BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE Movie Review | Michael Keaton | Winona Ryder | Jenna Ortega

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice did a huge Thursday night opening so if you want to get tickets this weekend you better jump in the line sequel to 1988 stim Burton comedy what's 36 years between friends yes people just keep saying his name and he just keeps showing up go once again yes once again Michael Keaton is the Ghost with the most uh this is very much the kind of sequel that we have seen in like axle F and various Ghostbusters and we'll get into all that as far as how it tries to tap into Nostalgia but also be something new um we're here all fall long with movies like this so come hang out with us and subscribe to the channel if you have not we would love to see [Music] you Bob you and the boys stand guard nobody gets through once again we have wona ryer being kind of goth and kind of dark and brooding um her daughter is played by Jenna Ortega her name is astred and they are sort of estranged from each other and Lydia has been estranged from dilia for all this time because they were never really tight anyway but everyone has to go back to the famous house in the small town in Connecticut when the dad dies oh I'm just not even gonna talk about how they handle the dad's death because it's just it's pretty funny it's just yes yeah there's also there's also a lot lot of like you know how do we deal with the people we don't want to bring back for this movie and that's sort of sprinkled throughout this movie and they pretty much pull it off yes so um they all go back but you know be to never really left he has been there all this time sort of Trapped in the model home waiting to be Unleashed onto the world to wreak more havoc and Mischief um so it's how different Generations deal with Beetlejuice and what he wants from them and what they want from him we have new cast members like Monica beluchi and William defo it feels like a lot of different kinds of movies kind of stuffed in together you know like at one point B juice talks about being able to like cram back into his his prom talks and this all feels like they're cramming everything into that and and there are long stretches where it's like oh right Monica beluchi is in this movie like oh right William defo is in this movie but I I feel like Tim Burton does tap back into what made that first movie a lot of fun the anarchic spirit of it you and I went back and we rewatched the original Beetle Juice and one thing that we commented on that we noticed this time is that it's just so scattered they're thrown so much against the wall and it's so erratic in terms of pacing and in terms of what works and what doesn't but like that kind of chaos is a feature and not a bug and that chaos exists here as well but it is even more uneven like I like this more than I didn't like it and I enjoyed that there seems to be a Reliance on the Tactical and the practical in ways that hearkened to the original the tactile the tactile tacl tacl yes either tactile you can touch it it's real it's not numbers it's not CGI numbers correct so so I mean a lot of like you know the makeup work calling Atwood costumes you know it's very the Danny Elfman score it's very Tim britony in all the ways you want it to be but then like do some things drag on too long there's a musical number that drags on too long so it's very hit and miss for me but I had a pretty good time yeah I I am really glad that we Revisited the first Beetlejuice before uh seeing this because yeah I I think that this movie is is a bit of a mess but it's a mess in the way that the first Beetlejuice is and and we love the first Beetle Juice so you know I I think in a in a weird way he's sort of being true to the spirit of that by not streamlining things too much uh I was generally entertained I I was having a good time pretty much start to finish even the number of which you speak I didn't think was too long it's like yes they dig into it and they they're they're they're splashing around in it for a while but I didn't have a problem with it this is the movie we kept wanting Tim Burton to make and like Frank and weeny I think definitely got there but Dark Shadows didn't miss paragon's Home for Peculiar Children didn't uh but this one does feel like he's really going back to the sort of early you know uh uh you know Vincent peeee Beetlejuice era of his career with the the the crazy stop motion animation and the just sort of reveling in the look and the mood and the tone and the the weird humor and and you know I think we get a little more of the afterlife in this one in terms of just the mechanics of it and the architecture of it the layout um this movie actually uh does posit the existence of Heaven and Hell which the first one did not I thought that was interesting um it was also funny to watch a movie with a running gag About Soul Train in it uh with an audience that mostly didn't get it you could tell where the Americans were sitting uh during that screening um I was alive in the 70s I understand this reference right and and it air I mean I don't think it's not a show that I don't think aired anywhere else so I don't think in Europe they have any idea what that even means uh so anyway yeah I had a good time with this you know Michael Keaton is is doing exactly what he's supposed to be doing I you know often in these sequels the challenge is like are we going to treat these characters like characters and I think they did like I feel like when Ona Ryder and Katherine O'Hara get to be more mature and while they still have a lot of the quirks they had before there is this sense of history and of a life lived since the first movie and the fact that you know jenet Ortega and Winona Ryder are sort of estranged kind of lets Winona Ryder reflect on her relationship with kathern O'Hara you know and that kind of surprised me in a way I didn't know that we were going to be kind of touching those um hitting those but buttons but I think they do do it effectively yes not enough Monica beluchi or at least they didn't really understand figure out what to do with her although there is a thing that happens with her in an early scene that is so the Aesthetics of Tim Burton and I won't go into it it's very cool though like all the details and the way it's paced and the way it comes together was very cool yes yes yes I gave me a lot of Hope early on yeah um you know I think will defo is having a really good time and and I had a good time with that so yeah I I know Jenna Ortega is totally giving you you know Lydia Deets for the New Millennium you know she's maybe not quite as performatively goth but she's just his dead pan uh so yeah I I thought this was really entertaining it it is if if you liked Beetlejuice you get more of that here and if you didn't like Beetle Juice then you're certainly not gonna like this one because it's more of that yeah Jenna Ortega and winner Rider are very much on the same wavelength even though as you say they are aranged like that DNA connection feels very strong there as far as their attitude their approach to the world just their very presence um and that relationship evolves in ways that are meaningful and I liked a lot and then Jenna Ortega's character also gets to leave the confines at one point of the house and of all these weird people and there's a subplot involving her that I thought was paced out really well and it was suspenseful and it was exciting and I thought that was full of surprises and cool things in in a different kind of way from everything else that we see in this film yeah they give they find something new for her to do and it works in the overall scheme of things the writers here are the guys who worked on Wednesday with with Burton uh taking over as a writer I also want to give a shout out to Justin theu as uh as one owner writer sort of like sensitive to a fault uh ponytail boyfriend he for a long time was one of those actors who I never re recognized from movie to movie and I I mean that as a compliment just because he would sink himself into such different characters and now obviously you know after the leftover is like yeah I know it's justtin through when I see him but I think he's still finding new things to play here and being very funny but doing in a way in a character that I don't think I've really seen him do before so he he fits in The Ensemble very nicely stay through the credits always stff happens yes that made me like laugh and squirm and go there's some gnarly stuff that happens in the credit so yes sa for that what your number them uh I gave it an 8.8 I had a really good time it it it does what it's supposed to do as far as I'm concerned so yeah I will say 6.8 I had fun I liked it more than I didn't like it but it it does feel like it's just too many subplots too many things and you know what's funny as we were walking out Nick said to me um it's I liked it and I like seeing Mel Keaton back in this role again but he feels a little subdued he feels a little T came I said it's just like what Eddie Murphy's doing in Axel F right maybe it's like in that it is a character who was Brash and thrilling in its day and like 40 years later has to have like glimmers of that but is older like has to give you crazy but also give you like the wisdom of years although I guess be juice is eternal I suppose so anyway we had fun but um I'm a little mixed on it so be be is in theaters I just assume there has to be a third one of these so we can all say the name three times and him constantly you know I mean it kind of feels like they pained themselves into that corner now so and the fact that this one is I think going to be a hit probably means uh that likelihood just got upped so we'll see what happens