Race to Witch Mountain Trailer
Browsing around the usual sites this morning I came across another kid-friendly trailer starring “The Rock”. I hadn’t planned on thinking twice about it (as The Game Plan looked like garbage) until something about the title rang a bell in the back of mind. Ah yes, I used to watch Escape to Witch Mountain all the time when I was a kid. I think we wore out the tape actually. Funny enough, I remember barely a thing about it. Still, the title of this new remake got the better of me and I had to click to see how Hollywood has screwed up another childhood favorite.
But then something happened… the trailer actually worked for me. It probably isn’t the most intellectualized movie of all time and it won’t win any major awards or be on my top ten list or anything, but it certainly looks like a lot of fun. Dwayne Johnson always seems to choose crappy movies to be in, but nearly every time he shines in them. Quite often (Be Cool, Walking Tall, etc) he is the only reason the movie is watchable. Plus everything I’ve seen and read about him is that he is one helluva nice guy. But I digress.
If I was of the ages 8-14 (maybe even younger), Race to Witch Mountain looks like a movie that would rock my world. Kids need a great adventure story to wrap themselves up in and parents need something that they can have fun with too and not be rolling their eyes constantly. It’s sci-fi sweetness at a kid friendly level with an actor I enjoy a lot on screen. It appears to have decent acting (the girl from Sleepwalking and Ciarán Hinds) and a lot of fun one liners. I’m sure I’m alone here, but this looks like something that could sweep me back to my younger years; if only for a couple of hours. Check out the trailer below or in HD over here.











Comment by Marina Antunes — November 18, 2008 @ 11:48 am
And, I concur with Marina - Johnson is very fun to watch, and he has great screen presence.
Comment by Domenic — November 18, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
Comment by Dionna — December 21, 2008 @ 9:19 pm