The Disney Channel classic Halloweentown is a better Halloween movie for kids than Hocus Pocus.
Debating Hocus Pocus's merit as a classic is the internet equivalent of committing a cardinal sin. Disney's cult phenomenon has stolen hearts for 30 years with its fierce wit and charming sincerity. If you argue against Binx, Billy, the Sandersons camping it up like there's no tomorrow, and that amazing Salem house, you might lack a heart. Yet despite its blithe wonder, Hocus Pocus amounts to cinematic candy: sweet and insubstantial.
As the archetypal Disney Channel Original Movie heroine, Marnie is both headstrong and unsure, combatively contrarian and hovering on the tentative cusp of adolescence. She wields a nerd's laser-focused passion, reciting details about the 1940s Universal Monster movies and recognizing mystical symbols like the back of her hand. "Halloween is cool," she declares with a smug smirk, savoring every word. "It's exciting, strange, and ancient.
But I had Marnie. She told me that "being normal is vastly overrated." She modeled how to draw strength and joy from honoring who I was without shame. Halloweentown's narrative crux is the conflict between denying what makes you different and the powerful autonomy that comes from wholly embracing your identity. Nothing indicates the Halloweentown writers intended their thesis statement to be a metaphor applicable to minority groups, but it is.
Atmosphere and production value, however, only go so far. Halloweentown's script — written by Paul Bernbaum, Jon Cooksey, and Ali Matheson — is accessible to children without stooping to condescension. Kids can digest the themes: Marnie wants to be her own person. Halloweentown's residents were once persecuted by humans, so they created a haven to peacefully coexist. Differences are accepted and celebrated. The "ugliest" monsters have the kindest hearts.
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