Movie Review: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

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Synopsis: This movie was pretty good. It's about a sorcerer named Balthazar who used to work for Merlin. When Merlin was killed by Morgana Le Fay with the help of Balthazar's friend, Morgath, the other friend, Veronica, sacrificed herself to save B. She did that by way of somehow trapping Morgana inside of her. While Merlin was dying, he told B that he needed to find the Prime Merlinian, because B captured Morgana/Veronica (his love interest) in a nesting doll thing along with Morgath.

B lives for a long time trying to find the Prime Merlinian but can't find one. He will know who it is when the dragon ring attached to the persons finger. Then 9-year-old Dave Stutle comes into B's shop by accident because he dropped a note that asked a girl if she wanted to be his girlfriend or friend. After B put the ring on Dave, he goes to get something, and tells Dave not to touch anything. Dave does and releases Morgath. The nesting doll has been building up of the past whatever-thousand years and it has all the sorcerers that were Morgana Followers.

Dave runs out of the shop and ten years pass. Then he meets with B again and has to become a sorcerer's apprentice to destroy Morgana.

Good things: Dave really cares about the girl that he loves, his long time crush, Becky. He's really sweet to her and she's really sweet to him. One time when he messes up the date she tells him that she's not going to hate him after one messed up date. Dave has a kind of goofy optimistic air and B doesn't, so I think they both learn from each other. 


Bad things: There is more occult/witchcraft stuff in this movie than in all the Harry Potter books combined. It's freaky at sometimes. They portray the harmful, evil magic as bad, but it's still a little over the top for a Disney movie. I think there's one scene where Dave's roommate is alone with a girl in his apartment in a date filled with candles and flowers. But there's nothing shown that would be a yellow flag.


Things you should watch out for: When Merlin dies, it's a little bit creepy and the part when Morgana comes out of the nesting doll is pretty evil looking. Dave says something about Becky saying something that's "really sexy.".

Overall: 
I would rate this 4/5 stars

I think it's for ages 9 and up

I think that it's a good movie, but it won't matter too much if you miss it. It's not a good sister movie though, unless you're into guys with dry humor and the occasional blond girl. :) I would say skip it for a girl sleepover, but it's as fun family movie.

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Hello girls,
Sorry we've been kind of MIA lately. We're finishing up school and classes and getting everything in order for summer. We'll try to post more often after it's really summer and we got more time on our hands :).

But, so this post isn't completely boring, we're providing you with a glimpse into what posts we're going to be doing:

• Song of the month
• Sister Recipes
• Book/movie reviews
• Fun sister activities
• Sister interviews (we hope)
• Sister games
• Sister stories about us
• Typecasts

So that's all for now, we'll be posting back hopefully over the weekend. Or sooner. Maybe....

Book Review: The Penderwicks

Now, I know that one of you has already read the Penderwicks, but just in case there are any blog spy-ers or book review lookers, we are still writing a review.

Now this book:

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Is about four sisters (Rosalind, 12, Skye, 11, Jane, 10 and Batty, 4) who don't have a mother and, for summer vacation, go to a mansion called Arundel and meet a very nice boy with a very annoying mother. Because this book is about sisters and these sort of stories always go like this, the four girls have a lot of fun and many adventures. But we aren't here to tell you the plot of the book, that's for you to find out for yourself, we are here to tell you why you should read it! So here we go.

Danni: So why should they read it?

Andi: Because it's like an old book, it's all sweet and innocent, but it was only written in 2005 so it has the modern touches.

Danni: Right. I also think that they should read it because it's not too long and would make a good read-aloud, it's pretty much for all ages. Though I do warn you that the oldest sister, Rosalind, has a creepy crush on the garden helper, Cagney.

Andi: Cagney is a terrible name.

Danni: I agree.

Andi: If there were one thing you could change about this book, what would it be?

Danni: I think I would take out how annoying Skye is sometimes. What about you?

Andi: I agree, but I think I would also take out more of the awkward moments.


Danni: Like what?


Andi: I wish that the author spread out the information more. I would also take out a bit of Rosalind's creepy crush.

Danni: I think a lot of 12 year old's have creepy crushes.

Andi: Yeah, but it's weird because she keeps talking about her friend (Anna) and what she would say and we never even meet the friend.

Danni: Point taken. Anyway, this book is really good an definitely worth a go. If you could pick an actress to play one of the girls, who would you pick?

Andi: Ooh that's hard.

Danni: I think we should make a post devoted to that.

Andi: I agree, but let's give them a sneak-peek.

Danni: That's what I was going to say!

Andi: Well, let's give it to them for one character.

Danni: Okay, which one?

Andi: How about a minor character. What about Cagney?

Danni: Okay.

We agree that this guy, Max Thieriot, would be a very good Cagney. He's 22 and Cagney's 19. Not a bad difference, of course he'd need a baseball cap. Hehe.

So that's our sneak-peek, get ready for the rest in the not-so-distant-future.


Danni: So, overall stars for the book, what do you think?

Andi: Um... probably four.


Danni: Out of five? I agree.

Andi: It would have been five, but there wasn't a lot of action.

So that's our review! Comment telling us what you think!