Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
“I know it’s hard to believe you could tie down the Juice” -Beetlejuice
After watching the first, it was hard to believe that a second one was needed. I said in my original review that I wasn’t a huge fan of the movie, but I can recognize why people love it and its place in Hollywood. The biggest compliment that can be said about this movie is that if you liked the original, this is a movie catered to you.
-J
Between the Alien series watch to prep for Romulus and the Beetlejuice watch to prep for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Spooktober has come early for E and I, and we are loving it! Making a sequel to Beetlejuice is a choice given the drama around Alec Baldwin and the sickening criminal proclivities of Jeffrey Jones, but nevertheless Tim Burton forged on, and much in the vein of the original, the sequel is all over the place, and for the most part in the best of ways. Didn’t totally love what they did to Winona Ryder’s character, she didn’t seem congruent to her character in the original, but everyone in the movie seems to be having a blast, and though it won’t it win Best Picture, we had a blast too. The best part of the movie, as was true in the original, is of course Michael Keaton, and he reprises his iconic role with such seamlessness and apparent lack of agedness that you can’t help but cheer for Betelguese, despite his abhorrent nature. Also, shout-out to Catherine O’Hara, who steals every scene she’s in, just as she did in the original. It’s certainly flawed, but so much fun that it just sort of doesn’t matter.
-Z
