Wild Witch

A good family movie, a slow burn to watch on a sleepy night. i wish i could travel by fogways, seemed cool to be able to cross vast distances while stumbling through a bit of fog (just dont get lost).

I really enjoyed this film, I'm way older than its intended audience but the aunt Isa in the film is living my witchy cabin in the forest dream so it drew me in!

The clunky dubbed English version on Amazon does this film no favours and it isn't fair that reviews here are clearly not taking that into consideration. The English dubbing is pretty bad thanks to over zealous voice acting so I quickly switched to subtitles and it was so much better. Even though the only option for subtitles I had was also audio description which was mildly annoying when you don't need to be told there are 'birds cawing' or 'ominous music'.

It's a family film so it does have a simple plot which I'm all for, why over complicate things and make things convoluted? So many big hoohah mainstream Hollywood films would benefit from simplifying and shortening these days. But the direction here was really good. There's a scene that uses CGI that is shown as a reflection in the main character's eye. This is genius! I wish more filmmakers would use CGI cleverly in this way, so it doesn't just look like average clunky CGI effects that will age badly, it was considered and made the most of the special effects, as did some of the other scenes.

I appreciated the sinister but not violent aspect too which is creeping in more for younger viewers, and I loved the message of the wild witches, protecting the wild, the earth etc. Overall I think this is an enjoyable, quirky, wholesome watch with a positive message about embracing your weird and protecting the natural world.

Based on a book series by Lene Kaaberbøl, it is not as flexible as the movie could be if designed for a movie.

Clara (Gerda Lie Kaas) comes of age to find her mother seemed to forget to tell her of her destiny. She gets scratched by a black cat and everything in her life goes wonky. Yep, she is the one, and has to do the things "The One" has to do to save everything that is "Wild."

I must say the real cutie is May Simón Lifschitz; she plays the evil Kimæra.

I watch the one with the English dubbing. Somewhere out there is the original language version. The trailer is in Danish and they only used basic words so I can see that the dubbing is convenience but not necessary.

This could become a series. However, it was wrapped up well.

As many of the other reviewers have pointed out, the overuse of the word "wild" is annoying at first and then it is just funny. I kept laughing each time I heard the word. If it weren't for the really bad script and awful dubbing, the story would be decent. It would have probably been more effective to simply provide subtitles. The acting is bad, but could have been overlooked if the script were better. Keep an open and patient mind and have fun counting how many times the word "wild" or phrases with "wild" in it appears in the movie. See if you can get through it without cracking up and having an absolutely Wild time. Just know that the ending is just as bad as the beginning.

The story is interesting enough, I like witchy stories about witches, and familiars and all that. But if you think of taking a shot of tequila every time someone says "wild" just know the script says it 68 times in 101 minutes, so you'll probably end up in the hospital if you do. Overall a nice little movie about a girl discovering her nature-connected magic and having to deal with the big bad dark witch.

The dubbing is fine, the children don't always sound like children, but that's kind of expected with an English dub. Cute movie if you're into witchcraft and have an hour and a half to sit down.