The movie is well worth watching, and suitable for any child. They just add another element of fun and enjoyment to an already delightful movie. The children are treated to a marvelous adventure, flying through the skies on a bed, swimming underwater in a tropical lagoon, watching a football game played by animals and finally helping out in the war when Miss Price enchants a museum full of ancient suits of armor with the magic words, "Traguna, Macoities, Tracorum Satis De." The songs in the movie may be your typical musical-stock, but I challenge anyone to not tap their toes during "Portabello Road", or to not get "Englentine" stuck in their head. The thing I like best about this movie, is that the magic never stops as the children along with the two adults journey to London, the Island of Naboomboo, Naboomboo Lagoon and Portabello Road. After the three children discover that Miss Price is an apprentice witch, they are swept up into a magical adventure on a traveling bed along with Miss Price and Professor Brown, the headmaster of the College of Witchcraft. She grumpily agrees to let three children board at her home in the country to keep them safe from the air raids going on in London. Angela Lansbury stars as Miss Price, a widow who is studying witchcraft through a correspondence course during World War II. It is a wonderful movie, and even now I still find the story charming. There are a handful of movies that hold very fond places in my childhood memories, this is one of them. I must have watched this movie dozens of times between the ages of 1 and 10 and every time I watched it all the way though, intensely engrossed through every scene. People here who say that the movie would not hold the attention of a young child are mistaken. Although it was already an "old" movie by the time I was able to watch it, Bedknobs and Broomsticks completely enchanted me. Bedknobs and Broomsticks is one of many movies that has always been with me, in my heart and memory from the time that I was old enough to focus my eyes on a television screen.
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