Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticErica Wigg, the main character of Goro Miyazaki’s made-for-TV feature “Earwig and the Witch,” is both a brat and an orphan.
Those two traits seldom go together in children’s stories, and the combination provides a modest starting point for this intermittently amusing CG entry from Studio Ghibli — back in business but a shadow of its former glory.
Erica also happens to be the daughter of a rock-star sorceress, who dropped her on the stoop of St. Morwald’s Home for Children with a note: “Got the other 12 witches all chasing me.
I’ll be back for her when I’ve shook them off. It may take years.”It will take closer to 75 minutes, actually, at which point the movie abruptly ends without providing any sense of those.
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