Disney is a company that's not really known for doing reunion movies and so when it was announced that one of their most popular shows was getting a reunion movie alot of people myself included where rightfully hyped up. Well after finally watching this reunion movie for the first time in almost ten years I thought that now was the right tie to review this movie and so then join me as I review the movie that serves as the series finale for one of Disney Channels most popular TV shows with the film in question being called simply just "The Wizards Return: Alex Vs. Alex" enjoy.
The plot of this movie is Wizard Alex Russo casts a spell to remove all of her negative parts but when her evil self escapes and helps in a plan to take over the world Alex has to save the world and her family before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty pretty good but at the same time it just felt like a rip off of several plots from the show itself and nothing really more then that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is one of this film executive producers Selena Gomez as Alex Russo / Evil Alex and Jake T. Austin as Max Russo. Aldo starring in this film is Jennifer Stone as Harper Finkle , Gregg Sulkin as Mason Greybeck , Beau Mirchoff as Dominic , Maria Canals Barrera as Theresa Russo , David DeLuise as Jerry Russo , Natalia Noculich as Carmela , Antonella Lentini as Francesca and Jack Donner as Papa Fabrizio.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With all of this films cast doing there best to make this films script work for them the issue that I have is the fact that this films script gives none of the characters returning or new nothing to work with interms of their characters personalities and so the actors can't really turn in anything more then an OK performance because the script just won't allow for it.
Try as I might I really can't find who did the GI for this film which is shame because I really did like this films CGI. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about thew actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good and was alot better then the CGI that we got in the show and what really helped to sell the CCGI for me personally was the camera angles all of which feel really cinematic and really help to sell the CGI in this film.
When most shows do a reunion movie it's usually been at least a decade if not more since the last episode. This show however decided to wait a little over a year before releasing this reunion movie which was a huge mistake since there isn't enough time for nostalgia for the show to form since the final episode had only just finished airing and so I really do feel that it would have been better if the makers behind this reunion film waited at the very least five years to make this film since then there can be some nostalgia starting to form for the show.
There is a reason as to why we only see the main living room set in this movie and that's the fact that Jessie had since taken over the sound stage where Wizards Of Waverly Place was filmed. With every set from Wizards being destroyed and so they only had enough budget to really rebuild the main living set which is why we get to see it alot in this film even when they do a transition they transition back to the same set which really does make this film feel alot more smaller and a little bit more claustrophobic when compared to even the show itself.
As with pretty much all of the specials that this TV series produced this one has quite alot of action in it. So much so that you really could make the case for this film being an action comedy and I have to admit that the action wasn't all that bad except you can quite clearly tell when they were using body doubles since they go to great lengths to cover up one characters face which really did take me out of the special since all it was remind me that I was watching a film and that is something that shouldn't be the case at all.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty eight minuets and forty seconds. Which was oddly enough a bit on the short side for a story like this one I say since there quite clearly isn't alot of story there since it just boils down to the typical plot that these typical Wizards specials have but at the same time tho given the reunion aspect of this film you also could have stretched this movie even by ten or so minuets just so that we the audience could catch up with the characters from the TV show and see where those characters are now with their lives and see what those returning characters are now up to.
So now then since this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. I'm not going to lie and say that the show had great comedy because for the most part that's not true but even when the show wasn't all that funny it was still telling better jokes then the ones that we got in this film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while i'm glad to have finally reviewed something from this truly iconic Disney Channel franchise I just wish that I had chosen to review Wizards Of Waverly Place The Movie instead of this one since from what I can remember that's a better movie then this one is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition and a special thanks to Youtuber Keyan Carlile who did a whopping eight hour plus retrospective on this entire show including both of the movies which inspired me to finally check out and review this movie and so if you all have a spare eight and half hours I highly recommend that you check out his two part video retrospective on the entire Wizards Of Waverly Place Tv series and the films as well since both videos are that good.