The Sanderson sisters don’t miss a step with the legendary Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy reprising their roles as if not a day has gone by since Kenny Ortega’s 1993 sleeper Disney hit.

It’s truly a shame that Hocus Pocus 2 follows Turning Red in Disney’s wrong call to have it just go directly to Disney+, it should be seen in theaters.

Before we pick up 29 years after the events of the first film, it opens on a prologue that centers the Sanderson sisters when they’re kids.

Winifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Mary (Kathy Najimy) are back for revenge and the original “Gothic Golden Girls” relish embodying the witches once more in every frame—they ate.

The acclaimed actresses completely disappear, they just are the Sanderson sisters and it’s so good to see them again.

There’s show stopping Midler musical numbers that will become Halloween staples, magical mayhem, supernatural action, and the power of binding bonds which makes Hocus Pocus 2 a fantastically powerful and timely story.

In the younger witches, the Sandersons find formidable protégées by chance that are capable of holding their ground.