Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Website Recommendation
Craig Bader

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Book Review

Hocus Pocus

This is probably the most entertaining Halloween movie I've seen.

The story is a little bit scary - but not gory or too frightening. The bad witches are quite funny and boy, can they sing!

The costumes are wonderful - the music is great. Bette Midler is truly hilarious. (All three witches are hilarious.)

It's much more funny than creepy. Definitely lighthearted fun.

The only reservation I have in recommending this as a family movie, is that the trouble all starts because a virgin lit a candle in the witches' old house, thus bringing them back from the dead. The fact that the boy was a virgin was mentioned a number of times (he was teased about it by his kid sister.) And so, a couple of my kids then asked what virgin means. Which is a question that can come up around Christmastime, too, so it's not really that terrible. But I wanted to mention it so any parents reading this review are aware of it.