how's it going everybody to a fun review today as we're talking Beetlejuice Beetlejuice what better way to kick off officially the spooky movie season than to talk about the long anticipated sequel to The 1988 film which is a film that I love personally it might be one of my favorite Tim Burton films all around but for as long as I can remember I have heard rumors about them potentially making a sequel to this it's one of those movies that you would see periodically with those horribly Photoshop posters on Facebook that everyone would believe was actually
happening but lo and behold finally after 36 years we actually do get an official sequel after an unexpected family tragedy the three generations of the de's family return home to Winter River still haunted by Beetlejuice Lydia's life has turned upside down when her teenage daughter ASD accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife with Legacy sequels still being all the rage and Hollywood lately some hits some misses I would say for the most part Beetlejuice Beetlejuice bridges that got pretty well ASM is clear from the jump the commitment to bringing the spooky weird style from that
original film and for the most part bringing back all the iconic characters from the original Beetlejuice while using all of them to springboard a new story breathing new life into this world and quite a ghoulishly entertaining adventure for as much as I enjoy Tim Burton's work a lot of his more recent projects I haven't been a big fan of outside of probably Wednesday which almost in some ways feels like a sort of test run for Beetle Juice Beetle juu besides the fact that Jenna Ortega is in both so here with this sequel it does kind
of feel like a returned to form for him it's evident through the adventure that we go on with the Deets family and Beetlejuice across a vast variety of Realms revisiting the afterlife Etc he still is very capable of that signature spooky imaginative style and the maob sensibilities which shine through exceptionally when the story goes back to the afterlife in this all of those elements of the afterlife in particular were my favorite the Practical effects work the set design and the puppetry again another Stark reminder that practical work usually looks better than CGI and in the
sections within the story it was difficult not to have fun regardless of the story at times starts to feel scatterbrain the longer it goes along the major reason why Beetlejuice Beetlejuice works so well is the cast by and large the cast here is fantastic whether it be the Legacy characters or a lot of the new additions to the cast with performances like this it does make me treasure when Ona rid her on screen and the fact that we don't get to see her and a lot of stuff outside of stranger things these days she slips
effortlessly back into playing Lydia strange in the best of ways but much more deserve even though she's older she's still haunted by Beetlejuice while hosting this show about the Paranormal probably the best part of the story for me did come from wiona ryer and Jenna Ortega two of them have this really great motherdaughter Dynamic it's one of the most effective elements to the film bringing a lot of heart to it it was incredibly endearing how far Lydia is willing to go pretty much going above and beyond for astd to the point that she'll reluctantly get
someone like Beetlejuice involved between Wednesday and astd I'm really enjoying this pairing between Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton as per you usual she's pretty great I genuinely had a good time following her character along since she's this independent Ang fi character skeptical of anything Supernatural thinks her mom is a fraud which makes her storyline all the more fun over the course of the film The Wild Excursion that she goes on if you had told me just a few years ago that not only would Michael Keaton come back to play Batman in The Flash but then
he would go on the next year to play Beetlejuice in a sequel after 36 years I probably would have called you insane but yet here we are and almost in kind of a similar vein to my sent back when he played Batman in the flash he was probably one of the best parts of that movie I think he does a good job stepping back into the role as Beetlejuice I think he's still got it from the moment that he enters the film with an incredible introduction sequence Beetlejuice is as crazy and obscene as ever bringing
the most enjoyable Mayhem with him much like in that original film which he's actually not even in all that much you savor every moment that he appears on screen interacting with Lydia or others in the afterlife similar to in the original film they make the best usage of his screen time considering he's the kind of character that never plays by the rules and is hilarious while doing so also surprisingly they do try to expand upon his character a little bit even getting some more backstory we delve into his history with his ex-wife in these black
and white sequences like I said i'llbe it much like the original film he's not in the movie a ton I would argue he probably is in the movie at least marginally more in this compared to the original in a similar fashion it does kind of leave you wanting a little bit more of the character all in all it is kind of a personal preference thing I think it's a lot better to have have him in small doses as opposed to him just being a major character throughout also two other major highlights to the cast for
me was Katherine hoara be complet honest she pretty much stole every single scene that she was in I thought she was phenomenal and as for new characters my favorite probably was William defo who plays this really weird cop in the afterlife considering the overwhelming majority of Legacy sequels strictly act like a retread of the original film mostly play off of nostalgia I was glad of the big swings it takes trying new things with the World building in the story however I do wish as the film went on everything didn't start to feel so scatterbrain I
still had a pretty good time but the film struggles significantly at balancing all the different characters and plot lines at certain points in the film there's probably about three or four plots going on simultaneously and the film does employ multiple villains so it starts to feel crowded alternating between them all doing so some of these stories don't get a lot of development and feel kind of Wasted by the end one of them being Astrid's crush on a boy that she meets or beetlejuice's EX wife at first I was genuinely excited about beetlejuice's ex-wife being a
focal point to the story she has an amazing creepy design and literally Stables her body parts back together it seemed really fun to have her try and hunt down Beetlejuice but by the end of the film where we go with that storyline it kind of felt like a big waste of time and a huge waste of Monica Belushi as this character though there are quite a bit of good call backs to the original film the only one I was kind of mixed upon was the musical number in this film it's set to the MacArthur Park
song it's still certainly as a fun sequence don't get me wrong but it's one of the elements in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice that does feel a bit shoehorned in especially compared to the original scene in the first Beetlejuice film that one was so well done and unexpected here it just isn't as good in the end however Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a welcome return Tim Burton brings the zany maob fun atmosphere dials up the charm for modern audiences and effectively delivers a solid legacy sequel that longtime fans should feel satisfied with as far as the multitude of Legacy sequels
are concerned I do think it is one of the better ones in recent memory and a nice companion piece to the original film there for sure are a good amount of things to be tweaked here that could have made it an even better experience but I can't deny the fact that I was less Satisfied by the end once you get a chance to check out Beetlejuice Beetlejuice make sure you share your thoughts down below what do you think of the film do you like the film did you not like the film share your thoughts down
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