Aren't you broads a little bit old to be Trick Or Treating?

                                                                                      Hocus Pocus 2 Review.

I just finished watching the much awaited - anticipated Sanderson Sisters Return.
I will have to rate it about a 6 1/2 out of 10. While watching the show it isn't hard to see why it took them so long to return though you can be sure it wasn't because they took acting classes while they were on hiatus. 

    To be fair though - I do believe the young girl, Taylor Henderson who played Winfred, the lead sister just killed the part and saved the entire fiasco they had going on.

I must say I did enjoy the flash backs of the original Hocus Pocus through out the movie though. It was nice to make sense of at least a little bit of the show. 

*Bette Midler was fabulous as always but there wasn't much of away that she could have been anything less. It was evident she has aged quite a bit but that really isn't much of a deal breaker when you realize she indeed is - who she is.

*Kathy Najimy was a game changer. The woman looked fabulous and was undoubtedly the one sucking the life from the little children as she looked at least 20 years younger then when she played Mary the first time around.

*Sarah Jessica Parker fell totally flat for me. I am not sure what was even going on with her. The acting might have been alright but I wasn't able to get past that mess of hair and those black eyebrows against her pale white skin.

*Doug Jones who played Billy Butcherson gave me more smiles then the rest of the show did. He was even better this round with his character bringing to the screen a reason to believe in "the after life."

*Binx - It took me nearly the entire movie to realize that the beautiful black cat in the reels was in fact not Binx. I didn't have second thoughts on who he was - I just kind of knew it was him but then I was reminded that Binx was no longer a feline & was off with his sister Emily at the end of the first script.

I believe that somehow the writers should have worked Dani, Max & Allison's yabbos into this awaited go around but alas that is something that didn't happen.

     Speaking of pulling up some emotion - I trembled a little bit when Winnie didn't read about losing Mary & Sarah in order to gain her powers SO once her spell was cast the sisters were no more. She spoke of her heart breaking - that was sad. To sad almost for a mean witch as herself to feel pain like she was.

All in all - the movie was alright. I might watch it again - the eating the children's faces in Walgreens was kind of epic but this isn't a "have" to watch every year like Halloween Town or It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown is.

     I must say though - there was a second that they could have done without in the movie. Once Mary & Sarah were gone and Winnie was left alone - she was asked to give up her powers in order to be with her sisters.
     In this, I have come to realize, at each moment anyone can love no matter how old, mean or unforgiving you are EVEN if you are but a book and your one eye leaks a tear when the sisters are never to return again. Yes, a book that cried - that made me tear up.

     All I could think of when the credits started to roll ...
Well, if this isn't "JUST A BUNCH OF HOCUS POCUS" - I don't know what is!

                                                                                                                Kazz 💋