The House of Magic
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| Story by | Ben Stassen |
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| Music by | Ramin Djawadi |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | Belgium |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $33,004,091[1] |
The House of Magic (known in the United States as Thunder and The House of Magic) is a 2013 3D Belgian computer-animated fantasy-comedy film produced by Nadia Khamlichi, Adrian Politowski, Ben Stassen, Caroline Van Iseghem and Gilles Waterkeyn and directed by Jeremy Degruson and Ben Stassen. The film focuses on an abandoned young cat who seeks shelter in the home of an old, retired magician with his automatons and gizmos.
Plot
A woman opens her car's door and throws a toy on the sidewalk so that her cat chases after the toy. The cat, realizing that he has been abandoned by his owner, looks for a refuge. He comes to an old house with fame of cursed in the neighborhood. Trying to escape from it, he is threatened by a rabbit called Jack and a mouse called Maggie, ordering him to leave the house before Zoltar sees him. Zoltar, a nice old magician, finds the cat and decides to adopt him, naming him Thunder.
Thunder learns about the house, as well as the automatons and gizmos created by Zoltar for his magician's shows. Meanwhile, Jack and Maggie try by all ways to exile Thunder from the house, convinced that Thunder is a competence for Zoltar's attentions and that he is deceiving Zoltar to stay in the house and substitute them. When Zoltar suffers an accident and is sent to the hospital, Jack and Maggie convince Zoltar's creations about Thunder's guilt in the accident, and Thunder goes to find Zoltar to apologize.
With Zoltar in the hospital, his materialist and real estate agent, Daniel, who is also his nephew, tricks Zoltar into putting his house of magic up for sale, in order for Daniel to sell the house to the highest bidder. Discovering Daniel's trick, Thunder goes back home to alert Zoltar's gizmos and automatons, but Jack and Maggie try to exile him again. When Daniel comes home with one or two possible buyers, Thunder uses all tricks and cheats in order to prevent the house from being sold. Zoltar also discovers Daniel's deceit and tries to leave the hospital. Meanwhile, Thunder, Jack, Maggie and the rest of Zoltar's toys are in a race against the time to save the house before Daniel destroys it.
Cast
- Cinda Adams as Nurse Baxter
- George Babbit as Jack / Carlo / Zoltar
- Murray Blue as Thunder / Dylan
- Kathleen Gati (credited as Kathleen Browers) as Carla
- Joey Camen as Chihuahua
- Grant George as Daniel
- Shanelle Workman (credited as Shanelle Gray) as Maggie
- Nina Grillo as Audrey
- Kyle Hebert as Mark Matthews
- Goldie Jonsie as Old Lady
- Kendra Leif as Lasondra
- Joe Ochman (credited as Joey Lotsko) as Mr. Eames
- Millie Mup as Mrs. Eames
- Will Parks as Mike Matthews
- Sage Sommer as Izzy
- Michael Sorich as Crane Operator
- Doug Stone as Lawrence
- Joseph W. Terry as Reggie Willis
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Reception
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a score of 71% based on reviews from 28 critics, with the consensus: "Thunder and the House of Magic lacks real narrative depth, but its visual splendor offers sufficient compensation for younger viewers."[3] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 47 based on 13 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[4]
Box office
The film grossed $4,091 in the USA, plus $33,000,000 outside the USA, for a combined gross of $33,004,091.[1]
References
- 1 2 "The House of Magic (2013)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ↑ The House of Magic. Belga Films. 2013.
- ↑ "The House of Magic". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ↑ "The House of Magic Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved August 9, 2013.