The classic Walt Disney sci-fi film “RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN” (1978) is released on DVD to attend celebrate the theatrical release of “Rush TO WITCH MOUNTAIN” (the third `WITCH MOUNTAIN’ film which can be considered a modern storyline or a re-imagining of the first film) .

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“RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN” is the long awaited sequel to “Race TO WITCH MOUNTAIN” (1975) and continue to be a family sci-fi film to exhaust the latest special effects at that time and bring relieve favorite British director John Hough and common teen talents Ike Iesenmann and Kim Richards to reprise their role as the alien human brother and sister team who have supernatural abilities.

“RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN” focuses on the return of Tony and Tia to the planet Earth. The two haven’t been succor in several years, so they derive the opportunity to have some rest and relaxation.

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Meanwhile, a wrathful scientist named Victor (Christopher Lee) and Letha (Bette Davis) talk about how they should be making money. Letha was once a very rich woman but funded Victor’s laboratory in order manipulate people and control them. Victor decides to establish Letha’s nephew Sickle (Anthony James) to a test by using a remote control diagram in which Victor talks on it and the person will follow his instructions. His first instruction is to have Sickle climb up a mammoth building and toddle on the rooftop ledge and seeing how the remote control plan is actually working on him.

Meanwhile, as Tony and Tia are being driven in their cab, the cab loses fuel prompting the taxi cab driver to accumulate gas. While left alone, Tia’s premonitions begin kicking in to chubby gear as she senses a man who will topple to his death from falling from a building.

Knowing that they one would have to wait for the driver, Tony goes to secure this man and warn him. Sickle ends up falling from the rooftop but before he can go splat on the pavement, Tony uses his supernatural abilities to have him suspended in air and eventually support him down.

Victor sees that Tony is quite special and thus Victor and Letha inject John with a tranquilizer and kidnaps him.

Tia is jumpy that she has lost contact with Tony and goes to contemplate for him. She ends up losing him and while trying to peek around the station, she sees four kids being chased by a bunch of thugs. She eventually uses her power to set aside the four kids named Dazzler (Christian Juttner), Muscles (Brad Savage), Crusher (Poindexter Yothers) and Rocky (Jeffrey Jacquet) .

The four are trying to be tough kids who want to originate their have gang but also mask from their truant officer Mr. Yokomoto (Jack Soo) who wants them assist at school.

With no position to go and not sparkling the Los Angeles position, the kids choose to support Tia. Meanwhile, Tony has been thoroughly brainwashed by Victor and is now being controlled by him by the remote blueprint.

With Tony revealing his power to the awful guys, now they want to exploit his power to give them leverage and possibly aid them choose anything from gold to possible plutonium.

Meanwhile, Tia tries to search for her brother everywhere and when she does gain him, she is pitted against her brother in a battle of their dapper powers. Will she be able to set her brother from being a pawn of Victor and Letha?

SPECIAL FEATURES:

“RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN” includes several special features. Many which were included in the 2003 DVD release but there is one special feature that is uncommon to the 2009 DVD release. Included are:

* ALL Modern Pop-Up Fun Facts – For those who want to survey the film with fun facts popping up on the bottom of the hide.

* Making the Return Hump – A graceful lengthy featurette with interviews with director John Hough, Ike Eisenmann, Kim Richards and the other children from the film. The discussion was how they all came together again, the popularity of the first film and how Ike and Kim, unlike the first film where they worked closely together, this time they didn’t. But what is most involving was to hear how the guys had a crush on Kim Richards.

* The Gang’s Aid in Town – A reunion of the gang Christian Juttner (Dazzler), Brad Savage (Muscles) and Poindexter Yothers (Crusher) who talk about having fun on the spot, having a crush on Kim Richards and how the film was one of the best experiences of their lives.

* Disney Kids with Powers – A short music video of various clips of children in Disney films that have powers.

* “The Eyes Have It” – An exciting short featuring Donald Duck and Pluto, as Donald learns hypnotism and his test subject is Pluto.

* Lost Treasure: Christopher Lee: The Lost Interview – An interview with Christopher Lee done befriend in 1978 with a Spanish television network. Lee talks about working on the film and his experience for a Disney film. Subtitled in English.

* 1978 Disney Studio Album – A short musical featurette featuring stills from all films that were shown in 1978.

* Audio Commentary – Commentary by John Hough, Ike Eisenmann and Kim Richards.

JUDGMENT CALL:

I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by “RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN”. Mainly because you have legendary actress Betty Davis and Christopher Lee (known for his work in the past with the Vampire and Fu Manchu films and presently with his work as Count Dooku in the “Star Wars” films) . But it was gigantic to contemplate them out of their typical film element and playing a silly duo, Letha obsessed with money and Victor obsessed with the power and prestige he can catch from utilizing Tony for his gain crooked means.

But many people wanted a sequel and this time, the series would managed to pick an action film with an a promenade scene and even more special features than the first film. Definitely something you wouldn’t imagine seeing in a family film but John Hough wanted to beget clear the film was different from the first and if he could, invent it even better.

One thing that I liked was that both Tony and Tina are nearly at the same level in their powers. In the first film, it seemed like the only contrivance Tony could utilize his powers was playing a harmonica. But jubilant they didn’t do that for this film.

I enjoyed the first film for its cat and mouse type of storyline, it was a pure film that is fun for the family and kids. With “RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN”, because more special effects were primitive and more action scenes, it was spicy to leer both Tony and Tia separated but most of all, watching them go against each other utilizing their supernatural abilities.

Speaking of special effects, the first film utilized a cat and a have. “RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN” utilized Albert the goat and it’s fantastic how trainers were able to win a goat to promenade through the middle on top of several cars. Very impressive.

Now, for those who fill the 2003 DVD release of “RETURN TO WITCH MOUNTAIN”, you may not need this DVD because there really is no major addition in terms of special features but for those who are looking forward to watching Dwayne Johnson in “Accelerate TO WITCH MOUNTAIN” in 2009 and have never watched the new films or its been too long since you have last seen it, then definitely acquire up both classic Witch Mountain films. They’re both fun and palatable in their possess separate design.

As for “Rush TO WITCH MOUNTAIN”, both “Race TO WITCH MOUNTAIN” and “RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN” both arrive with a free designate coupon (attached to the slipcase camouflage) to download a certificate (label) in order to notice the latest film at a participating theater for free.

Overall, “RETURN TO WITCH MOUNTAIN” is a fun and delectable film and despite being nearly 35 years primitive, it’s a film that families can peruse with their children now and unexcited be entertained.

Definitely a Disney classic worth having in your DVD library.

This is the 1978 sequel to Disney’s 1975 science-fiction-adventure movie, Rush to Witch Mountain Special Edition. In the first movie, we met Tony and Tia Malone, two orphans with unbelievable abilities, like telepathy and telekinesis. It turned out that the siblings were aliens, whose spaceship had crashed, but they are reunited, by the kill of the movie, with their uncle.

In the sequel, Tony and Tia are brought to Pasadena so that they can find a chance to view how people live on Earth. This goes badly glorious fast, thanks to an immoral scientist, who is experimenting with a mind control contrivance when he sees Tony beget one of his fabulous acts, and decides he can became even more well-known if he can control Tony’s mind. The imperfect scientist’s wealthy patroness sees Tony as a potential goldmine.

Meanwhile, Tia loses contact with Tony, visually and telepathically, and tries to salvage him. She is helped by a street-gang of boys who are nice but not nearly as tough and mean as they want people to possess they are. She does not rep powerful success and ends up pitted against her mind-controlled brother. Along the diagram, a big-hearted but inept truancy officer and a goat manage to encourage the alien siblings survive and try to earn each other.

The first Witch Mountain movie featured tantalizing child actors, an animated premise, and some action, but extinct dialogue and unimpressive special effects. Three years later, after the world had seen the startling spectacle of the first Star Wars movie, the sequel not only showed no improvement, but I peep it as a weaker movie than its predecessor. Why?

In the first film, Kim Richards (as Tia) and Ike Eisenmann (as Tony) sounded like they were reading lines read by someone who had never spoken with a child. In the sequel, Ike Eisenmann fares somewhat better, sounding a bit more natural, but Kim Richards has line after line of “Who the heck wrote that?!” lines. The gang of boys who befriend her also work off a abominable script, although Christian Juttner (as Dazzler) manages to overcome his lines to advance off okay.

To accompany the child-actors, we have a trio of villains, with two of the roles played by accomplished actors. Christopher Lee portrays Victor, the horrible scientist zigzag on academic fame and glory through ruthless research. Bette Davis portrays Letha, Victor’s not-very-bright but very greedy patroness, out to accept rich on Victor’s research, at the expense of Tony. Both Mr. Lee and Ms. Davis are given lines to sigh that are exactly what you would demand their characters to say. Anthony James, Letha’s nephew and Victor’s inept flunkie.

Given the level reached by special effects when this movie was made, the effects in Return From Witch Mountain are disappointing. In the bonus features, they justify how they weak strings and cranes to do the telekinesis and levitation effects. While you do not survey any of the strings or cranes, I judge that it is determined that process in enact included them. The levitation in no contrivance resembles flight or any natural movement. The levitation effects in the Harry Potter films were definitely better.

The film also has a credibility yell at times. Suspending disbelief regarding aliens with paranormal abilities is one thing, but it is another thing altogether to inquire of that a flying saucer could soar in and out of the Rose Bowl, twice, with no one seeing it. And, there is a scene, early in the movie, where Tony displays his telekinetic powers on a public street, and there is no one around, except the two villains, to gawk the act. Plus, no one is there to gape a child being abducted, in expansive daylight?

With the sequel, we again have spirited child actors in a movie with an entertaining premise — two alien children with paranormal abilities trying to experience everyday life on Earth — and plenty of action. However, we again also have a script with stilted dialogue for all of the children, or sub-par special effects. This movie unbiased doesn’t work for me.

Oh, except for Alfred the goat! Alfred does his every scene very smoothly, and gives the most credible performance in the movie.

I received this movie, free from Disney, in exchange for an unbiased review.

– Chris McCallister, author of Coming Paunchy Circle
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