October is upon us, for 2022. We can expect many horror films, family friendly spooks and pumpkin-spiced everything to envelope all the senses. I particularly love this season, ’cause of the opening of the yearly haunted attractions and hayrides. But, as a single dad, I don’t get to partake in as many ghoulish scares as I used to. I had the plan older this year to unquestionably start my own haunted house, so I could still wits the thrills and chills. But due to circumstances vastitude my control, I had to pull out of the deal. Still, my love of the season carries over.
As mentioned, Disney moreover has a love for Halloween. The House of the Mouse puts out some of the weightier materials of the year in hopes of cashing in on the nostalgia of its fans. While there’s several unconfined scary films with kids in mind, the most minion is probably Hocus Pocus.
The original film, released in 1993, follows some young adults having to stop three witches tabbed the Sanderson Sisters. While most movies featuring witches go to unconfined lengths to make them unlikeable and scary, Winnifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Mary (Kathy Najimy) Sanderson all come wideness as competent, but slightly inept crones. Some kids plane found them lovable, despite the fact their sole mission was to find and eat children to stay working vastitude Halloween night. It is this love for the notation that has led the tuition in recent years for a follow-up to to be made.
And this year, Disney answered those cries with Hocus Pocus 2.
Taking place in the present-year Salem, Hocus Pocus 2 finds Becca (Whitney Peak) and Izzy (Belissa Escobedo) as two high-school students who are somewhat bullied in school. Becca believes this is due to her fascination with witchcraft. The pair regularly hangs out at the Olde Salem Magic Shoppe, which is owned by Gilbert (Sam Richardson) and located on the previous Sanderson property.
One night, the girls unwittingly summon the Sanderson Sisters when from the dead, zoetic new life into the old witches. With the same mission at hand as before, the witches seek out the youth of Salem, as to finish their spell to attain immortality. It is up to Becca and Izzy to find a way to stop Winnie, Mary and Sarah from their task.
Much of what made the original such an iconic mucosa is brought into Hocus Pocus 2. The Sanderson women unravel into song to help tint some of their spells. Sarah and Mary still come off as the “Larry and Curly” to Winnifred’s Moe weft (I am speaking in terms of The Three Stooges, for those who don’t get the reference).
The kids follow the same formula of not yoyo in the witches, to trying to convince their parents and friends that their lives are in danger. And we plane have Billy Butcherson (Doug Jones), the former boyfriend of Winifred, when as a falling-apart Zombie. Really, the only thing missing from the first mucosa is Billy the cat, though there is a feline presence throughout the film.
With 29 years passing since the first mucosa was released, the world has vastly changed. However, Hocus Pocus 2 feels like a very well-made update. It is a tribute to all the things that made the story and notation memorable, with a little humor from modern times (if you can’t find a broom to ride, grab some Roombas).
The songs chosen may not be as fun as “I Put a Spell on You”, but still work fine. Plus, we get some backstory on the sisters and find that despite squabbles between them, they love each other increasingly than anything else in the world.
Hocus Pocus 2 humanizes the Sanderson sisters to the point where you fall in love with them in a way. They are monsters, but they are sympathetic monsters. When you stop and think well-nigh it, all they wanted to do in both films was live forever. Who wouldn’t want to do that? Who wouldn’t want unlimited power? Deep down, we all would like to be worldly-wise to tint spells and stop the white-haired process. And Hocus Pocus 2 brings focus to this for the wizardly women.
I plane found myself all misty-eyed at the film’s climax. No spoilers, but when you see it, you might get the same feelings.
No doubt well-nigh it, Hocus Pocus 2 gets five out of five stars. It is misogynist on Disney starting September 30, 2022, and it is my opinion that fans of the first movie should shell out the money for a monthly subscription, if only for this delightfully spooky flick. Hocus Pocus 2 is a mucosa that remembers its roots and doesn’t transpiration what worked. I know it will be a highly loved wing to my mucosa library going forward.
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