makes the film look less like a sequel than an updated remake of the teen fantasy that drove legions of us to worship at the dark altar of demonic sorceress Fairuza Balk. It adheres quite closely to the story beats and even some of the dialogue of the 1996 cult horror hit, right down to the new arrival in town who completes the circle of aspiring witches, bringing magic she has only just begun to command as they use their collective powers to cut school bullies down to size.
There are few if any scares here, right up to the anticlimactic final faceoff where the witches strike back not so much with incantations but with what seem more like wannabe superhero moves. They're more low-key X-Men than Hex-Men. When they spot the four-quadrant pendant around her neck, they intuit that Lily is the compass point they've been missing — the West to their North, South and East; the water to their earth, wind and fire. Lily is unaware of her gift, but when douchey jock Timmy mocks her and she slams him into a locker with superhuman force, their collective craft suddenly starts cooking.
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It’s a dead link