The Sorcerer's Apprentice rekalled...

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is Disney's newest magic based attempt to capture the children and tween Harry Potter fan market and start a new franchise. I, for one, hope that this movie isn't allowed to graduate to master or grandmaster from apprentice. I am not interested in any more of this. An uneven film that doesn't seem to know what it really wants to be. Starring Nicolas Cage, who gives a decent performance, and Jay Baruchel who becomes increasingly annoying the more screen time he is given. A fine performance by Alfred Molina is wasted as well, he doesn't seem to give a bad performance. The film seems to straddle a buddy film and a youth struggling to realize his true place and not giving either enough time to develop into something enjoyable. Sometimes it feels like a Nicolas Cage film and his backstory may be interesting but then we have to put up with the whiny and predictable story of the sorcerer's apprentice. Jay Baruchel's should be regulated to sidekick duty because his style get's old real fast. Over all a film that could have been much more and failed to be the couple of things it attempted.