Christopher Janusas

This movie exemplifies everything wrong with modern cinema, especially regarding films that attempt to cash in on nostalgia. Disney is now infamous for doing this with beloved intellectual properties. The story is weak compared to the original. The acting is over the top cartoonish. There were so many times where a certain line or moment made me want to turn it off. Moronic ideloogical one liners. Forced musical numbers. Fart jokes. It's not all bad. There's a joke here and there that works. But overall, the movie falls flat. Possibly the worst narrative the movie tries to sell is that the witches became witches because they were pushed to it by the oppressive Puritan society of Salem in which they lived. It's not wrong to portray Puritans as fanatics, but the movie uses this as a vessel to somewhat justify the sisters becoming witches. This is another plot device that modern movies are hell bent on employing, and the movie goes back and forth between portraying the sisters (and all witches) as both callous villains and sympathetic victims of circumstance. This undermines the power that the first movie held and is even more detrimental to this movie. I don't want morally ambiguous witches. The witches are evil. They kill children and worship Satan for personal gain. That is what makes them effective villains. The unclear themes and poor writing ensure that this sequel will never be what the original was. It is quite simply, not a good film and not a worthy sequel.