Like many stoners before him, Kevin Smith wants to remake Bedknobs And Broomsticks
For many children, watching the Disney film Bedknobs And Broomsticks serves as one of the first times you realize that the line between cleverness and absolute madness is blurrier than first imagined. The 1971 fantasy film stars Angela Lansbury as an apprentice witch who takes on the care of three young children while attempting to learn the final spell from a magic correspondence school run by a charlatan, only to learn they have to travel to a 2-D animated realm so as to steal back a magical medallion which teaches her a spell to bring a museum of artifacts to life in order to fight the Nazis. The above sentence, while seemingly providing all the evidence needed to prove the clever/insane theorem, actually doesn’t begin to do justice to all the randomness contained in the film, such as the fact that it repurposed a song written for Mary Poppins, a movie with a similar conceit but roughly 12 times the coherence.
