Ernest Borgnine, George Milan, Isaac Stern
This Oscar-nominated documentary (which inspired the 1999 film Music of the Heart) follows the struggles of Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras as she teaches violin to youngsters in East Harlem, N.Y. After bud...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 23, 2007
Stats: 92 reviews
Two awful movies cobbled together certainly don't add up to one good movie. A supposed family movie with "Satan all over the thing" as Mike Nelson aptly describes in an MST3K commentary. Borginine is laugh-out-loud funny for all the wrong reasons, and the blurriness of the film...( read more)
This is the third MST3K film I've watched in three days, and though it only rates Flixster's minimum half-star, it is not the worst (the worst was "Outlaw of Gor", which I reviewed yesterday before discovering it was not even listed on Flixster; what? This is a serious oversight!...( read more)
Great as a MST3K, godawful by itself. Merlin opens a shop in modern times with the hopes of reawakening magic in the world by... letting loose evil spirits and killing pets?! It's framed as a cute fairytale, but it's filled with demons and flaming animals. I pity the kids who wat...( read more)
I saw this on MST3K. I can't believe it's on here. Watch the MST3K version for some laughs
Watch the MST 3K version!
"If you don't believe in magic.... I'll kill you"
I've only seen this in it's MST3K incarnation. The MST3K episode ROCKED, but oh dear lawd child does this film eat it. Take my word that it is NOT for children.
How was this a PG?! As a kid I would spent the whole hour and a half crying. Not as bad as I was expecting, it was certainly entertaining enough.
What a completely misleading title!
This movie deals far too much with Satan to have such a cute name. Again, please try and watch this one as a MST3K episode.
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I'm guessing Otto37 means 'skip TO the MST3K version'... Why you'd want to watch this by itself instead of with the funny commentary is beyond me.
The first sequence (created for this film but looking like an episode of "Tales From The Darkside") involves a pompous, cranky newspaper critic who begins casting spells using Merlin's spell book. The second story, obviously a short film from the early 1980s, is about an evil monkey doll (you know, the wicked grin and the cymbals?) who kills every time his hands clap. Not for small children. Skip the Mst3k version.
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