In an alternate New York City, witches live amongst us, distrusted and scapegoated by the “Conflict Resolution Department.” A pair of disgruntled witches, Mabel Blackthornudder and her husband, Harvey, kidnap the Chief Magic Detector’s infant daughter. Intent on filming a ransom video in Central Park to force him to dismantle the Magic Detection Unit, when a huge bear appears, Harvey and Mabel are suddenly more interested in not getting eaten by a wild animal.

Olaf, the bear, bonds with the baby. He’s overcome with the need to protect her, as his mother was killed when he was a cub. When he and his best friend Essex, a fox, find who they presume to be the parents and attempt to return the baby, they witness Mabel, in a fit of pique, turn Harvey into a frog.

Mabel realizes the baby is an “amplifier”—never before had she been powerful enough to turn her husband into an amphibian! All her lofty goals of helping her fellow witches fly out the window, and she’s consumed with lust for power.

With help from a Shakespeare-loving tree, a pair of (relatively) good witches who’ve tangled with Mabel over many lifetimes, and the spirits of Olaf’s and Essex’s loved ones, the animals set off to find the baby’s mother. Like many twosomes in charge of a baby, they argue over how best to care for her. But when Mabel transfigures herself to look like the mother, and the Chief Magic Detector discovers his daughter is the “amplifier” needed to power the department’s “Vocal Cord Eradicator,” Olaf and Essex must put their differences aside to save the baby and the witches of New York.

RELEASING OCTOBER 15, 2024