Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge

Release Date: October 12, 2001

Watch Date: October 21, 2023

“Grandmother Aggie (Debbie Reynolds) sweeps granddaughters Marnie and Sophie off to Halloweentown to investigate a series of strange occurrences. When they arrive, the vibrant community seems to have lost its magic, and its once-colorful citizens have become gray-literally-and boring. But why? It isn’t long before Aggie discovers that her spell book has been stolen, and the trio sets out to find it. They discover that an angry warlock plans to permanently turn every human into whatever costume they are wearing at midnight on Halloween and has taken the book so Aggie can’t use it to reverse his spell. It’s a race against time, as Marnie must use her skills to defeat the young warlock threatening to change Halloweentown for eternity.”

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    I’ve said it before, and I’ve meant it. I love the Halloweentown movies. Always have, always will, no matter how redeemable they are or not.

    Halloweentown II is better than the original, and it has the bonus trivia fact that Cal and Marnie are now engaged, possibly married – I haven’t checked. That makes me happy.

    Can I be completely honest with you? I didn’t really pay all that much attention to this movie, because we were enjoying a much needed date night. And sometimes, that happens. Especially with Disney Originals that don’t really require that much attention. So I can’t really criticize this movie, even if I wanted to – which I don’t – because I was having too much fun spending time with my husband.

    I will say that I do enjoy the fact that the entire original cast returned for this film. It makes it feel extra special, and like the cast knew how special the franchise they were participating in was to the people watching it. Halloweentown is kind of a Disney cult classic for a reason.

    I have pretty much all the same opinions of this one that I do of the first one, and I think Bob feels pretty much the same way. It’s fun, it’s campy, it’s not perfect by any means, but if you changed anything it might lose it’s charm.