Fresh
Race to Witch Mountain is the first kids' film in ages to have action beats that measure up to Hollywood's grownup action fare.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Race to Witch Mountain
The race is on.
2009 · 1h 38m · PG
Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Andy Fickman
Overview
A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.
Director and cast
- Andy Fickman Director
- Dwayne Johnson as Jack Bruno
- AnnaSophia Robb as Sara
- Alexander Ludwig as Seth
- Carla Gugino as Dr. Alex Friedman
- Ciarán Hinds as Burke
- Tom Everett Scott as Matheson
- Christopher Rodriguez Marquette as Pope
- Billy Brown as Carson
- Garry Marshall as Dr. Donald Harlan
- Kim Richards as Tina
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
41%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's pacy all right, but glib and uninvolving for grown-ups, though perhaps furnished with enough in the way of spaceships, lasers and digital explosions to pacify undemanding little 'uns of an afternoon.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Fresh
The planet-hopping children have special talents -- telekinesis, telepathy etc. -- although it is the high-wattage lovability of Mr. Rock that's the real superpower on display here.
Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
These blond space children (Ludwig and Bridge to Terabithia's Robb) are persuasively otherworldly -- and the movie makes room for sympathetic cameos from Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann of the first go-round.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Rotten
There is so much in this film that needed to be tweaked and enhanced to really make it special.
Ben Lyons, At the Movies
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