plenty of Disney live-action charm. It's rather quaint by later standards, coming just two years beforeStar Warsupped the ante on movie magic, but the story's got time...
plenty of Disney live-action charm. It's rather quaint by later standards, coming just two years beforeStar Warsupped the ante on movie magic, but the story's got time...
Production Year: 2003 - Action/Adventure - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, Eric Johnson, Annette O'Toole, John Glover, John Schneider
Action/Adventure - English - 15 years and over - Ricky Gervais, Quentin Tarantino, Melissa George, Ron Rifkin, Victor Garber, Michael Vartan, Jennifer Garner, David Cronenberg
Advantages: Good leads and an engaging but simple story Disadvantages: 70s films dont hold up very well compared to today's films
Some of you will probably relate to this. You know how you get a film that you watched as a kid, and you can only remember snippets of it. You can never remember the name of the film either, but you know you loved it. And then years later, you accidently come across it again. Well "Escape to..." is one of those films for me. I was probably about 7 the first time I ever saw it. And I always recalled this film about a telekinetic brother and sister ... ...the name of it. Then a couple of weeks ago, my sister picked it up in Asda for about £3 for my niece. Tia and Tony have just been shipped to an ophanage after the death of their most recent foster parents. Very quickly, they discover that they have extraordinary powers that allow them not only to communicate with each other without speaking, but also allows them to envisage things that are about to happen. When they accidently save the life of the ...
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Advantages: Tony and Tia Disadvantages: Disney in the 70s - not the most sophisticated place to visit
...waited many years to own Escape To Witch Mountain. I can’t remember where I first saw it but I don’t think it was in a cinema. It feels like the kind of thing I might have watched projected onto a temporary screen in a Torquay hotel rec room. I know I saw The Love Bug one Sunday afternoon at the synagogue’s adjoining community centre, so it might have been there. Either way, it was 30 years ago and I loved it.
Tony and Tia are brother and sister ... ...a nogoodnik, they begin their escape and I’ll give you three guesses where they’re trying to escape to.
The special effects are lo-tech but satisfying and my kids have had as much fun with this as with Harry Potter. I have a feeling that it may turn out that with movies the story IS important after all.
Three years later the kids returned in Return From Witch Mountain in which our mentalist minors are terrorized by Christopher Lee and Bette Davis.
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