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Race to Witch Mountain Blu-ray Review with D-BOX August 06, 2009 Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson steers Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain our way as an adolescent escapist adventure stripped down from its outdated and more grounded quasi-inspiration, 1975’s Escape to Witch Mountain. It is Jerry Bruckheimer for kids; illogical in every sense and carried by a brooding overly charismatic star with car chases designed to put an insurance agent into cardiac arrest. Today’s youth should feel insulted but are more apt to be thoroughly entertained by Johnson’s charm and flashy visual effects. What better way to grab a kid’s attention than kick-start with a crashing spaceship and massive government hunt for its bipedal alien passengers (Alexander Ludwig and AnnaSophia Robb) making a beeline to Las Vegas. The set-up is strong, until the aliens reveal themselves as predictably emotionless pale blond teenage kids delivering dialogue with blinders to a broader vocabulary. Hardly a stretch for Robb who has
Dwayne Johnson may be this decade’s answer to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold initially rose to prominence as a bodybuilder and parlayed that fame into a successful movie career. Dwayne similarly started out as the wrestler The Rock and has also gone on to make a name for himself on the silver screen. Johnson has appeared in such notable films as the action-packed extravaganza The Rundown, the inspiring sports drama Gridiron Gang, and the perplexing and fascinating Southland Tales. Johnson has executed his career path differently than Schwarzenegger in that Johnson’s movie choices are more varied and intriguing. Schwarzenegger pigeonholed himself by only starring in action flicks, with some mild detours that were only comedic variations. Now Dwayne Johnson headlines Race to Witch Mountain, his second movie for Disney following 2007’s The Game Plan. Race to Witch Mountain is actually a “re-imagining” (which is just a fancy synonym for “remake”) of the 1975 movie Escape to Witch Mountain (
Just as Return From Witch Mountain lost a little of the magic that made the original Escape to Witch Mountain so special, the series continues to atrophy … Sources: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNFLUn9gDy3XJ7fv1n_Eao_VlhBd1A&sig2=sCrX0VdpjvCaR2J0oJq9Gw&cid=1288235209&ei=JLd9SpjuLKKa9gSQhIDBAw&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justpressplay.net%2Fmovie-reviews%2F929-dvd-reviews%2F5679-race-to-witch-mountain.
