Honesty, i'm kinda torn on how I feel about the film adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl Book "The Witches". On the one hand, The makeup for the witches especially the Grand High Witch oozes with creepiness even to this very day. The combination of real trained mice and puppetry mice work very well together. The actress who plays the Grand High Witch Herself is downright perfect casting and it's not shy to show kids some very intense and scary imagery which is very welcomed.

Although it got a lot of things from the book right, I just can't help but sadly say that the book.....is just better. The book had more character and charm. It also had a very ballsy but also satisfying ending where [spoiler] Luke still remains a mouse. This means unfortunately he'll have a very short amount of time to live, but he's happy in his new form and since his grandma will also have a short time to live they'll still be together even until the very end. The Movie goes the opposite direction and changes Luke back into a human by the end of the movie which I honestly wouldn't mind myself if it weren't for it's sappy execution and overtone happiness.[/spoiler]

Even Roald Dahl himself was so mad at the movie's ending that he personally went to several local movie theaters during it's release and begged people not to see the movie. sure, that's a bit excessive but In my opinion, I wouldn't blame him.


While I do admit that I myself am also not a fond of how the film adaptation of "The Witches" ends, I did also find a lot of things that were highly enjoyable. I would highly recommend reading the book more than watching the movie but as far as children's book adaptations go, this one is definitely one of the better ones.