Exactly three entertaining things about this film:

  1. Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker absolutely chewing up the scenery and being legitimately entertaining.
  2. The visual gag of a witch using a vacuum cleaner as a broomstick.
  3. “Billy, the friendly zombie.”

Everything else is bad.

★★

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