Never really looks dated

I was just thinking about this today, and I agree that Hocus Pocus doesn't look or feel "too dated". I think that's one reason why it's more popular today than it was when it first came out in the early '90s. Kids today (I guess, Generation Z and Alpha, who would've been born well after the movie was initially released) can look at this and not feel like their watching something from another planet.

The only parts in the movie that I can see and right away say "well, it's a '90s movie" are Max and Dani's mom dressing up like a Blond Ambition Tour era Madonna for Halloween, Ice dressing up how one would imagine a rapper from the Golden Age of Hip-Hop (circa 1986-1993) would dress like (and even then, we're really supposed to be laughing at him instead of with him), and maybe Max's curtains hairstyle.

Well, there are ways it looks dated, but it's all about the details and the culture that was around when this movie was made.

The hairstyles (at least those worn by everyone but the non-witches), for example, are very solidly early-90s, with some late 80s thrown in.

Allison's first outfit in the movie is very clearly early 90s, with the top tucked into shorts that are worn with tights and ankle boots and a belt, though the jacket (which makes me think of Red Riding Hood) could easily be worn today.

The bullies are wearing stereotypical 90s "fictional bully" clothing, such as one of them wearing a leather jacket and pretending to be a punk/biker (despite owning no motorcycle) while the other one wears really dumb-looking clothes, including the fishing hat.

A really super-80s/90s trope is Max and Dani's mom dressed as Madonna for Halloween.

Let's not forget, Max using an actual pencil and note to write his number and give it to Allison in class, which hasn't been done since texting became a thing in the mid-2000s.

The cars just scream 80s and 90s (and a few 70s ones) in style, including the square headlights.

Nobody has cell phones, nor is the entire town glued to their cell phones for 80% of the movie.

If this film were made current-day, Allison would have been using a tablet to try and take screenshots of the spells in that horrible book Winifred owned. As we all saw, she had no tablet at all because they didn't exist in 1993.

Everyone in the movie is straight, which is a big no-no in today's film-making.

Max and Allison are a white, straight couple (to a degree, I don't think they really started dating until after the events of the movie). Relating to that, 99.5% of the cast is white and straight.

There's actual good acting.

No politics mentioned.

Max is an actual brave hero instead of a loser that has to be outshone by all the females in the story (and this movie is surprisingly more feminist than a lot of today's audiences want to admit).

That's because this film came out in the mid 90s. Every film from that period and on looks the same.