Practical Magic 2 Teaser Sexy, Stylish, And Storyless

By Jennifer Asencio
| Updated 57 minutes ago

The Owens family is back. In a new trailer for Practical Magic 2, the all-female family is still practicing the family tradition of witchcraft in their small Massachusetts town. The curse that Sally (Sandra Bullock) thought she broke in the first movie seems to still be in full swing for all six Owens women, but there is a new generation entering the family business.

The one thing the trailer lacks is plot. Viewing it will not tell anyone what the movie is about. There is a lot of travel and a lot of scenes of witchcraft being practiced, as well as references to the events of the first film, but interested fans need to resort to IMDb to tell them that the family is once again trying to break the curse that leaves them all unable to keep the romance they find in their lives.

A Spellbinding Ensemble Cast

Of course, love exists everywhere else for the Owens family. Returning to the movie in addition to Sally are Nicole Kidman’s Gillian and both the Aunts, the more reserved Franny (Stockard Channing) and the former wild child Jet (Dianne Wiest). Also joining the cast are Sally’s two daughters, all grown up and played by Joey King as Kylie and Maisie Williams as Antonia, who are replacing Evan Rachel Wood and Alexandra Artrip from the first film. The majority of the trailer is focused on combinations of these six, especially in pairings as sisters. We get a lot of Sally and Gilly working together as they did in the first film. And it looks like Sally still can’t lie.

Notably absent is Aiden Quinn, who played Sally’s love interest in the first film and presumably broke the Owens curse by bypassing it through Sally’s childhood spell. Based on the plot synopsis given on IMDb, it would seem Sally didn’t break the curse after all, but here’s hoping that Texas sheriff Gary Hallet didn’t meet the same end as other men associated with the Owens women.

Someone else frequently in the trailer is Lee Pace, whose unnamed character resembles the villain of the previous film, but who doesn’t seem to be antagonistic to Sally or Gilly. Pace’s character seems set up to fill Gary’s shoes, even though he seems to have a lot more in common with the sexy but abusive Jimmy Angelov. In one scene, Sally quips about their experience fighting Angelov’s zombified reincarnation in front of Pace’s character. Whether he is a love interest or a secret antagonist, he is in quite a few scenes in the trailer, indicating his importance to the plot.

More Roll Call Than Synopsis

I personally have long been awaiting a sequel to the Owens family story, although I’m disappointed to imagine that Gary might be out of the picture because he fell prey to the Owens curse. As a fan, the trailer was exciting to me. The problem with the trailer, though, is that if you didn’t see the first movie, not a lot of it will make sense. It’s just a collection of female stars in an ensemble cast that doesn’t seem to have a story. And it’s a little weird to have Joey King and Maisie Williams play a pair of girls who would be in their 40s in 2026, based on the ages of the characters in the 1998 original, I wonder if the Owens’ herbal youth magic is working overtime on them.

Fortunately, this is also just a teaser trailer, rather than a full trailer. It is entirely possible that it was meant to provoke fans into excited word-of-mouth advertising and inspire new fans to catch up on the 1998 film, which is showing with a subscription to HBO Max.

If the idea of Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, and Dianne Weist playing Salem-style witches all together in the same movie is interesting enough, go watch Practical Magic and prepare to be blown away. Then the trailer to Practical Magic 2 will make a little more sense and amplify the ensemble with two more talented young actresses in King and Williams. Maybe the full trailer will show us more than just a collection of great actresses by showing us what their movie is actually about.

Fall under the spell of Practical Magic 2 when it is released in theaters on September 18, 2026.