OH dear, what on Earth happened here.With the man who treated us to the Back to the Future trilogy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis) behind the camera and Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer leading its stars, The Witches remake could have cast a spell on modern audiences.Instead, with its overreliance on stunningly poor CGI and a stodgy script, it leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.If you are going to remake a beloved original – which the devilishly dark 1990 The Witches definitely was – then you have to do a much better job than this.One of the shining lights in the original was the outstanding, practical-led, make-up job on the titular antagonists.You’d think the passing of two decades would result in witches.
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