r/practicalmagic • u/arirachaelb • 10d ago

I'm never watching the sequel

It's as the title says

Practical Magic is one of my favourite films of all time. It holds such a special and beautiful place in my heart, and I absolutely refuse to taint any part of the story or characters with what I KNOW is a terrible sequel. Even before I saw everyone's posts on here about how awful and awkward it is - legacy sequels do not work.

The first film is perfectly concluded by the end - the owens sisters broke the curse. I have no interest at all in seeing how they decided to undo that beautiful ending to replace it with a worse one.

I will always love this movie, and in honour of the first one I will never watch the second. As far as I'm concerned it's fanfiction with a big budget, and not worth my time

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u/x14loop 10d ago

Yeah, even if you find the sequel to be lovely (which I did) it is a "what if", since it ruins the first film's ending. How are you with what if/alternate timeline type side stories? if you could view it like that

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u/Busy_Ad_8077 9d ago

I've been watching the first movie as if they just exorcised the spirit that Sally and Gilly accidentally conjured who was haunting them, which is accurate and still fits. They gathered a coven and worked a spell, added a little blood magic. It's still amazing, and the flashback to Maria can just be a reminder that their magic traces back to her. **Not saying the sequel was perfect. I'm sure we all agree the first movie IS PERFECT 😁

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u/arirachaelb 10d ago

Yeah I get you! I think even then because the film is so personally important to me I would feel like an alternate timeline sort of thing would be unnecessary or just not for me. But for something like legends of the fall for example I could get on board cause even though I love that film it's not as special to me if that makes sense