Reviews

Excellent. It would have been great even without the magic. The relationship between the characters was real and everything was more grounded. There was a genuine level of care between the characters as opposed to the shows now. I love Alex's character. It was nice because although she was the main character she wasn't as Disney Channel perfect as most of the other main characters. In the end she always ended up doing the right thing, which usually involved helping her brother Justin. Unlike Disney shows today all the characters, except for Max, had moments that were not all about the humor and instead about friendship and other things like that. Disney needs to learn that even if the whole show isn't based entirely around humor, it can be (and was) funnier than shows like ANT Farm where everything that happens, happens to make kids laugh (and still not actually be that funny). Also it's not as random, which is refreshing. In shows like ANT Farm, their problems are solved by doing random, unrealistic and impossible things. In Wizards most problems are not solved by magic but by the characters getting along at the end and helping each other out.

The only halfway decent show on Disney Channel now is Good Luck Charlie. The plot of this show is that 11 year olds are in a high school which is something no one can relate to. The writing is bad there are nearly no jokes. The only 2 characters I like are Paisley and Lexi, because although she's unrealisticly evil it is funny to watch. They do the one thing that kids comedy are known for and thats have someone get hurt and then laugh at it. It teaches kids bad lessons if anything happens to someone in real life. For instance in one episode a cement block was dropped on Fletcher's foot and the whole time he's screaming no one is helping him. Olive is a jerk to everybody in almost every episode, and I have no idea why people like her. Also most of the episodes have endings that don't rap up the story (although the story is never continued). For instance in the Christmas special, when their principal is taking advantage of them, they just give up. In PatANT Pending, Olive never apologizes and in Ballet DANTser, it ends with the evil little girl just hunting down Fletcher. Lastly, if Chyna and Olive are supposedly Fletcher's friends, it amazes me how they are always mean to him (except for one episode, but then only Chyna is being nice then anyway). Whenever something bad happens to him they just laugh and ignore it. What great friends you are. Overall I think they need new writers and more real jokes instead of not funny filler jokes. Olive's character needs a complete remodeling, though I think Angus is kind of cute sometimes.