SIDE BY SIDE | The Witches 1990 & The Witches 2020

It's been 30 years and these witches are still turning little boys into mice. See the difference between Jim Henson's classic practical effects and Robert Zemeckis' CGI. It's practically night and day. Which do you prefer?
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[disneyprincess]

I was disappointed that Anjelica Houston didn`t make a cameo in the movie.

[DeepScreenAnalysis]

Mai Zetterling was fantastic as the grandmother in the original because she had an element of the dark side in her too. The new one takes away those nuances.

[LittleMissRequiem]

I remember hearing that Roald Dahl (the author of the original book) hated the 1990 film so much that he was even actively trying to get people not to see it; the only thing about it that he liked was Anjelica Huston’s acting. So I can only imagine how he would’ve reacted to this remake.

[Iam-vrpo]

Original is far better, Witches the grand high Witch the story in general, the new version just isn't cutting it.

[ioszeged]

ngl I found myself looking at the original more. It just felt more natural the way the backgrounds and effects blended with the people

[rossdiamondthief]

The only thing the remake couldn’t replace is Rowan Atkinson

[SirOt]

Angelica Huston is the best version of witch.

[nikzentertainmentnetwork]

Im sorry the old one looks much better and it was made so many more years CGI looks fake and the old one had amazing practical effects as well as excellent work by Jim Henson. This movie did not need a remake as the old one was excellent and had much darker tones the new one one is just comic parody

[marshallcampbell]

Original was in England. Original wins

[Laufield]

Modern Hollywood are lazy for makeup. Too much CGI. I don’t like Jurassic World cgi dinosaurs looks so fake

[urilaf]

Both are good fun. For once for a remake I have very little to no complaints

[lval]

I like the old 1990 one better personally. The new one has too much CGI and Anjelica Huston was a scary grand High witch. I like it better that the kids turn back to humans. I like the old movie better than the book. I know it's weird, but that is how I feel. I grew up reading Roald Dahl books and The Witches was not my favorite book. To me, the best films based on Roald Dahl's books are Matilda and James and the Giant Peach. Those movies did a good job in following the book with just a little minor difference from the books and plus Roald Dahl films of the '90s used very little CGI of course James and the Giant Peach during the middle was animated, but glad Tim Burton was involved in it to give it his cartoon style.

[RTMonitor]

I could see the differences between the two. The older version is more of looking realism while the newer one seems to be more of a Dahl-ly version of it.

[BlurayDan]

Always enjoy these, dude. Keep it up!

[TheNotverysocial]

It's ironic the movie with the author's name in the title is the one that past the ending comes further from the source material while the one that doesn't have his name more closely resembles the book in every way except one unneeded scene tacked in there for seemingly no reason. Remove that one scene and the 1990 film honours Roald Dahl far more than he'd have thought. I really think the extra sequences with that new character tipped him off more than the rest of the film, and if she were removed he'd have liked it. He enjoyed Angelica Huston, and I wouldn't be surprised to know he loved Rowan Atkinson. And the effects were great, and the plot was almost exactly what he wrote when that new witch wasn't on screen. He would most certainly not approve of shafting the British setting for an American one.

[mylesgoldsberry]

I like the original version better bc in the end, Luke was turned back into a human, but Charlie stayed as a mouse permanently

[Grandmaster_Dragonborn]

The fact that the original looks better even though it’s *30 years older* then the remake is just, by all accounts, a testament of how films are getting worse.

[DavidDoesNotExist]

I think that the 2020 Adaptation is good, tbh. Of course, not as good as the original, but still good. And the effects are fairly decent for a movie coming from HBO. Being involved in the Animation and CGI industry, the mice were extremely well animated and the effects were pretty good.

[August.AFBProd]

1:49 This scene at the 90's version is not rainy.

[dlau]

CGI is the worst part in the remake. Very disrespectful to the original.