As they did with reviving Herbie the Love Bug for a film with Lindsay Lohan a few years back, the Walt Disney Studios decided that the two popular Witch Mountain films from the Seventies could also use a nice computer graphic remake. The Magic Kingdom has always been known to milk a good thing to death.
In this case I think they did better here than with Herbie. Two alien kids with some extraordinary powers get into a cab that's driven by none other than Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson. What a fortuitous circumstance that turns out to be, because youngsters Alexander Ludwig and Sophia Anna Robb are going to need every bit of the fighting skills that the Rock can muster.
They've got two enemies on their trail, first the US government who has kept a lid on news of visiting aliens for decades and they're represented by hardnosed bureaucrat, Ciaran Hinds. They've also got a robot assassin on their trail, just as deadly as Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator without any of his wit and charm. In addition Johnson's trying to steer clear of some wiseguys for whom he worked as a wheelman and did time in prison for same.
They do get some help in the form of scientist Carla Gugino who proves to be resourceful in her own right.
The kids here are as winning as Ike Eisenmann and Kim Richards who starred in the two Witch Mountain features back in the Seventies. They have a good chemistry with the Rock and with Gugino.
I'd recommend Race To Witch Mountain as a fine family film, one of the better items to come from the Magic Kingdom.
In this case I think they did better here than with Herbie. Two alien kids with some extraordinary powers get into a cab that's driven by none other than Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson. What a fortuitous circumstance that turns out to be, because youngsters Alexander Ludwig and Sophia Anna Robb are going to need every bit of the fighting skills that the Rock can muster.
They've got two enemies on their trail, first the US government who has kept a lid on news of visiting aliens for decades and they're represented by hardnosed bureaucrat, Ciaran Hinds. They've also got a robot assassin on their trail, just as deadly as Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator without any of his wit and charm. In addition Johnson's trying to steer clear of some wiseguys for whom he worked as a wheelman and did time in prison for same.
They do get some help in the form of scientist Carla Gugino who proves to be resourceful in her own right.
The kids here are as winning as Ike Eisenmann and Kim Richards who starred in the two Witch Mountain features back in the Seventies. They have a good chemistry with the Rock and with Gugino.
I'd recommend Race To Witch Mountain as a fine family film, one of the better items to come from the Magic Kingdom.