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Captivating movie !

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Fairuza Balk, Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rae and Tim Curry star in this 1986 fantasy based on the book. This tells of young girl, Mildred Hubble (Balk) who attends an academy for witches. She tries her best to become a good witch, but things go terribly wrong for her and she gets picked on by classmate, Ethel Hallow (Anna Kipling). Rigg (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) plays Miss Hardbroom, a teacher who is a bit tough on Mildred, Rae (The Facts of Life) plays duel roles as the Dean, Miss Cackle and her evil twin sister, Aggie who tries to take over the school and Curry (Legend) plays the grand wizard. I've liked this since I was a kid, It's basically Pre-Harry Potter, Balk & the cast are good in it and it's funny how Balk played a witch 10 years later in "The Craft." I recommend this 80's classic.

This links with my other comments, etc, re the four ITV works inspired by Jill Murphy's Worst Witch novels. This feature is the first, followed by the three television series, a 20 year production span. I note that most IMDb comments for this at May 2008 are from the USA. They tend to be very positive, rating it a lot. Several have read the novels as part of their schoolwork, moving onto the feature from that. Several saw it as kids or saw it because their kids watched it. * Me not being from the USA, I saw this because of the 1998 series, I had the first few episodes on DVD and that made me read the novels and watch this. I found that it was possible to get to like this, but that my initial reaction was to want to run away. Get past that there is a lot of okay here. I had expected an English Millie in an English school be it a rather special school. It is made by an English broadcaster and includes the highly rated English Diana Rigg. Approach this from that direction then for me there are hurdles to overcome. Millie portrayed with a strong Irish accent unlike any that I actually came across in England when at school many decades ago. It reminds me of the accent that the City of La girl Brittney Bomann had to use in The Little Unicorn. Balk did some good acting but there was a hurdle that I had to overcome in order to appreciate that. Agatha and Donna, Miss Cackle's sister and niece, having strong North American accents. The cheap mention of Alabama. I assumed that the GB broadcasters were looking to the USA for backing and paying a price that the USA comments seem to say as okay but the dirth of GB comments to say other. They lost their home audience, who it would have been created for? The 1998 series starting visually close to the novels, this could partly be due to this 1986 feature? It starts with a power that I do not find in this 1986, but North Americans might disagree. Maud not being named Moonshine? I did not notice that gem as she is usually called Maud. * I now have two different DVDs of this and I mostly prefer the Region 2 disk on the ITV label to my Region 4 version. There again, the Region 4 was an extra included as an extra disk in my set of The New Worst Witch, a very budget price DVD collection. New W W is real nice.

I been watching this movie for years. When I was little, I couldn't wait till Halloween to watch it. Its one of my favorites,I have watched this movie so many times that I know it Word for Word. I never did care for the TV series, looked to dumb. I would watch this movie with a friend of mine and we both would play out the parts, She got tongue twisted sometime, but not me. I love how the grand wizard comes in the end for Mildred, she is not the worst witch after all. And how Ethel Gets mad and pushes herself out of the crowd. My aunt used to sing Aggies song My little school, and add words to it, like stinky rotten, boy would I laugh. I am 23 and till this day i'll still pop that movie in say the parts as they go

First, I must admit two things. 1. I am a fan of Tim Curry. 2. I am a reader and I devour everything I get ahold of including the /Worst Witch/ book that this movie was based on. One of those books series of course is Harry Potter, and I think this movie comes off very well in comparison! In 1986, the idea for this movie was "a wrap" and no one had even conceived (except JK) there was to be a huge following of a boy who attends a school for wizards. This movie is about a batch of girls who attend a witch school. The potions master in the currently internationally famous movie (Alan Rickman, pants!) is a mean, nasty man who dislikes the lead character. The first scene we have with Diana as Miss Hardbroom is a potions scene. You might note other similarities, trust me. I especially chuckled watching the flight-teacher "surfing" on her broom. Nahhhh. Don't know where Chris Columbus got that idea do we? Smiles.Despite all the above, I am seeking a copy of this movie for my son and myself. I think it's a cute movie. Just like the (coughsHPcoughs) other movie, there are supernatural elements in WW, but I think today's children can handle them just fine. If not, we'll turn Queen Aggie on them!If you get a chance, do watch this one. It's a keeper.**** out of *****