The Legend of The Five

 Time for an australian made family fantasy flick this afternoon, and so we selected The Legend of The Five.

 

Now, this movie only seems to score around 50% on most rating sites, so it might be a hidden gem or a railway disaster, let's find out! 

 

So basically this is your average, thirteen in a dozen teenage fantasy movie.  Five high school students, all with their varied character traits (the jock, the nerd, the beauty,... you know the tropes) go on a school trip and end up in a fantasy world due to twiddling with some artifact.

 

In their, they are bestowed with powerful elemental abilities and recruited by an ancient tree spirit to save the world from the Sorceress, an ancient evil.  However, this Sorceress turns out to be their teacher and she gains the assistance of the lead character, Zoe, misguiding her to bring down the barriers.  She nearly succeeds in this, but by the power of friendship is stopped in the end...

 

Nothing to fancy there as such, means we are getting that sort of amusing but not standing out sunday afternoon family movie.   The acting and the effects aren't to bad considering the budget on these sorts of films, but it brings like totally nothing new or innovative to the movie table.

 

Does this warrant it's low rating?  Probably for a large part, though it is not because the movie is bad, it's just, well, "there".