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Hocus Pocus
Film
FilmPG2022
Hocus Pocus 2
Directed by Anne Fletcher
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. From TMDB
107 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 2, 2026 · How this works
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Hocus Pocus 2 is a 2022 fantasy comedy film, directed by Anne Fletcher, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy.
- 97 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Jun 29, 2022 to Nov 1, 2026
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60 of 107 · most liked firstDay 22/100 of (More Lighthearted) Horror Movie Watches: *Hocus Pocus (1993) *Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) *Return of the Living Dead (1985) *Corpse Bride (2005)
neutral · AI labelView post →Me: “Trans people are cool & Hocus Pocus 2 is good! Twitter: “You pedophile groomer!” IG: “HOCUS POCUS 2 IS THE WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME ARE YOU STUPID?!” BlueSky: “you’re kind of awesome bc yes to both of those things and also cute butt” Like y’all are amazing here 💜💚💜💚💜💚
positive · AI labelView post →10 Movie to Get to Know Me: 1. Hocus Pocus 2. Power Rangers (1995) 3. Woo 4. A Low Down Dirty Shame 5. The Family Stone 6. Waiting To Exhale 7. Fast & The Furious (all of them) 8. The Avengers 9. The Net 10. Ringmaster (Jerry Springer)
neutral · AI labelView post →* Goofy - Monster Mash * Hocus Pocus - Main Title * Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy - The Witches Are Back * The Melomen, Paul Frees, Betty Taylor, Bill Lee, THURL RAVENSCROFT - Grim Grinning Ghosts * The Citizens of Halloween - This Is Halloween - From “The Nightmare Before Christmas” * Andrew Gold - It Must Be Halloween * Andrew Gold - Spooky, Scary Skeletons * Andrew Gold - Trick Or Treat * Andrew Gold - Witches, Witches, Witches * Andrew Gold - In Our Haunted House * Andrew…
neutral · AI labelView post →many great Disney movies, the villains are the best part. @tonygoldmark.bsky.social praised Hocus Pocus for basically going one step further and giving the villains the most screen time. they're the stars of the movie and are evil throughout. Then Hocus Pocus 2 fucked it up. I'm drerading 3 tbh
negative · AI labelView post →My husband and I have been watching season-appropriate movies - last night it was Hocus Pocus 2 and Halloween Town. Tonight we’re watching lady-Ghostbusters (I don’t care what y’all think, I like this movie lol 🤣)
neutral · AI labelView post →Drew's October movie thread The first four movies watched: Hocus Pocus (1993) Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) Mean Girls (2004) Halloween 3 (1982)
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw Hocus Pocus 2 and I'm confused as to why this film about generational influence (for good or bad), didn't have Dani Dennison as the magic shop owner who wanted to bring the Sanderson Sisters back. Hell, make her a witch out to pick their brains and get more power, all corrupted and stuff.
neutral · AI labelView post →I started my October of movies with Hocus Pocus 2! I can't believe this isn't a drag queen movie, it's so campy and stupid and musical!!! I think I still prefer the first one but this was a good one to start the halloween movie marathon 🎃
positive · AI labelView post →October movie challenge movie #21 Currently watching: HOCUS POCUS 2 (2022) #Germs31movies #Octobermoviechallenge #31horrormoviesin31days www.imdb.com/title/tt1190...
neutral · AI labelView post →You know how Beetlejuice 2 and Hocus Pocus 2 kind of started off Facebook fake movie posters that just eventually became real because Facebook normies made it clear there was a demand? I have two fake online movies I want to get that treatment:
neutral · AI labelView post →our October movie marathon continues with a witchy double feature 🧙🏻♀️💜👁️📔🧙🏻♀️💚🧹🎃🍂🧙🏻♀️💜 day 28: Hocus Pocus & Hocus Pocus 2 🧙🏻♀️💜👁️📔🧙🏻♀️💚🧹🎃🍂🧙🏻♀️💜
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm under no pretense that Hocus Pocus is a good movie but we're watching Hocus Pocus 2 and. Well, that's it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally got around to watching Hocus Pocus 2. Annnnnd.... meh >:/ it was basically "CALLBACKS!!" the movie while making our gals much less threatening. BUT!! Art the Clown in DBD looks SO good omfg!! ❤️ So friggin hyped!
negative · AI labelView post →Hocus Pocus 2 was a late stage abortion. Nobody wants another movie!
negative · AI labelView post →I wish Hocus Pocus 2 was a prequel that focused on those child actors from the beginning of the movie. They were so charming.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching Hocus Pocus 2 for my Halloween 🎃 movie. I've never seen it so I thought it was an appropriate day to watch.
neutral · AI labelView post →I had a fun witchy movie night with @saoirsethefirst.bsky.social last night, watching Hocus Pocus, Hocus Pocus 2, and Practical Magic. It did calm me for a while. But I woke up full of piss and vinegar ready to battle MAGA nitwits on their systemic starvation plans for the poor again
neutral · AI labelView post →So fun! The exam rooms were activities stations - we painted rocks ☺️ The treatment room was the movie room, with a projector playing Hocus Pocus 2 SO. MUCH. FOOD!
neutral · AI labelView post →Bette Midler returns 2 the top of her hit movie game when she gave the public what they've wanted for decades, Hocus Pocus 2. The Disney+ original broke all streaming records (#1 film premiere for Disney+ & #1 film premiere ever across all plaforms). @therealbettemidler.bsky.social is back! #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Bette Midler in the 2020's (so far!) #BetteMidler had a #1 movie on Amazon Prime (Sitting In Bars With Cake), THE #1 streaming movie premiere of ALL TIME (Hocus Pocus 2), a series on Netflix (The Politician), & a return to theaters (The Fabulous Four), among others. 50 years and still going strong!
neutral · AI labelView post →This year’s Palace of Malice Halloween Movie Marathon has begun! First, a double-feature: HOCUS POCUS (1993) and HOCUS POCUS 2 (2022).
neutral · AI labelView post →The thing that put him over to trash was saying how Hocus Pocus 2 (a movie both he and I have never seen) was a bad movie because they just wanted to make it “woke” and about “sisterhood”. Like you don’t come back from saying moronic things like that in my eyes.
neutral · AI labelView post →one…not Guillermo Del Toro), Hocus Pocus 2, and Disenchanted, especially that I’ve watched it in IMAX, even though it’s not on an actual theater. It’s rare that I do this, but I’m leaving in 2 ratings… Movie: 6/10 IMAX version: 7.5/10
neutral · AI labelView post →I have deep nostalgic love for Hocus Pocus but Hocus Pocus 2 is objectively a significantly better movie. I think it's pretty enjoyable for nearly everyone and it will age much much better.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched Hocus Pocus (for the first time, I know I know) and then we skimmed through Hocus Pocus 2 & that thing looked like a sad Walmart commercial. Like to go from enjoying that first movie even in its camp and 90s graphics to them in WALGREENS?! Why would they put those women under those lights?!
negative · AI labelView post →SO..... After Instagram account called Hocus Pocus Guide, pointed out that the rough cut of #HocusPocus 2 was warmer than the finished version, wich is whitish, colorless, made for TV, I decided to completely re-edit the film. watch the results below: short-link.me/11hlP #filmsky Filmsky 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →Celebrate #KathyNajimy's birthday with her screen-worn costume from #HocusPocus2 on display - enjoy a closer look hollywoodmoviecostumesandprops.blogspot.com/2023/04/hocu...
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 - Reel One movie 🎥 - Hocus Pocus 2* One album 💿 - Lemonade One TV show - Scandal
neutral · AI labelView post →Randomly rewatching Hocus Pocus 2 and I guess I would not necessarily think of it as a movie that would have the most Veep alum in it but here we are.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Hocus Pocus 2 Anniversary. I love you Mother Witch, can’t wait to have a movie dedicated to your story. 🥰🥰🥰
positive · AI labelView post →Despite all the haters out there, Disney's live-action "The Little Mermaid" has become the most-viewed film on Disney+ since "Hocus Pocus 2", notching 16 million views in its first five days on the platform.
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you seen the beginning of Hocus Pocus 2, with Tony Hale as 17c Puritan minister. Without speaking for the rest of the movie, the 17c scenes are excellent content.
positive · AI labelView post →my guess is tomorrow's Firefly announcement is a streaming movie with no Whedon involvement, which feels like a real no-win for anyone beyond the cast? a real Hocus Pocus 2 situation where exactly one year from its release, you will struggle to remember if you actually even sat down and watched it
neutral · AI labelView post →My “New To Me” #ScaryMovie was definitely not a Scary Movie. My 6 year old daughter wanted to watch a movie for Halloween, so we watched Hocus Pocus 2. It is ridiculous thinking the first came out when I was 10 and the 2nd when my daughter is 6. The movie was cute. Not scary at all.
positive · AI labelView post →Last night I watched Hocus Pocus 2 and for the duration of the movie I grinded the Disney Dreamlight Valley star path. I feel like it was a good use of my time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching "Hocus Pocus 2" (2022). Fantasy movie starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy. imdb.com/title/tt1190... #HocusPocus2 #BetteMidler #SarahJessicaParker #KathyNajimy
neutral · AI labelView post →Rhode Island is proud to welcome a major new film production directed by M. Night Shyamalan! Following The Gilded Age, Hocus Pocus 2, and Ella McCay, this exciting project joins a growing list of high-profile films choosing the beautiful Ocean State as their backdrop.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Hocus Pocus 2 (because ! ) and there's some cool bikes in here!
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie. I regret to inform you it isn't that good. It does make me want to watch Hocus Pocus 2 again, though.
negative · AI labelView post →It’s cliché to complain about movie sequels, but there are some truly bizarre examples. 1993’s Hocus Pocus with Sarah Jessica Parker lost Disney “$16.5 million during its theatrical run”, but they made a Hocus Pocus 2 and now there’s going to be a Hocus Pocus 3? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hocus_P...
neutral · AI labelView post →I love Hocus Pocus 2 for reminding people that Hocus Pocus one wasn’t a good film, they were just eight years old.
positive · AI labelView post →Just got back from a get-together where we had Hocus Pocus 2 on. It's a decent movie for a cash grab sequel, but I feel like if that movie were bigger than it was at the time, people would have been screaming, "THEY ATE CHILDREN! HOW CAN THEY BE REDEEMED!?!" Like, they're not real. I don't care.
neutral · AI labelView post →They are watching Hocus Pocus 1. I have a surprise for them, they're getting Hocus Pocus 2 this evening for supper. Outside with their entire grade level, and Chef Chad has made a pile of cheeseburger sliders, wings, soft pretzels, sheet cake, and movie theater popcorn, his youngest is in same level
neutral · AI labelView post →Yup, back in 2014. I looked it up and they technically used Hocus Pocus 2. In the scene there he's doing a live test of his new symptoms It was also used prominently in the Edgar Wright film "Baby Driver" iirc
neutral · AI labelView post →Agreed. However, I will say Hocus Pocus 2 had a perfectly good book sequel it could have adapted, and it in my opinion would have been a stronger movie. But the movie we got was aggressively fine.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched Practical Magic 2. Honestly not sure how I feel about it. Certainly a decent film, but all these sequels (Hocus Pocus 2, Scream 5-7, etc.— even AHS Season 13) just don’t have that standalone power the first films of their franchises do. All the callbacks and homages feel so forced 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →This movie feels like it only exists cause Hocus Pocus 2 was (unfortunately) a thing
neutral · AI labelView post →Punny lines in movie reviews is one of my pet peeves. They're all some variation on something like, "Hocus Pocus 2 is a bubbling cauldron of mediocrity," and I imagine the reviewer high-fiving themselves and I die a little inside.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yesterday, I watched the live action Scooby Doo movie. The day before, i watched Hocus Pocus 2. This morning, I finished Casper. Now I'm starting Scooby Doo: Monsters Unleashed. #spookySeason
neutral · AI labelView post →Movies to get In the Halloween mood 🎃 1. Hocus Pocus 2. Casper 3. HalloweenTown 4. Scream 5. Halloween 6. SAW III 7. Nightmare Before Christmas 8. Haunted Mansion 9. Hocus Pocus 2 10. ZOMBIES 11. BEETLEJUICE 12. ALIEN 13. SCARY MOVIE 2 14. Addams Family 15. BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
neutral · AI labelView post →It's really infuriating. I have had so many requests for Hocus Pocus 2 on DVD and several Disney+ kid book to tv show/movie films and I cannot get them. But not every family can subscribe either.
neutral · AI labelView post →You know, for a Disney legacy-sequel, Freakier Friday was actually pretty good… I mean, you know what you’re getting into, so if you didn’t like the 2003 film, then you won’t like this one. But at least it was WAY better than Hocus Pocus 2… though admittedly, that’s an incredibly low bar to clear.
neutral · AI labelView post →I feel like the success of this movie does show that I feel like Disney not releasing Hocus Pocus 2 in theaters, but instead released it on Disney+ make that decision a lot more like a regret and it also felt like a mistake more than anything
neutral · AI labelView post →Celebrate #SarahJessicaParker's birthday with her movie costume from #HocusPocus2 on display tinyurl.com/yc3jarsn
neutral · AI labelView post →I know I'm going to need to catch up before seeing this movie, but I hope it turns out to be a solid outing (like Hocus Pocus 2) & not a disappointing letdown (like Disenchanted): #FreakierFriday #Disney #movie youtu.be/n7YJj6iO2QY?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I liked it a lot, which I didn't expect to. It's controversial apparently, but I wasn't the biggest fan of Hocus Pocus 2, it felt too much like a nostalgia grab than a standalone movie or even a proper sequel. Beetlejuice 2 felt like both to me, like it could be its own movie AND it was a sequel
neutral · AI labelView post →10 Movie to Get to Know me: 1. Hocus Pocus 2 2. The Incredibles 2 3. The Incredibles 1 4. Training Day 5. The Conjuring 6. Insidious 7. Friday 8. Dr. Strange: Multiverse of Madness 9. Black Panther 10. Madea’s Halloween
neutral · AI labelView post →ABC is showing Hocus Pocus 2 tonight at 8. I'm still not sure if I really want to see it. I feel like the original movie ended perfectly. Didn't need a sequel. At the same time, I'm curious about where they went with the plot. 😐
neutral · AI labelView post →So Hocus Pocus 2....well, it's good to see the Sanderson Sisters back after 30 years. Too bad the rest of the movie wasn't really much to write home about.
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