Wildhexe

I've read the book this movie is based on when it came out in Germany and opposed to this movie, it's really good. The plot is different than in the book, like they cut out the exciting parts, what leaves us with the most boring kids movie I've ever seen. It vaguely tells the original story like someone read the book and wrote this movie one year later from pure memory, with the only intention to make this a very good looking movie. I was also absolutely not able to connect with the characters at all. The main actress doesn't look like the girl on the book cover as well. The summery of my review would be: Absolutely boring, but probably great if you want to play it on mute in the background.

Very well done foreign family movie dubbed in English. Great scenery, and special effects. A slow burn movie that connects you to nature...something many people may not appreciate (and hence their low rating of the movie) :-)

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.

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.

Like the cinematography.... the cast... wow the forrests! I should visit Denmark one day!