Saphirblau

The film has the perfect ingredients for a nice young adult movie: magic, fantasy, well renowned German cast, excellent soundtrack, good storyline and romance.

We have seen it with other trilogies, it is not always easy to write the middle part in a trilogy but in my opinion it was successful, the film had a good pace and fans of the books will be delighted to see the story come alive on the big screen. The differences to the book are small and do not affect the story.

It is above all a movie for teenagers with a small budget but the producers have outdone themselves in my opinion and the movie is well worth watching.

Not having seen the first film I can judge this film only as a film in its own right and not as part of a saga of which this is the second chapter and I must say that doing this is difficult because as the second chapter it is tremendously linked to the first and without having given that understanding all the dynamics of this is impossible, for this reason I recommend watching the first chapter if you want to understand the plot of this one well which has neither a real beginning nor an end which in my opinion is treated in the next chapter being this a passing chapter and this is precisely the problem because the film has the air of a passing chapter of a series without anything too relevant that one could easily skip, for heaven's sake the film is also entertaining and not boring but it really has a plot that it doesn't have any kind of depth and really only seems passing through.

Being a fan of Sci-Fi movies, I looked at this one hoping to get a new approach of the "time travel" concept hoping for something new and appealing.

It appeared that this is a film for teenagers (I am retired) and is focused on the main character (the blue saphir) and all her problems with her boyfriend and her best friend.

Honnesty forces me to say that the realization (places, costumes, characters, and the little funny ghost) is very good but the plot is nowhere and no really clear to me. Not to mention that the film ends like crazy without knowing why it stops right there! I assume it is to introduce the next episode.

The romance continues between the two leads and its just as intense and exciting as in the first film. They argue, fall out and make up so much and it all seems so real. I liked the fight scenes (although they are not up to big budget hollywood standards). I loved the history hopping and the suitably dramatic ending that sets things up lovely for the final film. The cast are very attractive and once again the film moves along at such a pace that i forget that i'm watching in subtitles.

I have little gripes of course. The songs sung in english are a bit cringy. Aunt maddy is played way over the top and the Count St Germain needs to be played with much more villainy. Maybe his wickedness was toned tone because of the younger audience? No matter though as i thought overall the film was loads of fun and addictively watchable.

It may be the best movie to come after Ruby Red. Seriously, this series is legendary.