{"id":28549,"date":"2018-10-06T02:02:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T06:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=28549"},"modified":"2018-09-03T00:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T04:22:52","slug":"casper-meets-wendy-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/06\/casper-meets-wendy-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Casper Meets Wendy (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well if anything \u201cCasper Meets Wendy\u201d is much better than \u201cA Spirited Beginning\u201d despite offering no big surprises. Unless you consider that the only cast member that\u2019s been in most \u201cCasper\u201d movies so far is Pauly Shore. In the former film he played a bad ghost, and here he plays a fortune telling magical mirror. As with most of these movies, there is a whole cast of D list celebrities, and the adaptation of Harvey Comics\u2019 \u201cWendy The Good Little Witch\u201d is an excuse to introduce future teen star Hilary Duff. To her credit Duff is adorable.<\/p>\n

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Duff plays Wendy a young witch with amazing powers who has to put up with three mischievous aunts, all of whom are witches. When they find out a Warlock name Desmond is tracking them to capture Wendy who could possibly end his reign as most powerful of them all, the witches flee on vacation. Meanwhile Casper convinces his uncles to also go on vacation after they reveal themselves during a mass haunting. As the pair are put under pressure by their respective families, they learn to bond and become great friends. With Desmond hot on Wendy\u2019s tail, Casper comes to the rescue to help her. \u201cCasper Meets Wendy\u201d is helped big time by Duff who is tolerable in the role of Wendy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame that she didn\u2019t get her own cinematic spin off, as she\u2019s fun here, playing off of her trio of menacing aunts, and looking for a way to fit in with humans. The movie belongs to Wendy, despite Casper sharing the banner. Duff also gets some good supporting players in the way of Teri Garr, Shelly Duvall, and Cathy Moriarty respectively. There\u2019s also George Hamilton who\u2014plays George Hamilton, but this time as a powerful warlock. Duff essentially does what\u2019s expected of her, especially as someone aiming for a Disney spotlight that would make her a teen star for a few years in the early aughts. The character of Wendy is a fun heroine who works well off of Casper and his uncles whose shticks, by now, are wearing thin. \u201cCasper Meets Wendy\u201d is an okay diversion in a series of pretty stinky movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well if anything \u201cCasper Meets Wendy\u201d is much better than \u201cA Spirited Beginning\u201d despite offering no big surprises. Unless you consider that the only cast member that\u2019s been in most \u201cCasper\u201d movies so far is Pauly Shore. In the former film he played a bad ghost, and here he plays a fortune telling magical mirror. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[64,71,181,219,302,340,409,580,622,922,1008,1196],"class_list":["post-28549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-casper","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-family","tag-ghosts","tag-kids","tag-magic","tag-sequel","tag-supernatural","tag-witches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28550,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549\/revisions\/28550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}