"Teen Witch" is a bad movie for sure, but this "Teen Wolf" wannabe, which does a gender and monster swap of the "Teen Wolf story, is wildly charming for its 80s nostalgia value. Seriously, the entire movie looks like it a Jordache Jeans commercial. The story, much like "Teen Wolf," finds a dorky teen, Robyn Lively, who as she comes of age discovers she's a witch (instead of a werewolf). She then uses her newfound powers to find popularity and boys, but with a similar dilemma to that in "Teen Wolf" of whether she should abandon her real friends for the stuck-up in-crowd. If done right, this type of story can be enjoyable (i.e. "Can't Buy Me Love" or "Pretty in Pink" or even "Teen Wolf"), but this film lacks good writing, characters, or humor. I was also confused because there are a couple random musical numbers that seem to come out of nowhere, when the film is not really presented as a musical. Strange. "Teen Witch" features terrible 80s music from bands you've never heard of, fabulous 80s outfits and hair, and lots of recognizable character actors who you don't know their names but would immediately recognize (Dick Sargent, Zelda Rubinstein, Shelley Berman, Marcia Wallace, and Joshua John Miller {the creepy kid from "The River's Edge"}), which pretty much took me on a walk down high school memory lane or at least an exaggerate Southern California version of high school, which was more than enough to keep me entertained.
Review of Teen Witch
