Reviews of The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2010
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Not even Cage - let me repeat that for emphasis - NOT EVEN NICHOLAS CAGE (caps lock too, now you know I'm serious) in full swing could save this movie.
In fact, I don't even know whether it was the script or the acting that was worse. I've seen Jay Baruchel in a few different movies now, playing a range of "that skinny dweeby character" type roles, or variations thereof, and I've never had a problem with him. But seriously,…
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Way better than I was expecting. Say what you want about Nicolas Cage but he never phones it in. However silly the role is, he gives it his best shot in his typically Cageian way.
Jay Baruchel is great in this too, Michael Cera should watch his back cause they've both still got a few years to snatch up all those 'awkward nerd' roles.
This has universally bad reviews on this site, but it's a kids film, i's fun, it has Nicolas Cage riding a steel eagle while wearing a fedora. I couldn't ask much more of it.
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There's nothing particularly new in Jon Turteltaub's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, but that don't stop it from being a well-made and mostly enjoyable film. It may not have the distinction of being very memorable by year's end but it is perfectly harmless popcorn fare that is highlighted by a good performance by Nicolas Cage as the sorcerer Balthazar. The story is self-aware of its own derivative nature and pokes itself for it, which takes some of the air out of the…
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Collaborating once again after the muck that was National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Turteltaub has cast a doggy-eyed Cage in his craptastic movie which has the jittery incompetence of a dodgy arcade game. Even in the opening sequence, its action set piece is choreographed in silly, skittish and laughable idiosyncrasy. Being a Jerry Bruckheimer production as well, his sensibility makes dense do of the place. If we're in New York City, let's find a number of noisily elaborate ways to…
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40% ripe from critics but 71% ripe from real movie goers sounds about right. I always listen more to the RT community than critics that pick movies apart too much in my opinion. I give this movie an 8 out of 10. It is a solid summer movie that is energetic, funny, imaginative and entertaining!
Is it on the level of a Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings for a movie with magic in it? No. But for what…
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I have been searching all over the world for you. You're going to be a force for good and a very important sorcerer. But for now, you're my apprentice.
-BalthazarThe movie is filled with dialogue like that. It's nothing horrible, it gets the job done , but at the end of the day it's nothing memorable either.
Everyone does a decent job with the roles their given, the film looks professional it's just nothing special. It's kinda surprising considering what they could have done with this. The best thing I can say is that there's nothing truly horrible in the movie.
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actually not that bad - typical Nicolas Cage movie.
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