Coming up on 40 years after the original Beetlejuice movie came out, the movie finally got a sequel. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice still looks as good as the original, but even better. The director Tim Burton guides the audience through the supernatural comedy of the after life. Beetlejuice, an original 1988 movie starring Winona Ryder, and Micheal Keaton. The ghost couple (Barbara Maitland and Adam Maitland) who were recently deceased in a car accident, found themselves stuck with an unbearable family, then they hired a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the newer generations of the Deetz family return to their home in Winter River after a family tragedy. Lydia’s (Winona Ryder) life gets turned around when her teenage daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) finds a portal to the afterlife. This movie was much like the original. It also found the right bond between social exaggeration and seriousness from the original.
Micheal Keaton is most known for his phenomenal performance as Betelgeuse in the original movie. Returning after 40 years, Keaton did a great job at re-playing Betelgeuse, Micheal Keaton’s character is known for being rude and having annoying jokes. He brought all of that back in the sequel. Micheal Keaton did an amazing job of bringing Betelgeuse back to life.
The acting in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice movie is outstanding. Obviously from the returning stars, but also from the new stars. Jenna Ortega, known for her roles in Wednesday, The Fallout and Scream. In Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Jenna Ortega plays the role of Astrid Deetz, an environmentalist who’s mourning the deaths of her father and grandfather. She doesn’t get along with her mother very well. She doesn’t believe Lydia about ghosts and finds Lydia’s beliefs stupid. Jenna Ortega fits the Astrid character, and the acting she added onto the character is outstanding.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the return to Tim Burton’s hand-crafted aesthetic, which has seemed to lack in a few of his past films. Tim Burton’s films have a very dark, eerie, sinister, melancholy aesthetic. And Beetlejuice creates this more silly-goth aesthetic to the Tim Burton world. And although this may seem bad, it’s really not. Because no matter how hard one may try, the ominous energy cannot be taken out of Burtons films.
If you’re looking for the perfect film that has eerie, silenced hues with a charge of flamboyant, unexpected tones, watch this movie. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the perfect movie to kick of the start of fall.
