The Deetz family is haunted again, naturally, in Tim Burton's horror comedy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
More than three decades after the events of Beetlejuice , Lydia Deetz , the girl whom the ghost Betelgeuse pursued romantically, is now the host of a popular paranormal show. The death of her father Charles causes her to return to where the terror began: her home town of Winter River. There, with her stepmother Delia , Lydia must confront her traumatic past after her daughter Astrid lands in supernatural trouble.
The creative team of original director Tim Burton and producers could have looked at the bottom line and made the sequel a Michael Keaton extravaganza. Thankfully, they did not. Instead, as in the first film, the story’s main focus is the fractious Deetz clan. The family troubles have been updated to be very 2024, so much so that fans of the animated series Rick And Morty will be able to pick out familiar themes.Here is the child of a gifted parent who feels inadequate, and there is also the eccentric older relation whose superhuman abilities are the cause of the family’s problems – but also the key to saving the clan.
Visually, Burton leans on nostalgia. He brings back the gory prosthetics on the ghosts, showing how their mortal selves died, as well as the stop-motion monster animations.Ortega’s youth appeal has been talked about, a factor that will draw viewers too young to remember the first movie.
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