‘Witch Mountain’ Remakes The Bad Guy Into The Military

by Chuck DeVore

The “Race to Witch Mountain” is a Disney remake of Disney’s 1975 production “Escape to Witch Mountain.”  

I took my 17 and 12-year-old daughters to see this PG-rated film.  They liked it, especially the action sequences – many of which were fairly innovative, not something I expected in what I thought would be formula Disney entertainment.  

Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) continues his able development as an actor.  He plays Jack Bruno, a down-on-his-luck Las Vegas taxicab driver who, hoping to someday be a NASCAR driver instead became a wheelman for the mob and is trying very hard to stay out of trouble.  

The film opens with an alien spacecraft crash-landing in the Nevada desert.  Soon, the two very human-looking teenage aliens link up with Bruno and the pursuit begins in earnest.   (more…)

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Posted Mar 16th 2009 at 8:22 am in Military, Reviews | 103 Comments