A fantasy driven adventure from Disney with Nicolas Cage at the helm. Cage has done a lot of bad films over the recent years and seems to only take direct to video roles, but this style of film was a switch for him and favorably so.Balthazar Blake (Cage) an apprentice under merlin with two others is a master sorcerer and in modern day New York to search for the next master. Balthazar comes across a young boy Dave (Jay Baruchel) and finds he is next in line in the bloodline of Merlin. So forth comes the immediate training of sorcery to Dave as they battle Balthazar's former friend now arch rival Horvath (Alfred Molina). The special effects and magic sequences really drive the film and the CGI is patterned perfectly. The pairing of Cage and Baruchel is fun, witty and comedic in many cases, while Molina brilliantly plays the antagonist. The film is a fun day for the family to sit through and enjoy. I give it a 7 out of 10

The CG for its time is quite poor. Plot is super predictable, acting is way sub par, and the use of Nic Cage is minimal which is my biggest concern honestly. At any rate, It's not hard to see why it has 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, and I couldn't agree with them more.

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!

So this movie was inspired by the Fantasia cartoon, The Sorcerer's Apprentice? Why? Is screen writing really as difficult as Hollywood makes it out to be? Surely many many other writers were able to create better scripts that this movie's script. I felt like I had already seen this movie long before I ever did, Nic Cage in a bad wig, Disney seemingly selling me jailbait yet again, a plot that consists of name- dropping and C.G.I. effects... A movie that's sole purpose of being made was to enable the movie's producers to sleep with young naive actresses, well, and probably a few young but not so naive actresses in addition, allegedly. Sex is where babies come from.