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Harvey Kinkle in this film isn’t the soft-spoken, anvil-jawed dreamboat of the series, but a clumsy schlub who wishes Sabrina would choose him over a mop-haired Ryan Reynolds (seriously, it’s him). In the telemovie, Sabrina Sawyer (not Spellman) came across as oddly unlikable as she spends much of the film using and abusing her powers for personal gain until the finale wherein she *spoiler warning* learns that true love is destined for those who don’t try to force things into being.
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Hot off her appearance as fourth-wall-breaking explanation guru Clarissa Darling (you remember Clarissa Explains It All, it was your favourite), Melissa Joan Hart made her first witchly appearance not in the zany series we all know, but in an awkward TV movie with an entirely different cast of characters but also called Sabrina: The Teenage Witch. Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman via The series is still repeated on countless channels and the DVDs are readily available – and unlike a lot of 90s nostalgia, it does honestly hold up. It was funnier and snappier than a lot of other family viewing and while she was definitely a symbol of girl-power, Sabrina had a universal appeal to girls and boys struggling their way through adolescence, always trying to fall back on quick fixes but realising that hard work and dedication and being true to yourself is what wins out over all (‘the mortal way is the magic way’). There was a slight edge to the jokes that felt like, even though it was a family show, they were thumbing their nose at an older audience.
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Sabrina’s wry humour and pop culture-laden dialogue made it an instant hit with fans young and young at heart. The TV series was the lynchpin of many pre-pubescent childhoods in Ireland – it had everything we aspired to be as Irish children – supernatural beings, talking animals and American high-school students. Its enormous success on kids’ TV in the 1990s and early 2000s still resonates today – it was so successful that most people probably don’t even realise it was based on an Archie Comics character. Sabrina: The Teenage Witch represents one of those unique moments in time where a female comic book character was able to draw the attention of girls and boys. Many people complain that there aren’t enough female superheroes and that the few there are are so ridiculously sexualised that they only exist to pander to the male gaze.