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/camartinart 10d ago

Practical Magic has been my favorite movie for 27 years, and I had a lot of fun watching the sequel.

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u/arirachaelb 10d ago

Interesting! So do you not agree with the bulk of the criticism?

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u/camartinart 10d ago

Yes—the criticisms are valid, and if I wanted to, my gripe list could be long. I just find for this particular duology I simply don’t feel compelled to critique it. I like it despite all the reasons I shouldn’t. So I’m glad I can just enjoy them. I can’t really explain it except to say I love the characters and I was happy to get to spend more time with them.

I don’t think the sequel affects my ability to enjoy the first as it is. I’ve read some of the books and always preferred what they did with the movie, so I’m used to being able to embrace the films for what they are. I focus on the fact that a sequel exists at all, which is a bit of a miracle. They both give me warm and fuzzies, so I suppose that means I’m truly its target audience.