![]() ![]() ![]() She chews the scenery in an over-the-top accent and is having a ball. Things do liven up a bit when Anne Hathaway shows up as the Grand High Witch. The most interesting part of this section is in a flashback to the grandmother as a young girl, as she witnesses a witch's devilish deeds for the first time. The young boy is mostly a blank slate and the grandmother's entire role is to give exposition. For a film titled "The Witches", the film actually doesn't have very many of them nor do they have much screen time. I sat through those portions, wondering when the movie was going to start and when the titular witches would show up and play an important role in the story. The first half of the film was one I found rather meandering and seemed to exist entirely as set-up. A bit of a mixed bag, this adaptation of Roald Dahl's book is essentially a film with two acts.
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