The two little boys who play the unfortunate Luke and his chubby pal Bruno are outstanding. it's honestly a little unnerving as to how well she seems to understand her horrifying characterization. Huston does this with a complete restraint while still pushing the performance wildly over the top. she proudly asserts her dominance over the other's by belittling the others and occasionally killing some by zapping them into cinders. Huston's witch is terrifyingly homicidal, masked by a thin acceptance of refinement and graciousness. and the witches themselves are diluted somewhat by the conversion of the littlest witch.Īnjelica Huston almost steals the show away from Henson and director Nicholas Roeg's brilliantly atmospheric and eerily real stylization. chubby little Bruno has a nice enough and normal mother, and Luke's cigar smoking granny is positively butch. and they don't want to kill just anybody, they want to kill children. rather than nurture, these women want to kill. that's evident in the hilarious front the witches have which is a charity for the prevention of child abuse. the horrible witches here are the very opposite of the nurturing mother figure. it satirizes the very nature of the feminine. and it's humour is very subtle and sophisticated for a children's work. i don't see too much of a problem with that really, because it's done with such humour and well, life isn't always pretty or cozy.Įvery time i see this i can't believe how funny it is. most children's stories are made to comfort or educate, Dahl's 'The Witches' mostly seems designed to alarm and incite. so basically Dahl should take most of the blame here. this is a strange work of paranoia and chauvinism, pretty much aimed at women and femininity.
i'm a big fan of Dahl's witticisms and having read this, i'd say this adaptation, except for the ending, sticks closely to the book. I've actually read Roald Dahl's children book.
everything Jim Henson created was pure magic. i don't think most kids under ten years old can probably handle these scares, but i would still recommend it for all ages because it is so genuinely quaint and witty and very cute.
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