A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.
There is so much in this film that needed to be tweaked and enhanced to really make it special.
– Ben Lyons,
At the Movies,
16 Mar 2009
fresh:
These blond space children (Ludwig and Bridge to Terabithia's Robb) are persuasively otherworldly -- and the movie makes room for sympathetic cameos from Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann of the first go-round.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
18 Mar 2009
fresh:
The planet-hopping children have special talents -- telekinesis, telepathy etc. -- although it is the high-wattage lovability of Mr. Rock that's the real superpower on display here.
– Clark Collis,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Mar 2009
rotten:
It's pacy all right, but glib and uninvolving for grown-ups, though perhaps furnished with enough in the way of spaceships, lasers and digital explosions to pacify undemanding little 'uns of an afternoon.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
9 Apr 2009
fresh:
Race to Witch Mountain is the first kids' film in ages to have action beats that measure up to Hollywood's grownup action fare.