Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

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   Gordon_Gekko

   It's not a bad sequel, but has too many storylines. 3 weeks 2 days ago
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   Siskoid

   An amusing piece of fluff, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice's plot is all over the place, sometimes forgets the previous film's lore, and in trying to get rid of Jeffrey Jones' character (for good reason), somehow gives him even more space. Those are the key problems. But there's a lot of good too. Catherine O'Hara is the movie's VIP, extremely funny, with some amusing turns for Justin Theroux, Willem Dafoe, Torchwood's Buyrn Gorman, and the usual solid performance from Michael Keaton. Jenna Ortega really is the Winona Ryder of her generation, so they're a perfect mother-daughter combo (wait, is Ortega's Reality Bites a Scream movie?!), and 25+ years after the incidents of the first film, circumstances are just enough like and unlike Lydia's experience to give Ortega's Astrid a different arc. Monica Bellucci is really sexy as a villainous version of The Nightmare Before Christmas' Sally who ties into Beetlejuice's origin story, and it's unfortunate that she's only one of the three villains, and dispatched anti-climactically. Some fun death gags and musical numbers. Tm Burton hasn't made a great live action film in decades and despite the appreciated practical effects that help make this movie of a piece with the original, he hasn't reversed the trend with this jumble of callbacks and new ideas. It's still a lot more fun than anything he's made in that period. 3 weeks 2 days ago

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