Hocus Pocus 2

Hocus Pocus 2

29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow's Eve.

  • Released: 2022-11-18
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
  • Stars: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Whitney Peak, Lilia Buckingham, Froy Gutierrez, Tony Hale, Hannah Waddingham, Sam Richardson, Belissa Escobedo, Doug Jones, Juju Journey Brener, Taylor Henderson, Nina Kitchen, David Torres Jr., Ginger Minj, Kornbread Jeté, Kahmora Hall, Skyla Sousa, Aiden Torres, Emma Kaufman, Ryan Rosenthal, Amanda Shepherd
  • Director: Anne Fletcher
 Comments
  • sweetnessofsolitude - 7 November 2023
    Boring... cutesy... pandering... bleck
    I love the original Hocus Pocus, it's a favorite watch every Halloween. I make it a tradition, and have since I was a kid and it first came out! But knowing what Disney is today, I dreaded this remake... And I was right.

    The Sanderson sisters absolutely DO NOT deserve a redemption arc!! The whole fun of the original movie is that they are powerful, dangerous villains who want to kill all the children and gain their youth so they can live forever! We should not have some contrived backstory that makes us feel sorry for them... And then we have a completely uncharacteristically sentimental Winnie who wants her sisters back and urges the three young witches not to do what she did. *slapping my forehead...

    Let villains be villains! There's no point to the story if the three evil child-consuming witches are just misunderstood women who deserved to be empowered in pilgrim days... puh-leeeese

    Not bringing back Max or Dani or Allison was a terrible mistake as well. It would've been so much better if Max and Allison had gotten married, and their children had to deal with the Sanderson sisters, or something along those lines. The impetus behind the story is that Thackeray Binx has been cursed, he's guarding against anyone ever bringing witches back, and then they have to be stopped before they can consume the children of modern-day Salem. It's about making a believer out of Max too. But now the new characters already think they're witches, so there's no shock or surprise at finding out magic is real.

    Having some guy who plots to bring the sisters back because he thinks they're so cool, and then having a book made from human skin and supposedly given to Winifred by the Devil himself which Binx said no good could come out of, into a sympathetic character that chooses the teenage girls is worthy of endless eye rolls!!! I mean, come on... in the original, the witches go into a house because they think the character played by Garry Marshall is their master, you know, the devil. The witches are supposed to be in league with the devil.

    They aren't fun, singing women who rebelled against the patriarchy. *More eye rolls... The only reason they sing in the original movie is because they are mistaken as a stage act, so they use that opportunity to be-spell the people at the party. They want them to dance until they die! Which is actually a reference to the mysterious dancing plague in Europe where people actually did dance to death. The Sanderson sisters, as they were originally written, would never just break out into song in the middle of the woods for fun.

    It's like the people who produced this movie didn't bother watching the original, they just skimmed some jokes from it and did a bad rehash of them, and decided to tow the tired New-Disney line of "every villain is misunderstood, girl power rules!" It stinks... it sucks... please don't make a 3rd and further destroy one of my childhood favorites!!

    And by the way, I am a single woman in charge of my own business, writing this review. I'm blunt, opinionated, outspoken, independent, and I still hate this movie. That should tell you something.
  • vadertvs-28830 - 9 October 2023
    Not good
    Another poor showing from Disney. Terrible sequel. Poor storyline, sadly predictable, bad cgi. Totally reliant on nostalgia to cause you to keep watching. Badly written in every aspect. I can't stress this enough, I would not have continued watching past about 10 minutes without my wife wanting to watch. Disney shows once again that storytelling and entertaining the audience are not priorities. The only actor that played their part well was the guy that played the zombie. The idea of the Sanderson sisters returning is fine, but they had to current day us and make it a duplicitous and incompetent man tricking a girl into doing it.