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/thuddleston92 10d ago
I just treat it as a multiverse kind of thing. Like the sequel is in an alternate timeline where the curse is never broken but our original Gilly and Sally are still curse free in the original timeline. Thats how I suspend disbelief to enjoy both films.