Nov 18 2008'Race to Witch Mountain' Trailer Like a Supernatural 'Friends' for Kids
Disney has released a new trailer for Race to Witch Mountain--a remake of 1975's Escape to Witch Mountain--the story of two super-powered alien children and their attempt to find a way back to the ship they crashed into a geological formation known as a mountain. The Rock plays the cab driver helping them, and for some reason he plays it like he's doing an impression of Matt LeBlanc. It's really distracting. Either he studied acting by watching Lost in Space and LeBlanc's monkey-as-baseball player movie, Ed, or Disney really wanted Matt LeBlanc and instead hired Dwayne Johnson to play it as Matt LeBlanc. Which would be despicable. Do you know what Joey has been doing since they cancelled Joey, Disney? Absolutely nothing. Joey would have loved to drive alien children to a spooky mountain. He would have told so many amusing anecdotes about how David Schwimmer is nothing like Ross. He would have brought donuts to the set every day, just because "It's somebody's birthday somewhere, eh?" You guys made a real mistake.
Reader Comments
1. vendetta - November 18, 2008 1:34 PM
Strip mining of the 80's now complete.
Strip mining of the 70's now commencing.
oi.
just do the run down 2 and stfu.
2. squirrel - November 18, 2008 1:47 PM
Probably one of the non-crappiest Disney trailers in a while. If I had kids I would take them to that.
3. Gerry - November 18, 2008 2:09 PM
Now I can't watch it without judging every line he says and finding if it does sound like Matt. You have ruined this Disney trailer for me and I am crushed.
4. Elmo - November 18, 2008 2:19 PM
vegas?! ohh crap I live in vegas... aliens... I was just staring to relax about those *damn you!*
5. stanislav_45 - November 18, 2008 2:31 PM
The Rock went from bad ass wrestler to a bad act character of a crappy movie!
Gotta thank Disney for that!
6. MorpheusDream - November 18, 2008 2:32 PM
um, am I the only one who noticed that THIS IS NOT THE PLOT OF ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN!? The brother and sister only realize they have powers once they get together, and there's a whole awesome story about all humans being aliens that were planted here and all used to have powers and just forgot over the generations. The only thing this film has in common with the other is the use of the name Witch Mountain. and children with powers. and Dwayne Johnson.
7. Sevenace - November 18, 2008 2:51 PM
They should have called it "Race to a Horrible Movie!"
Ba Da Cha!
Am I right?! Am I Right?! Get it?...."silence..."
Actually I personally think it would be more interesting if it was called
"Race to Which Mountain?" the story of 2 kid aliens and the rock driving around lost for 2 hours.
8. no - November 18, 2008 2:54 PM
i d rather have braincancer than watch that shit.
9. CaptainMorgan - November 18, 2008 3:15 PM
For kids it will be fun. For adults, well, we'll chuckle at a few of the jokes. I just hope there's lots of tits in it. My boys gotta learn sometime....
10. Octopus Army - November 18, 2008 3:33 PM
Not the crappiest looking movie ever. Wrong plot entirely, yeah, but...they could basically remake "License to Drive," call it "Drive to Witch Mountain," and I'd still rather watch it than "Twilight."
11. jimbob - November 18, 2008 4:03 PM
Are you sure that wasn't a really obnoxious advert for Macbooks?
12. Dan - November 18, 2008 6:04 PM
eehhh..., doesn't really sound like LeBlanc. Bit of a stretch.
13. menikmati - November 18, 2008 7:36 PM
Dan dont know what hes talkin about - only thing missing is the rock going "how you doinn?" when he first sees the special powers..
14. chuck - November 18, 2008 9:55 PM
The only way this end well is if Predator wins.
15. che-che - November 19, 2008 11:18 AM
totally joey, at 1:02.
i hope carla gets naked like she did for sin city. she has some great wazakas!! thats alien for breastesessssssssssssssssssss...
16. will bill - November 19, 2008 4:06 PM
i would actually watch that, you know, in an ironic way
don't judge me
but yeah, wow, Joey should sue or something, jeez,
i think its the apple equivalent of sony's 'casino royale'
'and i'll just search for that on my Sony viao'
'good i'll take a picture with this Sony t9 digital camera'
'yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah'
17. ashleyisverydissapointed - November 19, 2008 11:03 PM
omg. that was... horrible. blasphemy! now when you mention escape to witch mountain people will lookatyou funny and say no its called race to witch mountain! Never mind that its COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!!! why dont they call it something different!? i mean, first of all, the army didnt track the crash, they were "orphaned" as children and grew up several years before the story starts, . Also, they didnt have a smug understanding of their powers! And the old man that grumpily comes around to loving and protecting them in a struggle against local authority figures and mysterious rich men with a taste for the supernatural.. hes the best, and i cant understand how they could take that part and twist it into..the rock. and WTF is up with the girl? wheres the star box? Im sorry, i know im ranting, but Escape is one of my childhood anchors, and i cant stand to see thename and idea so perverted. I guess i just wish they would call it something else.
18. Katie - December 7, 2008 10:18 PM
This isn't a remake actually. It's a new chapter that takes place 30 years after the events of the originals. The kids in this one are called Seth and Sara.