we need to talk about the craft: legacy (a review) 🕯🔮✨ 

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I hated when they said "we are the weirdos, mister" it made me go 🧍🏻‍♂️🤡 bc weirdos where???they don’t stand out, they are just dressed up like any pinterest/instagram/tiktok girl (????

Their senses of style are so underwhelming in this movie. I wish they actually dressed weird instead of trendy.

I hated how self righteous the girls were. Y’all were all using magic irresponsibility in my opinion.

as someone who has had an ultra-plus level flow since high school, the blood pooling through jeans and spilling off the seat is honestly cartoonish

That necklace of hers ISN'T EVEN A RUNE 😭 *cries in Pagan* This film was a disgrace

This is not the witch movie for this generation. It can’t be

I wish they tried more with their outfits...in the og movie, their entire school including the girls wore uniforms yet they somehow still stood out...these girls don’t stand out to me whatsoever

“We’re going to remake the Craft and it’s going to be more diverse and inclusive than the first one!” Protagonist is a cis, straight white girl whose friends of color are only there to prop her up, and calling them “1 dimensional” would be too generous. Please Hollywood, stop doing this.

Can old people please stop writing dialogue for teens??? They make them sound so cringey

I am thoroughly convinced no one in Hollywood has ever been or met a teenager before in their life.

I hate "we are women hear us roar" movies like this The concept of witchcraft in itself is pretty centered around feminine power and energy, just focus on that instead

"And David is totally gross" LMFAOOOOO 😭

when he said “women with an x” i almost threw up

They look like the people that would bully the real outcasts in school and then steal their style and hobbies a few years later when it suddenly becomes “trendy and cool.”

This feels like gen x's idea of gen z.

Honestly the period scene would’ve be better if it went like this: she felt it coming and asked to leave (she’s shy and the new girl so she didn’t explain why) the teacher denied it, then she insisted without explaining until she got “exposed” but the teacher still denied it so she stopped. None of the other girls were there, all of her classmates in that class were assholes that didn’t help her at all, so we see her slowly crumbling down while the classmates giggle. At the end of the class she zooms out of the classroom and that’s when we see the pool of blood (have the guy that’s supposed to “fall” for her react the loudest). She only first meets the other girls in the hall/bathroom. This way we can establish the toxic patriarchal way of thinking, the way that affects the main character and the bullies, plus we can antagonize the other students and make the girls stand out meanwhile being a more relatable and understandable experience.

That period scene is so freaking stupid.. and she is wear a pair of jeans, those jeans would get all red before her period blood would drop like that. I can tell just from tha scene it was def writen by bunch of 30+ men

"the three of these boys combined barely have a personality" welp. I died lool

I'm 18 part of Gen z, and even I don't like this movie. Its way to try hard for me, corny and everything you said was also on point.. I think it wont be as good as the first one and wont ever be. Also I love your videos

The “we’re the weirdos mister” created an anger in me I didn’t know I had lmaooooo like what’s weird about you? Let’s just leave that quote to Queen Nancy ✨

I agree every generation needs their own cult movies however studios, producers, writers and directors SHOULD make an effort to create and deliver quality stuff. Teens and kids aren't stupid they can handle dark/ harsh themes and character development. A good movie doesn't need to be pretencious or artsy or edgy to be good. A good or at least memorable movie needs to feel REAL. Characters we can sympathize with, situations we can relate, depict actions to make us say "What would I do? Oh, yeah, exactly that or go, hell no! and even somthing morally gray like I get, not for me thou" as well as the repercurssions derived from them. That's it. DELIVER A DECENT MOVIE.

This movie felt like a TV pilot to me.... As such allot of the short comings made sense... It was all stuff that would be developed or explained later in the series, no need to wrap everything or put in every idea into just the pilot. Felt like at the last minute they changed it from a pilot to a standalone movie.

Love spells that take away free will bothers them (though that doesn’t _actually_ seem to be what bothers them about the situation), but forcibly changing someone’s personality- they’re totally ok with that???

It shocks me how much new technology we have for movies and special affects and yet our storyline/plot SUUUUCKK!!

My biggest gripe with the costuming was Frankie’s stuff not feeling very Earth signy. It’s possibly just me, but Leopard print reads more fire sign or even an eclectic air sign. 🤷🏾‍♀️

This movie tries so hard in breaking stereotypes and clichés that finished adding worst clichés.

I don’t mind the spoilers. I knew from the trailer I wasn’t going to make any effort to watch it. I’m here because I really appreciate and enjoy listening to your critiques and opinions ☺️💖

No one will ever be able to live up to how amazing Fairuza Balk was in the original movie. I loved Nancy. In saying that I loved all four of the girls.

14:03 "Lily's future bully/love interest"???? Wat lol I like haters to lovers tropes but from what I saw already it's more like another sexual assault to date from the Kissing Booth

ugh yes. i watched this the other day and it actually seemed promising (even tho i didn’t like the idea of a sequel either) but then it all just crashed and burned. the writing was really lazy and the characters were so incredibly underdeveloped and nothing made sense... also this is a nitpick but there was just too much gen z slang that already makes it feel outdated lmao. (ok i just finished the vid and see you said you didn’t take issue with that, i guess to me those parts seemed really forced and unnatural rather than trying to accurately depict modern teenagers and that’s why it bugged me lol)

They could have brought such a cool spin on this by letting each of them bring a bit of their own culture into the movie. Brujería, voodoo, Santeria, etc...and rather than have the girls of color act as her back up band, let each one shine with a more fleshed out back story. Bringing the O.G. cast back would also have been awesome. Perhaps if they had to fight AGAINST Nancy Downs and her daughter, instead of watering it down to "The Babysitter's Club Plays With Magic," They needed a true protagonist. That would be a reboot I would want to see.

To me, it doesn't make sense to have Nancy the bio mom, since Sarah was the only one who was born a witch? Also, at the end of the 1996 craft Sarah binds Nancy, and removes her powers. So confusing

The movie was complete and utter trash, an insult to the intelligence of the average viewer, wasn't even good enough for the "teens of this generation"

Can't understand why they just didn't continue the story with the original characters and what has happened to them since Nancy was put in the instution.

But when in the first film did Nancy get pregnant and give birth before losing all her powers and ending up in an asylum. Nancy wasn’t actually a witch, it was Sarah and so if she were to have a kid whilst in the asylum, it wouldn’t make sense that the baby has powers.

The period scene wasn't all that unbelievable to me. I actually know a girl who went through that nightmare scenario. The other kids did the expected of cruel kids and made fun of her. It was terrible for her and I think she ended up switching schools. The same also happened to me, but luckily no one noticed and I had a jacket to wrap around myself.

I don’t think the outfits are comparable to Euphoria since the outfits in Euphoria are extremely character specific and make since based on their own individual back stories. Where as in Legacy there’s no real correlation other than being somewhat “trendy”. I still think they look like the clearance section at the outlet mall.

8:12 Honestly I actually really like that the misogynistic comment directed towards Frankie came from a girl. Many women have a lot of internalized misogyny and highlighting that bigoted comments can come from anyone is important

I actually thought the period scene was some supernatural thing because of how outrageous it was

The biggest flaw for me is that what made the original cool and iconic was how dark magic made them dangerous to the people around them but also to each other, but this one was so... light? They could have done a different movie about a feminist coven with light magic and call it a day but they decided to do this. Why call it a remake/sequel to The Craft if the tone is completely different? It missed the whole point of the OG. It's like one of those autumn influencer girls directed the movie lol.

I knew I could trust this review because she said she rented The Craft from Blockbuster

You should do a video analyzing the outfits in The Queens Gambit! 🥰🥰

After watching this I was left with the idea that this was the beginning of a 3 part series type sequel attempt.

"There's no need to fear! The COVEN is here!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 The sass was dripping off of that 🤣

When I watched this I literally did not know ANY of the other girls' names except for Lily. This was some of the most half-assed, underdeveloped writing I've ever seen.

I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be a remake or a sequel but what I did like about it was the girls didn't turn on each other like the original they stayed friends and worked together to fight a common enemy

there is no way you bleed that much😂😂 fyi women only lost 2/3 tbsp(max 8) of blood during period

Love your channel and this video. I agree Nooo the fashion really ain't it. There's this quote i like from the comment in the trailer video "i feel like none of these directors really know how to emulate gen z fashion and culture. This looks like H&M meets nickelodeon meets ouija board". I really by no means would put this on the same level as euphoria. Another person also said they had their 12yo sister watch the original and this new one and they apparently loved the old hated the new. In studying film just looking at the trailer alone i can see why this film would be bad through other analysis. I think its the film thats bad not the fact it should be geared to a younger generation.

Honestly I don’t entirely hate this movie. It has some good parts but the whole “female empowerment” thing it’s so cringey and preachy it doesn’t feel genuine at all. Also it looks like a wattpad version of harry potter.

the thing too with the period scene, coming from a girl with a very heavy flow, they could have like indicated her period is coming and like she wears protection like a pad or so, then it over flows from her miscalculation that the pad was too small or even that her step family buys her a wrong size since they're men to take out a bit of the" misogyny" . Like you said they never indicated that that's her first or second period so its just a thought. I also thought that they could have made the girls different ages and in different classes so the main girl who could be the youngest goes to the bathroom meets them there and cry then they make her feel better. another thing is the cast is unbelievable as outcasts the average bully would not see them and think of a target, if that make sense. They dress better than the extras even from the start of the movie, that alone should bring sort of popularity. They are beautiful and don't hide it, the girl who is the "ugly" one is pretty average looking (no hate). They probably should have done something with that like make her feel like the duff or that she hates her mediocrity and that's her insecurity, add more to it to spice it up she could be the one to put a love spell on the bully boy to make her self feel less ugly. Then every body starts *thinking* we've gone too far but continues any way.

I don't plan on watching this and don't have all the info or whatever but the clip of him going "women! Women with a X!" was truly hilarious, the actor nailed it

As someone who practices witchcraft the problem with lovespells isn't "you broke our trust over a crush :(" it's that it's basically non consensual and the other person doesn't have a choice in loving you making it really toxic

It honestly feels like a badly written version of Melanie Martinez's K-12 film; period talk, secret powers, adressing misogynistic behavior and the patriarchy, all in a school setting

I did like the modern twist on the story! Or: I would have liked the twist if there was any story there in the first place 💀

I kept getting confused between the middle brother and the older brother because they were the same levels of bland. If the youngest brother wasn't so obviously young (like middle school at best) I probably would have gotten him confused with the others too. Also, I fell asleep during the final fight. 😂

Some things are better left alone

The orginal movie came out at the most perfect time for me. It was released in theaters literally a week before my 12th birthday, I was interested in witchcraft and the occult because my mom was at the time as well and would help me to "love spells " which actually worked believe it or not and it just seemed like the perfect movie for my best friend and I, who were outcasts at our school. Kids called me a "freak "and "satan worshiper" because I had dyed my hair "vampire red" wore black nail polish and wore a pentagram charm and it just looked like the movie was made for girls like me (at least in my 11 year old mind) I had just begun dating a boy who was a little older than me and he said the craft "looked stupid " and instead we went to see Twister which had also just come out. I fell asleep during it, lol. The following day my mom took my best friend and I to see The craft and of course we loved it. I related a lot to Sarah's character as well as Nancy and Bonnie. The characters felt real with the exception of the racist blonde girl (I didn't know any kids in the 90s no matter how popular they were who would be considered funny or cool for being racist) Not long after the movie was released I remember so many girls adopting the goth look, including kids who had previously called me a freak and satan worshiper but that's preteens for you ! Marilyn Manson was becoming really popular around this time so that kind of helped goth and the alternative look come back into fashion again. This movie will always have a special place in my heart. This sequel felt so generic and predictable. It was exactly what I expected it would be. My nieces love the original film and they were all born in the the 00s and 2010s and they didn't like the sequel at all. We all agreed that the period scene was ridiculous...a spot or even big stain of blood on her pants would have been so much more believable than a damn puddle of blood..was she hemorrhaging??

I didn't even know this was a sequel I saw the trailer for it and was like ohh that looks cool I want to watch it lol

Can you please review Buffy the Vampire Slayer and how it changed tv

The sequel seems like a movie for Disney Channel. They need to stop making sequels of 90s movies.

I have 3 questions about this film. 1. Was the script written over a certain amount of years? While parts of the film feel very 2019/2020 but you have stuff like the twilight references which felt very 2010 and dated. 2. The flow of the film feels very messy was it a badly structured script or was it a poorly edited film? There’s even entire plot points and characters who disappear 3. With the trans character (that’s another issue names were forgettable) while yes she’s her mothers daughter the script hinted at the witch powers being in the female blood line. They even asked the lead character who her mother was due to how powerful she was. So is it bloodlines or what you identify as that give you witch powers and if she hadn’t identified as female at some point would she have had warlock powers instead or just past the witch powers on to whatever daughters she had? If I have accidentally insulted anyone here I really didn’t mean to.

You hit all the points that I missed in my review I love this. This movie tried to cash in on a cult classic while missing the point. And yes they tried to make this look like Euphoria. I just can't with this movie.

Hopefully, you can cleanse your mind by watching the Queen's Gambit. I laaaaav it for its amazing filmmaking, and Beth's fashion is a wonderful plus :)

It seems like the writers of this movie cared more about fitting diversity quotas and a "fuck the patriarchy" message than it did about writing a good story with good characters.

Watching this movie was such a surreal experience for me, because that house was based on a house in Brooklyn I spent a good chunk of my childhood in--like, down to the bay window staircase--and the ee-veel boys and their dad are INCREDIBLY loosely based on my friends and their dad, whom the director lived with for a year because their parents were seeing each other. And full respect to the director for using her art to work out her trauma, but it really just goes to show how much changes in the process of fictionalization for the sake of good dramatic tension. I called my friend while I was watching it (we both decided to watch it the same night), and we were dying laughing. I was like "Did she give your dead mother backstory to a side character?" And he was like "Yeah, it makes it a lot harder for the audience to hate us if the fact that we were all fucked up because our mom just died is thrown into the mix."

I'm mad because hulu refuses to put to upload The Craft (the original) so I had to watch this. I regret it deeply.

The protagonist seems so sweet. And her friends too. I don't think they will have much problem to fit in with the rest of the kid. I almost laugh watched them walking together in slow mo at cafeteria...😁...and also on the paveway scene, they're so petit and adorable.Why would anyone treat them as an outcast anyway? Just watching this video I wanted to say, damn, 90s teenager much cooler than current generation. Please stop making sequel, people. You already have the stranger, saoirse ronan, timothy chalameet...believe me, they are enough.

I do have to hand it to them for the period incident. It seems that you have never been in that situation but I have. Though, my embarrassing experience was more mild but as a child (twelve at the time) I did get teased for it by boys and girls. It did die down quickly as I did not have a bad reputation. The reaction to her cycle was definitely realistic. The only thing about the film really.

*”There’s no need to fear, the coven is here!”* 😂

Hey MG, this is probably unnecessary to state; but I’m a guy, I’m straight and In my 27; but I’m a Art And set director, and I gotta say, I love your channel! Your breakdown on style and fashion is the best! Thank you for all the research and hard work!

I agree with most everything that you said, I think David Duchovny, should have not been cast as the villain, his character was very forgettable, so where the 3 sons. The clothes were too trendy for outcast, there were too many callbacks to The Craft, the only callback should have been the actress Assumpta Serna who owns the occult shop in The Craft, it would have been awesome if they had of went there for supplies. The director and writer or writers relied too much on callbacks, and not enough originality for the plot, it would have been so much better if they had of not played it safe. There was too much fluff added. I do like that they had diversity, life is full of diversity, but should not be treated like being careful with a carton of eggs so that you do not break one. Thank you for the review, I enjoyed it!

Subtedly is so important in art. We know each original witch in the Craft has her corner and her element, it’s never blatantly obvious to the point that it becomes cartoonish.

Thank you for the video. 1996's craft is also one of my favorite movies. I think the most frustrating thing is seeing the potential in a story and then seeing it squandered. I understand that producing entertainment for an audience is difficult. It cannot please everyone. So I just have to keep my peace and write my own stories.

The rules on magic is harm none!!! Which is in the first Craft! The spells they put on people, and Nancy kills It all comes back on them times three! Nancy Abused the powers Mano gave her! She winds up in a funny farm! Sara gets all the powers, proceeds to scare the bejeebers out of the other two

Duchovny needed her powers because, well, female magic is ✨superior✨. Thanks, movie!

F I N A L L Y a review from someone who loves (or has even seen lmao) the original Craft.

And it just ends...what happens to David Duchovny's sons? He just "doesn't come home" & the kids are like "oh well"

i agree with like everythjng so far except for the "if the message was patriarchy bad then why would you have a female deliver the misogynistic line?" and i feel like this could have gone deeper. showing a mysoginist girl does not necessarily undermine the patriarchy message, but the way it was done in this movie defjnitely doesnt add anything, if she was slightly more of a prominent character, they could have fleshed out her motives a bit, that shes like a pick me girl, they could have shown her looking for approval from men after making that m "tried to look pretty" comment

This sequel made the remake of IT seem like an enjoyable movie. Fairuza Balk coming back as Nancy was the only good thing about it.

I loved Zoey Luna in the movie and the film had so much more potential

the movie just feels like they tried to cash on "woke" culture without even trying to understand it

What the hell kinda power system puts shapeshifting ABOVE *stopping time* ?!?!

Instead of rehashing the same story, I would have preferred watching a sequel on where the original women are now. Where are they now, how did they cope with their teenage years, did they address their trauma from those years, and could they heal together with their trauma or use it to justify negative actions in their adult years? I mean, the movie was great but the girls were hellah problematic to each other in years dealing with a lot of trauma. In this Era of green witches, using shadow work to address problems with your inner child, becoming more aware of problematic behavior especially in race and sexism. Idk, I feel like a good writer could make it interesting and topical.

I have to say the way the way they tried to get the whole modern teen thing didn't work as well as it did in the 90s one. We don't speak in text language out loud, for example. It seems more like some older people trying to make a parody of us, whereas the 90s one felt more realistic.

5:05 girl on the far left sitting is an old college buddy, and now she does background work. You go Annah!

The part I didn't understand was why making Timmy bi. It was really random and after he says he hooked up with her step brother she put an spell on him and they kissed. ANd right after that they killed them. It was weird. I also totally agree the should not put those useless borthers and give more background to the other girls.

so glad i didn’t waste my energy watching this movie. remakes mostly suck and sequels with a completely different casting mostly suck too. it never works. i wish hollywood would stop trying. do something original.

The whole "weirdo" girl thing felt way more compelling in the first film - also, I really liked the first Craft because the coven was evil, or at least Nancy was. The fuck is this shit with the girlfriendly witches?

I’m glad I’m not the only one who was dissatisfied with the sequel. I felt like they were tackling too many topics at once which made it lack depth: Lilly’s adoptions, evil stepdad, friendship, s*icide, sexuality, oh and witchcraft. (I’m probably missing others). It was difficult to connect with any of the characters because such a poor job was made at laying the foundation for their individual stories and identities. Hollywood doesn’t make movies the same anymore.💔

the original The Craft is beautifully directed, executed, and is still unmatched

When I heard the I’m speaking dont interrupt me line I was shook i was like hell no

The “we are the weirdos mister” part was so much more natural and so much more badass in the original. It seems so forced here.

I’m a boy and I remember in middle school a girl got her period at lunch and I offered her my hoody until she could get something else to change into. This was like 2005 or 2006.

I thought it was kind of weird that they made the main Nancy's daughter, when it would have made a bit more sense your her to be Sarah's since the first stated that Sarah was a natural witch and she's the only one who still had magic at the end.

The best part of the original Craft was how grounded the magic was. The use of practical effects made the magic seem tangible in a way that at first left you guessing whether or not it was all just coincidence or if they actually have powers. Time stopping magic is so stupid and is such a rip off of charmed. In the original craft the types of magic they used were all in line with actual witchcraft practices.

The Craft is “dated” in the sense that’s its obviously in the 90s, but it isn’t cheesy and “how do you do fellow kids?” about it. It comes across as very natural and how young people would actually talk and dress. They aren’t caricatures of teens, they are characters. From the clips/reviews I’ve seen of Legacy they were being way to obvious about how much they want to appeal to the modern teen demographic and comes across as cringey and fake.

Are we just gonna ignore how powerless the other female classmates look in the period scene? As if they can't do anything to stop the boys making fun of Lily? Why do they make women so helpless in this "girl power" movie?

I really feel like hollywood needs a reboot.

this movie came across as "is this what the teens are into now a days?" in literally almost every way