The Weird World of Harry Potter Knock-Off Movies

Movies Reviewed:
The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens (2008)
Billy Owens and the Secret of the Runes (2010)
The Adventures of Chris Fable (2010)
Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors (2008)
Aabra Ka Daabra (2004)

0:00 The Absurd Introduction
0:47 The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens
14:44 Billy Owens and the Secret of the Runes
27:01 The Adventures of Chris Fable
30:19 Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors
31:44 Aabra Ka Daabra
35:01 hey. please like and share.

[kimberleevroom]

The whole premise of the movie is interesting to me. Vikings sailed to Canada and landed in land-locked Alberta.

[JanhaviMishra]

My grandma’s Indian and when I was little, I was OBSESSED with Harry Potter. So when I visited her, she thought that it’d be a good idea if we both watched it together. She bought, what she thought was an HP film dvd, but it was actually ABRA KA DABRA. I remember just sitting there in utter confusion as we watched that movie together. And let me tell you, I still get nightmares about it. But gran thought it was good!

[snarglepop]

ah yes, billy's best friends: fun facts and allergies

[smileyp]

This makes me want to see a "no budget" film festival where famous and really good directors, writers, actors, etc and they make the best movies they can in a week or so with a budget of like 500$ tops

[PolinaLee]

I actually liked the concept of "Please" joke. Hero tries to open the door using complex spells, bribes, kodes for hours, but it turnes out he could have just asked the door politely. You know, like in HP with Salazar's medalion. Creature tried again and again, the goldwn trio tried again and again, but all it took was for Harry to say "open" Gandalf and the gang were at moria doors for hours, but all it took was, again, to say simple "friend".

Because sometimes being polite and nice gets you further than trying to force stuff to happen.

[FrenkTheJoy]

I always love in kids' movies where the bully will say ONE mildly rude thing and one of the "bullied" kids just brutally roasts the shit out of the "bully" and threatens to physically assault him.

[xliquidflames]

Do you think maybe the scripts of the first two were written by the kids? That's how it seems. They watched Harry Potter and then asked their parents if they could make a movie just like it.

[LarkTheLucky]

I’d like to mention that, as a person who was born and raised in Alberta, Alberta is completely land locked from the ocean. The closets ocean is in BC, roughly 15 hours away from central Alberta. There’s no way The Vikings landed in Alberta, and I think that fact makes this movie 10x better.

[joshuadunford]

Fun fact- Spirt River is a real town in Canada…That is Landlocked in Alberta! So the Vikings much have had airplanes if they landed there

[KH]

I had to rewatch that snakeskin-oil salesman scene again. It was absolutely brilliant. I've never seen a scene with this kind of chaotic energy before. That actor needs to be nominated already.

I am 100% serious

[peculiarpangolin]

[16:13, disinterested] "We have a winner. Ladies and gentlemen, even a boy can win. He's won a bowl, a bowl. A thimble. Now beat it, kid you're bothering me... But what? You got your prize. Now get outta here before you make me mad" Perfection.

[alexsaros]

Holy shit, my friend and I watched The Adventures of Chris Fable 10+ years ago when we were in like 3rd grade. We got it from a Redbox cos we noticed it had the Harry Potter font and I guess that was enough to sell us. Years after the fact I remembered this weird ass low budget movie we watched one night, but I could never remember what it was called, and for years I’ve been trying to find this movie about a kid who lived in a junkyard and fought giant robots with the title in the Harry Potter font. Finally, my search is over.

[ChristopherFazio]

Hey there! I’m actually the kid who played fake Ron in the Billy Owen’s movies, and I thought this review was freakin HILARIOUS. I would be happy to answer your questions about it hahahah

Anyway, I wanted to let you know there are TWO more movies with this same group of people — little ghost grabbers / ghost trap (like ghost busters), and Junior high Spy (like agent Cody banks). Would love to hear your reviews!

[justinweber]

I will say, the idea of a version of Hermione that just starts everything with "Did you know that-" like she's just so eager and happy to tell you this piece of trivia she's learned, as opposed to her actual personality does sound entertaining at least.

[randybobandy]

I love how Roddy Piper was acting like an 80 year old geriatric, when he was only in his 50s at the time.
R.I.P Rowdy Roddy Piper, he was a great entertainer.

[misteryA]

The dialogue clip you showed made perfect sense to me. The girl starts talking about baby snakes not being able to hold back because the bully is a kid and therefore less likely to hold back the beating he's dishing out than an adult would
What a terrible friend though. No, I will not run away with you, or stand up for you, I'll just tell you that you're definitely going to be brutalized to the highest degree. I am very smart

[TyroneBruinsmaFilms]

Fun fact: there's a 1986 film called Troll (which would spawn the unofficial sequel Troll 2, yes the bad one) with a character called Harry Potter Jnr and the creators have tried making sequels based on that characters name

[imsotiredofthiscrap]

billy repeating “calm down guys!” while everyone stands staring at him in silence is so hilarious

[SpokoR]

Abra Kadabra is not just any random Harry Potter knock-off. It transcends time. This is the movie that travelled backwards in the space-time continuum and inspired J.K Rowling to pen down the Harry Potter books.

[thesovietvorona]

Bro that snake skin oil salesman put his SOUL into that part.🤣