Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - Michael Keaton's latest lackluster role

[Music] if you say a same three times you will appear Beetle Juice Beetle Juice Beetle Juice the juice is L hey guys Society reviews here my review of the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice ladies and gentlemen welcome to the bottom of the barrel the second that multinational billion dooll corporations began to consume film studios and treat the film industry like a tab and portfolio rather than an actual Studio the modern film industry was inevitable I am inevitable one of the brothers has been trying to FastTrack a sequel to the Colt classic Beetlejuice since 1988 I can't explain to you how we got from 1988 to 2023 less than 30 minutes so here's the cliff noes version of what happened Warner Brothers wanted to do a sequel in Hawaii they properly ended up losing the rights of that script to another studio and sat on it for well over a decade half the people who were responsible for that script died the project was revived and killed multiple times in the 2010s and by the time it was all said and done super Mexican actress Jenna Ortega was cast to play the daughter of super Jewish actress wiola Ryder and Warner Brothers decided to invest a $ hundred million by making these two characters the focal point of the latest film entitled bees bees 36 years after the first film Lydia Deeds is now a host of a supernatural talk show called ghost house during the taping of the segment Lydia sees visions of the ghost Beetle Juice in the audience and begins to panic that the demon that she left almost four decades ago is back from her past as Lydia deals with a broken relationship between her daughter ashd and dealing with her father's death in the afterlife the ex-wife of Beetlejuice Dolores is back from the grave to take the soul of her former husband this was Beetlejuice in a bind having to ask Lydia for her help to get out of this Jam but he still has a scheme to get out of the afterworld by using Lydia as bait if the film takes 30 6 years to come to fruition you should have counted your losses and gotten out while you were ahead Beetle Juice 2 is a disjointed mess of a movie is a film that has so many subplots that aren't developed half of them are given up on throughout the course of the movie by the time the end credits role you realize that half the characters in this film could be completely cut out and it wouldn't have changed the direction of the film let's start with Jeffrey Jones who played Lydia's father in the original movie Jeffrey didn't return for the sequel because he's a convicted pedophile who was charged with assaulting a 14-year-old boy freaky ass [ __ ] he a 69 God hey hey hey hey run for your life while Jeffrey himself isn't in the movie The likeness of his character it remains an integral part of the storyline almost as that the filmmakers wanted people to forget why he's not allowed to be in this film in the first place most of the characters don't serve a purpose to this film such as Monica Belushi who was sold to audience to be the antagonist of this movie and the main threat of the film however outside her initial introduction the character completely disappears for large stretches of the movie to the point where you begin to wonder if she even had a purpose of being in this film in the first place nearly all the characters including our Title Character Beetle Juice himself doesn't have much of a presence in this film meaning audiences won't find out too much later that the sequel is actually a bait and switch to focus more on the relationship between Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega writer who looks completely ridiculous as a 53-year-old woman who dresses exactly like her 17-year-old counterpart simply cannot match the character's presence that she had in the 1998 movie story-wise the film is centered around Lydia's broken relationship with her daughter AST who hates her because her mother would rather spend more time on her television show than with her or take his character as a young girl who misses being with her social justice protester of a father editors note that is not a joke who died in an unrelated accident before the film but comes back later on in the second act why creatively they decided to break up their family before they establish them with the audience only to have Lydia run around the entire film with a glorified stoe whose only contribution to the film is weak comic relief can only be explained as a complete lack of creative Direction across the board the pacing in the edting of this film is abysmal despite the early rumors that this film was scheduled to be much longer than the final cut that was released in movie theaters Beetle Juice 2 still manages to drag the audience along for 105 minutes and you will feel every single second the charm of Tim Burton has been long past due the selling point of this movie is essentially trying to drum up as many memor berries from Generation X using Tim Burton cinematography and Michael Keaton's throwback charm to ignore all the obvious flaws in the movie meanwhile using Jor take's popularity from Wednesday to sweep in Z along the way but in reality this is just window dressing to distract everyone from the fact that none of these characters in this movie Get Enough scream time to have any worthwhile impact and the end does not justify the means for this project audiences are going to be left with an empty attempt at Nostalgia baiting people in their AARP age to Jingle the keys of their teenage years so that they can convince themselves that this film was actually worth a 36e weight like many modern Hollywood sequels Beetle Juice 2 only accomplishes one goal to make you want to watch the original film that was far superior to whever the hell the creative minds behind this film thought this film was going to be I give Beetle Juice 2 a one out of five now it's my chance what how do I know that you're going to keep your word I swear I'm a dead mother's soul [Music]