Best movie of this year hands down!

the audience applauded

Simply Perfect

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Race To Witch Mountain meets boxing. With several movies baring the title Witch Mountain and Return to Witch Mountain, this movie completes the Witch Mountain Trilogy. I have not seen the first two in a long time, but this one, I liked. I don't know if it was the special effects or The Rock, it was energetic and jumping off the edge of my seat kind of movie. I loved the special effects. And I also liked how the director incorporated the storyline to the effects. Congratulations to Disney – with the other two movies, this one outranks. With The Rock leading the cast to Annasophia Robb, they both are great. Are they really going to make another one? What will be the storyline? As far as the movie goes, I would give it a standing ovation with 9 ½ stars.

I had seen Escape to Witch Mountain from 1975, and the sequel Return from Witch Mountain, and even the dreadful 1995 TV remake of Escape to..., but it was interesting to see Disney making another more modern version, from director Andy Fickman (She's the Man, The Game Plan). Basically an alien spaceship crashes near Searchlight, Nevada, over one hundred miles from Las Vegas, Henry Burke (Ciarán Hinds) leads a secret Defense Department unit to seize the ship and take the passengers, but none are found. Former criminal Jack Bruno (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) has turned his life around and works as a cab driver, one of his passengers on this night is failed scientist Dr. Alex Friedman (Spy Kids' Carla Gugino) who is attending a UFO convention at Planet Hollywood, and Jack no longer wants to accept jobs with the mob. Two teenagers, Sara (Bridge to Terabithia's AnnaSophia Robb) and Seth (Alexander Ludwig), get in the cab are paying him a high fare of $15,000 to head in a particular direction, no given destination, Bruno assumes the government agents following the cab are more mob, he avoids them with his driving skills, and Seth uses his ability to vary his molecular density to allow their escape. The teenagers explain that they are are aliens that look human and have advanced abilities that people on Earth have not discovered yet, including telekinesis, telepathy and varying molecular density, and finding an abandoned house he sees them retrieve a device they will need for their ship, and they are again pursued Burke's agents, as well as powerful armoured alien assassin Siphon (Tom Woodruff, Jr.), but they manage to avoid them and carry on. Bruno takes Sara and Seth to Dr. Alex Friedman, she realises she is what she has been theorising on for some time, she joins the group, the teenagers explain their world is three thousand light years from Earth, despite the idea being unpopular their government plan to invade the planet so that their race can survive, their parents were experimenting to find a way to survive without invading Earth but were arrested before completing, so the teenagers went to Earth to find the successful findings, to save both Earth and their race they must return to their world in their spaceship. Fellow UFOlogist and conspiracy theorist Dr. Donald Harlan (Garry Marshall, director of Pretty Woman) helps telling the group that the spaceship was taken to Witch Mountain, a secret government base in California, they arrive there but are captured and the teenagers are knocked out to be surgically experimented on, and meanwhile the Siphon attacks the soldiers, while Bruno and Friedman get back into the base and save the teenagers. Sara and Seth launch their ship and escape Witch Mountain through the tunnels, the Siphon is finally killed by the high voltage energy from the ship core, once landed the teenagers give Brun and Friedman a tracking device son they always know where to find them, they wish them a tearful farewell and return home with hope they rebuild it somehow, in the end Bruno and Frideman become successful authors with their book about their experience, and as they leave the device activates, this suggests the humanoid alien teenagers may be returning. Also starring Tom Everett Scott as Matheson, Chris George Marquette as Pope, Kim Richards as Tina, Ike Eisenmann as Sheriff Antony and Richard 'Cheech' Marin as Eddie. Johnson isn't the best at acting but proves a good enough being surprised and a hero, Robb and Ludwig putting on British accents and speaking perfect English sentences are likable, the story is simple enough for all the family, and assisted by terrific special effects, a few explosions and cool chase sequences it is moderately exciting, an enjoyable science- fiction adventure fantasy. Good!

Despite what people say, Race to Witch Mountain is a very good movie. Both child actors have a lot of talent, as does Dwayne Johnson. There is lots of action. And the aliens are more human- like in their behavior than any movie I have seen.What surprised me is the amount of violence in a Disney film. Pretty sure this easily could've earned a PG-13 rating at the MPAA, but was allowed a PG, given it was indeed a Disney movie. There is no blood seen, but lots of shootouts, explosions, and physical violence in this movie, so parents, be aware. Also there are many scenes that may frighten younger children.The storyline is a bit weak, but it is made up for in action, good acting, great special effects, and likable characters. My rating is 8/10.

Race to Witch Mountain is a great remake, so much better than most people give it credit for. Most people underestimate the skills of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson because he is a former wrestler star and people think they can't act. I'll be the one to say he did a great job here.This is about a taxi driver who ends up with two aliens in his taxi disguised as kids and they want him to drive them back to their spaceship so they can leave.The special effects are very good especially for a kids-friendly Disney film. The music by Travor Rabin is surprisingly good. Overall, I think this is a great story for the whole family. Certainly better than the original. I rate this film 9/10.