![]() ![]() The film begins with a nauseating flashback to Winnie, Mary and Sarah’s childhood as Salem outcasts that’s more like a scene from “Nanny McPhee.” One day they flee to the Forbidden Wood (Winnie: “Go to the Forbidden Wood!” Sarah: “But it’s forbidden!”) and meet a witch (Hannah Waddingham) who gifts them her spell book.įast forward to the present, where Becca (Whitney Peak), Cassie (Lilia Buckingham) and Izzy (Belissa Escobedo) are high schoolers obsessed with witchcraft. We first meet Winifred, Sarah and Mary as kids in Salem. And the town of Salem puts on a Sanderson Sisters costume contest in which a trio of drag queens from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” beat the genuine article. Most of the movie is wink-wink references to the old one: In a meta moment, Winifred (Midler) watches a millennial couple as they watch the film on the couch. “Hocus Pocus 2” is also awful to the core, but charmless and too low stakes to keep our interest. Come Halloween, drag queens venerate the thing like “A Christmas Carol.” What makes the 1993 film fun for us now is its ’90s baggy-plaid-shirts tastelessness and how seriously it takes itself, even though the movie features a trio of women who were hanged in the 1600s singing a jazzy version of “I Put a Spell on You.” It’s campy. Yes, many of us as kids loved watching Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy ham it up as 17th-century sorceresses who were accidentally brought back from the dead. Nonetheless it was a critically panned box-office bomb. Rated PG (action, macabre/suggestive humor and some language). ![]()
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