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Eat Pray Love The Extra Man about us The Sorcerer's Apprentice more current releases » one-minute movie reviews About the site » BY ROGER EBERT / July 13, 2010 Site FAQs » Having seen "The Last still playing Airbender" gross untold Contact us » millions despite the worst cast & credits The A-Team reviews in many a year, I Accomplices Email the Movie confess myself discouraged Balthazar Nicolas Cage Agora Answer Man » at the prospect of reviewing Dave Jay Baruchel Best Worst Movie "The Sorcerer's Horvath Alfred Molina Apprentice." This is a much Becky Barnes Teresa Palmer Cell 211 on sale now better film than "Airbender," Veronica Monica Bellucci Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky which is faint praise, but it's Morgana Alice Krige Cropsey becoming clear that every Young Dave Jake Cherry Cyrus weekend brings another Merlin James A. 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If Morgana and Horvath escape, the Putty Hill planet will be doomed. They're as bad as BP. Ramona and Beezus Restrepo As the story opens, 10-year-old Dave (Jake Cherry) chases a stray love note as it blows through the mail slot of an ancient curiosity Salt shop in New York. This shop is chock-a-block with weird gimcracks Sex and the City 2 and presided over by Balthazar, who instantly intuits that young A Small Act Dave may have the potential to become the long-awaited Prime A Small Act Buy now » Merlinian: the great magician who can vanquish Morgana's forces Solitary Man once and for all. Something Better Somewhere Else The Sorcerer's Apprentice The purpose of this sequence is crystal clear: It's to establish the protagonist as a kid, before he grows for 10 years and becomes the Splice movie's hero (Jay Baruchel). That way grade-schoolers will identify Spoken Word with 20-year-old Dave. 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