Cast:Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Carla Gugino, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Everett Scott, Chris Marquette, Billy Brown, Garry Marshall, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Tom Woodruff Jr., Paul Darnell, John Duff, Bob Koherr, Kevin Christy,
Jack Bruno (Dwayne Johnson) is a cab driver in Las Vegas, One of his passengers is Dr. Alex Friedman (Carla Gugino), a failed scientist who is giving speeches about legitimate scientific theories of UFOs and outer space.The next day, Bruno notices two children, Sara (AnnaSophia Robb) and Seth (Alexander Ludwig) sitting in the back seat of his cab. They tell him they need to go to a certain destination and are willing to pay all they have ($15,000) to get there. They lead him to a house in the middle of nowhere. Meanwhile, Major Henry Burke (Ciaran Hinds) is searching for information on the two aliens that landed some days earlier.When they arrive at the house, Bruno follows them out of concern and curiosity . There the kids retrieve their objective, a device contained within alien flora.When leaving they are attacked by a "Siphon", a creature built to destroy a certain target. The Siphon pursues them until its spaceship crashes into a train, and the creature is wounded. The trio eventually find themselves in a small town, The children explain to Bruno that they are aliens from a distant planet, who are sent to Earth by their parents because the government of their dying planet intends to attack and invade Earth so that their kind may live on there. They also explain that the object they obtained at the house contains the results of an experiment which their parents set up. The research from this experiment will save their planet without having to attack and invade Earth. However their planet’s military prefer the idea of invading Earth and sent the Siphon assassin to stop them. They are next pursued by government agencies trying to retrieve the children for experiments.They are joined by Dr. Friedman at the UFO Expo. With help of one of Dr. Friedman’s friends, the kids discover that their crashed spaceship has been relocated to a government base at Witch Mountain. The group, now including Dr. Friedman, after evading the pursuing government agents eventually arrive at Witch Mountain. At first the children are captured along with Bruno and Friedman. Nevertheless the two humans escape and come to rescue the kids. The Siphon causes a distraction by attacking the base. They manage to free the children and reach their ship. The kids drop Jack and Alex off and after a tearful goodbye, they head back to their ship, but give Bruno and Alex a device that will allow the kids to always find them. And Sara gives Jack the power to use his brain to the mind reading ability. The movie ends with the spaceship taking off and returning to their planet.During the end credits, Bruno and Dr. Friedman (now a couple) are speaking at a UFO convention about their new successful book called "Race to Witch Mountain". As they are about to leave, the device the kids gave Bruno activates, indicating that they may be returning. Trailer:
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Race to Witch Mountain comments / review
Date: 2009-12-26 17:27:20
User: PostFilm
The generically pap-ridden Race to Witch Mountain may be considered passable escapist family fare with a touch of sci-fi flourishes that may satisfy some kids without discerning tastes but sensible youngsters will consider this light-headed, flabby fable as passe in transparent spirit. Surprisingly, climbing this Mountain is no great shakes given the thinly veiled script, lackluster special effects, cliched situational dilemma and harboring a manufactured imagination that wouldn't surpass a conceptual doggie-shaped water balloon. Although occasionally snappy in its impishness Race to Witch Mountain stalls convincingly and becomes tediously routine as the wooden-paced action unfolds.
Director Andy Fickman ("The Game Plan") oversees a flat kiddie sci-fi adventure that goes through the predictable motions. There's nothing distinctively compelling about the foundation of the story aided by the aforementioned shoddy effects and by-the-dots editing that make Mountain retain its indistinguishable feel in movement and motion. The casting is decent enough to convey the likable factor even if the material is notoriously slight. The child actors (AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig) are charming and armed with enthusiasm. The film's lead Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is capable thanks to his usual swagger and self-deprecating mode that won him fans the world over courtesy of his former colorful persona as an ex-professional wrestler. Still, Johnson (who was directed by Fickman in "The Game Plan") and his young co-stars cannot overcome the blandness that annoyingly persists in this faceless kid-friendly fantasy.
Naturally some older movie fans (and well-informed tykes for that matter) are well aware that Race to Witch Mountain is based on the Alexander Key book "Escape to Witch Mountain". In return, Key's playful publication spun-off into a couple of successful Disney movies in 1975's Escape to Witch Mountain (conveniently of the same name) and 1978's sequel Return to Witch Mountain. Curiously, Race to Witch Mountain pales in comparison to its predecessors of yesteryear even though Fickman's contemporary edition has the benefit of advanced millennium-style technology in filmmaking techniques. However, one wouldn't realize this revelation with Race's inexplicable skimpy look that is accompanied by a scattershot script.
Put-upon Vegas cabbie Jack Bruno (Johnson) meets up with supernatural teen siblings Sara and Seth (Robb and Ludwig) as he assists the adolescent aliens in locating their lost spaceship in the desert. In the meanwhile, determined and dastardly FBI agent Henry Burke (Ciaran Hinds) is in hot pursuit of the chiseled cab driver and his mysterious mop-top passengers.
With attractive Dr. Alex Friedman's (Carla Gugino) assistance, Jack and his human-looking extraterrestrial charges must find Witch Mountain, a governmental facility in the Nevada desert where they all could figure things out while hoping to pinpoint the kids' spacecraft that can carry them back to their imperiled planet. Of course it is in the best interest for Jack and Dr. Friedman to see that Sara and Seth get to their destination as this failure to do so may spell trouble for an ominous invasion on Earth. It doesn't help their cause that the pesky Burke and his bothersome bunch look to complicate things further with their continual interference.
In short, Race to Witch Mountain feels aimlessly wayward in that the undisciplined structure and gimmicky set-up never quite gels in the movie's cheesefest proceedings. The characters are busy roaming around in a yellow cab as they are monotonously chased by the cartoonish sinister authorities--something that may be considered a lame and dismissive premise even in a carefree kiddie caper designed to captivate youths. In an era where even sophisticated animated feature films are setting imaginative standards for originality in content Race to Witch Mountain comes off as a live action Disney-oriented dud that feels inconsequential in comparison.
Undeniably, Johnson is charismatic and can be very resilient when being utilized comically. His presence in Race, however, gives off a clunky vibe because the film never is slick enough to support his smooth, cocky, and affable on-screen presence. Both Robb and Ludwig hold their own with Johnson but the chintzy narrative fails them all. Cameos by actor/filmmaker Garry Marshall as an instructor/teacher and comedian Cheech Marin as a car mechanic are thrown in for additional measure of needed chuckles. Cleverly, Race employs the services of former child stars Ike Eisenmann (as a sheriff) and Kim Richards (as a waitress) from the original Escape film where they played the gifted super-powered teens in the 70s.
Cockeyed car chases, concocted action sequences that look out of date, unconvincing sci-fi platitudes, the obligatory government nemesis, dank and dingy underground laboratories, bargain basement UFOs and aliens--all are needlessly strained and convoluted. In the long run, one would be advised to walk slowly and sluggishly, not race hurriedly, to the so-called new and improved findings at weak-kneed Witch Mountain.
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