there is a battle between Merlin and Morgana, and I do believe the narrator was not compelling enough nor very interesting to listen to. The magic powers were epic but I believe the explanation of how to use them was very brief, I do think there should have been a more in depth discussion about them in order to really make them believable.In summary I was not expecting this to be good but what the expectation allowed me to do was to unexpectedly enjoy the film. The tone, the CGI, the performance, they were all extremely well done obviously no film is perfect there were a few things wrong but apart from this it was a very good film to watch. I would definitely recommend it to someone if they couldn't think of something to watch. Cheers for this delight Disney! Please do more films like this and if possible don't ruin this film with a sequel!!