40/15
Keaton said in March 2014 that this was the only sequel he was interested in
Story
Following a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter Astrid accidentally opens the portal to the afterlife. Jenna Ortega, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux and Monica Bellucci share why filming Beetlejuice Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice was an experience they’ll never forget. Tim Burton has said that this film would only be made if Michael Keaton returns to reprise his role.
See you later, motherfucker
Lydia informs Astrid that Rory wants to get married at midnight on Halloween night. So it would be November 1st since midnight is the start of a new day and therefore would no longer be Halloween. Beetlejuice: I believe it was Dostoevsky who said… SPOILER: There’s one in the end credits Dedication to Bob the Skinner who died in the film Featured on Late Night with Seth Meyers: Michael Keaton/Connor O’Malley (2024) MacArthur Park Written by Jimmy Webb Performed by Donna Summer Courtesy of Island Def Jam Music Group Under license to Universal Music Operations Ltd.
All I can really do here is speak my truth and not worry about how people will or will not agree
As a man who gave Beetlejuice a nine out of ten rating, I signed up for this site and can only report that I found this sequel to be a bit (though not entirely) a mess. Following the death of her father, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) returns to her parents’ home with her stepmother Delia (Catherine O’Hara), her boyfriend Rory (Justin Theroux), and her daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega). Lydia, who can still see ghosts, has visions of Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton), which only intensify when she returns to the house. But Betelgeuse has his own problems, involving the return of his vengeful ex-wife Delores (Monica Bellucci), who has the ability to extract the remaining souls of the dead and turn them into “undead.” What I found really interesting was that for years Burton and Keaton flat-out refused to do a sequel if the story wasn’t right.
Keaton almost single-handedly brings the movie to an acceptable level
Then they moved on to this one, which feels more like a bunch of ideas duct-taped together than a proper story. There are four main plots, two of which could have been partially or even totally removed (pun intended) without it making much of a difference. It feels like they’re just there so you can have an excuse to have certain actors in the movie. The movie also tends too much to recreate moments from the original, so there are two gags that are slight variations on earlier ones, and another song-and-dance scene where possession reigns, which is a strong moment, but again just a remix of the first movie.
But the movie uses this confusion too often, and I don’t think I found anything the others did funny
They cleverly keep his character out of most of the movie, so that when he does appear, he’s a breath of life. As you can see from the review, despite this negative review, I wouldn’t say I didn’t like the movie overall, but it’s too close to a profitable sequel that we could have had at any point in the last 30 years.