Escape to Witch Mountain [Region 2]
by John Hough
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Actor: Donald Pleasence, Eddie Albert, Ike Eisenmann, Kim Richards, Ray MillandDirector: John Hough
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: PAL
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
DVD Reviews of Escape to Witch Mountain [Region 2]
DVD Review: cute kids' flick
Summary: 4 Stars
I first watched this movie when I was around 10. I absolutely adored it, as did my two sisters who were about 5 and 6 years old. It is a story about 2 orphans, Tony and Tia who after losing not only their parents, but also their wonderful foster parents, go to live in an orphanage. They are known as freaks there because of their strange powers to do some things like read each others thoughts and pick up objects without using their bodies. An evil man named Mr.Deranean (sp?) witnesses their powers first hand and tells his evil boss Mr.Bolt about them. The boss tells Mr. Deranean to claim to be the kids' uncle so that he can adopt them and then bring them to Bolt's mansion to help Bolt out financially ( as if he needed it!). Of course the kids eventually escape with the help of a sweet (although a bit grumpy) old man named Jason. He helps them find their real family that live on Witch Mountain. My favorite scene as a kid was when Jason and the children are in the woods happily drinking hot chocolate and Jason tells them about his past and the children comfort him and then Jason learns to love the kids as if they were his own. I also love the scene when the kids do an amazing puppet show without using their hands. All they use is Tony's magic harmonica.
This movie is definitely outdated and if I hadn't seen it as a kid, I would probably think it was the dorkiest thing I ever saw. However, I still like watching it today. This movie is safe for kids. Even though it has to do with ESP, it isn't really spooky and I don't think parents need to worry their kids will start getting into weird philosophies or experimenting with "the other side". It's more about kids rising above their troubled circumstances and helping others by loving and forgiving them.
DVD Review: Better then the Book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Escape To Witch Mounatin is an awesome movie. I tried to read the book the movie got its idaes from but I just couldnt get into it but I love the movie!
Kim Richards is a very good actress and very pretty (I wish I and hair like hers,a nd Iake Eisenman is a a good actor and cute too and I also thought that Kim's little sister Kyle was good too in her brief rool as little Tia and she is pretty.
I have the movie on DVD and I really like it and I recommend it!
FYI: in real life Kim and Kyle Richards are the aunts of Paris and Nicki Hilton. Kim and Kyle's sister Kathy is Paris and Nickie's mother.
DVD Review: Classic imaginative Disney
Summary: 5 Stars
My first exposure to the siblings from Witch Mountain was years ago, in watching the sequel Return from Witch Mountain. I loved the film, and was thrilled to discover an earlier film shortly after, Escape to Witch Mountain, which introduces us to Tony and Tia as young children.I haven't read the book on which this film is based, nor am I likely to, so my review is completely unbiased.
Tony and Tia are two young children whose foster parents have just died. The film begins with their arrival at an orphanage, and it isn't long before we're shown just how different these two children are.
A run-in with the district bully quickly earns them a reputation for 'being a couple of weirdos', but it is in saving the life of a man who would otherwise have been possibly killed in a car accident that their adventures really start.
Claimed as niece and nephew by the very man they saved, they are taken to live in the fortress home of mega-rich Aristotle Bolt, who has been told of the children's gifts and typically wants to exploit them for his own gain.
It doesn't take Tony and Tia long to figure out Bolt's agenda and, after hearing plans to have them locked away in an island tower, they run away with the help of a rogue stallion that no one else was able to tame.
From there, the children soon come across grumpy nomad Jason O'Day, who reluctantly takes them in after they beg him for help.
The rest of the film is probably fairly predictable, given your average Disney plots, but still enjoyable nonetheless. Of course there's going to be a 'happily ever after' (at least until the next movie) but the fun is in seeing how they get there. There are still a few surprises in store before the finish, including an escapee bear, a sheriff who learns the tango the hard way, and a chopper pilot who gets a flying lesson like never before.
Escape to Witch Mountain is thoroughly enjoyable, as is its sequel, and are even better for having Ike Eisemann and Kim Richards play the main characters of Tony and Tia in both films.
On another, distantly related note, Disney did produce another Witch Mountain vignette style show some time later, called Beyond Witch Mountain. The story involved Tony and Tia leaving the Witch Mountain community to find their Uncle Bene's long lost grandson. Bolt and O'Day were both along for the ride, but this was not a patch on the two proper movies, and really shouldn't have been made. Especially since it was meant to be just recently after Tony and Tia found their way to Witch Mountain in the first place, and it portrayed Uncle Bene as dying. (Anyone who has seen Return from Witch Mountain knows full well that Uncle Bene was alive and well in that film, and Tony and Tia were bordering on teenhood, by then)
At the end of this particular episode, Tony and Tia also decide to stay away from Witch Mountain, and go with O'Day to continue searching for survivors. As anyone who has watched the two movies would know, their 'holiday' in the second film was supposed to be their first trip away from the mountain community since their original rescue from the clutches of Aristotle Bolt.
I'm aware that some people have been searching for this particular installment. My advice is, don't bother. It does not fit in with the sequence of films, and does not even have the benefit of the original child actors.
Stick with the excellent and unsurpassed Escape to Witch Mountain, and Return from Witch Mountain. These are fantastic films, and worth every cent.
DVD Review: A movie for everyone, lot's of fun to watch!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great little story about...well I'm not going to tell you, I much rather see you buy it and watch it for yourself. It is a great film, and old disney classic, this is what movie's are all about, it has special effects that were considered impossible back them, but they pulled them off, no fancy computers of CGI and all that stuff, just good ol' fashion moviemaking at it's finest. I treasure this film and it is one of my favorite Disney movies. I miss films like this! Great great family film and very entertaining to watch, kids adore it!DVD Review: One Of Disney's best non-animated movies!
Summary: 4 Stars
The original Escape To Witch Mountain (1975) is one of my favorite non-animated Disney movies and also one of my favorite movies about children with magical powers, the other one being Matilda but I think I like this a little bit more. It is about a brother and sister named Tony and Tia played by Ike Eisenmann and Kim Richards who go to live in an orphanage after their adoptive parents die. Tony and Tia have special powers and after a creepy guy discovers their secret he pretends to be their uncle and takes them to live with his boss who is an even bigger creep who wants to use them for his evil plans but they escape with their adorable cat Winky and befriend a grouchy but lonely man named Jason O'Day who helps them get away from the creeps but a big chase ensues and Jason helps them learn the truth about who they are and why they have special powers. Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann and Eddie Albert are all wonderful and I highly recommend this movie to anyone who likes Disney movies and movies about kids with special powers. Kim Richard's sister Kyle Richards (Alicia Edwards on Little House on The Prairie) has a small don't blink or you will miss me roll as a 3 year old Tia when she and Tony were rescued from the water after the accident at sea. This movie is a gem and I wish that Disney would put it out On DVD!!
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