What the HELL is The Academy of Magic? (a TERRIBLE Harry Potter RIPOFF) 

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"ANNA, DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME INTO THE GOBLET OF RIPOFFS!?" Elsa asked calmly

Elsa gets put into youtube videos with Spiderman, Anna gets put movies with Harry Potter.

Hearing Saber recapping this "movie" is like hearing your drunk friend recapping Harry Potter from memory and getting *several* things wrong

17:38 Jokes aside, a seemingly innocent campus statue being revealed to be someone who was actually turned to stone is actually a pretty neat plot twist (the execution of it in this movie, however, not so much lol)

Her becoming the headmaster as a reward for defeating the bad guy despite having 0 academic achievements is something that sounds straight out of a Skyrim questline

Hey Saberspark! My name is Kaitlin Callahan, and I was actually storyboard artist on this movie back in 2017! It was my first ever storyboarding job out of college, and it actually helped me break into he animation industry! I have to do some digging on my old hard drives, but I'm almost certain I still have the storyboard files of the scenes I worked on! I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have on the production of this film, I've got lots of stories! Thank you, and have a great day! UPDATE: I FOUND MY BOARDS FOR ACADEMY OF MAGIC. *I HAVE RECEIPTS*

Just want to point out that the Snape not being the bad guy twist was already done in the first Harry Potter book. They weren't even really subverting expectations with that.

Fun fact, in a authors note of gintama manga the author talked about how he almost didn’t write Gintama and almost did a lazy Harry Potter knockoff after a period drama manga he was writing failed. He wrote Gintama after a fight with his editor about cramming random shit into a period piece setting.

Damn imagine being a, presumably, certified instructor of arcane arts and having perhaps decades of teaching and training under your belt only to be told some teenager is now your boss because she managed to stop your evil old boss.

This entire movie feels and looks like a mobile ad

Huge missed opportunity not calling him "Non Weasley"

No anna is actually a real person and she's just expanding her acting career that's all it is

I know it's wrong but I sincerely hope people never stop making terrible, rip off, animated movies lol

Dear Ms. Anna, We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Rip-offs and Wizardry.

The guy who directed the movie didn't even make Cars, he was just a storyboarder 😂

Today I learned that apparently it's okay to say "bastard" in a PG film.

The scar on Aura's hand looks like a prehistoric painting of the Among Us crew mate

Love how some of the characters just straight up float an inch above the ground in some scenes. This rip off is another example of something that feels as if a still frame could pass as like, an early WIP render of a much better film.... But as soon as the characters move and speak, oh man, it's just awful. lmao

“Mom can we get Hogwarts Legacy?” “No sweetie we have Hogwarts Legacy at home” *Hogwarts Legacy at home:*

This seems like a Fanfiction of someone’s favorite animated characters attending a school in JKR’s wizarding world 😂

Okay, but 'Bad dragon, why don't you try me on for size?' is an actual gold line. If you know, you know.

10:23 "I guess hes British after all" gotta admit being British and having British accent is one of the most unique experiences in history

Apparently the voice of Anna is Laura Stahl, the same voice for several animated shows, including the main character of Fire Emblem Engage

17:32 Whoa wtf? I didn't know 2-D from the Gorillaz went to magic school

girl has the hidden leaf village symbol on her hand, she wasn't supposed to be a wizard she was supposed to be a ninja!

I can't believe Anna Frozen got sorted into Gryffindor at Luna Nova Academy.

I think the old man that was locked in the cage would just drop trow, poop on the floor, and use magic to teleport it somewhere far away. If they're going to rip off the Wizarding World, they might as well claim this but of trivia, too.

I’m gonna be real, the characters doing a rain dance so they can see where the invisible steps are is pretty smart. It might’ve been lifted from somewhere else (wouldn’t be surprised) but I’ll call it where I see it

I can imagine the boardroom meeting for this one: "Ok we gotta come up with a spin off from a famous movie, what's popular these days?" "Anna from frozen is pretty popular." "Harry Potter is kinda popular too!" "Yeah but we need something else..." "How about a random rain dance that we call a rain rhyme?" "Good idea! Get to work! Remember to use free models and use zero effort! We can't have another success on our hands!"

“I’m not joking, as soon as they defeat him, the movie just-“ *Hershey’s add comes on I love it when adds line up hilariously

6:56 did he just called the trombone a tuba…..

12:45 The Doctor Strange cosplayer and the Saberspark coplayer together.

11:55 "where does he poop?" I have an answer. According to a real, actual tweet approved by JK Rowling, before plumbing was invented, witches and wizards "relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence." Since this is a HP ripoff I imagine they would want to incorporate this essential part of the HP universe into their movie

16:22 I admit it was very refreshing to see a Disney-esque villian admit he is actually completely evil, with no qualms whatsover about killing our protagonist.

15:38 To be fair, it's kinda obvious she either has the key or is the key. I mean, she was the only other person there. Everybody else is either dead or locked up, so it has to be her, the only one to escape. Or the robot. I'm just saying options are limited.

13:55 That what has as much energy as Woody's in Toy Story XD

**claims to be a Harry Potter rip off, has Anna and a fake Anna in the thumbnail** Well this is going to be interesting..👀

Wow, they didn’t even TRY To make her look SLIGHTLY Different than Anna! 😂

"and now she's headmaster even though she barely had ONE semester learning." Food Wars: "Makes sense."

This whole movie makes a 5 year olds stick figure drawing look like a masterpiece.

all that ran through my head every time you brought up fake ron was "non-weasley"

This movie feels like a school project that you had too big plans for that you thought you could co but couldn't and then panic when you realize you forgot to put the actually important stuff in it (AKA the horribly animated story sequence) and then scramble to put it in the project last minute.

I love how they showed the box has evil magic just by having bat wings on it

7:24 Mall Santa Dumbledore SENT ME 😂😂😂

I want to pitch my idea for a series of books, it's my own original idea and definitely not a rip-off. Harriet Topper is raised by her father's mildly annoying cousins, the Duallies. One day, she is approached by a dwarf named Corundum Tired and told that she has magical powers. She is then taken to Swinezit's Academy of Sorcery and Parlor Tricks, run by Bertcab Fallthreshold. There, she meets two friends, Roland Ferrety and Hermithree Farmhouse, and her rival, Saurus Foildad. Harriet, together with Roland and Hermithree, go on many adventures in order to thwart the villian, Baron Elvis Moldytod. I'm thinking of calling the first book "Harriet Topper and the Warlock's Rock."

This isn't Hogwarts, this is Pigpimples.

The butterfly part isn’t factually correct. She turns into a monarch butterfly, and they are poisonous to consume, and birds already know this! So the idea that the bird tries to eat her is just incorrect.

I once wrote a Harry Potter rip-off. Actually it was supposed to be a sequel (kind of) but it had so little to do with Harry Potter that I figured I'd just make it my own thing.

I died when the main character was revealed to be 7 feet tall.

My sister just glanced at my laptop and said "Is that Anna?" I was like "no..." and then she was like "That looks like Anna where is Elsa? Is that another frozen spin-off". Bro..😱

This movie does have potential. The character designs look like a mobile game, but it's fine. I've seen worse. Just at least make them change clothes. For the plot... What if the robot that brings Aura to Apple Valley breaks down and someone finds her and takes her in? She raises Aura to be a strong young lady who's taller than everyone around her. Aura even has to duck when going inside her home. Yet she's a great inventor and makes contraptions to help the villagers. While walking through the woods, she finds the robot broken down and brings it back to repair it. She gets it repaired and it becomes her friend. Just a day later, she receives a letter that's basically an acceptance letter to the school. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity so she takes it, but the robot is against it. She meets Don (fake Ron) and he's a jerk at first. She arrives at the school and Don is her roommate of course for plot. She attends classes and does regular magic stuff. Professor Crepe is a jerk and Headmaster Frank isn't. Also Frank turns out to be her uncle and puts her on the best track to embrace her magic powers. Yet the robot keeps telling her Frank is bad news but she doesn't listen. Anyway Aura and Don get closer and start to notice strange things about the school. They find the cage dude and the whole plot is put together like a puzzle that gradually figured out so when the backstory is told it's like an "ooooooh!" Moment. Anyway the guy that got the key hides it in Aura to keep it safe but Frank catches wind of it and kills Aura's parents and stuff to get to it. But the robot takes Aura far away. Aura's the other key and that's why Frank wanted her so bad. Frank kills the robot and turns everyone including her to stone and Crepe frees her. It turns out he's actually her uncle and was mean so he could scare her away to keep her safe. The evil battle ensues and Aura uses a mix of magic and her inventing abilities and defeats him with the help of Don and Crepe. Crepe becomes headmaster instead and actually does a good job and Aura helps improve the school with her inventions

5:20 a Icebreakers ad interrupted the video. And was just as jarring as the voice acting of this movie.

Bro, the creator(s) rlly thought: "Hmm, my fav Disney princess is Anna, and I'm a Harry Potter fan.. What if I combine them??"

"mall santa Dumbledore" bro I can't with these insults 😂

I just about lost my marbles hearing that Ben Diskin, the voice actor for my comfort character, Lemres, in Puyo Puyo Tetris 1 and 2, was involved in this. I still think about how one of my friends met him at Anthrocon a few years back, still jealous to this day.

6:50 Did they forget to animate Spongebot into this scene so superimposed it onto the background. It looks like it's floating. It's on the same level as Trolland

17:51 Saber: "Aura is made the Headmaster of the school, even though she had like one semester of like actual learning..." Skyrim's Collage of Winterhold: ...

"Mom we can we watch Harry Potter, and Frozen?" "In fact, we can watch both at home." Harry Potter and Frozen at home: 1:35

Can relate to the whole "oh I'm just evil" debate. Sometimes the world is just boring and needs some conflict, or you're sick of everyone's crap and want to throw it back at them

"Not Snape not getting that promotion...that tracks." That was savage, I choked on my drink thanks lol

"Your names Aura?" Did you really have higher name expectations from her..?

After realizing how overrated her franchise is and that Elsa was more loved by the "fans" for non-PG reasons, Anna took acid to escape reality and ended up having a very weird fever dream.

Bro The Dance Looks Like A Satanic Ritual Tbh 9:20

When you animate a fanfic of Anna going to Hogwarts

Fun fact, in my current dnd campaign i made a tabaxi named timantha. It was going to be an inside joke since last time i was 1304, or boy, and the dm mentioned how hard it was to remember if my character was a guy or girl. But now it's devolved into another joke which is every time i introduce myself i'll say "my name is timantha but some call me....tim". My intent is next time i introduce my character, she makes an explosion happen. Toss a little oil, a little produce flame, and tada, reference.

6:58 Reminds me of how the concerts in PSO2NGS have the first song: Song of War: Against Fate, which is a big band jazz song played with only a drum set, a guitar (the guitarist switches to a trumpet for an instrumental bit near the end of the song but not only was it notably absent for the rest of the song alongside the rest of the wind section, the guitar sound picks back up without him once the vocals come back) and a double bass. Also relevantly, you can hear a piano in addition to all the other missing instruments. Also all the instruments are played by 90% robot cyborgs (base PSO2 lore says all the CASTs used to be humans).

By the way, the man who worked on this movie did *_NOT_* write and direct it. Instead, his only credit is “additional storyboarding”.

5:55 i find it funny how the scar in the movie looks fairly similar to the design of the hidden leaf symbol in naruto, an anime in which its story (earlier on) can be compared heavily to that of harry potter lol

It's eerie how two different youtubers I watch posted a video about some obscure Harry Potter and Frozen knock off movie like 5 seconds apart.

1:57 what the hell is that white explosion effect?

This reminds me more of the College of Winterhold from Skyrim, you show up, do one or two lessons, some BS happens and then you are suddely Archmage.

I see My Hero Academia is getting spin offs! I love My Hero Academy of Magic!

Actually, as far as I'm aware, the guy who was behind Cars for this movie is only responsible for "Additional Storyboarding" in cars. That explains a lot

16:32 I didn't expect him to say that and I laughed so much!

Funny how Laura Stahl later went on to voice the main character of Iruma which can be described as Harry Potter but Demons

"Yeah, I'm a wizard, that means I can't also be a robotic engineer and AI expert?" Not-Anna's Grandfather, apparently

Missed a golden opportunity to push Nord VPN “Imagine that you’re region locked out of every movie but Academy of Magic…”

When I saw that Ben Diskin and Laura Stahl voiced in this movie, my first thought was, "Well, a paycheck's a paycheck"

When Saber was talking about the weird physics of Frank's belt buckle, the belt was also clipping through his robe.

So she just takes a few classes and becomes the leader of the school? Sounds like an Elder Scrolls game.

21:01 no way someone didn't know the alternative meaning to that line. It had to be a young writer on the team that snuck it in, it's too perfectly executed to be an accident 😆

My old teacher played this movie on zoom last year ☠

I find it hilarious that not once did Saberspark mention that Not-Anna's scar looks like the Hidden Leaf symbol, from Naruto.

_Regal Academy_ and _Ever After High_ do a great job with the magical school based around established characters genre!

Also do forget right at 5:55 her scar is the leaf village symbol from naruto they didn’t even make it more ambiguous lol

You could call Ron't Weasley Charlie for some extra brownie points from Potterheads (Ron's brother Charlie was studying dragons abroad - though he was missing from the movies completely IIRC).

Great work, Saberspark! Say, have you heard of the Tad Jones series of animated films? I watched the third one on a plane trip recently.

So happy to see Ben Diskin has healed from this train wreck of a movie, I hope his recovery went smoothly

Speaking of $12 Million, Winx Club: The Mystery of the Abyss looks much cheaper than Academy of Magic, but it has better animation when it comes to how the characters move, but that’s not saying much.

10:06 they used the abominable snowman character design from Frozen as well.

Her scar looks like the symbol of the Hidden Leaf village from Naruto.

The Voice Director for this movie was Cindy Robinson. She’s the English VA for Labrys from Persona 4, Makoto Nanaya from Blazblue, the current voice of Amy Rose, as well as other voices.

18:09 When you cry without actually crying.

The Snape knockoff looks like Frollo auditioning for _Cats_ .

The master wizard built a robot... I died.

My favorite part about this is finding out they call someone a bastard in this movie

Honestly, might be less controversial than Harry Potter. 14:20 I know that is a common complaint with media, but *to be fair,* Frank looks like he would have been the grandfather's old friend.

0:25 I actually originally ripped off Harry's scar myself for Matone, Mattwo and Matthree (and additional Mats that no longer exist, they only ever appeared once on my Tumblr a long time ago as background characters anyway) but I got sick of having to edit the numbers onto all my gmod screenshots so as soon as I found the Metropolice Pack on the Steam Workshop to give them each different models, I ditched that whole thing.

"you bastard" that caught me off guard completely