Review of Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) by Cronoslegacy — 04 Oct 2022

Hahah, I'm laughing AT the movie not WITH it. Now the original wasn't a great movie by any means but at least the Sisters had some bite to them. They actually lured children and did some bad stuff (still very tame for three witches that eat children).

In this one, it's like cats with no claws suffering from dementia and more of the same jokes from the first HP but x2. You know, witches that show up in a time period they don't understand except none of the stuff really wasn't anything that wasn't in the 90's era of the movie, automatic doors being one.

Of course, the entire main cast was female Mary Sue's. I remember a time when guys weren't just a big doofus (mayor), a beyond believable stupid and bully jock (boyfriend) or a backstabbing snake (store owner).

That's it, that was the male cast...they were all a bunch of terrible people. Heaven forbid one of the main three be a male that is semi-competent. Remember when Rey learned to become a competent Jedi with years of training and discipline? yeah, me neither.

This movie suffers from the same placebo effect, powerful because plot calls for it. Now the plot was just as useless, it was just a lot of go here, do nothing, go there, do some more nothing, go back to starting point and talk about feelings.

That was the entire movie. They focused on several plot items even though they weren't not important. Two that come to mind is they kept mentioning one of the girl's mom, Susan, multiple times. You never see her but she was brought up a lot.

Then they focused on the shop owners black cat a LOT as a throwback to the boy turned black cat in Hocus Pocus 1 that helps them defeat the witches. At first, it was a fun little commentary but once they establish that it's just a normal cat it got stale by how much they focused on it.

I could go on but there really wasn't any real plot to critique, exemplary of every modern day Disney show. There were a couple good chuckles, the Roomba's being one and the intro with the three young witches was entertaining.

With that in mind, I kinda wish they just did a origin story instead of a direct sequel like what we got here. The three witches still did a good job, you can see they have slowed down a bit and have a bit of a hitch in their step but they still bring the best performances of the movie.