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Now on DVD: "Race to Witch Mountain"
DVD Release Date: August 4, 2009
Jack is a rock-jawed Joe who's had his share of trouble as a wheelman for the Las Vegas mob. But now he's determined to straighten up and fly right. All he wants to do is drive his cab and live a normal life—which isn't so easy in Las Vegas with all the "crazies" who show up in his back seat.
Especially since the UFO convention came to town.
Then things ratchet up from crazy to out of this world when teen siblings Sara and Seth pop up. All of a sudden people are shooting at him. And not just people. An armor-clad bounty hunter from outer space shows up to unleash laser blasts in his direction, too!
By this point, Jack has put two and two together and realizes that these kids aren't just saying they're aliens—like all those UFO fanatics—these two really are aliens. They're on a quest to gather research that will save their withering planet. And the blond-haired brother and sister also want to convince their civilization's leaders that they don't have to take over Earth in the process. (Which sounds like a great idea to Jack.)
The space kids have some levitating and walk-through-walls superpowers on tap to help out along the way. But mostly it's up to Jack to punch, duck, sneak and drive really fast in order to outfox government agents, local thugs and a high-powered alien predator. Of course, he needs to also figure out how to get his charges into a government base and retrieve their spaceship.
Where's Captain Kirk when you need him?
POSITIVE ELEMENTS
Sara and Seth's motives seem pure, never mind that they're part of a big bad alien race bent on attacking Earth. They explain that what they've come to do is retrieve their parents' research and stop the intergalactic assault.
Even though Jack's instincts tell him not to get involved with Seth and Sara's troubles, his conscience won't let him walk away without helping the seemingly defenseless teens. Later, he repeatedly puts his life on the line to save them. And though Seth initially believes all humans to be untrustworthy, Jack's consistent, selfless actions convince him otherwise. The boy then apologizes for his mistrust.
SPIRITUAL CONTENT
Seth quotes Buddha, saying, "You are what you think you are." A thug tells Jack that he hates seeing him waste "God-given talents." "Sin City" is used as a stand-in for Las Vegas.
Jack and the kids go to an astrophysicist, Dr. Friedman, for help. She explains that the events that pulled them all together were a "predetermined set of circumstances," but she attributes them to chaos theory.
SEXUAL CONTENT
Women wear tight tops—a few of which reveal midriffs.
VIOLENT CONTENT
We're not asked to directly watch anybody die, but we do see quite a lot of action-violence, some of which results in death. Men in Black-style agents are constantly on Jack's and the kids' heels. And on several occasions these pursuers pull out handguns and assault rifles to fill the air with bullets. Lasers, rockets and explosions send people flying through the air in every direction when an alien bounty hunter called a Siphon is added to the mix.
A group of 20 or so soldiers accidentally open fire on Jack, Seth, Sara and Dr. Friedman. In slo-mo, the bullets bounce harmlessly off their bodies due to Seth's super-control of molecular density. The government agents begin a dangerous, experimental process on Sara and Seth that we're told might kill them.
Through it all, Jack refuses to pick up a gun and shoot back. What he's not averse to using are his bare knuckles. He goes mano a mano with agents, scientists and mob thugs—pummeling heads and bodies. He even goes up against the Siphon. The Siphon bats him aside like a fly. The rest of his foes hit him, bash him, bludgeon him and smash his head into a wall. But for all that, our hero walks away with nothing more than a bruised scrape over one eye.
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