The Academy of Magic

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.

Animation is poor, script inelegant and the ending is awful.

My 4 year old enjoyed it in 3 parts but hasn't mentioned it since.

As excited as I was for something about magic, this made me consider suicide. Animation was poor, story was terrible, and characters plain and shallow. For 12 Million Budget you would expect something with depth and an actual try to make it good, while this was just an poor attempt at Something? that wasn't even okay. Do not give this a watch unless you are high or drunk.

Story is fine but the animation is not great. Suitable only for kids and even they may struggle given the high quality of alternative animations available. Overall I wouldn't recommend.

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.