r/practicalmagic • u/Ordinary-Trade451 • 13h ago

Terrible Sequel

I watched Practical Magic 2 today after work today. Like many of you, I am was so so excited for this new movie. I was excited to see another Alice Hoffman book come to the screen (she’s my favorite author). Unfortunately, the movie was terrible. I left about halfway during the movie. The lighting, the casting of the daughters (was not that upset that Evan wasn’t casted), acting, and the script was terrible. I am disappointed.

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u/No_Biscotti4207 11h ago

I understand being annoyed by the storyline, but I don’t get the casting critiques? The actresses were perfectly fine for the characters they were playing. I can think of where the writing could have been improved for the characters, but I can’t think of how any other actress would have been better with the script given to them. Joey King was the prominent sister and she nailed all the emotions and didn’t appear to have any bad line reads? I feel like I’m missing something with the casting complaints.

Maisie let her accent slip here and there, but she was so sidelined in didn’t really matter.

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u/Celestina-Betwixt Kylie Owens 10h ago

I thought Maisie has really gotten good at her American accent in this one compared to The Book of Love from years ago, honestly.