Race to Witch Mountain

Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

  • 43% of critics liked it
    (151 reviews)

  • 50% of users liked it
    (337,889 ratings)

Walt Disney Pictures resurrects one of their time-honored franchises with Race to Witch Mountain, a family-oriented sci-fi adventure that tells the story of two alien visitors (AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig) whose search for their spacecraft gets them caught up in an adventure with a cab… More

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Mar 13, 2009 Wide
Walt Disney Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

    Race to Witch Mountain is the first kids' film in ages to have action beats that measure up to Hollywood's grownup action fare.

  • Trevor Johnston, Time Out

    It's pacy all right, but glib and uninvolving for grown-ups, though perhaps furnished with enough in the way of spaceships, lasers and digital explosions to pacify undemanding little 'uns of an afternoon.

  • Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly

    The planet-hopping children have special talents -- telekinesis, telepathy etc. -- although it is the high-wattage lovability of Mr. Rock that's the real superpower on display here.

  • Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

    These blond space children (Ludwig and Bridge to Terabithia's Robb) are persuasively otherworldly -- and the movie makes room for sympathetic cameos from Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann of the first go-round.

  • Ben Lyons, At the Movies

    There is so much in this film that needed to be tweaked and enhanced to really make it special.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • John M


    Was fun and the kids enjoyed it. I think i expected more considering the cast. The kids in this are both going to be good actors at the rate they are going and well it had the Rock.

  • Jens S


    This sci-fi adventure aims mostly at a young audience and maybe they would even have fun with this. As an adult, there is very little of interest here. The Rock has been more charismatic in films, it feels as if he didn't really want to be there. The plot is rather predictable… More

  • Mike S


    Dwayne Johnson should have stuck with wrestling, because he's not a very good actor. Despite his lousy efforts in this movie, however, it's not bad overall. Very rushed and cheesily written, but at least it never bored me. Neat special effects and a decent Disney feature,… More

  • Jim C


    Boring and cheesy, Dwayne is on a tipping point with these kids movies.

  • Michael E


    very entertaining

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