Halloweentown High

Those three generations of Cromwell women, Debbie Reynolds, Judith Hoag, and Kimberly Brown are once again fighting some evil forces that are trying to keep the world of Halloween away from the human world. This time it's a world exchange program that's at stake.

Young Kimberly Brown has the bright idea to have some Halloweentown kids come to the human world incognito as humans, the better not to instantly shock people to foster greater understanding. Of course the powers that be in Halloweentown remembering their experiences with humankind before are very skeptical.

But Kimberly believes so much in the project that she bets the family magic powers on it. The bet comes due appropriately on Halloween.

The Magic Kingdom has developed its own nice little franchise in the Halloweentown movies to go along with the various incarnations of High School Musical. Debbie Reynolds and the rest of the cast are as enjoyable as they were in the first Halloweentown film. And if the school looks familiar Zac Efron and company sung and danced there. And Lucas Grabeel of the High School Musical films is also part of this cast as one of the Halloweentown transfer kids.

Halloweentown High is good viewing during goblin season.

All the kids in Halloweentown wind up going to high school at a school of mortals. Never mind that the principal hates witches, and that there's another bad guy who wants all witches, trolls, etc. To be gone, even though he has great magical powers. To help them fit in, they all look like normal mortals. Nonetheless, teen witch Kimberly J. Brown can't help doing the odd magical thing, which is disquieting. Can she and grandma witch Debbie Reynolds raise the spirit of tolerance in time for the big Halloween-themed hop?

There's little subtlety in the third of four TV movies for the Disney Channel, and the prosthetic masks that cheered up the two earlier ones don't show up until the end, but this is another case of 'if you liked the earlier ones, you'll like this." best to look at them in the order they were released, and if you still enjoy this one, there's a fourth.

I think "Halloween Town High" was really good. I also liked "Halloween Town and Halloween Town-Kalabars Revenge. Kimberly J. Brown is a terrific Actress. She is a very beautiful talented actress. I have all the Halloween Town movies recored. I look forward to the Next Halloween Town movie. These movies are very good movies for kids to watch.

I am a very big fan of Kimberly J. Brown. I hope Disney keeps on putting these movies on. I really hope they make a Halloween Town 4. These are the kinds of movies that I love to watch. If people would watch the movies very carefully they would realize that these Haloween Town movies are good for kids to watch. I will always be a fan of Kimberly J. Brown

This movie series is obviously some people's favorite Halloween movies. I didn't grow up on Disney, but my wife did. So we watch different Disney classics every year and I'll warn that I'm not sentimental about Disney movies.

This one was easy to watch and isn't boring which makes it ideal for a holiday when you are passing out candy or carving pumpkins as you don't need to really figure out the plot since it's over explained.

Being the third one, I imagine it didn't get the same budget as the film quality wasn't nearly what movies were using in 2004. Some scenes looked like they were filmed on a household camera from that year.

I couldn't really tell if the principal was a bad guy or not.

You'll appreciate the characters and find most of it good enough. If you have kids, it's probably a really good pick since it is really tame and none of the costumes are intense.

Halloweentown III: Halloween High, though not a stunning piece of cinema, held much more talent and savvy than that of the first two. The characters did not seem as 1-dimensional and bland. The production value was more towards the theme of the film. And the acting was much better as well.

Truth be told, I was appalled by the first two films. To me, they seemed to poke too much fun at Halloween and the mystique behind the glorious Holiday that it is. This was abandoned that lack of respect and focused more on being a family friendly film.

Kimberly J. Brown has grown into a beautiful and talented young actresses. It is good to see her give less of a "wooden"performance, as in the last two entries.

I think the new director & new writer were just what this series needed. If Disney continues to make them like this...I'll keep watching with my Daughter. If they revert back to what they have been dishing out...Then I'll stay on Nickelodeon!

7 outta 10