Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock certainly look like they’re having fun in the Practical Magic 2 trailer.

Warner Bros. Pictures released the first teaser trailer for Practical Magic 2 yesterday. The long-awaited sequel to the 1998 movie sees Bullock, Kidman, Stockard Channing, and Dianne Wiest reprise their respective roles as Sally Owens, Gillian Owens, Frances Owens, and Bridget “Jet” Owens, while new cast members include Joey King, Lee Pace, Maisie Williams, and Xolo Maridueña.

“Practical Magic 2 returns to a world steeped in moonlit mischief and powerful ancestral magic, as the Owens sisters must confront the dark curse that threatens to unravel their family once and for all in a must-see cinematic event of fun, magic, and mayhem,” the official synopsis reads.

Practical Magic 2 trailer review

I think the trailer for Practical Magic 2 makes the movie look like fun. I don’t hold that first movie near and dear to my heart the way some people do — don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s bad or anything, but it’s also not something I feel the need to revisit all of the time or put on a pedestal above all other movies. It’s a fun time. I know there are some people out there who are far bigger fans than that, and more power to them. 

Having that perspective, though, I’m perfectly fine with them trying a sequel out, even if it has been just a bit shy of 30 years from the original. Maybe they’ll recapture the magic of the first movie, and we’ll all have a good time with this! Maybe they won’t, and it’ll be a dud! Again, I’m not so in love with the first movie that the critical reaction to Practical Magic 2 will uproot my life; I’m optimistic and am looking forward to watching it, but I’ll still sleep soundly if it’s a miss.

I guess the big question I have is how this’ll do at the box office; Practical Magic will find some sort of audience, no doubt about that, but will it be a big one? This was a straight-to-streaming case, so maybe not a perfectly comparable example, but I think of Hocus Pocus 2 — so many people (from my generation, especially) absolutely love that movie, and then I don’t think I’ve heard a single person mention or talk about Hocus Pocus 2 since two weeks after the movie was released. 

Again, that went right to Disney+, so we don’t know how it would have done at the box office. But we can hope for a little bit better for Practical Magic 2, right? That it’ll hopefully be a bit more memorable; it’ll hopefully feel a little less like a calculated studio decision, and a little bit more like they’re approaching it because they have a story to tell. That’s my hope, at least. I’m rooting for you, Practical Magic 2!