Review: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Films don't get much more innovative and fresh than 1988's Beetlejuice , with its practical effects that rely on everything from stop motion to puppetry, and a chaotic performance from Michael Keaton. Maybe that's why it's taken 3 1/2 decades to mount a sequel, and it took the people behind the smash hit Wednesday to finally make it happen. The Good: Michael Keaton is--again--the real star of the movie, delivering a manic performance that feels like a vaudeville act from hell. Winona Ryder, the Gen-X Manic Pixie Dream Girl Obsessed With Death, continues to ride the second (or is that third?) wave of success that Stranger Things has provided, and Catherine O'Hara remains to be one of the funniest people walking the planet. Tim Burton must have conducted a seance to commune with the version of himself which ceased to exist circa 2005, resurrecting the dark fairy tale storyteller that once gave us Edward Scissorhands . While BJBJ certainly uses CGI and modern techn...