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Sometimes she rolls herrs with the exaggerated trill of a Spanish teacher doing a demonstration for a class.
He asks her to repeat the request.
She does, after sneering, Did I stutter?
The Grand High Witch is alleged to have hatched on frozen tundras of Norway.
But that doesnt do justice to just how many active choices Hathaway puts into each sentence.
The Witcheskeeps a lot of lore that Dahl, the old anti-Semite, laid out in his novel.
It just feels flat, even in its use of the computer-generated animals it relies on.
Its an adaptation without direction or purpose, with an unwieldy but deeply committed performance at its center.
Hathaway looks to be having fun, at least.
