Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
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Produced by | Peter Lhotka |
Written by | Jon Cooksey Ali Matheson |
Starring | Kimberly J. Brown Debbie Reynolds Judith Hoag Joey Zimmerman Phillip Van Dyke Emily Roeske Daniel Kountz director=Mary Lambert |
Music by | Mark Mothersbaugh |
Distributed by | Disney Channel |
Release date(s) | October 12, 2001 |
Running time | 81 min. |
Language | English |
Preceded by | Halloweentown |
Followed by | Halloweentown High |
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Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge is a Disney Channel Original Movie released in October of 2001 for the holiday of Halloween. This is the second in the Halloweentown series.
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[edit] Premise
Two years after the events of the preceding movie Halloweentown, Marnie prepares to spend a year with her grandmother Aggie. While hosting a mortal neighborhood Halloween party, Marnie tries to impress a cute new boy, Kal, by showing him Aggie's magically-hidden room. Kal, unbeknownst to Marnie, takes the opportunity and steals Aggie's spell book.
Soon Aggie notices unwelcome magical symptoms. She and Marnie travel to Halloweentown to investigate and fix the problem before the portal between Halloweentown and the mortal world, open only on Halloween, closes at midnight. They discover the whole town has been made grey and dull, and the inhabitants have been turned into humans (or rather, into the Halloweentown caricature of humans as dreary and monotonous beings concerned only with such things as sensible dress). Aggie diagnoses a "grey spell."
Aggie contacts grandson Dylan back home for a spell from her book, and Dylan and Sophie discover the book is missing. Marnie and Aggie learn that Kal is the son of their enemy Kalabar (from the previous movie). Kal broke the Code of Merlin by stealing Aggie's book to limit her ability to hinder his attempt to revenge his father on both Halloweentown and the mortal world.
Aggie searches for her spare copy of her spell book at her house in Halloweentown, but it is missing. She eventually learns that it was acquired by Kalabar decades ago. Aggie becomes caught in the grey spell. Marnie, while trying her own solution involving time travel, accidentally learns how to break the spell. Then the Halloween portal to the mortal world closes before she can return home.
Kal, having enspelled Halloweentown into a boring caricature of the mortal world, is now at work enspelling the mortal world into a monstrous caricature of Halloweentown. Sophie and Dylan realize that Alex, believed to be Kal's father, was actually a golem intended to distract Gwen. To make their mom believe that, Sophie creates a fly. Alex, being made of frogs, eats the fly and ends up getting dispelled by a furious Gwen. Being informed of Kal's plot to turn humans into the creatures they "mock" on Halloween, Gwen tries to take off her mask. Kal makes the mask stick to her face, then continues his spell.
Marnie, trapped in Halloweentown, frees Aggie, contacts her siblings, and they create a new portal between Halloweentown and the mortal world. Kal produces both spell books in an attempt to prove his own superiority, which plot fails when Marnie takes them from his hands. Kal then vanishes, apparently not of his own desire, and the family breaks the spells to set things right in both the mortal world and Halloweentown.
[edit] Production
- It was known by two other names during production, Halloweentown II and Return To Halloweentown. The latter was used later for the 4th in the series.
- In the first movie, the closed-captioning spell Kalabar's name as "Calabar". However, as evidenced in the title, the name is spelled "Kalabar".
- Just before the Creature spell is undone, there is a human dressed as a chicken.
- When Marnie opens the portal to see her brother and sister they are not looking at the portal. In the next scene they look directly at the portal when Marnie and Aggie come out. Time seems to continue while Marnie is in the time line.
- This movie takes place two years after the original Halloweentown, yet it was released three years after said movie.
[edit] Cast
- Kimberly J. Brown - Marnie Piper
- Debbie Reynolds - Splendora Agatha "Aggie" Cromwell
- Judith Hoag - Gwen Piper/Cromwell
- Joey Zimmerman - Dylan Piper
- Phillip Van Dyke - Luke
- Emily Roeske - Sophie Piper
- Daniel Kountz - Cal
- Blu Mankuma - Gort
- Richard Side - Benny
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Preceded by The Poof Point |
Disney Channel Original Movies | Succeeded by 'Twas the Night |