The 80s were a remarkable decade for movies. Sure, the 40s are known for producing great noir and the 50s were essentially campy, but the 80s had something entirely its own. The movie were all a little extra, whether the horror movies were extra gorey, the comedies extra
stupid, and the action heroes had a bit more action.
With that said, there was one movie that had a little extra everything, Teen Witch. The film was made in 1989 and was originally pitched as a female Teen Wolf, but the creators ended up taking this one in an entirely direction.
Teen witch has stupid comedy, magic and even musical numbers. It is as if the creators of this film could not decide what to do with the film so they just put it all in to let the editors figure it out. It all starts with the main character, Louise, who is played by Robin Lively. She comes into her room to find her pesky little brother reading from her journal. "Oh Brad," he exclaims loudly, tuning the audience into the fact
that Louise is in love with Brad. The only problem is that Louise is a dog faced nerd and Brad is the quarterback who only dates popular girls.
Well, the movie really takes off when Brad and his girlfriend almost hit and kill Louise while she's riding her bike home. Louise is run off the road and ruins her bike. Without her trusty ten-speed, she's forced to walk home, and guess what? It starts raining. So Louise stops at a psychic's house to use the phone. Only the psychic is that creepy lady from
Poltergeist (she really has that psychic role down) and reveals to Louise that Louise is in fact a witch. Not just any witch, but she's descended from a long line of witches. She then warns Louise that her powers will manifest themselves on her 16th birthday which only happens to be a couple days away.
To the shock of Louise, the psychic was right and Louise finds this out when she accidentally turns her little brother into a dog. Well, the rest is pretty predictable, Louise makes herself popular only to find that she's not sure if Brad really likes her for who she is or not. Of course, Louise isn't pragmatic to realize that showing all the behaviors of love and being in love amount to the same thing, so she ultimately decides to
reject her powers and return things back to normal. There's a lot of other stuff crammed between the beginning and end of this movie, but that's not what we're writing about today. If anything, this article was meant to focus on the musical numbers- and this one in particular.
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I could describe what's taking place above, but if a picture is worth 1k words, then this video is priceless. A little dancing, a little rapping and a whole lotta NKOTB-esque goodness. I personally think that more movies need to simply throw in musical numbers, it adds that something extra to the film.
Basically, Teen Witch is such a movie spectacle that you really have to see it to believe it. Do yourself a favor and put it on the Netflix queue, you'll thank me for it.
The 80s were a remarkable decade for movies. Sure, the 40s are known for producing great noir and the 50s were essentially campy, but the 80s had something entirely its own. The movie were all a little extra, whether the horror movies were extra gorey, the comedies extra
stupid, and the action heroes had a bit more action. 