Me staring at You staring at Her. Uh oh.
The Magic Flute (2022) is based on the opera of the same name, but it is not presented in the same way. Instead, we follow the story of Tim Walker, British music student, who is sent to a legendary music school in Switzerland, where they apparently speak American English, called … I forget. Not important.
He encounters various students, barely sketched in, the headmaster, and a magical book case that, properly cued, spirits him away to … the land of The Magic Flute.
And Tim is now Prince Tamino.
This has the flavor of a Harry Potter movie, an inevitability given the trope of heading out of town for school, but a little work will push it to the rear and let you decide if the presentation of The Magic Flute, with which I had no experience, is to your taste or not.
I enjoyed it, even as I was given to understand it was fragmentary. It could have been better, as certain characters seemed wasted, but it remained fun.
