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* MexicanStandoff: In Ray's Diner, between Burke's Men In Black and Sheriff Antony's deputies/the townspeople.
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* TouchedByVorlons: The ending of the film strongly implies that Sara has 'opened' Jack up to using more of his brain, giving him PsychicPowers as a reward for helping them.
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* TroubledButCute: Jack and Seth both qualify.
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''Race to Witch Mountain'' is a 2009 Disney action film starring Wrestling/DwayneJohnson. It is a remake/reboot of the ''[[EscapeToWitchMountain Witch Mountain]]'' movies from TheSeventies (''Escape To'', ''Return To'', and ''Beyond'') The story consists of two aliens (who look just like humans) crash landing on Earth. The Government takes their ship to a top-secret research facility, Witch Mountain. From there the two aliens, Seth and Sara, hail a cab, brandish a large wad of money, and tell the driver, Jack Bruno, to go "that way". The three quickly find themselves in a [[TitleDrop race]] to reach Witch Mountain to recover the spaceship and escape, all while evading the forces of government agent Burke and the Siphon, a dangerous alien assassin assigned to eliminate the twins.
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''Race to Witch Mountain'' is a 2009 Disney action film starring Wrestling/DwayneJohnson. It is a remake/reboot of the ''[[EscapeToWitchMountain Witch Mountain]]'' movies from TheSeventies (''Escape To'', ''Return To'', and ''Beyond'') and their own 1995 remake. The story consists of two aliens (who look just like humans) crash landing on Earth. The Government takes their ship to a top-secret research facility, Witch Mountain. From there the two aliens, Seth and Sara, hail a cab, brandish a large wad of money, and tell the driver, Jack Bruno, to go "that way". The three quickly find themselves in a [[TitleDrop race]] to reach Witch Mountain to recover the spaceship and escape, all while evading the forces of government agent Burke and the Siphon, a dangerous alien assassin assigned to eliminate the twins.
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* {{Expy}}: The Siphon is basically a Franchise/{{Predator}}. Their masks and even their faces beneath the masks look alike. It also bears an uncanny resemblance to a [[{{Franchise/Stargate}} Kull Warrior.]]
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* {{Expy}}: The Siphon is basically a Franchise/{{Predator}}. Their masks and even their faces beneath the masks look alike. It also bears an uncanny resemblance to a [[{{Franchise/Stargate}} [[Series/StargateSG1 Kull Warrior.]]
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* IHaveBrothersIHaveBrothers: Dr. Friedman's explanation of how she punched out a scientist.
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* ShoutOut: At the convention in Vegas, there are people present cosplaying as characters from ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Film/{{Tron}}''.
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** At the convention in Vegas, there are people present cosplaying as characters from ''Franchise/StarWars'' and''Film/{{Tron}}''.''Film/{{Tron}}''.
** A TV news reporter, played by Meredith Salenger, named "[[Film/TheJourneyOfNattyGann Natalie Gann]]."
** At the convention in Vegas, there are people present cosplaying as characters from ''Franchise/StarWars'' and
** A TV news reporter, played by Meredith Salenger, named "[[Film/TheJourneyOfNattyGann Natalie Gann]]."
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* HumanAliens: Seth and Sara, and presumably the rest of their species
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''Race to Witch Mountain'' is a 2009 Disney action film starring former wrestler Wrestling/DwayneJohnson. It is a remake/reboot of the ''[[EscapeToWitchMountain Witch Mountain]]'' movies from TheSeventies (''Escape To'', ''Return To'', and ''Beyond'') The story consists of two aliens (who look just like humans) crash landing on Earth. The Government takes their ship to a top-secret research facility, Witch Mountain. From there the two aliens, Seth and Sara, hail a cab, brandish a large wad of money, and tell the driver, Jack Bruno, to go "that way". The three quickly find themselves in a [[TitleDrop race]] to reach Witch Mountain to recover the spaceship and escape, all while evading the forces of government agent Burke and the Siphon, a dangerous alien assassin assigned to eliminate the twins.
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''Race to Witch Mountain'' is a 2009 Disney action film starring former wrestler Wrestling/DwayneJohnson. It is a remake/reboot of the ''[[EscapeToWitchMountain Witch Mountain]]'' movies from TheSeventies (''Escape To'', ''Return To'', and ''Beyond'') The story consists of two aliens (who look just like humans) crash landing on Earth. The Government takes their ship to a top-secret research facility, Witch Mountain. From there the two aliens, Seth and Sara, hail a cab, brandish a large wad of money, and tell the driver, Jack Bruno, to go "that way". The three quickly find themselves in a [[TitleDrop race]] to reach Witch Mountain to recover the spaceship and escape, all while evading the forces of government agent Burke and the Siphon, a dangerous alien assassin assigned to eliminate the twins.
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* ManlyTears: Jack Bruno at the ending where he says goodbye to the children; DwayneJohnson is more willing to be openly sentimental than his predecessors Schwarzenegger and Stallone.
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* ManlyTears: Jack Bruno at the ending where he says goodbye to the children; DwayneJohnson Wrestling/DwayneJohnson is more willing to be openly sentimental than his predecessors Schwarzenegger and Stallone.
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* CastIncest: AnnasophiaRobb and Alexander Ludvig dated at one point after playing brother and sister
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-> Jack: "''[[WrongGenreSavvy You "''You know what aliens look like!]] like! They're [[LittleGreenMen little green people]] [[BizarreAlienBiology people with antennas]] antennas and [[TakeMeToYourLeader "Take me to your leader Earthlings!"]]''
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* EverythingIsOnline: The Government can pull up every MagicalSecurityCam in Las Vegas in just a few seconds.
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''Race to Witch Mountain'' is a 2009 Disney action film starring former wrestler Wrestling/DwayneJohnson. It is a remake/reboot of the ''[[EscapeToWitchMountain Witch Mountain]]'' movies from TheSeventies (''Escape To'', ''Return To'', and ''Beyond'') The story consists of two aliens (who look just like humans) crash landing on earth. The Government takes their ship to a top-secret research facility, Witch Mountain. From there the two aliens; Seth and Sara hail a cab, brandish a large wad of money, and tell the driver, Jack Bruno, to go "that way". They end up at a run-down house. The cab driver follows the teenagers inside (against their wishes). The teenagers activate a secret passage and end up at a lush, tropical paradise. They find a large, gooey orb and extract a device from it. Then they get attacked by a large, mechanical "suit of armor".
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''Race to Witch Mountain'' is a 2009 Disney action film starring former wrestler Wrestling/DwayneJohnson. It is a remake/reboot of the ''[[EscapeToWitchMountain Witch Mountain]]'' movies from TheSeventies (''Escape To'', ''Return To'', and ''Beyond'') The story consists of two aliens (who look just like humans) crash landing on earth.Earth. The Government takes their ship to a top-secret research facility, Witch Mountain. From there the two aliens; aliens, Seth and Sara Sara, hail a cab, brandish a large wad of money, and tell the driver, Jack Bruno, to go "that way". They end up at a run-down house. The cab driver follows the teenagers inside (against their wishes). The teenagers activate a secret passage and end up at a lush, tropical paradise. They three quickly find themselves in a large, gooey orb [[TitleDrop race]] to reach Witch Mountain to recover the spaceship and extract a device from it. Then they get attacked by a large, mechanical "suit escape, all while evading the forces of armor".government agent Burke and the Siphon, a dangerous alien assassin assigned to eliminate the twins.
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** How about the way the entire main cast hugged the IdiotBall. The children and Bruno and especially Dr. Friedman. They have multiple chances face to face with Brurke exactly why it would be an excellent idea to let them return to their own planet and stop the alien invasion. For that matter, if I were government agent who has found aliens with interstellar capability have landed in my balliwick, I would do everything in my power to try and initiate a friendly non-threatening contact. Drugging them and threatening them with guns, not so much.
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** How about the way the entire main cast hugged the IdiotBall. The children and Bruno and especially Dr. Friedman. They have multiple chances face to face with Brurke exactly why it would be an excellent idea to let them return to their own planet and stop the alien invasion. For that matter, if I one were government agent who has found aliens with interstellar capability have landed in my balliwick, I would one should do everything in my your power to try and initiate a friendly non-threatening contact. Drugging them and threatening them with guns, not so much.
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* ProductPlacement: Jack's cab has a Nationwide Insurance sign on top, which remains pristine throughout the film.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Albeit SpockSpeak.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Albeit SpockSpeak. SpockSpeak.
* AlternateContinuity: The planet in [[Literature/EscapeToWitchMountain the original book]] was destroyed due their binary star system.
* AlternateContinuity: The planet in [[Literature/EscapeToWitchMountain the original book]] was destroyed due their binary star system.
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* PedestrianCrushesCar: {{Human Alien|s}} Seth increases his density just before a car hits him, causing it to smash against his body without harming him.
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* CastIncest: Annasophia Robb and Alexander Ludvig dated at one point after playing brother and sister
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* {{Expy}}: The Siphon is basically a Franchise/{{Predator}}. Their masks and even their faces beneath the masks look alike.
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* {{Expy}}: The Siphon is basically a Franchise/{{Predator}}. Their masks and even their faces beneath the masks look alike. It also bears an uncanny resemblance to a [[{{Franchise/Stargate}} Kull Warrior.]]
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** For those of us who actually paid attention to the scene, we notice that Sara's last words before she left didn't actually include ''her mouth moving''.
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Burke says to his team as they walk up to the restaurant that he wants all the exits covered. Everyone on his team files into the restaurant behind him, thus getting held up. When Jack and the kids escape the top of the building, there's no one at the back entrance.
** And again in Witch Mountain. The high tech facility has not surveillance on the ventilation shafts.
** Nor does anyone seem to have wondered why the guards who were supposed to remove Jack and Alex from the facility never checked back in.
** And again in Witch Mountain. The high tech facility has not surveillance on the ventilation shafts.
** Nor does anyone seem to have wondered why the guards who were supposed to remove Jack and Alex from the facility never checked back in.
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Burke says to his team as they walk up to the restaurant that he wants all the exits covered. Everyone on his team files into the restaurant behind him, thus getting held up. When Jack and the kids escape the top of the building, there's no one at the back entrance.
** And again in Witch Mountain. The high tech facility has not surveillance on the ventilation shafts.
**Nor does anyone seem to have wondered why the guards who were supposed to remove Jack and Alex from the facility never checked back in.
** And again in Witch Mountain. The high tech facility has not surveillance on the ventilation shafts.
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** And again in Witch Mountain. The high tech facility has no surveillance on the ventilation shafts.
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-> Sara: "''My brother and I... We are not from your planet.''"
-> Jack: "''Well you don't look like aliens.''"
-> Sara: "''What does an alien look like?''"
-> Jack: "''[[WrongGenreSavvy You know what aliens look like!]] They're [[LittleGreenMen little green people]] [[BizarreAlienBiology with antennas]] and [[TakeMeToYourLeader "Take me to your leader Earthlings!"]]''
''Race to Witch Mountain'' is a 2009 Disney action film starring former wrestler Wrestling/DwayneJohnson. It is a remake/reboot of the ''[[EscapeToWitchMountain Witch Mountain]]'' movies from TheSeventies (''Escape To'', ''Return To'', and ''Beyond'') The story consists of two aliens (who look just like humans) crash landing on earth. The Government takes their ship to a top-secret research facility, Witch Mountain. From there the two aliens; Seth and Sara hail a cab, brandish a large wad of money, and tell the driver, Jack Bruno, to go "that way". They end up at a run-down house. The cab driver follows the teenagers inside (against their wishes). The teenagers activate a secret passage and end up at a lush, tropical paradise. They find a large, gooey orb and extract a device from it. Then they get attacked by a large, mechanical "suit of armor".
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!!This film includes examples of:
* AlienAbduction: Subverted. In this case, it is the aliens who are captured (by humans).
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Albeit SpockSpeak.
* AreWeThereYet: "good in any universe".
* BavarianFireDrill: How Dr. Friedman cleared the area where the spaceship was being stored and studied.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Escaping the exhaust vent fire.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Jack Bruno. [[TroubledButCute At least he's attractive.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: The Siphon doesn't exactly fall to his death - he falls into the exhaust port of the kids' spaceship and is disintegrated.
* DragonInChief: The Siphon was sent by parts of the kids' home world's government that don't want them succeed and isn't operating of its own accord. Despite this, we see next to nothing of whoever sent the thing, making the Siphon the main villain of the film.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Jack. Justified as part of his DarkAndTroubledPast.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Witch Mountain.
* EverythingIsOnline: The Government can pull up every MagicalSecurityCam in Las Vegas in just a few seconds.
* {{Expy}}: The Siphon is basically a Franchise/{{Predator}}. Their masks and even their faces beneath the masks look alike.
* FiveRoundsRapid: The alien assassin hunter just ''stands there'' for an entire fight scene with the military as bullets ineffectually bounce off his armor. Nobody thinks to get a bigger gun.
* FlyAtTheCameraEnding: With the flying saucer.
* FlyingSaucer: The design of the kid's spaceship.
* GilliganCut: After the dog enter the cab there's a scene where Sara says that the dog "needs to go" and it ends like this:
--> '''Jack''': "... conversation with a dog(!) so my answer is still no."
--> Cue the scene where the dog comes back from where he had to go.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Burke says to his team as they walk up to the restaurant that he wants all the exits covered. Everyone on his team files into the restaurant behind him, thus getting held up. When Jack and the kids escape the top of the building, there's no one at the back entrance.
** And again in Witch Mountain. The high tech facility has not surveillance on the ventilation shafts.
** Nor does anyone seem to have wondered why the guards who were supposed to remove Jack and Alex from the facility never checked back in.
* HumanAliens: Seth and Sara, and presumably the rest of their species
* IHaveBrothers
* HotScientist: Dr. Friedman
* ImplacableMan: The Siphon. Nothing does anything more than slow it down and it tracks the cast down no matter where they are. It takes being thrown into the exhaust port of the kid's saucer to take it out.
* InNameOnly: Has almost nothing in common with the original 1968 novel ''Escape to Witch Mountain'' by Alexander Key except for the "Witch Mountain" name and two human-looking children who are actually alien in origin.
* InspectorJavert: Henry Burke.
* IntangibleMan: Seth
* InventionalWisdom: The Flame Throwing Air Vent
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Jack Bruno does just that.
* ManlyTears: Jack Bruno at the ending where he says goodbye to the children; DwayneJohnson is more willing to be openly sentimental than his predecessors Schwarzenegger and Stallone.
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: Sara reads Jack's thoughts concerning Dr. Friedman
* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: the kids explain that Earthlings are capable of telekinesis too and don't because "you don't use your full brain capacity".
* PapaWolf: Jack Bruno
* PlotInducedStupidity: No limit is really set as to how often the children can use their powers. Because of this, it isn't made particularly clear why the bounty hunter is a threat to them when Seth can become an IntangibleMan and actually apply this power to people he's in contact with. On the other hand, the Siphon was created by their home world, so they probably know more about it than we do.
** The villains have this when an SUV full of four presumably armed government agents just sit there while Jack threatens them with a tire iron. They let him go unquestioned.
** How about the way the entire main cast hugged the IdiotBall. The children and Bruno and especially Dr. Friedman. They have multiple chances face to face with Brurke exactly why it would be an excellent idea to let them return to their own planet and stop the alien invasion. For that matter, if I were government agent who has found aliens with interstellar capability have landed in my balliwick, I would do everything in my power to try and initiate a friendly non-threatening contact. Drugging them and threatening them with guns, not so much.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Burke's people go after the cab. They don't use their godlike government powers to have the dispatch call the cab and ask Jack to stop for the government people.
** Burke does it again in the small town. He brings in a small army to capture the aliens but doesn't contact the local sheriff and law enforcement to assist.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: The children in this movie are vastly overpowered compared to the originals in the Alexander Key novel.
* PunyEarthlings: Seth and Sara have PsychicPowers
* RemakeCameo: Kim Richards ('''Ti'''n'''a''' the waitress) and Ike Eisenmann (Sherriff An'''tony'''), who played the kids (Tia and Tony) in the original ''Escape To Witch Mountain''
* SaveTheVillain: During the final fight sequence, Jack looks like he's about to do this to the Siphon. He then winks at it and punches it in the face, causing the Siphon to fall into the exhaust port and die.
* SequelHook
* SpockSpeak: Seth and Sara
* TheyWouldCutYouUp
* ThoseTwoGuys: Two of the scientists, bumbler and straight man.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee
* VivaLasVegas
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Treating the NinetyPercentOfYourBrain line as a ChekhovsLecture, Sara gives Jack a 'parting gift' by apparently touching a hand to his head... we never see what effect this had.
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-> Sara: "''My brother and I... We are not from your planet.''"
-> Jack: "''Well you don't look like aliens.''"
-> Sara: "''What does an alien look like?''"
-> Jack: "''[[WrongGenreSavvy You know what aliens look like!]] They're [[LittleGreenMen little green people]] [[BizarreAlienBiology with antennas]] and [[TakeMeToYourLeader "Take me to your leader Earthlings!"]]''
''Race to Witch Mountain'' is a 2009 Disney action film starring former wrestler Wrestling/DwayneJohnson. It is a remake/reboot of the ''[[EscapeToWitchMountain Witch Mountain]]'' movies from TheSeventies (''Escape To'', ''Return To'', and ''Beyond'') The story consists of two aliens (who look just like humans) crash landing on earth. The Government takes their ship to a top-secret research facility, Witch Mountain. From there the two aliens; Seth and Sara hail a cab, brandish a large wad of money, and tell the driver, Jack Bruno, to go "that way". They end up at a run-down house. The cab driver follows the teenagers inside (against their wishes). The teenagers activate a secret passage and end up at a lush, tropical paradise. They find a large, gooey orb and extract a device from it. Then they get attacked by a large, mechanical "suit of armor".
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!!This film includes examples of:
* AlienAbduction: Subverted. In this case, it is the aliens who are captured (by humans).
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Albeit SpockSpeak.
* AreWeThereYet: "good in any universe".
* BavarianFireDrill: How Dr. Friedman cleared the area where the spaceship was being stored and studied.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Escaping the exhaust vent fire.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Jack Bruno. [[TroubledButCute At least he's attractive.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: The Siphon doesn't exactly fall to his death - he falls into the exhaust port of the kids' spaceship and is disintegrated.
* DragonInChief: The Siphon was sent by parts of the kids' home world's government that don't want them succeed and isn't operating of its own accord. Despite this, we see next to nothing of whoever sent the thing, making the Siphon the main villain of the film.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Jack. Justified as part of his DarkAndTroubledPast.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Witch Mountain.
* EverythingIsOnline: The Government can pull up every MagicalSecurityCam in Las Vegas in just a few seconds.
* {{Expy}}: The Siphon is basically a Franchise/{{Predator}}. Their masks and even their faces beneath the masks look alike.
* FiveRoundsRapid: The alien assassin hunter just ''stands there'' for an entire fight scene with the military as bullets ineffectually bounce off his armor. Nobody thinks to get a bigger gun.
* FlyAtTheCameraEnding: With the flying saucer.
* FlyingSaucer: The design of the kid's spaceship.
* GilliganCut: After the dog enter the cab there's a scene where Sara says that the dog "needs to go" and it ends like this:
--> '''Jack''': "... conversation with a dog(!) so my answer is still no."
--> Cue the scene where the dog comes back from where he had to go.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Burke says to his team as they walk up to the restaurant that he wants all the exits covered. Everyone on his team files into the restaurant behind him, thus getting held up. When Jack and the kids escape the top of the building, there's no one at the back entrance.
** And again in Witch Mountain. The high tech facility has not surveillance on the ventilation shafts.
** Nor does anyone seem to have wondered why the guards who were supposed to remove Jack and Alex from the facility never checked back in.
* HumanAliens: Seth and Sara, and presumably the rest of their species
* IHaveBrothers
* HotScientist: Dr. Friedman
* ImplacableMan: The Siphon. Nothing does anything more than slow it down and it tracks the cast down no matter where they are. It takes being thrown into the exhaust port of the kid's saucer to take it out.
* InNameOnly: Has almost nothing in common with the original 1968 novel ''Escape to Witch Mountain'' by Alexander Key except for the "Witch Mountain" name and two human-looking children who are actually alien in origin.
* InspectorJavert: Henry Burke.
* IntangibleMan: Seth
* InventionalWisdom: The Flame Throwing Air Vent
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Jack Bruno does just that.
* ManlyTears: Jack Bruno at the ending where he says goodbye to the children; DwayneJohnson is more willing to be openly sentimental than his predecessors Schwarzenegger and Stallone.
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: Sara reads Jack's thoughts concerning Dr. Friedman
* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: the kids explain that Earthlings are capable of telekinesis too and don't because "you don't use your full brain capacity".
* PapaWolf: Jack Bruno
* PlotInducedStupidity: No limit is really set as to how often the children can use their powers. Because of this, it isn't made particularly clear why the bounty hunter is a threat to them when Seth can become an IntangibleMan and actually apply this power to people he's in contact with. On the other hand, the Siphon was created by their home world, so they probably know more about it than we do.
** The villains have this when an SUV full of four presumably armed government agents just sit there while Jack threatens them with a tire iron. They let him go unquestioned.
** How about the way the entire main cast hugged the IdiotBall. The children and Bruno and especially Dr. Friedman. They have multiple chances face to face with Brurke exactly why it would be an excellent idea to let them return to their own planet and stop the alien invasion. For that matter, if I were government agent who has found aliens with interstellar capability have landed in my balliwick, I would do everything in my power to try and initiate a friendly non-threatening contact. Drugging them and threatening them with guns, not so much.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Burke's people go after the cab. They don't use their godlike government powers to have the dispatch call the cab and ask Jack to stop for the government people.
** Burke does it again in the small town. He brings in a small army to capture the aliens but doesn't contact the local sheriff and law enforcement to assist.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: The children in this movie are vastly overpowered compared to the originals in the Alexander Key novel.
* PunyEarthlings: Seth and Sara have PsychicPowers
* RemakeCameo: Kim Richards ('''Ti'''n'''a''' the waitress) and Ike Eisenmann (Sherriff An'''tony'''), who played the kids (Tia and Tony) in the original ''Escape To Witch Mountain''
* SaveTheVillain: During the final fight sequence, Jack looks like he's about to do this to the Siphon. He then winks at it and punches it in the face, causing the Siphon to fall into the exhaust port and die.
* SequelHook
* SpockSpeak: Seth and Sara
* TheyWouldCutYouUp
* ThoseTwoGuys: Two of the scientists, bumbler and straight man.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee
* VivaLasVegas
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Treating the NinetyPercentOfYourBrain line as a ChekhovsLecture, Sara gives Jack a 'parting gift' by apparently touching a hand to his head... we never see what effect this had.
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