Sequels to hit films are a given how they usually come out within a few years of the original film coming out. The same thing cannot be said for this film as this film came out over thirty years after the release of the original film and while there have been attempts to get a sequel film made going as far back as the nineties it's now finally where and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the film that proves that the ghost with the most really is indeed back with the film in question being called simply just "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" enjoy.
The plot of this film is thirty five years after the events of the first film Lydia is brought back to Winter River along with her daughter , her mother and her boyfriend and has to content with Beetlejuice who this time has some problems of his own. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with the plot of the film being as delightfully simple as it was back in the first film with this being helped by the fact that this really isn't the kind of film that really demands a complicated plot as all you need is a basic plot to make it enjoyable and that's exactly what the plot of this film is and because of that is the fact that the plot could also be seen as a throwback to other eighties films as alot of films back in the eighties also had some really basic and really simply plots to them as well with alot of those films also being classics because of that fact with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice , Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz and Catherine O'Hara as Delia Deetz. Also starring in this film is Jenna Ortega as Astrid Deetz , Justin Theroux as Rory , Arthur Conti as Jeremy Frazier , Willem Dafoe as Wolf Jackson , Burn Gorman as Father Damien , Amy Nuttall as Jane Butterfield Jr. , Santiago Cabrera as Richard , Nick Kellington as Bob and Monica Bellucci as Delores.
Now then interms of what I personally thought . felt about thew actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With al of the actors that you expect a really good performance from really delivering in this very film the likes of Michael Keaton , Winona Ryder and Catherine O'Hara all really easily stepping back into their roles as if they were just playing them last year and all three of them really do have some really good chemistry but that's not to say that the new cast are bad because there really not as all of this films new actors are also really good with this films producer ad director Tim Burton really knowing how to direct his cast and how to get a good performance out of his actors with the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors really have to do is just say the pines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.
Doing the CGI for this film is the true legends and the really greats that are currently over at Framestore. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with the film not really having that much CGI in it with the film instead making great use of stop motion animation for all of it's effects similar to what was done in the first film and in that regard that does make the effects in this film feel like that they really do belong in this series and while the film does have very limited CGI effects in it what little CGI the film does have not only looks really good but also looks alot better then what it really had any right to as by all rights the CGI that's in this film really shouldn't have been that good and nobody would have blamed the makers of this film if they chose not to include some good CGI but no this films CGI looks just as good as this films stop motion effects do with the film also having some really good looking stop motion effects in it with the stop motion looking just as good as it did in the first film.
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For some strange reason alot of recent actually good movies seem to use songs in really good ways with Deadpool & Wolverine of course using Nysnc's Bye Bye Bye. With this film making some really good use of The Bee Gee's Tragedy of all things which was such a fun little scene that it really did work for this film and was such a really funny moment in the film but at the same time this is also a really weird trend that's started to prop up very recently and it makes you wonder whatever film franchises will return and make good use of a long forgotten song and while it could be argued that the first Beetlejuice film technically started this trend thanks to the use of Day O and as such it really does feel right that this film would use another long forgotten version of a rally popular song it's still to see two movies based off of very popular characters both come out in the exact same year and both of them use some really good songs in some really fun and funny ways and out of the two songs it's Tragedy that does feel like it's better suited to the film as that song does feel like that it belongs in a film like this one where as Bye Bye Bye feels like it's saying goodbye to nothing but really both songs are still used really well in both films.
In what was a rather shocking move this film does actually kill of Delia Deetz and they don't go back on it either she stays dead. This was such a bold move as she was a minor character in the first film and yet was still made a main character inn this film and as aa result of that is the fact that the makers of the film really didn't gave to go that far and have her character killed of in this film in a way that's fitting for her character but what makes her death fun isn't how she dies but it's the fact that she refuses to accept that she's dead which is just such a fun idea as it's something that's fitting for her character as her character would believe that her death was a mistake and that she had more to do in life and so to see her act like that in this film is a really fun idea and while she does get to meet up with her recently deceased husband Charles who does appear in the film in a rather unique and oddly gory way it's still fun to see this character very slowly be forced to come t the terms with the fact that she's dead even tho she has a huge ego and her ego would just never accept that fact with out all f the proof in the world something which she does get due to the fact that she's in the after life legally while Lydia and Beetlejuice are there illegally to save Lydia's daughter Astrid from having her soul taken by someone who wants her body to live again.
There are a few down sides to this film tho like the fact that Astrid really isn't all that likable as a character with her coming across as more unlikable version of Lydia only without any of the charm that made Lydia a likeable character in the first place. With the other bad thing about this film is the fact that the subplot with Delores not really being being that fully developed and heck the character barely even talks in the film with her maybe getting a paragraph in total lines of the film and even then alot of her lines are just her asking people where Beetlejuice is and that's really it which isn't enough to make the character seem justified as being in the film as on paper the character really could have worked and her plot with her trying to find Beetlejuice could have been interesting if it had some actual stakes to it and wasn't just featured as something that's shoehorned into the film for little to no reason because as things stand if her plot and her character was removed from the film nothing of actual importance would actually be lost from the film as it's just there just so Tim Burton can put Monica Bellucci in a film and that's rally it and that's not a good enough reason as you can have the best actor a film but you still to justify the reason as to why there character is included in the film in the first place.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty seven seconds and fifty eight seconds. Which is a really solid running time for this film to have as this film really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that large amount of running time but at the same time tho alot of what the film does feature could have been cut out from the film and other aspects of the film could have been expanded upon like the fact that the relationship between Astrid and Lydia could have been more developed as in the final cut of the film it just comes across as Astrid hating Lydia for no reason whatsoever with them coming back together even feeling rushed in parts as well and all f this was because of the fact that the film had to squeeze in the whole Delores Monica Bellucci subplot when that's something that really didn't need to be in the film as much as it was as that's not something that adds anything to the overall plot of the film and as is there just to be nothing more then filler and nothing more then that with the film giving us more focus on something that doesn't need to be focused upon and giving us less focus on something that really should have been the main focus of the film but I will ad it that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that means that I gave to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well the in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this film alot of painfully funny laugh out loud moments in it and it's during this films more comedic moments that allows Micheal Keaton to once again truly shine as Beetlejuice as he really does get alot of the film painfully funny moments with the film even having it's own version of the Day O scene only this film it's involving Lydia , Astrid and Delia as well as Beetlejuice miming to the song MacArthur Park by Richard Harris and it's such a painfully funny scene that it makes what could gave bee a really boring sequence seem all the more fun as by paper the wedding scene could have been a really boring and predictable scene and yet because of the fact that they added alot of random humor in that scene it seems all the more entertaining then what it really could have ended up being and it really does show that Tim Burton still really does know how to make people laugh something which is true with alot of the scene that are in this very film as this film is just that good and is just all that funny in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall this film is so much fun and it's one that alot of people really should go and watch one the biggest screen possible as it really is worth it as it's a film that more the lives up to the legacy to the first one and it really does prove that Tim Burton can still make a good movie when he really wants to in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page , the official Beetlejuice fandom wiki page , Tenor and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images really simply because the official Beetlejuice fandom wiki page actually really has images from this film really are up and on the official Beetlejuice fandom wiki page and really plus pretty much all of the images that I personally found on the official Beetlejuice fandom wiki page really were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we really do end this review as we really always do with really our one and really true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
