Wizards of Waverly Place – Season 3 Episode 2 – Halloween Review with Selena Gomez

After the Russo Family is told by the Waverly Place Merchants’ Association that their haunted house has never been scary enough in Halloweens past, they come together to create the scariest haunted house ever.

Wizards of Waverly Place has a whole month of built-in publicity every October, and Disney sure knows how to make the most of it.  Keeping all of the new episodes focused around a Halloween theme keeps people excited to watch the new episodes as first-runs rather than waiting for them to show up as on-demand or re-runs.  The Halloween episode focuses on the Russo family trying to up their game by making a scary haunted house out of the sub-station, or they will not be allowed to host the haunted house next year and would have to run the kettle corn stand, I believe.

What is it with this season?  It does not seem like either mom or dad Russo are much concerned with the amount of magic that is used by the children, which is a bit out of the ordinary.  Looks like Max got a haircut, as well, but on to the episode itself.  The kids go to the wizard realm to get some ghosts to push up the scare factor on the haunted house.  The first trip, they come back with some duds, ghosts that really are not scary, just rather weird.  As the Merchants’ Association  comes to check out the haunted house with the children, Alex goes back and finds some upgrades that pull through for the family.  At the end of the day, they lose the haunted house for being too scary for the children.

Max was really funny this episode with his tablecloth sheet ghost costume with a mustache.  We find out in the later part of the episode that he actually names the mustache, totally in character for him.  Max also does some sort of air quotes Teen Wolf dance that I am still unsure of.  Did Michael J. Fox ever air quote in Teen Wolf?  I remember the wolf dance, though.  Selena Gomez as Alex pulls the perfect costume for her character, a shirt that just says “costume” on it.  Harper goes to the nines by dressing up as the bride of Frankenstein.  Jerry (dad) is a hobo attached to the back of a clown, which was crazy enough to be confusingly funny, and mother, Theresa, was dressed as Cher.  Justin rounded out the cast as a skeleton. 

It was also funny  how the kids and Jerry kept having family meetings without Theresa, and then it came back to bite them in the rear.  Also Justin being scared of the one ghost that used to hide under his bed made for a funny scene at the end.  I thought the Halloween episode was a better episode than “Franken-girl“; I was just not sold on that episode.  Wizards of Waverly Place is about the family coming together, in the end, and “Halloween” is a great example of that.

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