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Race to Witch Mountain

Race to Witch Mountain is a fantastic non stop chase, and having a mountain as the final destination it ironically stars The Rock (Dwayne Johnson). He’s Jack Bruno, a Vegas cabbie trying to get on the straight and narrow after doing a stretch for his work providing muscle and being a wheel man for a local mob boss. Too bad his old boss isn’t ready for him to retire. Life really gets complicated when two teenagers, Seth (Vancouver’s Alexander Ludwig) and his sister Sara (AnnaSophia Robb) invade his cab giving some hinky directions in robotic syntax. Their strange lexicon isn’t persuasive but the wad of cash they’re waving around is. It turns out that the kids are on a mission from another world and not only do they have the feds on their case but yet another alien with a Terminator mentality is also stalking them. What are the odds that the teen’s space craft would crash land just outside of Vegas when it’s lousy with geeks attending a UFO convention? Pretty good if you believe in the chaos theory like Dr. Alex Friedman (Carla Gugino), a convention guest speaker who ends up teaming with Jack and the kids to get them to Witch Mountain. Failure by the way is not an option as the fate of the world depends upon it. Race to Witch Mountain is Disney remaking Disney with a rehash of two previous movies from the ‘70’s - and yes of course it sets itself up for a sequel. That by the way will probably get made because despite a few flaws in the plot flow this is a pretty exciting family film that’s not too intense for anyone.

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