Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
4/10
Starring
Michael
Keaton
Winona
Ryder
Catherine
O'Hara
Jenna
Ortega
Justin
Theroux
Monica
Bellucci
Willem
Dafoe
Directed
by Tim Burton
Thirty-six
years after the masterpiece Beetlejuice (1988), we now have a sequel. This
sequel tries to not forget the characters of the previous movie and
maintain the special effect style of the first movie, to give this movie
the same kind of feel. The problem is the story itself is not focused enough to
gather the same kind of love as in the first movie. This movie had too
many characters and too many sub-plots and just felt like it was made as a fan
service art, rather than a movie meant to be a continuation of a legacy.
The
characters like Delores played by Monica Bellucci or Wolf played by Williem
Dafeo, if you delete those characters from the movie, I think the movie will
still have the same ending. Because both were added to the movie as forms of distractions, but were never integral to the movie itself. At first, it seemed like Delores
was the main villain, but the plot just winds past her. Theirs and the other subplots
were placed for laughs, problem is they made the movie feel lost.
The
movie also introduces us to Astrid (Jenna Ortega) Lydia’s daughter. Now Lydia
has embraced her ability to see ghosts, and milks it for money. She is the host
of a show called Ghost House with Lydia Deetz, and she is dating the producer.
She and Astrid are estranged and so is Lydia and her parents, but the death of
her father, causes both Lydia (Winona Ryder) and Delia (Catherine O’Hara) to
unite and start planning the burial.
There
is a missing link in the movie, which is never fully explored. Astrid and Lydia’s
estranged situation is not fully felt on screen. Astrid explains why they are
estranged, which for many movies is enough, but add to it that her father is also
dead, there seem to be more which can best be explained from Lydia’s view than
just Astrid, which was not done.
We are
shown that she does not like her family, as you will see from the movie, that
they are weird and neglecting, but still it felt in the movie that they could
have done more to make that feeling of distance more meaningful.
Unlike
the first movie, Beetlejuice is shown a lot more, and we see him trying his best
to get Lydia’s attention from the land of the dead. Astrid gets herself into
some trouble, and she is in the underworld and Lydia needs help to save her, so
she calls out Beetlejuice, and he agreed to help her based on his own conditions.
In the
end, as I said, the movie is just a fan service making and lacks the fun of the
first movie.
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