‘Hocus Pocus 2’ review: When ’twice as good as the original’ means less than you think

So many different kinds of not-great or even not-good movies lay siege to our affections, for reasons to do with why people love movies in the first place. Maybe the star is really cute. Maybe we just enjoy the people on the screen, even if the script’s lousy and the pacing’s weird. Maybe we were sick at home and it was on and that was enough to place it somewhere