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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 45 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 45 m
Summary Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's (Winona Ryder) life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic...
Directed By: Tim Burton
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 45 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 45 m
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
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6.5
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Summary Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's (Winona Ryder) life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic...
Directed By: Tim Burton
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 61 Critic Reviews
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62% Positive
38 Reviews
38 Reviews
33% Mixed
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
5% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 61 Critic Reviews
62
62% Positive
38 Reviews
38 Reviews
33% Mixed
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
5% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
The zippy pacing, buoyant energy and steady stream of laugh-out-loud moments hint at the joy Burton appears to have found in revisiting this world, and for anyone who loved the first movie, it’s contagious. That applies also to the actors, all of whom warm to the dizzying lunacy.
We’ve waited 36 years for this sequel and despite some rough plot patches, Michael Keaton returns in peak form to the funniest role of his career as the trickster demon who’s determined to let his freak flag fly. The Juice is loose, babe. Act accordingly.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 199 User Ratings
6.5
62% Positive
124 Ratings
124 Ratings
22% Mixed
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
16% Negative
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 199 User Ratings
6.5
62% Positive
124 Ratings
124 Ratings
22% Mixed
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
16% Negative
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
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Burton understands what the Beetlejuice-loving audience wants (Keaton stirring up supernatural chaos, Winona Ryder glowering in goth-girl chic, jump scares with eyeballs popping out of heads)
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is an exercise — or exorcise — in studio IP extension that is so strange and unusual as to be almost review-proof. It's messy and overstuffed, but its quirky charms may well win you over.
By Christian Bone and Taylor Mansfield
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice may not be that fresh or substantial – it’s basically comfort food for long-term Burton fans – but it’ll be hard for viewers to repress a pleased smile, or graveyard rictus.
It takes way too long — nearly an hour of a 105-minute movie — for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’s actual story to emerge and for Keaton to take center stage again. Once he shows up, though, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice springs to life. Er, make that afterlife.
The screenplay, by the team of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, is at once overstuffed—in this it resembles Burton’s Dark Shadows—and full of missed opportunities.
With its limp humor, canned sentiment, and over-egged efforts to gross us out, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a waste of a good cast and a defacement of a classic film’s legacy. Most galling of all, it was summoned willingly by people who should know better than to mess with what’s long been peacefully laid to rest.
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice introduces a villain (Bellucci) that absolutely leads to nowhere in the finale, which felt like a massive anticlimax. Besides that the film is canned fanservice, which would be fine if the movie didnt take forever to get going. To get to the good bits you have to sit through half a movie. I love the cast, but I left the cinema thinking it’s been 30+ years since the original film and this is what we got, meh. Home home home
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I love Tim Burton's style, I loved the first Beetlejuice and after watching this sequel I felt like somebody pissed on my grave (to stay in convention). This film was the most cringy thing I have seen for a long time. Unnecessary characters and their irrelevance to the story, a plot twist you can see from miles away (despite the decoy), juvenile dialogues, corny, old jokes which are nowhere near as funny as the first movie and the most boring song/dance sequence I've seen (nearly fell asleep). I left the cinema horrified which should be ok after watching a horror, but I was horrified for all the wrong reasons. I really hope they won't be making Beetlejuice x 3.
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Production Company
Warner Bros.,
French Film Company,
Plan B Entertainment,
The Geffen Company,
Tim Burton Productions,
Tommy Harper Productions
Release Date Sep 6, 2024
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline The wait is almost over.
Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
The Queerties
• 1 Nomination
Astra Midseason Movie Awards
• 1 Nomination