4/5 Gift for the Grandson @8
  by C. D. Cohron (Madison, MS United States)
It was a gift and well received by our 8 year old grandson...he liked it.

3/5 Dated and disappointing
  by Trevor Henderson
The special effects were ok, nothing great. They really look amateurish in 2009. The plot was not that interesting and rather predictable. No magic. It really deserved two stars or maybe two and a half, but I was generous and gave it three.

3/5 WARNING!!!
  by M. Meltzer (SYRACUSE)
WARNING!!! If you wish to order the remake of Race To Witch Mountain that was in theaters in 2009 as I did, do not order this DVD because this is NOT the one you want. I assumed that because this DVD is dated as 2009, it is the new one. It however is the original release. Both the new edition and the old one have been released on DVD in the year 2009. It caught me by surprise. Anyway, if Eddie Albert is listed as an actor, it is the older version. If Dwayne Johnson is staring, it is the remake. What can I say? I made a mistake. Now, you don't have to.

3/5 the gentle original seems quaint in comparison to the remake
  by Michael Giltz
The Number One movie of the week is Race To Witch Mountain. But I can't handle the idea of substituting kindly Eddie Albert with The Rock, even if he has made a string of family films. So why not check out the gentle original from 1975, whose special effects seemed so nifty at the time. (Heck, I was even excited by the scene where the kids sat in bed and communicated with each other...telepathically!) You knew the brother was going to be prey to bad influences in the sequel Return From Witch Mountain ($19.99 each; Disney) because he was wearing a horrible turtleneck and in general the very modest magic had gone. But you can never go wrong with a story where kids feel special and misunderstood. I asked my sister the night after seeing the first movie if we should try to speak to each other telepathically when we went to bed and she told me I was a loser. But she cheated by saying it out loud. Fine for the very young. Visit me at michaelgiltz dot com.

4/5 The scriptwriters actually read the book!
  by Jane Mars (Stockton, CA United States)
While it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good novel is likely to be destroyed in Hollywood, at least this version of EtWM was made with respect to Key's novel. It's a good movie--Eddie Albert was good, and the kids were well-cast; the plot is the plot of the book (unlike other versions). If you have even a passing fancy for the plot, run, don't walk to your nearest source of Alexander Key novels. His sci-fi books are STILL some of my favorites, after 30 years. The Forgotten Door is still in print, and I've recently managed to dig used copies of some of the others up as well. They are absolutely worth it.