r/practicalmagic

I just saw a book by Alice Hoffman called Practical Magic 2. It seems to be similar plot wise to The Book of Magic, from the blurb. Is it different or did she rerelease the book under a new name for the movie? Which is movie 2 based on?

While there is NOTHING wrong with just liking the first film (it's a great movie!) there seems to be this rather annoying push in the general fandom right now to imply the Alice Hoffman books and upcoming sequel movie are objectively not any good.

No one is making you like them. No one is making you read the books or go see the new movie. And you're free to say what you don't like about them, but this "omg, everything that is not the 1998 movie is awful/ruining the original" movement among some fans is getting ridiculous.

Your beloved 1998 movie wouldn't exist if Alice Hoffman hadn't written the 1995 book first; and no Alice did not "steal" the idea of the curse for her later books from the movie.

We're all sad Evan didn't get recast as Kylie, but the hatred against Joey is becoming cruel at this point. She's an actress who got hired for a job, she wasn't responsible for Evan not being considered.

And I know we love the cozy look of the original film, but there was no way a filmmaker could recreate it in 2026. If they put a filter to make it look like an older movie people would be bitching about "AI" the same way they're complaining about the "Netflix lighting".

We are incredibly lucky they rebuilt the house set and brought Nichole and Sandra back instead of just rebooting the whole series with a brand new cast. Loads of franchises now are getting horrible, horrible reboots, and just because this one doesn't look a hundred percent like you want it, it's still a direct sequel we are fortunate to have 30 years later.

No one is making you love it, but this increasing over dramatic, morally superior "disgust" towards the sequel and the book series is pathetic at this point. They're canon. But if you want to believe the first movie is the only canon and just rewatch the first movie that's fine. You don't need to whinge about how Sandra's face "omg doesn't move" and "the curse is supposed to be broken" every time a TV spot or trailer comes out.

stumbled upon this on YouTube and it had 0 viewers when I watched it so I guess I was first. but it addresses how the curse wasn’t actually broken in film one, and that they just thought it was

This may be a hot take, but I was curious to see if anyone felt similarly. I was excited about this movie for .2 seconds until I saw recent pictures of bts. Being witches who owned a natural remedy shop/apothecary, I just don't see Gillian and Sally having gotten all of these very, very noticeable tweakments and procedures to try and cheat time (not to mention the difficulty utilizing facial expressions). I feel like they would have noticed textiles leaning more and more towards polyester from how much easier it was to find natural fibers in the 90s and would have made conscious choices in line with their beliefs.

I know some of you are going to say "it's just a movie", and that's very observant of you, but part of the enjoyment for me was the way the characters were written, and this doesn't feel consistent. Also, I'm just sharing 🍃🌬 thoughts, let's be cool.

I saw the movie in theaters when it originally came out. I’ve always preferred the book, but the movie has a special place too. I was very excited to see that they’re showing it in theaters tonight and I grabbed my tickets right away. Really excited to see it in the theater after all these years.

I went to the theater last night to watch it and it was a blast (I even snuck in a little tequila mini to drink during the margarita scene.)

I was hoping SOMEWHERE would have a midnight showing but not over here. Are you so lucky though? Major loss for marketing and drink sales in my opinion.

I know most of this sub is dedicated to the movies but I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the books.

On that note, is anyone else bouncing in their seat excited that Hoffmans new book comes out this Tuesday!?!?