The Academy of Magic

From a magic mark on the skin, to ginger twins, blond bully who picks on our heroine for being common,to an intimidating dark haired teacher, this is an unbelievably bad rip off of Harry Potter but with the animation of Paw Patrol. AVOID!!

The movie was such a blatant rip off of the Harry Potter series that I'm surprised they didn't get sued. You have the gifted child, an old headmaster with a beard, a sidekick with red hair, twin brothers with red hair and a blonde, arrogant antagonist. I wouldn't usually care but the animation was awful.

There are a million+ magical academia properties out there, and this film does not shine among them. Up until the climax, the film lacks any sort of interesting plot, and the animation is nothing special. There are also some minor distracting details (why are there only 7 students? Why is Susan's head bigger than everyone else's, literally speaking? How did Aura learn a spell from a book labelled "Grimm's Fairy Tales"?) that show how amateurish the production is. It would probably make an adequate TV series, the way it's written, but as a movie, it's just awkward. It DOES have good elements, but the writing is just so sloppy that it doesn't all come together in the end. The plot twist, in particular, just comes out of nowhere. In conclusion, the film will be entertaining enough for children, but it is by no means a "good" movie. The music is the most whimsical thing about it.

Honestly it's so blatant that this cartoon is ripping off Harry Potter that it's honestly a surprise they haven't been sued.

See if this sounds familiar. A young person is gifted with magic, has a very distinctive scar, goes to a magical academy where they learn magic, has a dark haired teacher that gives them a hard time for yet known reasons and there's a blond bully who bullies them for being "common". Oh and there's a dark secret there that this young person and her friends must uncover. It's Harry Potter but with a girl in the lead role. And if that wasn't enough she bears a striking resemblance to Anna from Disney's "Frozen".

The animation is second rate and looks more like something you'd find in a cheaply made cartoon... which this is. It's cheap. The animation, while not terrible and I've seen worse, isn't good.

Honestly this isn't a good movie by any stretch. Sure. Kids will probably like it but what can you do?

It's just not a good cartoon or story.

Also somebody, or a group of somebodies, have attempted to game the system by voting this a "9" en masse. Didn't work. It's still only 3.3 or thereabouts.

Estimated budget 12000000, I guess they blew it on coke and hookers, if so, well played, however, if this is an actual attempt at entertaining children, it seems misguided at best. The animation quality is terrible. The same pictures/sequences are used again and again. The voice acting is amateurish. A previous reviewer said something like "dont watch this unless your high or drunk" however I have to vehemently disagree (there are far better things to do while high or drunk ;) and say dont watch this until and unless some sick twisted serial killer is holding your wife and kids and forcing you to watch it to save them, and even then I would ask you to think twice.