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4	* AccidentalAesop: There is no such thing as a safe place. Grandmamma assumes that a rich white folks' hotel won't have any witches going after her grandson. Technically they weren't but he ran into all the witches in the area by the worst luck.
5	* CompleteMonster: The [[ChildHater Grand High Witch]] is the [[TheArchmage leader]] of the [[OurWitchesAreDifferent witches]], a demonic species that [[WouldHurtAChild terrorizes and kills children]]. Unsatisfied with only targeting poor, underclass children, the Grand High Witch aims to wipe out every child in the world, [[BadBoss killing one of her subordinates who questions her]]. The Grand High Witch schemes to [[ForcedTransformation transform every child into a mouse]] to eliminate them, demonstrating this on the protagonist and his friend Bruno. She's also revealed to have cursed Grandma's childhood friend Alice into the form of a chicken long ago, something she taunts Grandma with in the present.
6	* HamAndCheese: Creator/AnneHathaway throws any subtlety out of the window with her own take on the Grand High Witch that's been compared to Green Esmeraude from ''Anime/SailorMoon'' or Madeline Ashton from one of Zemeckis's previous entries ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'' in terms of hamminess.
7	* ParanoiaFuel:
8	** Never accept candy from a stranger. A witch may be targeting you or is targeting your child.
9	** Even if you escape from a witch, she won't forget you. Your hair may go gray and your body and face may change, but a witch knows those who escape her.
10	* QuestionableCasting: To many, Creator/OctaviaSpencer wasn't exactly what came to mind when cast as the protagonist's grandmother. Many viewers say the 50-year-old Spencer's casting makes her look more like the boy's ''mother'' or ''aunt''.
11	** Creator/ChrisRock as The Narrator/older protagonist reeks of this, given that he’s not the type of actor you’d expect to play a serious part. Him not doing anything to change his usual acting method doesn’t help.
12	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: While this adaptation maintains the book's original ending unlike the original 1990s film, it has several changes between the film and the book that make some of the more negative criticisms reasonably justified.
13	** The location of the setting being set in Alabama, United States instead of Norway and England, which the film doesn’t make much effort to justify as a decision.
14	** The tacky narration by Creator/ChrisRock, which results in SpoiledByTheFormat that ruins the tension of whether the main boy will make it out.
15	** The trade from the practical puppetry to overly extensive CGI that already feels dated.

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