After almost three decades, the Owens sisters are back.
Warner Bros. has officially released the first full trailer for Practical Magic 2, giving fans their first proper look at Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman returning as Sally and Gillian Owens.
The sequel reunites the beloved witchy sisters as a new generation of the Owens family discovers that the infamous family curse may not be over after all.
The trailer introduces Sally’s daughters, Kylie (Joey King) and Antonia (Maisie Williams), who have grown up hearing stories about the Owens family curse—the one that causes the men they love to die.
At first, the sisters dismiss the stories as nothing more than family folklore.
That quickly changes when Kylie falls in love… and tragedy strikes.
With Kylie determined to “fix the curse” herself, Sally and Gillian set out on a magical journey to stop her before it’s too late.
But there’s one problem…
Almost as soon as the trailer dropped, longtime fans noticed something that didn’t quite add up.
Wasn’t the Owens family curse broken at the end of the first movie?
If you remember the emotional finale of the 1998 cult classic, Sally finally embraced love with Detective Gary Hallet after the Owens women defeated Jimmy’s spirit. The ending strongly suggested that the centuries-old family curse had finally been broken, allowing the women to love without fear.
So why is the sequel acting as though the curse is still very much alive?
That question has quickly become one of the biggest talking points online.
Here are just a few of the reactions from fans:
“I thought they broke the curse??? I’ve been waiting so long for this movie, but I wish it took over where it left off.”
“I thought they broke the curse—that’s why she could marry the dude with the blue eye and green eye.”
“Wait a minute. The curse was broken in the first film!!”
“Poor woman, lost two husbands to the curse, which I thought they broke!”
Another fan wondered whether Sally had somehow erased her daughters’ memories of magic altogether, writing:
“Did Sandra’s character erase her daughter’s memories of magic so that she could pretend to be normal? Did the whole town forget? I need answers.”
Others questioned whether the sequel is intentionally rewriting parts of the original story, with one viewer commenting:
“They broke the curse at the end of the first movie… the kids knew about magic in the first film.”
So… what happened?
At this stage, Warner Bros. hasn’t explained why the curse appears to have returned.
It’s entirely possible the trailer is holding back a major plot twist. The sequel is based on Alice Hoffman’s novel The Book of Magic, which expands the Owens family mythology considerably, so there may be more to the curse than audiences realised in the original film.
For now, though, fans have been left with one giant question:
If the curse was broken in 1998… why does everyone still seem cursed?
We’ll all have to wait until Practical Magic 2 hits cinemas on 11 September to find out.
