I watched the 1990s TV series when I was younger, and I enjoyed that quite a lot back in the day, especially with the hilarious Salem and the awful fake puppet that they turned him into. And as I sat down to watch the 1996 movie "Sabrina The Teenage Witch", which apparently spawned the TV series, here in 2023, I vaguely remember having seen the movie once before.
The storyline in this 1996 movie was adequate. I mean, it was by no means as interesting or funny as the TV series was, but it made for an adequate enough viewing. It was what it was, for better or worse. I was moderately entertained by what writers Barney Cohen, Kathryn Wallack and Nicholas Factor had conjured up here for the script and storyline.
The acting performances in "Sabrina The Teenage Witch" were good, and it definitely was nice to have Melissa Joan Hart in the leading role, since she was the only one of the cast from this movie to make it to the TV series. Charlene Fernetz (playing Aunt Zelda) and Sherry Miller (playing Aunt Hilda) were good and nicely cast, but they just weren't as memorable as Beth Broderick (playing Aunt Zelda in the TV series) and Caroline Rhea (playing Aunt Hilda in the TV series). This 1996 movie does have both Ryan Reynolds and Tyler Labine on the cast list as well.
Visually then "Sabrina The Teenage Witch" was okay. I mean, you're not in for a grand spectacle of any kind of special effects, but director Tibor Takács made it work nonetheless.
My rating of the 1996 movie "Sabrina The Teenage Witch" lands on a five out of ten stars.
The storyline in this 1996 movie was adequate. I mean, it was by no means as interesting or funny as the TV series was, but it made for an adequate enough viewing. It was what it was, for better or worse. I was moderately entertained by what writers Barney Cohen, Kathryn Wallack and Nicholas Factor had conjured up here for the script and storyline.
The acting performances in "Sabrina The Teenage Witch" were good, and it definitely was nice to have Melissa Joan Hart in the leading role, since she was the only one of the cast from this movie to make it to the TV series. Charlene Fernetz (playing Aunt Zelda) and Sherry Miller (playing Aunt Hilda) were good and nicely cast, but they just weren't as memorable as Beth Broderick (playing Aunt Zelda in the TV series) and Caroline Rhea (playing Aunt Hilda in the TV series). This 1996 movie does have both Ryan Reynolds and Tyler Labine on the cast list as well.
Visually then "Sabrina The Teenage Witch" was okay. I mean, you're not in for a grand spectacle of any kind of special effects, but director Tibor Takács made it work nonetheless.
My rating of the 1996 movie "Sabrina The Teenage Witch" lands on a five out of ten stars.