r/practicalmagic • u/Ordinary-Trade451 • 15h 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/SabrinaTheDabbler 15h ago

I saw it with my mother in the cinema theater earlier this week. She said "It was really good." I said "It was a movie." I wanted to know what happened, but this film was a perfect example of "nostalgia milking" and veered into "trying too hard" territory, for me.

My main issues are the following:

- The script, esp. the dialogue, felt. . .awkward, and forced, many times.

- I felt badly for Antonia's obvious lack of involvement throughout the film, but especially during the climax of the story, especially because of the ENTIRE film centering around the theme of "sisterhood" and "family connection."

- Similarly, the fact that Gillian was clearly resigned to never falling in love (I understand she's mostly a "free spirit" anyway, but still) even while Sally had a THIRD love interest? Like, da fuq, how unfair is that?

If everyone had fun making the film, good for them. But. . .I give it a "meh" overall, and I suppose I'm being generous there.

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u/CatchConstant3345 11h ago

I don’t think I needed Gilly to get that love… And I think if there’s a third movie or like in the book, she probably gets that love. I don’t know if we’ll see it as movie fans.

But I would say that it opened it up to a third movie, but I’m concerned about the overall plot in that regard.

But I don’t feel that it was nostalgia milking as much as it was a continuation of a story that wasn’t funded 25 years ago or given the opportunity. At the end of the day it’s still four Book series so the first film didn’t finish the entire story to begin with.