Jessica Fletcher is a witch? Rubbish!


Why is it that when ever I'm bored and there is nothing else to watch, something like this always pops up? I loved this as a kid, but just how does it hold up today?


Bedknobs and Broomsticks stars Mrs. Potts, Cornelius and some other guy who tries so hard to be Peter Ustinov.


So the film starts off when a witch who is older than dirt gets her FIRST FUCKING BROOM. What the hell? Aren't witches supposed to be born witches? Doesn't make sense. So when she picks up this broom, at an orphanage no less, the orphanage director, wanting to get rid of three brats tell her to take them off her hands. Wow, not even the orphanage wants them. They must be assholes.  Even though she hates kids she takes them anyways, you know, for plot purposes. Later that night, the kids plan to run back to the orphanage that doesn't want them but catch Miss Marple in the act of witchcraft and blackmail her into teaching them spells or else they will tell the world about her. Being a complete dunce and not killing them, she agrees to do what ever they want. Family films, pffft.


To get to all the destinations they travel by a flying invisible bed. It's just falls short as a time machine, but instead of time, it's destinations. This idea is so ridiculous that Balki would have an aneurysm if he saw it. One of these locations is an animated island where creatures and animation that were lifted straight from Disney's Robin Hood. No joke. It's really quite sad. Why did they even bother?

Oh yea, somewhere in there, there was a plot, but between the children's horrible acting, musical numbers, a multi-cultural dance number that made no sense, and an animated soccer game, I never figured out what it was.

This is a good film, but strictly for people of the 12 and under variety, so I can't rate it too harshly, but i will anyways as there are better children's films out there, 1/5.