It probably sounds like a sentence from every other life but we’re going to write it anyway. After about 40 years, the sequel Beetle juice from director Tim Burton is about to hit theaters. Michael Keaton is back as Ghost in Most, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara also reprise their roles as the Deitz women, and now Jenna Ortega joins the cast along with Monica Bellucci, Justin Theroux, and Willem Dafoe.
After years of rumors, discussions, speculation, and anticipation, it is rightly called Beetlejuice juice opens September 6 to kick off our fall 2024 movie season. And, before the big embargo is lifted next week, a few updates have come out along with the social media embargo. Has the nearly ten-year wait between sequels been worth it? Are Burton and company back for a good reason? Or are they tarnishing the reputation of the weird, wonderful original? Let’s see what the few critics and promoters who have seen the film have to say.
#Beetlejuice Review: “It’s rewarding to have Tim Burton return to his creative work of comedy, the fantastic imagination and the delicious disease on which he made his name”
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— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 28, 2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a fun, fast-paced romp from Tim Burton that should please many who have waited decades for it to arrive. It certainly leans on nostalgia throughout, but it also manages to have some weird new tricks up its sleeve; not just…
— JoBlo.com (@joblocom) August 28, 2024
Enjoyed by #Beetlejuice. The first one is an all-time favorite, and this new one plays like a fun romp back into that world.
Michael Keaton never skips a beat. Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega’s mother/daughter story won me over – feature… pic.twitter.com/bWRY4w7adL
– Perri Nemiroff (@PNemiroff) August 28, 2024
#Beetlejuice you enter the front of the estate, offering everything you want and less, playing like a Burton’s buffet that leaves you satisfied if you are not satisfied, and not rushing to go back for a third time.
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— TheWrap (@TheWrap) August 28, 2024
‘Beetlejuice’ Review Beetlejuice: It’s a Good Afterlife for Tim Burton’s Joyfully Macabre Sequel – #VeniceFilmFestival | #Beetle juice
– Deadline (@DEADLINE) August 28, 2024
“Michael Keaton seems to have more energy than he did 35 years ago, leaping off the purgatorial walls with incredible exuberance.”
Beetlejuice is back in Tim Burton’s direction #Beetlejuice.
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— Empire Magazine (@empiremagazine) August 28, 2024
‘Beetlejuice’ Review Beetlejuice: Tim Burton’s Thrilling Sequel Stays Faithful to the Original Series While Deepening the Human Figures pic.twitter.com/FfAHqS9RDw
— IndieWire (@IndieWire) August 28, 2024
So, it seems that almost everyone who shared their opinions today thought that the movie did very well! Lots of praise for Michael Keaton, which is fun. Many people agreed that this story was worth the wait. And, a few say that even if it’s not as big as the original—how could it be?—it still justifies its existence. Which, in the case of a long-awaited, highly anticipated sequel like this, is probably the best thing anyone can say.
This will all get more intense next week when all stores are allowed to run their reviews, but so far so good. If you, like us, were worried that after forty years, Beetle juice he was dead, obviously not. The likes of Burton, Keaton, Ryder, and crew wouldn’t come back and risk harm. Beetle juice unless they knew they had a movie to make—and it seems they did.
Written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, Beetlejuice juice comes out on September 6. Here’s the official build description:
After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life changes when her renegade daughter, Astrid, discovers a mysterious model of the city in the basement and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing on both sides, it’s only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times and the evil demon returns to unleash his own kind of mayhem.
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