![]() There’s also a through-line of feminism and the power of sisterhood, which would make sense if this was “The Crucible,” but these are supposed to be real witches who murder children to maintain their youthfulness. The problem is that in this strung-together collection of comic vignettes, there is little urgency to do that. want to send the sisters back to the fires of hell where they belong. The thrust here, as in the first one, is that Becca and Co. Becca (Whitney Peak), Cassie (Lilia Buckingham) and Izzy (Belissa Escobedo) are obsessed with witchcraft. Like witches clinging to life, it gets old. Instead of “I Put a Spell on You,” this time they sing that old colonial hit “One Way or Another” by Blondie.ĭirector Anne Fletcher’s movie is shtick atop shtick. Hearing an Alexa-like device, Mary says, “Winnie, there is a small woman trapped in that box.” ![]() Mary, lacking a room or vacuum cleaner, flies through the sky on Roombas (one per foot).Īt a Walgreens, they are petrified by the automatic sliding door and once inside begin drinking lotions that they believe to be children-essence potions. Here’s how to rent the ‘Hocus Pocus’ cottage through Airbnb Although they visited the 20th century only three decades ago, the ladies are yet again shocked by our modern advances. Once it does, we get another witch-out-of-water story. Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy return as the Sanderson Sisters in “Hocus Pocus 2.” Matt Kennedy/Disney It takes 30 minutes of needless exposition before the main attraction finally arrives. They’re aided in their Hogwartsian endeavors by Gilbert (Sam Richardson), a geeky magic shop owner who summons the Sanderson Sisters by creating a new magical black flame candle. The film begins with a nauseating flashback to Winnie, Mary and Sarah’s childhood as Salem outcasts that’s more like a scene from “Nanny McPhee.” One day they flee to the Forbidden Wood (Winnie: “Go to the Forbidden Wood!” Sarah: “But it’s forbidden!”) and meet a witch (Hannah Waddingham) who gifts them her spell book.įast forward to the present, where Becca (Whitney Peak), Cassie (Lilia Buckingham) and Izzy (Belissa Escobedo) are high schoolers obsessed with witchcraft. We first meet Winifred, Sarah and Mary as kids in Salem. And the town of Salem puts on a Sanderson Sisters costume contest in which a trio of drag queens from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” beat the genuine article. Most of the movie is wink-wink references to the old one: In a meta moment, Winifred (Midler) watches a millennial couple as they watch the film on the couch. ![]() “Hocus Pocus 2” is also awful to the core, but charmless and too low stakes to keep our interest. ![]() Come Halloween, drag queens venerate the thing like “A Christmas Carol.” What makes the 1993 film fun for us now is its ’90s baggy-plaid-shirts tastelessness and how seriously it takes itself, even though the movie features a trio of women who were hanged in the 1600s singing a jazzy version of “I Put a Spell on You.” It’s campy. ![]() Yes, many of us as kids loved watching Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy ham it up as 17th-century sorceresses who were accidentally brought back from the dead. Nonetheless it was a critically panned box-office bomb. Rated PG (action, macabre/suggestive humor and some language). ![]()
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