First Hit: A very poorly constructed film with little to give it any credence in reality.
I certainly don’t mind science fiction adventures; and count many of them on my favorite film list.
This film won’t make it to my top 100 science fiction adventure films and I'm not sure I’ll ever see that many. I didn’t see the predecessors to this film, “Escape to Witch Mountain” and “Return From Witch Mountain”, but due to their popularity I thought this one might be worth seeing.
The film is basically about two extraterrestrial kids who want to get back to their spaceship which is being kept by the US Government in the bowels of Witch Mountain. Once they get to the ship they want to go back home. The kids have learned to not trust humans and therefore part of the story is in the interaction with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Carla Gugino which help these young terrestrials see the good side of humans.
Johnson as a down on his luck cab driver never really seems down on his luck. There is only one scene to set up him being down on his luck and that's when he is in his residential hotel room. Gugino plays a scientist who has been kicked out of 3 universities because of her strange beliefs. The kids played by AnnaSophia Robb as Sara and Alexander Ludwig as Seth didn’t give any indication they were extraterrestrial other than the occasional tricks of levitation and molecular decomposition.
Overall: This movie felt a lot longer than it was and had very little to create any interest of any sort. The young man sitting next, who was about 12, kept fidgeting, and seemed uninterested in what was on the screen, I felt the same way, except I don’t fidget.