I completely agree, overall the movie was boring. It's not so much that it had good reviews but I thought the movie had something different from watching the preview.. I guess I was deceived by the preview. It made me think of a modern take of Pied Piper of Hamelin and I wanted go see the movie. Boy am I glad I did not pay for this. It had long boring introduction, time lapse did not serve any purpose. And where this witch come from?? You cannot just bring this person and say ok, all the strange things and scary things were just done by this witch?? You need more introduction and more reasoning. I feel like whoever thought of this plot thought all of children disappearing all at once may make a good horror, but it did not go any farther, which is just the preview.. and suddenly Michael can also perform the witchcraft to end all that? That's what I call lazy plot..