I actually think this movie was made as like a movie that they thought was genuinely good.
I also watched an episode of the series and it's either the movie isn't canon or the show isn't canon because it just doesn't add up. In the show, they don't know Draculaura's a witch and they find out abt it later as well as her dad but in the movie they know she's a witch in like the middle of the movie in a whole other way than they did in the show. So what's canon and what isn't? It doesn't make sense.