two movie review

two quick reviews of movies that I saw over the last couple days.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963966/): Usual story, kid is destined to save the world found and recruited by an ancient sorcerer while being pursued by forces of evil. Luckily the characters were amusing enough with quips, wit and puns to make the movie interesting and appealing. A couple minor things that had me scratching my head and asking questions (much to the hatred of my movie watching friends) but not big enough ones to kill the movie. Plus the movie had the music and scene from Fantasia with the sorcerer and all. Was pretty amusing. Not a bad movie but definitely not a jaw dropping summer stealer.

Step Up 3D (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193631/) : rag tag dancers join up to beat a rival dance group for title of best dance crew. Not really much to say about this movie except from what I saw the actors in this movie are definitely not 'triple threats'. Triple threat defined as an actor that is equally excellent in dancing, singing and acting. All the people in this movie are definitely great dancers but definitely not acting but since they didnt do any singing will reserve judgement on that account. This movie definitely relied on the 3D effect to make the movie more than what it really was. They went all out with the tricks of throwing things at the audience and dancing 'in your face' style. I found it really distracting more than enjoying because I find that the dance is not just the lead character but a group of people all moving together to make a matching wave of people to the music. Having one person standing in front of me flashing their hands in my face made me want to lean back and try to look behind them to what the rest of the dancers were doing. The one thing that I can say definitely about this movie is that the 3D technology is getting so great and advanced now that just watching the movie made me uncomfortable as the actors on the screen felt like they were invading my personal body bubble space.