2022 · fantasy · comedy · revenge
Hocus Pocus 2
Directed by Anne Fletcher1h 44m2022
29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow's Eve.
Our read: Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive fantasy · comedy · revenge entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured fantasy / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
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