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Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel
by A. W. Jantha
3.5
With Halloween coming up and Hocus Pocus playing on TV like every day I thought it was finally time for me to pick up Hocus Pocus and The All-New Sequel (not the catchiest titles but the cover is perfection so I’ll let it slide).
The first story was an almost word for word (“it’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus”) retelling of the movie with a few minor plot points added in to make the sequel work (my favorite was the next Halloween costume bribe by Dani if she agreed to go to the Sanderson house with Max and Allison and I LOVED how it was brought up again in the sequel, so cute).
The sequel was fun and I thought written in the same vein as the first movie/story. It was a quick read and I thought it was cute, although to be fair I wasn’t expecting much so maybe I’m just easily pleased. I thought the way Max and Allison’s daughter Poppy ended up bringing the Sanderson sisters came back was creepy and the adventure the teens went on to send the sisters back where they belong was fun although a little to easy and not nearly as clever as the first story. I actually thought the sequel got a little deeper than the first story but there was a lot of everyone telling everyone else it would be okay and they could do it was a little annoying. The f/f will they won’t they was super cute, I loved the best friend (and really want to steal his Halloween costume idea) and the mean girl in school who turns out to be so much more really made the sequel about growing up, friendship, and working together as much as it was about Halloween. The addition of the technology both worked and didn’t and I thought the author might have tried a little too much to include it in the new story. The sequel also wrapped up the repercussions of Max leaving Ernie and Jay hanging in the sisters house in the movie which I had had a problem with. I was a little confused by the one year later part at the very end.
Overall I think it’s a cute revisit to the world of Hocus Pocus and while it wasn’t perfect it was a fun Halloween read. Just don’t expect the perfection that was the original movie!
With Halloween coming up and Hocus Pocus playing on TV like every day I thought it was finally time for me to pick up Hocus Pocus and The All-New Sequel (not the catchiest titles but the cover is perfection so I’ll let it slide).
The first story was an almost word for word (“it’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus”) retelling of the movie with a few minor plot points added in to make the sequel work (my favorite was the next Halloween costume bribe by Dani if she agreed to go to the Sanderson house with Max and Allison and I LOVED how it was brought up again in the sequel, so cute).
The sequel was fun and I thought written in the same vein as the first movie/story. It was a quick read and I thought it was cute, although to be fair I wasn’t expecting much so maybe I’m just easily pleased. I thought the way Max and Allison’s daughter Poppy ended up bringing the Sanderson sisters came back was creepy and the adventure the teens went on to send the sisters back where they belong was fun although a little to easy and not nearly as clever as the first story. I actually thought the sequel got a little deeper than the first story but there was a lot of everyone telling everyone else it would be okay and they could do it was a little annoying. The f/f will they won’t they was super cute, I loved the best friend (and really want to steal his Halloween costume idea) and the mean girl in school who turns out to be so much more really made the sequel about growing up, friendship, and working together as much as it was about Halloween. The addition of the technology both worked and didn’t and I thought the author might have tried a little too much to include it in the new story. The sequel also wrapped up the repercussions of Max leaving Ernie and Jay hanging in the sisters house in the movie which I had had a problem with. I was a little confused by the one year later part at the very end.
Overall I think it’s a cute revisit to the world of Hocus Pocus and while it wasn’t perfect it was a fun Halloween read. Just don’t expect the perfection that was the original movie!