Halloweentown Trilogy: Beware Of The Witch

Hey y’all, today’s topic is Halloweentown. Come ride a magic school bus as we embark to a town, not like our own filled with witches & more.
Table Of Contents

1. Summary of Halloweentown 1:
2. Comments while watching Halloweentown 1
   • You kids should stop arguing with mom
   • Foreshadowing 
   • Hi Luke 
   • Harriet!!
   • Sophie comes in clutch
3. Kalabar’s Revenge Summary:
4. Kalabar’s Revenge Commentary:
   • Obviously a book of spells
   • Still a bully, not a brat
   • Take one for the team 
   • Apparently mom’s blind to red flags 
5. Halloweentown High Summary
6. Halloweentown High Commentary
   • You would have had more luck pretending to be some English teacher or something 
   • She doesn’t know history. She’d make a great English teacher. Talk about tropes. 
   • What were you hoping
   • Villain reveals their plan trope
7. Ranking the Halloweentown trilogy:
8. Final Thoughts

Summary of Halloweentown 1:Marnie is almost 13 and loves Halloween. Unfortunately, her mom is very anti-Halloween. Her grandma suspiciously comes only once a year and tells her of a place called Halloweentown where all ghosts, witches, werewolves, vampires, ghouls, and more live in peace and harmony. Dissatisfied with how mom raised her, Marnie and her siblings follow her grandma back on the bus. Imagine their surprise when they discover Halloweentown is a real place! Not only that, but people have been disappearing. Can the kids help grandma save the town? 

Comments while watching Halloweentown 

• Iconic pumpkin
• Look at all the trick or treaters
• You aren’t a grownup 
• You aren’t the only family that doesn’t celebrate Halloween 
• I’d be punished if I said anything like that to my mom
• Nerd
• Just saying I haven’t met a nature nerd with this aesthetic 
• So mature 
• You’re a viking

You kids should stop arguing with mom

• What do you think storytime is
• Oh my goodness stop
• So cute 
• You almost said it
• She should get a choice
• Why throw out the candy 
• How did grandma not hear them screaming 
• Some of the best prosthetics 

Foreshadowing 

• Benny is my favorite 
• I can’t tell if he’s messing with her on purpose to be mean or because she’s a kid
• Wait 
• Train her or sophie
• Glitter 
• Fetch quest
• Eating all the candy mood
• Oh no not harriet 
• And you are at the heart of it 
• She doesn’t keep promises 
• Zombie elvis is not what I was expecting 

Hi Luke 

• Don’t be a meanie 
• How’d mom get here
• Dylan don’t lie
• Technically not true
• I really don’t like Marnie 
• Why is mom the bad guy for no reason 
• I love the mayor’s assistant 
• Why go alone
• Pirate dude!

Harriet!!

• His eyes are sith eyes
• The voice is obvious 
• Luke you’re ruining the dramatic presentation 
• Bye mom
• Bye grandma 
• We had to get rid of the adults somehow 
• All up to you is it
• It’s in the back where you can’t see
• Convenient bottle
• I don’t think that’s how that works 
• Eww it rotted
• A skeleton’s worst nightmare 

Sophie comes in clutch

• If baddie wanted it bringing it to his lair is a bad idea
• You could put it in the mouth
• I would have used teamwork and have sophie end up putting it in but he has to have a redeeming moment 
• This guy is willing to hurt kids why would the nice citizens get behind him
• Blinded by the light
• Your bloodline would have been legendary 
• She just sounds like a brat I’m sorry 
• It wasn’t about trust it’s ok to not want to embrace your roots
• I thought she didn’t want to live in the human world 
• If you could have it as a backpack or purse think of all the stuff you could fit!

Kalabar’s Revenge Summary:After a brief time skip, Marnie and her family are celebrating Halloween yet again, fully embracing their magic. Oh no, grandma’s spellbook has gone missing! When Marnie and grandma go back to Halloweentown to get her back up, everything is colorless. Marnie and her siblings must work together to get to the bottom of it while preventing the nefarious plot from happening on Earth. This one has time travel! 
Kalabar’s Revenge Commentary:

• Previously on Halloweentown
• What do you mean? You have a computer!
• Where was your character development?
• Why are kids parenting adults 
• Shouldn’t you sense that too
• I’m sad you’re a bunch of frogs, you would have made a good step dad
• Shoot his shot
• Noooo
• Why are you showing off rooms to your new neighbor 

Obviously a book of spells

• Disarming
• I love when audiences know things characters don’t 
• Wow like father like son
• Portal opener
• Oh yes that has worked so well so far 
• Why didn’t you make these before 
• Drama
• Finger wiggles 
• Her eyes are blue??
• It’s so lifeless and cold

Still a bully, not a brat

• Dylan has powers too I’m confused 
• More portal jumping this movie
• Creepy face
• Aggie was probably there for the vote 
• You could join and double cross him later 
• Why didn’t the house turn back
• F r o g
• A banshee or a witch

Take one for the team 

• Ouch
• Oh no
• Getting rid of the adults again 
• There are people who relate to Gort
• Missed this potential in the first one
• Ewww
• Darn it
• Just go back 50 more years
• So awkward 
• It makes sense 
• Poor gort
• You said it like 15 times
• Noice

Apparently mom’s blind to red flags 

• C’mon Luke we’re on a time crunch
• Nooo
• Too late
• Scary
• Luke is so much better in this movie 
• You didn’t fix Halloweentown 
• special effects 
• Oh I thought his magic destroyed him 
• Let this be a lesson to choose your cosplays and costumes carefully 
• They get the best of both worlds 

Halloweentown High SummaryMarnie accidentally bets her family’s magic against the notion that humans would accept monsters. So the family gets a bunch of foreign exchange students. Unfortunately, someone is trying to sabotage her. 
Halloweentown High Commentary

• Now we have narration
• Previously on Halloweentown 
• Repercussions for the last movie
• The arrogance is back 
• This feels like it’s ripped from harry potter 
• You shouldn’t bet
• Everyone has the hots for their mom
• How has she saved the world twice and still level 1
• Clown car
• Is that ryan from high school musical 
• Arrogance 
• It has legs now

You would have had more luck pretending to be some English teacher or something 

• Bad guy for the movie?
• He’s cute I’ll give you that 
• Not like the entire class didn’t see it 
• Character flaw: carelessness and arrogance 
• Better go check 
• Good transition 
• Oof good wording there Marnie 
• That could be stalking in some contexts
• Me too dude
• Oh come on 

She doesn’t know history. She’d make a great English teacher. Talk about tropes. 

• Ohhh boy
• Is that a reference 
• Look at them go
• It’d be nice if they were accepted tho
• You lost em
•  cute
• Yess
• oh my goodness
• Oh good thing he’s here
• Did you phone a friend 
• They have a point
• She does have a bunch of kids

What were you hoping

• This knight sucks at their job
• That’s like spider suicide
• Mom’s character is so inconsistent 
• Bad liars
• Her other form is cute!! 
• Niether marnie or grandma are good at keeping secrets or taking responsibility 
• She really doesn’t owe you anything 
• You mean to tell me there’s no such thing as a locator spell
• Oh no
• Witches glass??
• How’d you not notice riding on the broom 

Villain reveals their plan trope

• Casual principal maiming
• Himbo
• Now we’ve had a trifecta of love interests being the bad guy 
• None of them have to be in costume at this point
• Ugh villains 
• So your son can also use magic and isn’t helping 
• Just saying I’m disappointed 
• Wow you’re actually kinda ok
• Dang

Ranking the Halloweentown trilogy:My ranking is subjective and primarily based on how likable Marnie is since she’s our main character. Most of the time Marnie is super arrogant and treats everyone like poo. I will say I like how the villains are basically the guys who try to date the family. In the first one, it’s the guy who likes mom. The second one was Marnie’s date. In the last one, it’s the guy who likes grandma. It draws a cool parallel even if it’s a little predictable by movie number 3. 
Klabar’s Revenge is the best one. I like how Marnie has to get creative with the portals and it feels like she learned something in the last movie.
Halloweentown High: it feels like Marnie, her brother, and grandma learns something in this movie. I miss Luke though and totally thought he and Marnie would get together.
Halloweentown: Marnie is a terrible role model, there’s no portal jumping, and the nefarious plot isn’t that interesting.
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