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• After the success of the first Monster High movie which helped to kick off the third generation of this doll line, an animated series for Nickelodeon and a second movie.  Alas G3 has now ended and while there was a third movie teased that would’ve focused on Frankie, my fave btw that will not come to fruition.   

  Oh well, at least we have the second movie . Also btw,  I’m gonna go back to my old style and do a quick synopsis of the plot before looking at the songs.  It’ll be a Quick Look    If anyone knows me, you’ll know that I love witches. I’ve covered witches numerous times on my various blogs.  Witches have always held a special place in my heart and this is what this sequel deals with.  Witches much like monsters have always held a place in many a queer person’s heart. It goes back to the idea of being othered.  Women who were believed to be witches during the infamous trials in Salem were othered and ostracized by those in their own community.

  This is what we have here as Monster High mean girl  Toralei returns from a year in France and has a hatred for witches as they scarred her with silver wraith.  This is where the movie attempts to tap into the idea of not letting hatred divide us as vampires and witches have been at war for centuries.   If you’ll recall Draclaura is a vampire who practices witchcraft.   

  It’s also a bit of a forbidden love story and we will touch upon that as I get there but the idea of two minority groups hating each other. (I understand I am stretching but it does seem apt) due to something they don’t even understand feels very real.

  This movie even more than the original movie plays into the queer coding and we will see that with one of the songs.   There are two plots that line up with one another as Clawdeen against Toralei is running for prefect at the school while at the same time, the idea of acceptance is expanded upon when half human and half monster students attending and other monsters who practice witchcraft being allowed.  This comes to a head when two witches come and try to take Draculaura.

  Also, this is an interesting angle when bringing in covens are a treated being corporate and this is a neat idea as it shows how much corporations takes from minority groups. As the queen of witches, Zamara who is our main antagonist explains,  they exploit human’s fears and sell it back to them. She makes ant-aging stuff.   

  Looking at this and it shows how again as I said minority groups can end up fighting against each other and this is where Zamara tricks our vampire.  She tells the young Drac that she wants peace and to talk at a conference but tricks her into attempting to cast a spell that would wipe out all of vampire kind.  As I have emphasized throughout,  the speaks to the idea of how two groups who are hated by someone much worse, in this case humans cannot see past hatred they’ve had for each other over centuries that leads to such atrocities.

  At the same time, it is also a message of how of the sins of our fathers or mothers in this case do not define us.   We see this as Zamara’s son, Ellis who at went along with his mom’s plan until he saw how far she went makes peace with Draculaura and they start a new truce  between vampires and witches.

  Well, I’ve given you a pretty good breakdown of the plot and what the movie is about, let’s  look at the songs.

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