Race to Witch Mountain Reviews
February 18, 2012
Full Review
| Original Score: B
November 18, 2011
Original Score: 3/5
May 6, 2011
Full Review
| Original Score: B-
May 13, 2009
Race to Witch Mountain is the first kids' film in ages to have action beats that measure up to Hollywood's grownup action fare.
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/5
April 17, 2009
Cue a not very dazzling chase movie.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
April 17, 2009
This surely has to be the last of the series.
Full Review
| Original Score: 1/5
April 9, 2009
An unexpectedly entertaining mixture of good, clean Disney fun with some rather more modern action scenes, lent charm by Johnson's natural swagger. One of the better family films in a while.
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/5
April 9, 2009
It's pacy all right, but glib and uninvolving for grown-ups, though perhaps furnished with enough in the way of spaceships, lasers and digital explosions to pacify undemanding little 'uns of an afternoon.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/6
April 9, 2009
It's a rattling good chase movie. The young aliens have useful tricks. Johnson is the contractual comic liability. Perfect holiday nonsense.
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| Original Score: 3/5
March 18, 2009
The planet-hopping children have special talents -- telekinesis, telepathy etc. -- although it is the high-wattage lovability of Mr. Rock that's the real superpower on display here.
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| Original Score: B
March 16, 2009
There is so much in this film that needed to be tweaked and enhanced to really make it special.
March 16, 2009
I think most kids and certainly most adults are going to find themselves bored.
March 15, 2009
Witch Mountain isn't escapism but a feature-length reminder that things are bad all over.
Full Review
| Original Score: 1.5/4
March 13, 2009
If Disney insists on raiding its own vaults for remakes, maybe they'll have better luck with The Laser-Vision, Missile-Launching, Face-Shredding Cat from Outer Space.
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| Original Score: 2/5
March 13, 2009
The movie has Johnson, who lifts the script above its conventional cat-and-mouse stratagems with his buoyant wiseacre timing.
March 13, 2009
Wow, when Disney misses the 'reimagining' mark, it really misses.
Full Review
| Original Score: 1/4
March 13, 2009
This is not a story that cries out to be remade every 15-20 years. And, while the special effects and acting are getting better, the story isn't.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
March 13, 2009
For all that energy, the film never really goes into orbit.
Original Score: 2/4
March 13, 2009
Bears all the signs of having been composed by an inferior race of alien screenwriters from the Hackulon System.
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| Original Score: 1/4
March 13, 2009
A fast and furious wild ride of a movie in which the good guys are good, the bad guys are good and the car chases are pretty spectacular.
Full Review
| Original Score: 3.5/5