"Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" is the latest Disney Channel original film. After two seasons of a tv show, "Wizards of Waverly Place" has it's own movie! Okay, so first of all, the tv show has very low standards, in my opinion. It's a very silly comedy, but the movie is the total opposite! Originally, when I heard about the series in 2007, I had hoped it would be a serious tv series. The movie is everything I could have wanted for the series, and more! The movie, along with the series, stars Selena Gomez as Alex Russo, and average teen who happens to be wizard. She and her family own a sandwich shop in a new york city substation. Her older brother, Justin, played by David Henry, is the intelligent, responsible child. Max, her younger brother, played by Jake T. Austin, is just like any other immature tween, but can sometimes make sense of things. Now at first I wasn't sure why they needed a movie so early in the series, then, I heard about the plot! In the tv show, it's said that the three wizard siblings will one day have to battle in a wizard's tournament, for only one wizard of every family can keep their powers. And of course, the winner of the tournament get to keep their powers! Disney channel led us to believe that this was going to be a silly movie about a family of wizards who take a summer vacation to the place where the parents, Jerry and Theresa Russo, played by David Deliuse and Maria Canals Barrera, first met, a Caribbean Paradise. Of course a problem has to occur, Alex Russo, accidentally casts a spell wishing that her parents had never met. (This was after her mother wouldn't allow her to go to a beach party). The next thing you know, the parents have never met, nor do they remember any of the kids, and unless the three wizards can find a way to reverse the spell, the Russo family will never exist, and they'll disappear! Towards the end of the movie, after the wizards fail to get "The Stone of Dreams", they decide to head to battle in the Wizard Tournament that will give one of the full powers to reverse the spell. I was actually glad to see the movie was good for something... to find out which wizard get to keep their powers! I will say that one wizard does indeed win the competition, but nothing good lasts for long! I was very disappointed in the ending, but over all, this was probably my favorite Disney Channel movie of the year! If only the series were as good! It was silly, well, not as silly as the show, it had great special effects, well, better special effects than the show, and it had a nice moral about sticking together as a family!
