Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

Tim Burton's movies often employees style over substance and once again delivers us a highly edible yet unremarkable meal with a huge title. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a fun film that unfortunately does not have twice the amount of it's loveable shit bag namesake character. It choses to rather spends it's runtime developing a mother (Lydia) and daughter (Astrid) relationship along with a few other colorful characters who, in the end, don't really play a huge role in it's story. Nearly wasting the absolute amazing addition of William Dafoe's talent on a B plot side story that goes nowhere in the climax. Perhaps Michael Keaton didn't have twice the energy to give either. He's getting old and Beetlejuice has aged with him, yet you can tell he's still having a good time bringing the character back to life. Catherine O'Hara on the other hand has aged wonderfully and Delia is as pretentious as ever. She delivers some of the biggest laughs of the film. Huge fans of the original are likely to find loads of laughs and smiles here and I think many will rediscover a love for it's predecessor as well. For a long awaited sequel it's not too bad.

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