Devon Sawa REACTS to Christina Ricci's Casper Critique

Chocolate oregon vanilla? Dogs oregon cats? Casper oregon Thackery?

OK, truthful that past 1 mightiness not beryllium as cosmopolitan a question when it comesto defining a person, but for young radical who came of property successful the '90s, it's arguably 1 of the astir important. Casper (Devon Sawa) and Thackery Binx (Sean Murray), the respective ghosts from 1995's Casper and 1993's Hocus Pocus, became two of the astir unexpected heartthrobs of the decennary and their allure continues to haunt us all these years later.

Over the years, there's been countless headlines astir Thackery being a "colonial crush," millennials dissecting that a ghost cat literally led to their intersexual awakening, portion Casper gave them unrealistic expectations for each corporeal lad they would day passim their formative years. 

Seeing arsenic however Halloween was the time some Casper and Thackery concisely appeared successful their swoonworthy quality forms, we decided to pit them against 1 different to yet extremity the debate. Welcome to Confusing and Weird Halloween Teen Crushes Thunderdome, let's officially conscionable our competitors:

Now, let's comparison their stats erstwhile it comes to their respective performances:

The Voice: Ironically enough, some quality actors who portrayed the respective ghostly heartthrobs did not dependable their respective characters, adjacent erstwhile they concisely appeared successful quality form. 

American dependable histrion Malachi Pearson provided the vocal chords for Casper, thing Sawa erstwhile poked amusive astatine connected Twitter erstwhile idiosyncratic posted a photograph of the Casper DVD and tagged him successful it. 

"I'm not the dependable adjacent successful the the 30 seconds I'm successful it," helium wrote. "Can't instrumentality recognition for anything. Please untag me."

Thackery, meanwhile, was voiced by Boy Meets world histrion Jason Marsden, who primitively auditioned for tie-dye enthusiast Max Dennison (Omri Katz). Now here's wherever it gets a small weird: After being called backmost to work for Thackery, Marsden landed the role...sort of. While Murray had been formed arsenic Binx, the filmmakers wanted Marsden to dependable the character, meaning Marsden (who was besides friends with Murray!) had to dub the lines for some the feline and quality forms of the character. 

However, Marsden revealed Murray's dependable was initially used, saying successful a 2019 interrogation with The Daily Beast, "They were utilizing him archetypal and animating his performance. It's perfectly nary detriment to Sean, who's a person and fantastic actor. It's 1 of those things that hap successful movies each the time. Movies are shot, written, spell into production, and past instrumentality connected a dependable of their own. Sean has a precise modern sound."

Casper, however, is simply a antithetic story. From the infinitesimal helium walked down those stairs, it was connected similar Donkey Kong. Casper and Kat's dilatory creation astatine the Halloween creation was virtually a mediate schoolhouse girl's DREAM. And their buss arsenic they levitated helped galore a instrumentality transverse implicit into not-a-girl-not-yet-a-woman territory. It besides helped that Sawa and Ricci, who had worked unneurotic (and kissed) connected 1994's Now & Then had chemistry to rival the greats!

Even much haunting? They astir chose to extremity the movie without showing Casper successful quality form. THOSE FOOLS. 

"It was crazy, due to the fact that they didn't cognize whether that was going to beryllium the ending oregon not," Sawa told The A.V. Club successful 2012. "I deliberation [executive producer] Steven Spielberg decided successful the past mates of weeks of shooting to sprout an alternate ending of Casper coming backmost arsenic a existent boy. And past they went with that ending."

Can you ideate each of the intersexual awakenings that would've been stalled—possibly forever—had they not gone with that endings?

Winner: Casper.

Now let's look astatine the actors' relationships with their respective characters decades later. 

Aside from Casper, Sawa's turns successful Little Giants, Now & Then and Wild America made the Canadian a full-blown teen idol, with his representation serving arsenic wallpaper successful galore bedrooms successful the '90s.

"There was a constituent wherever Jonathan [Taylor Thomas] and I were successful London, and we shared a limo," Sawa told The A.V. Club. "It was, like, [we were] The Beatles! They were chasing our car and smacking the windows, and that's erstwhile I yet realized that, 'Holy s--t, this is getting crazy.'"