‘Practical Magic 2’ is a very silly sequel
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
Reading that *Practical Magic 2* is a very silly sequel is like spotting a second clown car pulling up to the same circus. It doesn't shock you, it just makes you sad for everyone involved. The original 1998 movie was a perfectly enjoyable witch romance that knew its own limits.
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Once upon a time, sequels were avoided, dreaded, or looked upon with skepticism for the fear that they might spoil a great movie. There was reason to doubt the wisdom of making sequels to iconic stand-alone films such as, say, Dirty Harry (1971) or The Godfather (1972) — although, in the case of those two franchises, most of the […]
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Reading that *Practical Magic 2* is a very silly sequel is like spotting a second clown car pulling up to the same circus. It doesn't shock you, it just makes you sad for everyone involved. The original 1998 movie was a perfectly enjoyable witch romance that knew its own limits. It was not *The Godfather*. It was not *Dirty Harry*. It was a sleepover film that made a little money and then politely disappeared. Now it's being dragged back for more because Hollywood has decided that nothing is too small to be remade into something worse.
We used to worry about sequels wrecking a perfectly good story. That fear made sense. Some.
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