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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2024
Runtime: 1h 45m
Country: USA, France
Language: English, Italian, French, Spanish
Genre Tags: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Plot Summary: After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home 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.

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phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: Better than expected? The script is the hottest of messes, with so many storylines that add nothing and fizzle out partway through the movie. There's a better movie without Justin Theroux's character, without Monica Bellucci's character, without the spirit of Jeffrey Jones (whose character is in a lot of this movie for someone not in this movie), and with Jena Ortega and Winona Ryder's relationship actually fleshed out. All that said, every time it started lagging and I wanted to complain, it would throw some new crazy nonsense on the screen, and I'd be delighted again. It's very hit and miss, but when it hits, it hits well. The lip-synch wedding was great. Creepy baby Beetlejuice was great. The upped violence and gore was great. Best watched with your Gen-X friends.


Outside Reviews:

Matt Zoller Seitz
3 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is an overstuffed toy bag of a movie: every minute or two, the director digs into the bag and produces a new toy. It’s a return to form for director Tim Burton only in the sense that, like Burton early in his career, it’s not interested in form, except at the immediate level of the image and the scene. That’s not a complaint, by the way. It’s an observation.


Anna McKibbin
B - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice reinvigorates Tim Burton’s stale brand, returning to practical playfulness

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is strangely paced and barely comprehensible, plot-wise, but it is aesthetically esoteric in a way that used to be synonymous with Tim Burton’s filmmaking, alive and real. Midway through the film, Astrid’s love interest (Arthur Conti) says, “I don’t trust what I can’t touch.” With this tangible, invigorating sequel, it seems to be a mantra Burton is returning to. Like in the first Beetlejuice, there is a genuine enjoyment gleaned from spending time in a world built by such serious craftsmen to such playful ends.