I kept on falling Asleep during the theater it was so boring. I really wanted to see Batman but it was sold out, so we ended up spending money on this. I can't even remember too much about the movie other than Ferrell was talking weird and a Dog jumped into Nicole Kidman's arms.
"No you don't, you like Taco Bell!"
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Not the worst movie ever as long as copies of Michale Myer's "The Cat in the Hat" still exist.
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"Mr.President, would you read the Constitution if it were on your teleprompter?"
I don't know about EVER, but it's up there.
My problem is I've been so brainwashed, I can't help but think about the original characters and the actors who played them.
Aunt Clara is my favorite. I just want to love her to pieces.
What they SHOULD'VE done (and I know it'd probably be prohibited because of copyright and estate issues) is use the original TV show as the main part and have a sub-plot connecting several episodes together into a movie length.
This is nowhere near the worst movie ever. There are a lot of movies much worse than this.
shareThis movie isn't _THAT_ bad.
Oh, it's bad.
It's just that Hollyweird is such a miracle that it can, and has managed to fabricate such low-level trash, that this movie looks like a brilliant example of a great movie by comparison.
There are _SO_ bad movies, that although this movie would in a good world be the worst movie ever made, in this world, it's just 'really bad'.
I think the worst part of this movie is that it's 100% pointless. It also 'runs in self-praising circles' a lot, without any real consequence. Anything 'shocking' or 'impactful' is 'reversed', so what was even the point of doing it?
It's not that there's a witch that tries to live a 'normal life' (which WOULD have been an interesting premise), but by the end of the movie, almost EVERYONE is a witch - yawn.
I can't believe Michael Scott ends up being in two movies I bought from bargain bin, pretty randomly. Steve is of course always great, but seemed very unnatural and weird (in a bad way) in this movie.
It's hard to even evaluate this movie, because it's like predictable fluff with lots of 'look how great hollywood is'-trope that's seen in so many movies that exist solely to make movies about making movies, which this almost is as well, just so hollywood would seem relevant, I guess.
Nicole Kidman is someone I used to like, her screen presence and undeniable beauty always won me over. However, in this movie, she looks somehow 'odd', I can't quite put my finger on it, but I am almost repulsed by her in this movie, as she looks almost like she's not even human - as fitting as that would be for this story.
Michael Caine is always charismatic, charming and legandary, but holy cow is he wasted here. I mean, a great talent like him shouldn't appear in crappy movies like this.
All in all, this movie seems like a _REALLY_ poor man's version of 'Sabrina, the Teenage Witch', which has used all those same 'jokes' already, so pretty much anything this movie does 'magic-wise', is boring.
That TV show is not particularly interesting, but it has a few good moments, some funny jokes, some charm and a talking cat. This movie has a cat that's not even black, doesn't talk, and in the end, the magic is brushed mostly aside just to appear to help writers get out of a corner they wrote themselves into. It's never an integral part of the story, as strange as that sounds.
I mean, instead of doing 'witch-things', like talking to the cat, and having to expend some kind of energy, suffer some kind of consquences, follow some kind of rules, having some kind of important MEANING and REASON for her 'witch powers', and the 'witchness' being something MORE than just 'superhuman abilities' and free-energy-telekinesis, it's just 'woman getting her will done'.
Women already live in a world that revolves around them and bend to their will, so do they ever really need those witch-powers?
Wouldn't it have shown more female empowerment and been a better role model for girls to show the main character OVERCOME her confusion and weakness without her powers - and eventually LEARN how to put the right cables to the TV to get a picture?
It CAN be frustrating when you have lots of devices to connect to the same TV and all, but it is also incredibly SATISFYING to slowly figure it out - by logical thinking and testing the cables one by one, by looking at their shapes, reading the manual a bit, starting from the simple stuff and then moving to more complicated stuff, would eventually lead her to victory.
That's how I learned how to connect things, and now I have more than dozen computers, consoles or other devices connected to all kinds of old and new TVs and monitors, with all kinds of different cables and formats from SCART to HDMI, DVI, S-Video and even old RF standard, and it all works perfectly.
I wasn't born with this information, and no one told it to me, I had to learn it by logic, thinking, researching and experimentation. So could have Nicole's character.
This movie offers NO STAKES for the witch's promise to not use her powers (which she breaks over and over again, so what's even the point?).
It would've been better, more dramatic, if she had something to LOSE every time she uses the powers against her promise. It should be more than a promise; if it was a PACT with the very forces or Gods or whatever that GAVE her the powers to begin with (why give someone like her ANY powers like that anyway? Just because she's born to a rich.. I mean, witch family, does she automatically get powers?), and could take them away, we'd have something more interesting.
But no, it's just 'I decided not to use them', and that's ALL. Of course she's not going to be able to keep that when there are no stakes, no consequences for using them and no problem using them all the time.
Everything about this movie is so superficial and predictable, you can see how this movie is going to end probably two hours before you start watching it.
It's that predictable. For once, I'd like to see one of these pink foam movies that end completely uniquely, in an unpredictable way. But no, it's always the predictable crap.
This movie certainly feels like it was done under some kind of 'obligation', instead of some artist wanting to tell a story based on a vision they had. It's like 'paint-by-the-numbers'-stuff, where you are under some kind of contract to do a movie, so you do it and your heart is not in it.
This is a REALLY lackluster movie that goes absolutely NOwhere.
You'd think that a movie about magic could be at least a little bit magical.
This one isn't.