POSITIVES…
Although the movie doesn’t make this obvious, but this is in fact a sequel to the original. That knowledge alone gives this movie that little bit of geeky intrigue, considering how the 1996 “The Craft” was a cult film.
Cailee Spaeny is great as the lead character Lily, and makes it easy to get invested with her story.
The whole first day of school part of the movie, had many memorable and engaging scenes.
Montage sequence of using magic in multiple quick scenes, was pretty fun.
Biggest pleasant surprise to me was the character arc of Timmy, as played by Nicholas Galitzine.
She wasn’t in it as much as I hoped, but Michelle Monaghan was just a delight when she’s on screen.
Teenage girls will probably find a lot to relate with the themes of this movie.
NEGATIVES…
Needs to be said, but there will be those who will be complaining about the heavy handed themes. They really just were not subtle at all.
There are four characters in this witches coven, but this story more or less sidetracked three of them into kinda generic supporting roles.
It was like David Duchovny was just phoning it in throughout the whole movie.
The final big set piece was underwhelmingly disappointing.
Truth be told, I don’t think I was the target audience for this at all. Seems very specifically geared for young adult females only.
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