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I'll never understand why, when making a kids show, filmmakers seem to lose sight of the fact that they're making the movie for kids.
The Witches is a fairly simple story for kids that takes place in a fancy hotel. Some children are magically transformed into mice and of course that leads to slapstick mouse-in-a-hotel stuff: staff racing around with brooms, a dignified old lady running down the hall, cooks in the kitchen overturning the flour and setting the stove on fire. Good enough.
The problem here is that the witch herself is too scary for little kids. Her wicked witch face wouldn't be out of place in the Venom movie. Why was it necessary to do that? It's a kids movie, folks. All they have to to is say "Here's the wicked witch." Done deal. No need for fangs, at least not the sort of fangs they show here.
If they had toned the witch down a bit, they would have had a better kids movie.
The Witches is a fairly simple story for kids that takes place in a fancy hotel. Some children are magically transformed into mice and of course that leads to slapstick mouse-in-a-hotel stuff: staff racing around with brooms, a dignified old lady running down the hall, cooks in the kitchen overturning the flour and setting the stove on fire. Good enough.
The problem here is that the witch herself is too scary for little kids. Her wicked witch face wouldn't be out of place in the Venom movie. Why was it necessary to do that? It's a kids movie, folks. All they have to to is say "Here's the wicked witch." Done deal. No need for fangs, at least not the sort of fangs they show here.
If they had toned the witch down a bit, they would have had a better kids movie.