Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder return for a hollow, lifeless sequel.
Which makes Beetlejuice a tough candidate for sequelization. How do you compellingly teach an audience what it’s already learned and still fondly remembers? Perhaps that’s why it took Burton and crew 35 years to come up with a follow-up. And yet, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice suggests that nearly four decades wasn’t quite long enough.
At one point in the film, Astrid asks her mother what happened to the ghosts Lydia knew as a teenager: the ones played so winsomely by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis. Lydia hurriedly says that they found a loophole and moved on to the next plane, and Astrid just about turns to the camera to say, “How convenient.” Which indicates that the film is aware that cheap narrative fixes are a pain, but stridently employs them anyway.
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