Honestly, I moved and lost half of my kitchen utensils and some baking dishes. It's been almost 2 years of being fully unpacked and I'm convinced they've been spirited away.
Same. When I was four, we went for a ride on my great uncle's boat. It was after dark when we got back, and I was walking - already WALKING - down the gangplank when my father said, "Be careful, Mary. If you slip, you'll fall in the water and no one will ever see you again." And I looked down at the black, shining water under me and I thought their were child-stealing monsters in there. Honestly, if he had told me I would drown I think it would have scared me less.
@@Enigmatic_Lurker It sounds stupid, but when I was a kid, our family’s meat grinder just disappeared. We couldn’t remember that we were giving it to someone and for sure no guest would have a reason to take it or even technically left the house with a huge meat grinder. Just out of curiosity, we searched every room very carefully and just agreed that it disappeared 😅
As a recovering addict, I love that nick always spreads a little message about addiction in his videos, and encourages addicts to get the help they need. We love the de-stigmatization💖
This! But I also love that they're able to have some humor about it, throwing in some jokes along with a more serious message. Nick is always able to do this so well with any more "serious" or political message they throw in the mix with the more light hearted vibe of the rest of the video. Congrats on your recovery! You got this! 😘
@@doperagu8471 exactly. Recovery is such a serious and difficult thing, but being able to find some humor in the matter really seems to lighten the load and make it feel just a little bit easier.
"The can of bile green paint that I picked out for this bedroom happened to be cursed so now the spirit of Benjamin Moore will watch me get dressed." This cracked me up!
No, this is actually a god tier disney channel original movie and that is definitely not my nostalgia talking this is a piece of mid-2000s brilliance, Christopher Nolan who
I was always disappointed that after the second movie, Luke just disappeared, and they forget that he'd ever existed. Same for Sophie, though her actress had quit acting after the third movie.
I was so mad about Luke, too! (Mostly because I had a huge crush on him as a kid, specifically from the second movie where he's in his full goblin form. 😂)
@@NickDiRamioTV Just came from a community theatre Halloween cabaret. (Which was really good and somehow had enough money to have a large cast and at least 20 costume changes) All the kids in the cast wore color coordinated covid masks or full on face shields. They will definitely NOT be bobbing for apples at the cast party.
@@europianbob the son in this movie. I follow them on tiktok. They met up again like 10 years after they finished filming the second movie and they've been together since. They're so cute together
I didn't watch ANY Disney classics or most of the iconic kids movies because of ✨ horrible childhood ✨ so I live for these recaps by thee one and only. Thank you Nicky baby👏🏽🧡
I can't find the budget for the sequel but fun fact, the director originally asked $20-$30mil for the first film and was granted $4mil 😂 so I wouldn't be shocked if they were like "remember when you tried to get a $30mil budget?... That was funny. Here's $500k, make us a sequel."
In a somewhat similar vein- My Date with the President’s Daughter! Legendary theme song and that pink velvet dress is simply magnificent early 2000s fashion perfection
There's a Hallmark Christmas movie currently being filmed in my city, Norwich CT. I secretly hope it's awful so Nick can roast tf out of it. It's all snow and bright green grass and leaves. They better edit the shit out of it or it's gonna look ridiculous.
Just rewatched the Mary Kate and Ashley Halloween movie Double, Double, Toil and Trouble and it surprisingly held up for a movie I haven't seen since the 90's. I love your videos and think it would be hilarious if you did that movie :)
Has Nick done any mk&a movie reactions yet? Id be all over that. My friend and I had our own MK&A fan club in 1999ish (along with being signed up with their official fan club) and I haven’t watched those movies since then
YES! also i recommend checking out Pretty Much It's vids on the Olsen Cinematic Universe. He watches them with his sister and it is peak sibling comedy brilliance.
I love your breakdowns on holiday themed movies!! You gotta do “Mom’s Got A Date With A Vampire”. I actually think it’s the best Disney Halloween movie.
@@NickDiRamioTV I know this is ridiculous but reading that in my head sounds super sarcastic! Like COOOOOOOOLLL! I know you weren’t being! Just how my head read it! X
My roommate and I JUST watched this and I literally couldn’t remember one thing about the plot. We kept turning to each other like, what the fuck is going on in here on this day
I really thought this opening was going to lead into a sponsorship from a VPN 😂 "Tired of keeping your personal data in a pumpkin in the town centre? Well, you need today's sponsor -"
The first time I read this as “Ok kid, me must’ve not been paying attention” instead of the intended “kid me”, and all I thought was “hmm, that’s an interesting way to say that, I wonder where they’re from” lmao 😂 So dumb. Lmaooo
I can't tell you how much I needed a laugh today...the exhaustion in dealing with the stupidity of the world is just overwhelming some days. So, thank you again!
Nick, I want you to know that there's times I'm feeling low, down and alone, and I'll see a new video upload, or put on a repeat and you make me feel so much better. As cheesy as it sounds, you make me feel less alone even if you're not here. The way you speak to us, and how you're silly and unfiltered with us, it just feels warm. I feel like we're friends in a way. I know I don't know you, obviously none of us really do, but it also feels like I've known you for so long, and I could be instantly comfortable having a conversation. Thank you! For the genuine laughs and chuckles, for the knowledge and for the comfort. Thank you for being real with us, and unapologetically you. You're spectacular 💕
An actual in-depth and reasonable critique of this movie can’t compete with my chronic case of nostalgia. This movie doesn’t have to be good but it will always been iconic.
18:12 why did this make me think of when I was watching Scream with my boyfriend and Billy Loomis said "what do I have to do to make you believe that I'm not a killer???" while he looked at Neve Campbell dead in the eyes like a serial killer and my boyfriend said "uh maybe just don't look at her like that" lmao
Why am I just now, after watching this movie a billion times, seeing Dani from Hocus Pocus standing beside Sophie at grandma’s magical bag?! I named my child after Marnie I loved these films so much. How did I miss that?
That stupid "green is my favorite color" line has been a common joke in my house for Months because my siblings and I decided to have a Halloweentown marathon in the middle of the summer lol
I know that footage of Luke wasn’t from movie one, because they totally changed his look from the first one. He went from weird goblin mask to Carrot top with pointy nose.
"This cheesy book is like their version of the bible in the sense that his entire family is obsessed with it and it conveniently has an answer for everything" lmao
These movies did Sophie dirty. The first movie sets her up as being super powerful and then she's just in the background for the rest of the series and ignored. Sequel idea: Sophie, now grown up, comes back to get revenge on Marnie for getting all of the attention.
Literally before I got out of bed this morning I was like "Did Nick do a review of the Halloweentown movies? I think he did the first one, I should rewatch it" and then BAM this is in my subscriptions.
I just realized that "4 hours to midnight" means the mom was sending Sophie to bed at 8pm on Halloween while they were hosting a party. Sounds like a Disney villain origin story to me! (OG Maleficent didn't get invited to a party and cursed a child to death- IJS)
40:29 That really is dumb. Now everyone who just says 'Apart' or 'Trap A' just casts a spell. Clearly it's not based on intent if Marnie can do it accidentally. Plus it's been established that non-wizards can use magic so there's no reason why this place shouldn't be constantly switching between Gray Spell and Non-Gray Spell. Maybe Marnie's desire to fix things triggered the spell, I mean Cromwells are super magic and Marnie's half-human so maybe she has more power in a way. But yeah I've put more effort into my rant/theory than this film put into their plot/makeup/characterization.
@@jasonbolding3481 Yeah in Halloweentown High the Magic Council is made up of several non-wizards. They've got a mummy, vampire and some other folks, and they can use magic.
"The Absent" us a SUPER cringy low budget horror film about a teacher in a small town school. Everything from the plot to the effects to the school they used (my old school lol) will make you cringe so hard.
Hey, Nick! I love your videos and honestly your commentary brightens my day. Since it’s spooky season, I thought I’d suggest a Clip Breakdown of “The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It.” When I was a kid I loved this movie. However, it was most likely from the fact that it has two actors from the show Hannah Montana (Emily Osment and Cole Linley) and not because it was a good movie lol. Anyway, I know you usually take suggestions from your Patreon sponsors, but I thought I’d throw this out there!!
As weak as this movies story is, it's still probably my second favorite in the franchise. Even when I watched it as a kid I was like "this... makes no sense", but I always loved it regardless.
I remember using our VCR to record all of the Halloweentown movies on tape when I was a kid. As bad as the screenplay is for this one in particular, I remember it being a lot more climatic and magical when I watched it the first hundred times. That's nostalgia for you, I guess. 😂
thanks for posting! my birthday is tomorrow, I'll be 28 and I feel old and lost and scared and big depressed 🙃🙃 thanks for keeping the spooky spirit alive 🎃💛 also, 9:32 lmao I love it 🦗🦗 (I know it's not a grasshopper but it looked sketchy enough)
I grew up in a small town and everybody in school talked about these movies like they were as well produced as the Titanic. I couldn’t bring myself to watch it because the costumes made me uneasy, but so many kids loved them
hold on.... i remember being excited asf when the halloweentown 1 video came out, have i been watching you for over a year now already?!?!?!!? when did that happen?? so proud of you nick, you deserve every ounce of success you've worked so hard for
I think you've gotten so good at sponsorship transitions that it's confused me. There were multiple times in this vid I was expecting you to be sponsored by some password protection company or dairy farmers or something
All right yall, we've gotta find a way to get Nick the million+ subscribers they deserve! This channel literally brings a smile to my face and makes me belly-laugh even on my most depressed and anxiety ridden days. LOVE YOU NICK! 💜💜💜
Fun fact the town that they filmed the first movie in has an incredibly underwhelming festival every year where you can take pictures with Benny in the cab and the pumpkin (way smaller than you’d think)
One of my earliest memories is watching this on Disney Channel and being absolutely horrified by the scene of Kal turning everyone into monsters, it was probably my first experience with any sort of creepy or horror-esque media. I remember being so scared I literally ran out of the room crying lol
So I don’t want to jump holidays but I saw a Lifetime Christmas Movie commercial the other day and all I thought was, “omg I hope Nick covers one of these for a breakdown!” 🤗
Nick, I think Astrid’s ears are discolored on purpose. They’re still a light color because that’s her regular body color. Meanwhile the grayscale is taking over their bodies, and once it does, they turn into regular humans. Also the clock to the portal always said 4 hours, not 6. It just looked scrunched in one shot.
Loved watching you break down the sequel! One of my favorite Halloween specials from childhood is Scary Godmother’s Halloween Spooktacular, the full version is on TH-cam and it has so many hilariously ridiculous moments. I would love to see your hot take on it!
Awesome video as usual! Finally, someone echoes some of my thoughts on this movie! I’ve always thought this was my least favorite Halloweentown, because I find it so boring. But everyone else my age loves it, and it’s been hard to talk about my feelings on it in relevant spaces without it’s fans getting offended. Even some of the people who don’t get upset at hearing I like it the least have to try to come up with reasons for how someone can possibly dislike it beyond thinking it’s boring and a waste of potential, that imply some kind of personal failings on my part. Because it’s unthinkable to them not to hold this movie up as the best in the series. And it never helps when people find out I like Halloweentown High better than II. Someone actually said the reason I might feel this way about Halloweentown II might be because I “don’t like darker movies, with scary scenes”. Like, as someone who genuinely loves horror: What? I was old enough when Halloweentown II came out that I couldn’t find it even remotely scary. And it’s really not that dark at all, especially compared to other classic kid-friendly movies from our generation, like Nightmare Before Christmas. Now don’t get me wrong, I may not love this movie, but it has a lot of good things about it. And I think Halloweentown High is an objectively worse movie, even if I like it more. It’s just enjoyably bad to me compared to finding II a little more dull, but still executed better. The first Halloweentown, and Return to Halloweentown are my jam though, no mixed feelings there!
I think its just across the board. I think people just did that in fantasy media to lessen confusion. But if you go by DnD standards wizards and witches are 2 completely different classes
I know moms just like Marnie's mom, throwing parties literally no one wants to be at and they are truly the *worst*. I feel like this is a great time to mention again that Gwen was some sort of fundamentalist Christian in the books, so most of her behavior aligns with that even in the film adaptations. Halloweentown is obviously a pocket dimension.
Tricia Paytas did a couple of short "films" called Viral Video and Viral Video 2 with Richard Grieco. I'd never actually recommend these to anyone but you DID say you were looking for something short and scary. Although these are scary for the wrong reasons I think.
I just really need you to do a clip breakdown of a Buffy episode, or like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. I dunno why I just feel like I need that kind of energy in my life.
I think the reason why cal was speaking like that in the brick wall was supposed to be because the magic was actually supposed to be effecting him. They were trying to translate that onto him. But it certainly got lost.
I've never found the villain's plan to turn people into still-sentient mutants/animals/monsters/creatures compelling, because 90%, that would actually be totally based. Most of the time, I find myself rooting for the villain in that situation!
Just a heads up, VERB will charge you for the 2nd delivery. I tried cancelling and they always tell me to wait til they send out a text asking if I want my order. They send it out anyways and charge your card the day before they say they will ask if you want to keep it or not. :/ I didn't like my free trial and they wouldn't let me to cancel. Just be warned ! Hopefully my experience isn't universal.
NICK. When I was a wee child I went to my friend Elizabeth's house and saw a movie about a movie star who comes back to life as a vampire and haunts one of his fans and it traumatized the F*$K out of me for YEARS... I tracked it down as an adult and it turns out it wasn't a movie, it was an anthology series and the episode I watched doesn't even involve a vampire! Kids are so dumb, lol. But anyway, it IS about a movie star who comes back to life and terrorizes a superfan and it is WEIRD. Words cannot describe how utterly bizarre, campy and 80's this TV show really is. I doubt anyone but me has any nostalgia for it, but I would LOVE watching you tear it apart!!! The TV series was called Monsters, it debuted in 1988, and the episode I saw was called "Rerun." Pleeeeeaaaaaassseeeee track it down for me!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Excuse you, I loved Monsters - but yes, some episodes were really silly or just weird. My favorite is called "Holly's House" and it's about a life size animatronic doll who gets possessive of her handler when she finds out she's pregnant and considers quitting the show. The intro alone is so incredibly fun. I used to watch that, Tales from the Dark Side (an anthology series and a decent movie), Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Unsolved Mysteries all the time! Here's "Holly's House" (definitely do not watch if you're afraid of dolls): YT NaExHvmHCaE
@@chillcreep4926 Yesssss!!!! I hope lots of other "Monsters" fans come out of the woodwork so that Nick does a clip breakdown! I definitely didn't appreciate how fun and weird it was when it scared the bajeezus out of me as a kid. I will definitely check out the creepy doll episode!
Ah shoot. I remember finding your channel because you were one of the only people talking about So Weird, and it was such a good video. Can't believe you uploaded that last October!
I’ll give them this though: the concept of something “disappearing” forever terrified me as a kid
Honestly, I moved and lost half of my kitchen utensils and some baking dishes. It's been almost 2 years of being fully unpacked and I'm convinced they've been spirited away.
This movie felt infinitely more compelling than the first.
Same. When I was four, we went for a ride on my great uncle's boat. It was after dark when we got back, and I was walking - already WALKING - down the gangplank when my father said, "Be careful, Mary. If you slip, you'll fall in the water and no one will ever see you again." And I looked down at the black, shining water under me and I thought their were child-stealing monsters in there. Honestly, if he had told me I would drown I think it would have scared me less.
@@Enigmatic_Lurker It sounds stupid, but when I was a kid, our family’s meat grinder just disappeared. We couldn’t remember that we were giving it to someone and for sure no guest would have a reason to take it or even technically left the house with a huge meat grinder. Just out of curiosity, we searched every room very carefully and just agreed that it disappeared 😅
same!!
As a recovering addict, I love that nick always spreads a little message about addiction in his videos, and encourages addicts to get the help they need. We love the de-stigmatization💖
As a former addict - well done for recovering, it’s easily the hardest thing I’ve ever done - you’re doing great 🕊✨
This! But I also love that they're able to have some humor about it, throwing in some jokes along with a more serious message. Nick is always able to do this so well with any more "serious" or political message they throw in the mix with the more light hearted vibe of the rest of the video.
Congrats on your recovery! You got this! 😘
@@doperagu8471 exactly. Recovery is such a serious and difficult thing, but being able to find some humor in the matter really seems to lighten the load and make it feel just a little bit easier.
I’m also in recovery & think it’s great he does this too. Also, congrats on being clean! Definitely not an easy thing to accomplish ❤️
this is why i love him, he's just super honest and makes it funny in a positive way
Really surprised the episode isn’t sponsored by a VPN considering the intro
lol that would have been smart!
Lol I thought that's where that was going!
@@ninalove3044 same lol
Exactly my thought
You can't eat a VPN. Nick made the right choice.
"The can of bile green paint that I picked out for this bedroom happened to be cursed so now the spirit of Benjamin Moore will watch me get dressed."
This cracked me up!
Nick knowing his cursed paint brands definitely had me cackling!
No, this is actually a god tier disney channel original movie and that is definitely not my nostalgia talking this is a piece of mid-2000s brilliance, Christopher Nolan who
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AGREED
It was my favorite series when it came out :)
Yessir!
Period. I had to rewatch before watching this review cause I remember loving this one 😂
Please do at least Halloweentown High this month! I don’t think I can wait a whole year to continue the saga 😩
I second this
Facts
Yesss!!
AGREE
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I was always disappointed that after the second movie, Luke just disappeared, and they forget that he'd ever existed. Same for Sophie, though her actress had quit acting after the third movie.
Yeah, but if they can recast Marnie they could've recast Sophie. I always wished we'd gotten to see Sophie's development into a witch.😔
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I was so mad about Luke, too! (Mostly because I had a huge crush on him as a kid, specifically from the second movie where he's in his full goblin form. 😂)
@@quinnecarlson1166 When he was younger, the actor who played Luke also voiced Arnold in Hey Arnold in a few seasons of the show.
Sophie’s in the third movie I believe, but not in the fourth. Though in my world, the fourth doesn’t exist 😂
Kal's head popping in and out throughout the film and that monotone voice over always makes me laugh in this film 😂
To think we actually had communal buckets of water with apples that we would all try to grab with our mouths 😂
I kept thinking the same thing! Slobber and nose mucus 🤣
Yes, helloooooo Covid Delta variant. Ecch!
@@nonprofitgirl Haha ah.... the good old disgusting germy days!
@@NickDiRamioTV Just came from a community theatre Halloween cabaret. (Which was really good and somehow had enough money to have a large cast and at least 20 costume changes) All the kids in the cast wore color coordinated covid masks or full on face shields. They will definitely NOT be bobbing for apples at the cast party.
I love that Marnie and Kal are together in real life. Kimberly Brown is actually from a city close to me, I feel so honored
I just looked up their relationship, it looks very cute!
@@genno3714 I follow her on Facebook and it’s delightful!
I just found this out and came to see if anyone commented about this!! They’re married and it blows my mind lmao
@@robinnn777they're engaged, actually
The scene of Aggy trying to pair socks used to make me SO anxious as a kid lolz
Lmao same
oh my god me too this whole movie made me feel so uneasy when i was younger lmao
it's like weird uncanny valley slightly surreal vibes idk
being welsh, i can confirm our language is mostly garbled magic spells
I'm Welsh too!
That's why Wales is the only country that still has dragons. Dragons love that magic shit xD
Was it actually Welsh? I thought it sounded like Latin.
This is the funniest comment I have read in a long time. Thanks for the laugh.
Have you seen Saint Maud? Lots of spooky welsh in that movie.
I hope “Waiting for cupcake girl” is doing well in life 🤣🤣
ohh we can only hope!!
Are u single cuzzzz u cute 😌
@@shaniquefrater Omg Thank you!!! I am in a relationship though lol
@@indiat.7242 damn... Just leave em I gotchu lol
The only positive thing that came from this movie is that Marnie and Cal are a couple now IRL and they're adorable
That's so wholesome!
Really??? The wizard dad or the son? That would be so weird...because they let when she was 13 or something and he was 40 something!
@@europianbob the son in this movie. I follow them on tiktok. They met up again like 10 years after they finished filming the second movie and they've been together since. They're so cute together
@@krystinay what’s their tik tok?! 😩😩
Yes, I follow her on Instagram, I love them!!
Ok because when I was a child I felt like this movie DRAGGGGEEEDDDDD along so I’m glad to know that I’m not alone in that 🤣🤣🤣
Thank youuuuu
Same I hated this movie I'd always skip it when the marathon came on cause I found it so boring.
I didn't watch ANY Disney classics or most of the iconic kids movies because of
✨ horrible childhood ✨ so I live for these recaps by thee one and only.
Thank you Nicky baby👏🏽🧡
Saaaaaame!
@@avaverry9917 mmmoooooon pnnn n n n nnmmmmn. N n. M mmmlmlmpnpm JJ joonjjj JJ j j jjjnnnnn j jjjjnnn man jnnononn nnm
You SO DESERVE to watch them ALL now!!
I can't find the budget for the sequel but fun fact, the director originally asked $20-$30mil for the first film and was granted $4mil 😂 so I wouldn't be shocked if they were like "remember when you tried to get a $30mil budget?... That was funny. Here's $500k, make us a sequel."
Can you do a clip breakdown for Mom’s Got A Date With a Vampire? It’s a DCOM that I really enjoyed watching as a kid. 😊
Yes! +1 to this!
I watch it every year! I'd love for Nick to roast those sociopath kids.
Yessssssssss !!!!!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Oh yes!!! This plus Phantom of the Megaplex!
In a somewhat similar vein- My Date with the President’s Daughter!
Legendary theme song and that pink velvet dress is simply magnificent early 2000s fashion perfection
There's a Hallmark Christmas movie currently being filmed in my city, Norwich CT. I secretly hope it's awful so Nick can roast tf out of it. It's all snow and bright green grass and leaves. They better edit the shit out of it or it's gonna look ridiculous.
Aren't they all awful? 😆
I mean....aren't they?
I mean, I think so, but I think I'm just biased against holiday movies about the hardships of rich white families.
@@wideride8320 I like the ones about single moms who works a lot on big hotels or things like that
Just rewatched the Mary Kate and Ashley Halloween movie Double, Double, Toil and Trouble and it surprisingly held up for a movie I haven't seen since the 90's. I love your videos and think it would be hilarious if you did that movie :)
Yes! This would be perfect!
YESSS, that'd be great I actually even still have the VHS tape of that movie and a VCR LoL I'm so old...😂
I remember that and New York Minute. Wow! That takes me way back.
Has Nick done any mk&a movie reactions yet? Id be all over that. My friend and I had our own MK&A fan club in 1999ish (along with being signed up with their official fan club) and I haven’t watched those movies since then
YES! also i recommend checking out Pretty Much It's vids on the Olsen Cinematic Universe. He watches them with his sister and it is peak sibling comedy brilliance.
I love your breakdowns on holiday themed movies!! You gotta do “Mom’s Got A Date With A Vampire”. I actually think it’s the best Disney Halloween movie.
I think the best Halloween Disney movie is actually Don't Look Under The Bed, but I really like that other movie too😊
I’m literally buying my tickets to go to the actual filming location right now. 👀
Coooooool
Where was this filmed?
ccbib St. Helens, Oregon
@@NickDiRamioTV I know this is ridiculous but reading that in my head sounds super sarcastic! Like COOOOOOOOLLL! I know you weren’t being! Just how my head read it! X
@@bethoc7221 lol I read it the same way!
Unfortunately, even as a kid, I sensed that “Kids don’t know shit” was possibly the guiding principle behind a lot of these DCOMs.
My roommate and I JUST watched this and I literally couldn’t remember one thing about the plot. We kept turning to each other like, what the fuck is going on in here on this day
I really thought this opening was going to lead into a sponsorship from a VPN 😂
"Tired of keeping your personal data in a pumpkin in the town centre? Well, you need today's sponsor -"
Gourd VPN!
@@mcwjes you only got one like on this. it's not fair.
Okay kid me must've not been paying attention because I legit thought that Cal was actually Kalabar de-aged like Royal Pain in Sky High
I blame the title.
Holy shit, same here!!
The first time I read this as “Ok kid, me must’ve not been paying attention” instead of the intended “kid me”, and all I thought was “hmm, that’s an interesting way to say that, I wonder where they’re from” lmao 😂 So dumb. Lmaooo
I can't tell you how much I needed a laugh today...the exhaustion in dealing with the stupidity of the world is just overwhelming some days. So, thank you again!
Omg same, Nick is a GIFT
Glad you got a laugh. I feel the same 🙂
Nick, I want you to know that there's times I'm feeling low, down and alone, and I'll see a new video upload, or put on a repeat and you make me feel so much better. As cheesy as it sounds, you make me feel less alone even if you're not here. The way you speak to us, and how you're silly and unfiltered with us, it just feels warm. I feel like we're friends in a way. I know I don't know you, obviously none of us really do, but it also feels like I've known you for so long, and I could be instantly comfortable having a conversation. Thank you! For the genuine laughs and chuckles, for the knowledge and for the comfort. Thank you for being real with us, and unapologetically you. You're spectacular 💕
An actual in-depth and reasonable critique of this movie can’t compete with my chronic case of nostalgia. This movie doesn’t have to be good but it will always been iconic.
Fr. Taking almost 50 minutes to roast it means it's big enough to be iconic soooo 💅
18:12 why did this make me think of when I was watching Scream with my boyfriend and Billy Loomis said "what do I have to do to make you believe that I'm not a killer???" while he looked at Neve Campbell dead in the eyes like a serial killer and my boyfriend said "uh maybe just don't look at her like that" lmao
Nick singing a warped version of "Edge of Seventeen" made me spit out my garlic bread.
The Gwen Goblin monster scared the living hell out of me as a child.
SHE never scared me, it was the idea of a mask not coming off that scared me lol
Why am I just now, after watching this movie a billion times, seeing Dani from Hocus Pocus standing beside Sophie at grandma’s magical bag?! I named my child after Marnie I loved these films so much. How did I miss that?
Thank you for pointing that out! I completely missed it
It's sweet that Kimberly J Brown and Daniel Kountz are dating in real life now. Who knew that Marnie and Kal were meant for each other after all?!
🤯🤯🤯
They're married and have a kid i believe
@Rach idk if you have a tik tok but they do videos together! Its cute!
Debbie Reynolds is so magical she made my childhood 100 times better. Rest In Peace legend ❤️
That stupid "green is my favorite color" line has been a common joke in my house for Months because my siblings and I decided to have a Halloweentown marathon in the middle of the summer lol
When the humans turned into monsters at the party, that was like one of the scariest things ever as a kid
I know that footage of Luke wasn’t from movie one, because they totally changed his look from the first one. He went from weird goblin mask to Carrot top with pointy nose.
Marnies look in this movie is everything!!! Mama said “witch hat??? No . This is fashion” & the peicey stringy hair dangling ugh this is so me
Danny DeVito's Phill being part of your Disney sexual awakening is my new favorite fact
"This cheesy book is like their version of the bible in the sense that his entire family is obsessed with it and it conveniently has an answer for everything" lmao
These movies did Sophie dirty. The first movie sets her up as being super powerful and then she's just in the background for the rest of the series and ignored. Sequel idea: Sophie, now grown up, comes back to get revenge on Marnie for getting all of the attention.
I'd watch that.
The third film should've just been a evil witch battle. Fleshed out Sophie and Dylans powers, and kept luke and the skeleton driver. Too bad.
I swear you read my mind before posting bc it always comes at the exact time I'm ready to chill for a few 💖🎃
Literally before I got out of bed this morning I was like "Did Nick do a review of the Halloweentown movies? I think he did the first one, I should rewatch it" and then BAM this is in my subscriptions.
I’m so glad you uploaded because I’m having such a rough day and your videos bring me so much joy.❤️
I hope your day turns around ASAP! Sending love
I just realized that "4 hours to midnight" means the mom was sending Sophie to bed at 8pm on Halloween while they were hosting a party. Sounds like a Disney villain origin story to me! (OG Maleficent didn't get invited to a party and cursed a child to death- IJS)
40:29 That really is dumb. Now everyone who just says 'Apart' or 'Trap A' just casts a spell. Clearly it's not based on intent if Marnie can do it accidentally. Plus it's been established that non-wizards can use magic so there's no reason why this place shouldn't be constantly switching between Gray Spell and Non-Gray Spell. Maybe Marnie's desire to fix things triggered the spell, I mean Cromwells are super magic and Marnie's half-human so maybe she has more power in a way. But yeah I've put more effort into my rant/theory than this film put into their plot/makeup/characterization.
It wasn't established that non wizard/witches/warlocks can use magic though?
@@jasonbolding3481 Yeah in Halloweentown High the Magic Council is made up of several non-wizards. They've got a mummy, vampire and some other folks, and they can use magic.
Would you ever consider doing like the old black and white B roll horror? I’d love to see your take on the effectiveness of older techniques!
Nick will obviously have to dress like Elvira for this.
I’d love that, too!
Idk why she's credited as "vampire girl", Marine says her name is Cindy right before Dylan asks her out. That's some shiit
I agree! And Cindy's gorgeous, btw!
"The Absent" us a SUPER cringy low budget horror film about a teacher in a small town school. Everything from the plot to the effects to the school they used (my old school lol) will make you cringe so hard.
If you ever get a chance you should review Phantom of the Megaplex (definitely fits the halloween theme).
Hey, Nick! I love your videos and honestly your commentary brightens my day. Since it’s spooky season, I thought I’d suggest a Clip Breakdown of “The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It.” When I was a kid I loved this movie. However, it was most likely from the fact that it has two actors from the show Hannah Montana (Emily Osment and Cole Linley) and not because it was a good movie lol. Anyway, I know you usually take suggestions from your Patreon sponsors, but I thought I’d throw this out there!!
As weak as this movies story is, it's still probably my second favorite in the franchise. Even when I watched it as a kid I was like "this... makes no sense", but I always loved it regardless.
Anything is better than Return to Halloweentown
I remember using our VCR to record all of the Halloweentown movies on tape when I was a kid. As bad as the screenplay is for this one in particular, I remember it being a lot more climatic and magical when I watched it the first hundred times. That's nostalgia for you, I guess. 😂
thanks for posting! my birthday is tomorrow, I'll be 28 and I feel old and lost and scared and big depressed 🙃🙃 thanks for keeping the spooky spirit alive 🎃💛 also, 9:32 lmao I love it 🦗🦗 (I know it's not a grasshopper but it looked sketchy enough)
Happy birthday!
@@margierusnak8243 thank you so much, Margie! Very sweet of you 💖 hope you have a lovely weekend!
@Jaxson thank you so much!! I really appreciate that, I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Movie fact: the party at the beginning was the same party that started the events of Hereditary. It’s a combined cinematic universe.
Really?
I grew up in a small town and everybody in school talked about these movies like they were as well produced as the Titanic. I couldn’t bring myself to watch it because the costumes made me uneasy, but so many kids loved them
Why did the costumes make you uneasy?
hold on.... i remember being excited asf when the halloweentown 1 video came out, have i been watching you for over a year now already?!?!?!!? when did that happen??
so proud of you nick, you deserve every ounce of success you've worked so hard for
Seriously! COVID has made time soooo weird...
I subscribed around Halloween of last year too.😂 Feels like it's been 4 months.😭
I think you've gotten so good at sponsorship transitions that it's confused me. There were multiple times in this vid I was expecting you to be sponsored by some password protection company or dairy farmers or something
Flonase lol
All right yall, we've gotta find a way to get Nick the million+ subscribers they deserve! This channel literally brings a smile to my face and makes me belly-laugh even on my most depressed and anxiety ridden days.
LOVE YOU NICK! 💜💜💜
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@@willeshachatae9533 ty for letting me know! Updating it now 💜
@@willeshachatae9533 he’s said he’s fine with he/she/them. He just doesn’t want to be called a man, which, understandable.
@@feliciaann721 does he say this in one of his videos? I thought I had seen pretty much all of his content but missed this somehow.
@@austinrenner9568 it’s in their hoedown throwdown (also I’m non-binary) video :))
I think Astrid's ears were still flesh toned because she hadn't fully gone grey.
Every time a sock mysteriously disappears in the dryer I think of this movie, lol.
Fun fact the town that they filmed the first movie in has an incredibly underwhelming festival every year where you can take pictures with Benny in the cab and the pumpkin (way smaller than you’d think)
One of my earliest memories is watching this on Disney Channel and being absolutely horrified by the scene of Kal turning everyone into monsters, it was probably my first experience with any sort of creepy or horror-esque media. I remember being so scared I literally ran out of the room crying lol
I hid under the sheets at that part!
okay being an extra in this movie was worth it because i got like 2 seconds of screentime in this video
Ooh give us the timestamp
@@camille1324 7:46 ish im the kid in the bottom left with the black facepaint around my eyes. I was a ghost :)
@@OrbitTheWorld don't sell yourself short, you got like 6 seconds
haha awesome
@@OrbitTheWorld that's pretty cool 😮, how was it on set??
Disney did not make me queer. Like all bisexuals, it was 1999's The Mummy.
Tbh, I... agree
Both of the leads awakened something in me.
Mmmmm idk as a female pansexual other than Esmeralda it was The Sorceress from The Scorpion King for me, which is a spin-off from The Mummy
They both made me feel things
For me it was Megan Fox in Transformers
So I don’t want to jump holidays but I saw a Lifetime Christmas Movie commercial the other day and all I thought was, “omg I hope Nick covers one of these for a breakdown!” 🤗
Nick, I think Astrid’s ears are discolored on purpose. They’re still a light color because that’s her regular body color. Meanwhile the grayscale is taking over their bodies, and once it does, they turn into regular humans.
Also the clock to the portal always said 4 hours, not 6. It just looked scrunched in one shot.
I actually saw Halloweentown 2 before I saw Halloweentown one. Lol so it’s more nostalgic to me than the first one.
“These creatures are my FRIENDS” really hit home for me 😂
Loved watching you break down the sequel! One of my favorite Halloween specials from childhood is Scary Godmother’s Halloween Spooktacular, the full version is on TH-cam and it has so many hilariously ridiculous moments. I would love to see your hot take on it!
Rewatching these movies as an adult made me realize what a wet blanket the mom was 😂
Awesome video as usual! Finally, someone echoes some of my thoughts on this movie!
I’ve always thought this was my least favorite Halloweentown, because I find it so boring. But everyone else my age loves it, and it’s been hard to talk about my feelings on it in relevant spaces without it’s fans getting offended. Even some of the people who don’t get upset at hearing I like it the least have to try to come up with reasons for how someone can possibly dislike it beyond thinking it’s boring and a waste of potential, that imply some kind of personal failings on my part. Because it’s unthinkable to them not to hold this movie up as the best in the series. And it never helps when people find out I like Halloweentown High better than II.
Someone actually said the reason I might feel this way about Halloweentown II might be because I “don’t like darker movies, with scary scenes”. Like, as someone who genuinely loves horror: What? I was old enough when Halloweentown II came out that I couldn’t find it even remotely scary. And it’s really not that dark at all, especially compared to other classic kid-friendly movies from our generation, like Nightmare Before Christmas.
Now don’t get me wrong, I may not love this movie, but it has a lot of good things about it. And I think Halloweentown High is an objectively worse movie, even if I like it more. It’s just enjoyably bad to me compared to finding II a little more dull, but still executed better.
The first Halloweentown, and Return to Halloweentown are my jam though, no mixed feelings there!
As an almost 40 year old, I can confirm that people did refer to it as "the net" and "the web" back in the 90s.
I'm personally offended by this title, I love all of the Halloweentown movies 😭 💔
27:55 I'm sorry but man, that line delivery paired with such a POV is hilarious, wow.
Stephen Hawking's Pro Skateboarder killed me lmao
Actually I mean it’s might be just for Wicca but male witches are just called witches. It’s a gender neutral term
I think its just across the board. I think people just did that in fantasy media to lessen confusion. But if you go by DnD standards wizards and witches are 2 completely different classes
This movie is why I always wear a Halloween costume I can live as.
The first movie and Halloween Town High are the best of the series. The last one is only good for Lucas Grabeel and that Jesse McCartney song.
Tbh, if they had just made the last movie about Sophie instead of Marnie, it would have been fine... albeit an obvious "Harry Potter" knock off.
I remember loving this movie, and when they discovered the “apart” and “trapa” spells my mind was blown 😆
I know moms just like Marnie's mom, throwing parties literally no one wants to be at and they are truly the *worst*. I feel like this is a great time to mention again that Gwen was some sort of fundamentalist Christian in the books, so most of her behavior aligns with that even in the film adaptations.
Halloweentown is obviously a pocket dimension.
There were books?
@@maplepainttube8158 yes the Disney Channel movies were based on a book series.
Tricia Paytas did a couple of short "films" called Viral Video and Viral Video 2 with Richard Grieco. I'd never actually recommend these to anyone but you DID say you were looking for something short and scary. Although these are scary for the wrong reasons I think.
*Halloween Town 2: even more tacky masks*
The town they used us a real town and gets decorated every Halloween season like the movie!
They also used this town for scenes in Twilight.
I always thought as a kid luke and marnie we’re gonna be endgame but then I remembered it’s Disney
Same
I wish they would have been
I just really need you to do a clip breakdown of a Buffy episode, or like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. I dunno why I just feel like I need that kind of energy in my life.
“Rubber gloves is all I’m bringin” fucking destroyed me.
(And hell yes, transwomen are real women. Eat a bowl of pickled taints, Rowling.)
22:05 the sign didn’t change, the 4 just looks like a 6 when it’s not in high quality
I think the reason why cal was speaking like that in the brick wall was supposed to be because the magic was actually supposed to be effecting him. They were trying to translate that onto him. But it certainly got lost.
Please do the whole saga. Re-watched them for the first time in a long time and it definitely did not age well. They’re my guilty pleasure now.
I've never found the villain's plan to turn people into still-sentient mutants/animals/monsters/creatures compelling, because 90%, that would actually be totally based. Most of the time, I find myself rooting for the villain in that situation!
You don’t HAVE to always plan your uploads around my lunch break, but I do appreciate it 🤗😉 have a great weekend!!
This is actually my favorite out of the four movies.
I'm more partial towards the third.
Just a heads up, VERB will charge you for the 2nd delivery. I tried cancelling and they always tell me to wait til they send out a text asking if I want my order. They send it out anyways and charge your card the day before they say they will ask if you want to keep it or not. :/ I didn't like my free trial and they wouldn't let me to cancel. Just be warned ! Hopefully my experience isn't universal.
That surprise missy elliot took me ouuuuuttttt 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Also, I have GERD too, bout time we got some gastrointestinal disease representation.
Omg the Hereditary cut into the reckless broom flying is just my kind of "we're all going to hell so we might as well laugh about it" humor 🤣
Did we really never find out who his mom was? I mean it’s Disney so she was probably dead but still, no mention?
Love this. Please do the 4th halloween town where they change the main character and act like nothing happened
That's a great movie!
NICK. When I was a wee child I went to my friend Elizabeth's house and saw a movie about a movie star who comes back to life as a vampire and haunts one of his fans and it traumatized the F*$K out of me for YEARS... I tracked it down as an adult and it turns out it wasn't a movie, it was an anthology series and the episode I watched doesn't even involve a vampire! Kids are so dumb, lol. But anyway, it IS about a movie star who comes back to life and terrorizes a superfan and it is WEIRD.
Words cannot describe how utterly bizarre, campy and 80's this TV show really is. I doubt anyone but me has any nostalgia for it, but I would LOVE watching you tear it apart!!!
The TV series was called Monsters, it debuted in 1988, and the episode I saw was called "Rerun." Pleeeeeaaaaaassseeeee track it down for me!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Excuse you, I loved Monsters - but yes, some episodes were really silly or just weird.
My favorite is called "Holly's House" and it's about a life size animatronic doll who gets possessive of her handler when she finds out she's pregnant and considers quitting the show.
The intro alone is so incredibly fun. I used to watch that, Tales from the Dark Side (an anthology series and a decent movie), Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Unsolved Mysteries all the time!
Here's "Holly's House" (definitely do not watch if you're afraid of dolls): YT NaExHvmHCaE
Here's "Rerun": th-cam.com/video/FbZtU3LvxbQ/w-d-xo.html
@@chillcreep4926 Yesssss!!!! I hope lots of other "Monsters" fans come out of the woodwork so that Nick does a clip breakdown! I definitely didn't appreciate how fun and weird it was when it scared the bajeezus out of me as a kid. I will definitely check out the creepy doll episode!
Definitely wanna see you cover Halloween High!! We don't have to talk about the other one tho...
Ah shoot. I remember finding your channel because you were one of the only people talking about So Weird, and it was such a good video. Can't believe you uploaded that last October!