Released nearly 30 years after Hocus Pocus, one of the '90s' most nostalgic live-action Disney movies, Hocus Pocus 2 saw the ...

Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy returned for the new sequel, 29 years after the original Hocus Pocus Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE.

Hocus Pocus' Star Thora Birch Says She Is 'Excited' to Watch Sequel Despite Not Appearing in It Dani, presumably, too — as she was supposed to play a schoolteacher in the second movie.