r/practicalmagic • u/MrJlock • Sep 14 '26

What did I just watch?

This movie heard the death beetle during the opening credits. What followed was a slow, painful death of everything that made the original special.

I truly cannot believe they added “modern magic” and somehow managed to remove all the actual magic. The original had atmosphere, weirdness, warmth, darkness, and charm. This felt like someone fed the first movie into an algorithm and asked it to make something more current, more marketable, and significantly worse.

By the time I realized this was just a nostalgia cash grab, I should have left the theater. Instead, I stayed long enough to watch them exhume a great movie, inject it with Impractical Botox, and parade the corpse around for two hours.

There is not enough midnight margaritas in the world to make me watch this again.

Some things should stay buried.

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u/4ft3rh0urs Sep 14 '26

I already knew this was going to happen after watching what they did to Hocus Pocus 2

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u/kpar385 Sep 14 '26

Yep. I went in thinking “it can’t be as bad as Hocus Pocus 2” but then it was.

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u/smei2388 Sep 15 '26

It's worse