The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes

As I was watching this movie I got more and more aware there were so many similarities to Harry Potter and the Sorcerers/Philosphers Stone. I understand there are a number of films that have similar ideas of magic to Harry Potter but this seems to repeatedly hint at HP throughout. A stone that can bring about the return to dark times if the evil guy gets hold of it. A caretaker that is similar to Mr Filch (but not as mean) Three children getting together - the main character, one a ginger haired werewolf and the other a girl - very similar to Harry, Ron and Hermoine. Going through a dangerous forest to access the school/town (Forbidden Forest) A dog guarding the Forbidden Library (like Fluffy guards the room to the Sorcerers Stone - and a forbidden library like "The Restricted Section"). If you like the Harry Potter films I'm quite sure you'll enjoy this and see so many similarities! The language in the show has been dubbed to English and watching the lips you can see the mouths not always following the words, also there are a number of times in the show where there are signs on buildings and rooms in what appears to be Dutch (Verboten Bibliotheek for example - Forbidden Library) but overall it's a good film.

I love this and especially the actors. The actors are great I love them. I love the story 😍😍😍😍😍. I cant wait to see part 2 of this movie I thought this movie was realesded ages ago but it was only realesded 2020. That means part 2 will be only realesded maybe few more years later.

Horrible dubbing! I would rather read the books, then, the only lips moving will be mine and in sync with the book! 🤣 If the dubbing and acting was better then I could see it being a cool movie. The one boy, (the redhead) his dubbed voice is horrible. Other movies with dubbing and acting are worthy, not this one.

A solid movie with magic sprinkled in for the 7 to 10 audience, plus an added coat of slapstick and cringe jokes. If Rowling sued for infringement on her Potter books, i am not 100% sure she would lose that case. This is an adaptation of one of Wolfgang Hohlbein books, and there is four others about this world alone, as he have written over 200 fantasy books, i am happy his books finally end up as movies, but instead of wasting so much time on quirky humor and cringe moment, this movie had been better by chisel out more of the world they live in. We see very little of the side characters, and the school in general. They make a huge deal of the main characters different weaknesses and how they have to overcome them, when they all can get rid of them at the nearest place that sell medicine, for cheap, btw, as this is in Europe. In the end it is hard to figure out what they wanted the movie to be, to few jokes to be a comedy, not enough happening for it to be action, no romance or development of feelings for a family movie, a couple of riddles is also not enough to make it a mystery movie - in the end, it is ( perhaps due to low budget ?) a movie where some stuff happens. Even the big finale is kind of , meh. If you babysit children age 5 - 10, this is perfect to make them sit still for 90 minutes, the rest of us kan skip it without thinking we have missed something.