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Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001)
Symbolic to "Return to Oz" movie
I've seen the first movie and this one. They are both enlightening and entertaining. The actors portrayed a great job with their character roles.
As soon as I saw when Marnie and her grandmother travelled back to Halloweentown and found it all gray, boring and in ruins, it really reminded me of another movie sequel I've seen somewhere else. It really had a symbolic meaning to "The Wizard of Oz's" 1985 sequel, "The Return to Oz", where pretty much the same thing happens. The heroine returns and finds her "hometown" and must fight the evil lead character to bring it back to normality and give it its zest of life. It was was symbolic and interesting. If you haven't seen "Return to Oz" (a Disney movie that's labeled as being 'dark'), I would recommend you watch it and lightly compare it with "Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge." I liked that!
Great job, Disney!
Chispita (1982)
Going about different lives in the same place....
Having watched this Spanish-speaking show many years ago back in the late 80s and into the early 90s on a local Mexican-Spanish TV channel, I can say this is a sweet, heart-filled, and sad soap. It starred the now-famous Mexican singer Lucero among the other adults. It's been a while since I've seen this show, but from what I remember, it began as a mother and daughter Chispita (Lucero) getting into a car accident. Fortunately, they survived but with mental damage being loss of long-term memory. Mother nor daughter have any recollection they are related to each other. Therefore, Chispita attends a private school where her very own mother works in. It's very sad knowing they know each other but don't remember they're related to each other. They are both aware they want to search for each other, but they don't know they are around each other. I don't remember how the series ends, but I think I will do some online investigation. Maybe this show will air reruns again because I would like to see it all over again. It's very warm and light-hearted. Being that this show is only available in the Spanish language, you must have the Spanish-speaking knowledge of the language to be able to watch this. Great show!