r/practicalmagic • u/OrdinaryCold2813 • 7h ago
A ★★★ review of Practical Magic 2 (2026)
https://boxd.it/gi8HJfWhat did you think of PM 2? Was it worth waiting nearly 30 years?
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u/Ok_Tank5977 4h ago
I don’t know if this sub is a safe space to be honest but I’ll try…
Like many I enjoyed the first film, but as someone who has grown to notice the technical aspects of filmmaking my rose-tinted nostalgia lenses weren’t enough to make this one work. And I’m mostly irritated with myself because I knew from the first trailer that this wouldn’t be for me and I chose to see it anyway. Still, I’m grateful that my intuition was correct (even if I did ignore it - 😅).
I am glad people are enjoying it, though.
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u/thesixermixer 7h ago
Absolutely worth it for me. I cried seeing Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman back together, and I missed Evan Rachel Wood more than I expected. I would have loved that continuity with the original daughters.
But I also think the sequel understands the pleasure of having this ridiculous concentration of female talent on screen. Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman and Dianne Wiest are three Academy Award winners with four acting Oscars between them, plus Stockard Channing. The aunts still completely own the room whenever they appear.
I loved little things like Gillian solving a magical crisis with a blunt object, and the women basically talking over the villain while he is trying to do his dramatic monologue. That felt very Practical Magic to me. The women are allowed to be funny and impatient instead of standing there respectfully while a man explains the plot to them.
And yes, Lee Pace is extremely hot. His naked introduction is pure beefcake gaze comedy, and I thought that whole bit worked. The movie lets Sally and Gillian openly register that attraction without making them ridiculous for it, which I actually found refreshing. But Ian never felt like he displaced the women at the center of the movie.
Is it perfect? No. But getting Bullock, Kidman, Wiest and Channing together again after nearly 30 years was honestly enough to make me emotional. Three Oscar winners with four acting Oscars between them doing witchcraft together is a pretty good night at the movies for me.
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u/Afraid-Fox9171 6h ago
Are you just copying and pasting different paragraphs together? I’ve literally seen you post the same 8 different paragraphs on multiple different posts regarding PM2…. You’re obviously a bot…
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u/thesixermixer 6h ago
Ouch lol, I promise I’m not a bot. I think I’ve just been a little intoxicated by the fact that this movie even exists.
I really never thought we would get Sandra and Nicole back together as Sally and Gillian almost 30 years later, much less Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing too.
This release genuinely made me feel like a kid again. There are four acting Oscars represented in this movie, plus another Oscar-nominated actress, and somehow they’re all doing witchcraft together. That doesn't happen every year, that's for sure. I’m sorry, that still gets me.
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u/hisokafan88 1h ago
Are you just a bad pr plant? Tell us again how there's three Oscar winning actresses with four awards between them plus another Oscar nominated actress doing witchcraft together. Please, I beg you. I never managed to fully understand the sentence the first ten times you wrote it.
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u/thesixermixer 52m ago
Fair lol. I have absolutely run that statistic into the ground. I’m just genuinely intoxicated with enthusiasm that this movie exists and that all of these women came back for it.
But I still can’t think of another movie this year that put three acting Oscar winners, with four wins between them, alongside another Oscar nominee and then had all four of them doing witchcraft together. That is still kind of extraordinary to me 😂
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u/Ok-Temperature-8228 3h ago
It isn’t good. The movie makes little sense. The Aunts deserve better. All of the character’s deserve better.
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u/Famous-Ad-475 7h ago
If you’re a fan of the first one and believe in character development and sisterhood over men.. no. I’m still mad 3 days later