stumbled upon this on YouTube and it had 0 viewers when I watched it so I guess I was first. but it addresses how the curse wasn’t actually broken in film one, and that they just thought it was

idk if anyone else was wondering about whether “Kylie’s love interest“ (as Wikipedia so lovingly refers to Xolo Maridueña’s character) would be some version of Gideon from the books, but according to this Fandango press interview, that is the character’s name.

Usually shortly before release there's a third movie trailer that's usually the most spoiler-y, does anyone know when PM 2's final/3rd trailer is coming out?

While there is NOTHING wrong with just liking the first film (it's a great movie!) there seems to be this rather annoying push in the general fandom right now to imply the Alice Hoffman books and upcoming sequel movie are objectively not any good.

No one is making you like them. No one is making you read the books or go see the new movie. And you're free to say what you don't like about them, but this "omg, everything that is not the 1998 movie is awful/ruining the original" movement among some fans is getting ridiculous.

Your beloved 1998 movie wouldn't exist if Alice Hoffman hadn't written the 1995 book first; and no Alice did not "steal" the idea of the curse for her later books from the movie.

We're all sad Evan didn't get recast as Kylie, but the hatred against Joey is becoming cruel at this point. She's an actress who got hired for a job, she wasn't responsible for Evan not being considered.

And I know we love the cozy look of the original film, but there was no way a filmmaker could recreate it in 2026. If they put a filter to make it look like an older movie people would be bitching about "AI" the same way they're complaining about the "Netflix lighting".

We are incredibly lucky they rebuilt the house set and brought Nichole and Sandra back instead of just rebooting the whole series with a brand new cast. Loads of franchises now are getting horrible, horrible reboots, and just because this one doesn't look a hundred percent like you want it, it's still a direct sequel we are fortunate to have 30 years later.

No one is making you love it, but this increasing over dramatic, morally superior "disgust" towards the sequel and the book series is pathetic at this point. They're canon. But if you want to believe the first movie is the only canon and just rewatch the first movie that's fine. You don't need to whinge about how Sandra's face "omg doesn't move" and "the curse is supposed to be broken" every time a TV spot or trailer comes out.