This movie, per Sarah's request, was mostly just a tool to traumatize Erik by showing him an example of what kid movies were like when the rest of us were kids. The plot is dreadfully simple. In a coastal English town, an American boy and his English grandmother stumble upon a convention of witches (not the hot kind) who turn him and another kid into mice. Wacky hijinks occur in which "hilarity" ensues as they try to solve the problem. It's all very gross and nightmare-inducing in the way that Roald Dahl books are. Angelica Huston eats all the scenery, and the overall acting is somewhere on the spectrum of bad stage acting meant to play to cheap seats. The time period is slightly ambiguous but feels older than the time it was made and the tone is not quite comical enough or not quite serious enough. At least we all learned that a stamp collector is also called a philatelist, which doesn't sound inappropriate at all.
Spoon Rating: 3
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