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Too funny to be a horror film, too dark to be a comedy, Practical Magic suffers from multiple personality disorder. Which is quite a shame since it’s got a very talented and promising group of actress – Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Stockard Channing and Diane Weist, the latter two being criminally underused, give it their best, but their best isn’t good enough. I like when Nicole Kidman does her best Excorist impression and the movie enters into horror territory, complete with Goran Vijsnic doing his best to be broody, troubled and sexy as her abusive ex-boyfriend/vengeful spirit. The love story feels like a ploy to soften the horror, and the cutesy happy ending just raises a new question – if all the men that these women love die, wouldn’t Aiden Quinn’s character not be long for this world once he got involved with them? Or did her spell as a child cancel that out? Also – does anyone else remember a period of time when it seemed like every movie about female bonding included some scene where they drank, danced around something and giggled way too much? Yep, this movie has that scene too. There’s something for everyone, and nothing for anyone.
