Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Let’s first start with showing y’all the trailers shall we?

I think i need to start this off by saying it’s no secret that recent Tim Burton films haven’t been so great….heck the last Tim Burton film I saw was the Live Action remake of Dumbo, and I hated that film…..so to say I was cautiously optimistic might be an understatement…also here’s an image of the group.

But I’m glad to say that Tim Burton really did cook with this film, this might be the best modern Tim Burton has ever been….it only took him 35 years….

Yes, it’s been 35 freaking years ago since the first Beetlejuice film came out, and became an iconic film…..so of course in the modern-day Hollywood debacle was in…they thought it is a great idea to revive this film and finally make a sequel that’s titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice…

I hope they make a 3rd film so they can do the pun of titling the film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice…..that’d be funny, also yes this is modern Hollywood for us…revive old classics and make sequels or reboots of them….for no real good reason….

Fun fact, Brad Pitt worked on this film. Yeah his company Plan B helped produce this film, so he ended up being one of the producers.

BTW I got to watch this film 2 days early…..went to a 2 day-early screening they did at a movie theater near me…..I’m glad I did that, it was such a fun experience….

So now legs get the rating out of the way so we can get into spoilers…..overall I absolutely loved this film…..I absolutely 100% recommend this film this film is filled with absolutely hysterical moments…..

I will say this though that the film is very macabre, so there are dark disgusting moments….but that’s Tim Burton for u….but I still recommend it, Winona Ryder and Micheal Keaton still have it in their perspective roles in this film 30ish years later…

BTW I gotta tip my hat off to Tim Burton for sticking to practical effects for like 92% of this entire film. …there’s of course CGI but there are more practical effects so I think this film will visually age well down the line…..

But overall this film is just loads of fun, I had a blast watching it….

BTW what I believe makes this film instantly better is that the fact, without spoiling anointing….this film deals with 3 generation of woman in the Deetz family, who have to come to terms with the lost of someone they loved and cope with it…also cope with trauma as well….

On a side note Micheal Keaton as Beetlejuice has the exact same amount of screen time as he had in the original film….which was 17 min, however, I think it was done better here…they utilized his screen time for him better….they stretched out his screen time bit better here then they did in the first film….

Yes I know I’m probably gonna get crucified for saying that, but opinions are opinions….

But it makes sense that he doesn’t have much screen time in both films, because of what he said in an interview recently…

Micheal Keaton said in an interview “The reason I wanted Beetlejuice to have the exact same amount of screen time as I did back in the first film is because he’s not supposed to be the main character….he’s the catalyst for events to happen”

As stated in the review of the first film, I completely understand the angle he’s approaching for this sequel….but also I still think his screen presence was done better here….it felt like he had more screen time, while not having more screen time….

Actually, come to think of It I think they did give him a tad bit more screen time than the original….

BTW the reason I prefer this film over the original is that I feel the plot was improved a whole lot better….the stakes felt higher, and the main characters were actually interesting….

Basically, without spoilers, this film deals with loss in the family….which straight away will make u feel invested especially if ur the type of person who gets emotional over that stuff….

I should point out the age rating for this film, I don’t recommend small kids such as 6-year-olds, should go see this film….like at all, this film has tons of darker imagery, and slightly gorier moments/gags…..so no I don’t recommend 6-year-Olds go see this film, I mean it barely pushes the PG-13 raring, there’s 1 F-bomb like the original film…but also this film is more gorier and gross than the original….

This film feels more like a horror comedy, than the first film…..because the first movie is not a horror comedy….it’s just a comedy, but this film really feels like a horror comedy….it pushes the limits of a PG13 rating…heck there are some dark moments in this film that will make u say uhhhh yikes…

I’m telling u hear me out, I don’t care if ur small 6-year-old saw the original film and loved it, plz Don’t take them to see this film….

Also, this film feels like it is one of that great legacy sequel….even though it takes place 30ish years after the last film, each actor falls back into their character perfectly….heck even though Micheal Keaton now just turned 73 today, the main still had it in him to play the role of Betelgeuse….

Also what helps is the stop motion effects, it makes this film feel like there was barely a time jump and sensuously feels appropriately connected to the first film because they put effort behind the script….

That also being said I can see this film not being for everyone, some people might walk out being like what the heck was this film? Because the film does feel like it’s made by someone who has ADHD, the gory/macabre comedy really adds to that….which again might not be for everyone…

BTW I think this film will be the perfect film for Halloween because it has a Halloween vibe to it….heck the film takes place during Halloween, so I think I’ll put this on during Halloween from now on as a tradition….

But that’s not to say this film is perfect I only have 3 and a half small issues with it….which takes away 2.2 points from the rating, I’ll explain more in spoilers but these 2 scenes left me wanting more….

So I’ll give this film a solid 8.8/10…warning spoilers ahead y’all been warned…

So this film picks back up 30ish years after the events of the last film, heck this film opens up with the same music that played in the opening credits of the first film…… cue music…

Just like the first film, the composer for this film is Danny Elfman…..also just like the first film during the opening credits it pans over the town model display…..

Now something I noticed while reading the opening credits…something that stuck out to me, something that made me chuckle a bit….so get this Jenna Ortega and William Dafoe get second billing in this film….

They go through the entire cast then by the end they say and starring Jenna Ortega, and starring William Dafoe…which I find funny, I’m like seriously? They basically got second billing on this list? That’s funny

So the official plot kicks in when Lydia Deetz (played by Winona Ryder) who is still pulling off that hair style that she had in the original film…is called in by her mom Delia Deetz (played by Catherine O’Hara)….turns out she had to cancel an art show because Lydia’s dad also Delia’s husband passed away in a plane crash that we get to see in a back flash in a unique claymation animation style….

He survived that but got eaten in half by a shark, yikes…..btw if y’all wondering why they couldn’t just bring back Charles Deetz (played by Jeffrey Jones)….well it’s because how do I say this politely….turns out the actor Jeffrey James is a real-life uhh predator…….yeah yikes..

BTW here’s one my favorite joke lines when Lydia finds out about her dad’s passing…

Delia: ur dad he’s no longer with us.

Lydia: He’s divorcing u?

Delia: That’s an awful thing to think. No ur father is dead….

Oh hahahahah..

So Lydia has to call up her daughter Astrid (played by Jenna Ortega) she’s the Lydia Deetz of this generation….she’s very much like her mom when she was young in the first film…

She’s also estranged from her mom for 3 reasons…

1.  Her mom does a talk show where she sits down and talks about the paranormal….also Astrid doesn’t believe in ghosts and all that…she believes in science, she thinks her mom is a fraud…

2. Astrid’s father passed away during an expedition he was on….also her mom says she can’t contact him from the grave because she can’t sense him…also she asks about the 2 previous so called ghosts in their old house which Lydia says oh they moved on…which Astrid finds to be a coincidence….I mean fair enough.

3. Lydia’s soon-to-be husband named Rory (played by Justin Theroux), who’s also her CEao who’s in charge of the show…..is kinda a sleezebag douchebag….u can clearly tell something is odd about him, as if almost everything he says is a lie…

That he might be supporting her because for financial reasons if u know what I’m talking about…

Oh also Astrid has PTSD from the first movie…..she’s seeing Beetlejuice everywhere, and she needs to take medicine to help her out…honestly, I don’t blame her….she almost had to marry a demon….

Anyway, the 3 of them go pick up Astrid which leads to one of my favorite moments, Delia says she’s going to talk to her and she gets out of the car and screams up to Astrid to her dorm….saying STOP IGNORING UR MOM! EVEN THOUGH I FIND IT FUNNY! BUT SHE LOST HER DAD! HE’S DEAD!

I LOST MY HUSBAND! U GET UR BUTT DOWN HERE! I LOST EVERYTHING! AHHHHHHHHHH! WHYYYYYYYY! NOOOOO!

Yeah if I had a family member who did that in front of the entire school I’d wanna change schools….

BTW Astrid is the odd morbid kid…..just like her mom was, here’s the thing it seems so far Jenna Ortega has been tight cast as an angsty person with issues…..hope this isn’t a tight casting

So she reluctantly came because she was gonna have a school project where she was gonna go save trees….but for now that can wait…also they need to go out to the house for a few days to pack up his stuff…..oh and here’s our first clip of Beetlejuice….

Yep, Beetlejuice now has a hotline service for people to call him up. He also has shrunken head people with stitched-up mouths working for him….oh and Beetlejuice is still in love with Lydia Deetz…

At least now both actors are similar age-wise, kinda….. whereas in the original film, he’s trying to marry a 12-year-old which just comes off as horrifying….

Also, my first reaction to seeing this room filled with shrunken head people is…..wait where did Beetlejuice find these guys? Also, wait a minute why does this seem like this is the minions all over again? Ohhh need something funny/the mascot so we can make money….

Also wait a min what job is this Betelgeuse has? Is  this still his bio exorcist job? If so how did he upgrade to a hotline building, where did he hire shrunken head people? Last we saw Betelgeuse at the end of the first film he was stuck in the waiting room and his head was being shrunken by a witch doctor….so how did he get from there to here?

BTW sorry some things might be out of order, but I forgot to mention….remember how I mentioned Delia had to cancel her art show? Well her artist walked out angry and fell into a sewer hole…he died and ended up in the afterlife….

Down there we see Danny Devito as a janitor who drinks bleach….uh ok then, anyways we see him go wipe down this wet floor in this storage room with an electric machine…..which what a shocker it electrocutes him because a machine and water….which causes him to fly backwards into some crates that fall over…

What’s inside the crates? Well glad y’all asked about the dismembered body parts of Beetlejuice’s original ex-wife…..yeah Beetlejuice used to have a wife…

Anyway, we get to see her staple herself back together, so if anyone is squeamish…well, I don’t recommend this film….

Then she grabs the janitor, then proceeds to suck out his life force…..so yeah dead people can die in this film, how interesting…but also this makes her w threat, she’s a soul sucker…..and she sucks him up until he becomes a deflated sack of flesh…

Anyway so let’s give a rundown of the next few things…

• The funeral happens. They put this black cloth over the house…during the funeral, we get this choir of kids singing this song….cue song.

BTW the lyrics don’t make a lick of sense…here let me play out a small portion of the lyrics…” Come Mr. Tally man, Tally me banana. Daylight comes and me want to go” Uhhhh huh?

Also, a priest named Father Damien (played by Burn Gorman) is the one saying all the prayers as the coffin goes down….

• Rory proposes to Lydia at the funeral…..talk about a wrong time to do that, Jesus this guy is scummy…..she reluctantly agrees

• Astrid rides her bike into town, where she accidentally crashes through a fence that leads to a tree house…where she meets a boy named Jeremy (played by Arthur Conti)…..they both get to talk to each other about science stuff….

She points out she used to live at the creepy house on the mountain, so he finds out her mom is Lydia Deetz……and I’m starting to think something is off about this guy, he looks like he’s hooking up with her….heck he invites her to hang out on the night of Lydia getting married to the sleezebag after showing his room to her on the second hangout…

Before they go up to his room they pass by his mother who’s in the kitchen cooking and his dad who’s sitting on the couch watching TV….they. both say hi to them…. Yeah she hangouts out with him twice and he already shows her his room which is filled with types of vinyl and classic music….hmmm guy clearly has a taste…also he tells her he’s ready to leave this hell town….aw he’s angsty like her…

Also here’s a hint something is off about this guy. Asgrid picks up this book off his counter that says for the recent deceased……ohhhhhhhhhuh, he tells her he found that at a garage sale or something…..uh huh sure.

• anyways there’s this guy in the afterlife named Wolf Jackson (played by William Dafoe), he’s an actor who died while filming a role as a cop…so now for some reason, he thinks he is a cop……yeah ok sure why not….makes about much sense as this film does…

If ur wondering how he died, the fake bomb that was supposed to be tossed at him turned out to be real….so now his skull and brain are completely visible on the left side of his head, uh gross..

Anyways he calls in Beetlejuice to ask about if he’s seen Delores…..he shows him an image where Beetlejuice’s eyes bulge out including his tongue….then this is how the rest of this conversation plays out..

Wolf Jackson: Recognize this puss?

Beetlejuice: Never seen this chick before in my life or afterlife.

Hahaha, get it? Anyway, he tells Beetlejuice he should stay low for a while because clearly she’s after him….so Beetlejuice goes back to his shrunken head men…and tells them the backstory of his ex-wife…he Is telling all the shrunken head people in there including his right-hand man named Bob, who’s dressed as Betelgeuse…including the hair….

He tells them his back story in Spanish…for some reason, he pulls out a microphone….long story short here’s what his back story is…

He use to be a grave robber during the black plague, but this woman named Delores noticed him one night while this hunchback guy is robbing dead bodies…..she fell in love with him…one night she gave them alcohol to drink. Turns out it was a bottle of poison…..womp womp…

So yeah she’s a part of what they call a soul-sucking cult and she only fell in love with him to use him as a sacrifice….so in retaliation he took an axe and cut her through the head…..yikes….yeah no wonder why she’s after him….

• Anyways back to Lydia she’s up in the attic screaming at the model table telling it to leave her alone….the sleezebag soon-to-be husband shoes up and asks what’s going on? She tells him when she was a kid a trickster demon terrorized her and her family…and tried to force her to marry him….

At first, he doesn’t believe her like at all, he says so this guy named Betelgeuse tried to force u to marry him? Then he tells her u needs to confront ur inner demons….yeah he doesn’t believe that event was real….she tells him her therapist told her she needs to confront her inner demons as well…

So he says, in the words of ur therapist, I’m gonna give u the push u need…..Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice….

So they get transported into the replica town…then they fall through a trapdoor into a therapist’s room where Beetlejuice is sitting at the table……Lydia tries to say Beetlejuice? Then he goes eeeekkkkkk, which causes her mouth to be stitched up….

He then walks over and says this is a safe space I can tell there’s some turmoil between u 2 but we will get there eventually….spill ur guts out, ok ill go fitst…

So he literally pulls his shirt back which causes these green organs to pop out of his chest, ohhh hahahahah he literally spilled his guts out, he then says …see I’m willing to do the work….

Then he tells them we need to go back to a happy moment of urs….so he starts…well uhh, warning graphic moment ahead, he inflates Lydia’s stomach until her stomach bursts open…which this goo comes out of it and includes a baby Betelgeuse……ewwww.

This causes the soon-to-be husband to want to barf….he then says to Betelgeuse ” ur a figment of my imagination” which Betelgeuse says “really? Does this look like a figment of ur imagination?”

Then he proceeds to use the scary face where his face rips open to expose something scary…..same gag as from the original film when he showed the 2 recent deceased how scary he can be….we never get to see what the face he makes looks like….we just see from behind Betelgeuse head…anyways this causes the soon-to-be husband to faint…

Then the baby climbs the ceiling then lands in Betelgeuse’s arms and he says they say this baby has my eyes but I don’t see it…

The baby then starts biting on Lydia’s leg…..she then pulls off the stitches and says it was u trying to stalk me? Which Betelgeuse says if by stalk u mean rekindle our relationship? Then guilty as charge…..

Then Lydia screams out “HOME HOME HOME!” So now she’s back home…..where we get to see the trailer shot….the lights at the graveyard turn on and we see Betelgeuse on the tombstone with a guitar singing the song “I Will Be Waiting Right Here for u” by Richard Marx….bell he’s singing it in the singer’s voice….cue song.

This got the audience to laugh and say ohhh here it is here it is…..

• So this causes Lydia to go down and tell them we’re leaving now and we’re gonna burn that display, but Astrid tells her mom about her plans to go hang out at a boy’s house…..Lydia says when did u have the chance to meet a boy? Which Astrid says u had time to get married…..ohhhh burn..

So she drives Astrid to the guy’s house, she wants to go in and say hi but Astrid says no….so she goes in with the bowl of candy to hand out to kids…if ur wondering why she wanted to go say hi, it’s because she’s unsure of the house because it looks little rundown….womp womp, don’t judge people’s houses…especially when the dad just had a job layoff…

• So Jermey takes Astrid upstairs to his room, and he admits he just wants to hang out with her…they then start to kiss…..really? Yall met in 1 day! Anyway he starts floating and she realizes it….yeah plot twist he’s a ghost….and he can’t leave the house but he wants to be brought back into the human world so he can leave….

I knew something was sus about him, she now has seen a ghost…also she asks how he died? Which he says I got in a bike wreck….broke my neck…..well what a clutz, but wait a minute if he’d dead then why did his mom and dad acknowledge him when he said hi to them?

Yeah stay tuned for that, anyways he tells her he knows how to be brought back which requires going into the afterlife….she reluctantly agrees especially after he says I can take u to go see ur dad…..ok don’t relate a word this guy is saying….

• so back home Lydia and Delia lock up the attic……Lydia then goes downstairs to see Delia talking to someone with papers that Delia is signing……Delia tells Lydia that her soon-to-be husband is out getting vegetables and carrots instead of candy because he’s a killjoy….yeah Delia doesn’t like him, I don’t blame her…

Also what weirdo buys vegetables for Halloween to give out to kids? So when Delia leaves the room and the other woman is about to leave we find out a plot twist which I consider absolutely dark and didn’t see coming…

Lydia mentions the street name with the Real estate lady and says oh don’t mention that street, I couldn’t sell a house that’s there……she asks which house it is? Turns out it’s the house she dropped her daughter off at….dunnn dunn dunnn, no wait that’s not the twist…

She then says I dropped her off there to hangout with Jermey, which the real estate lady says no that can’t be thr same Jeremy I’m thinking of….he was bad news…

Which Lydia says what u mean? Which the woman says Jeremy killed both his parents, that little psycho rode off on a bike away from the cops…but crashed and died……DUNNNNN DUNNN DUNNN!

So Jeremy is a murderer who murdered his family? Yeah, I’m starting to think this film wasn’t made for kids…….like at all, so Lydia drives to the house but she gets there too late….. the 2 of them enter the afterlife…after Astrid chants some incarnation…

Also, Lydia passes by the mother and father, and they both look at her…we see the dad has a hand saw in his eye….and the mother has an object sticking out of her eye, so wait a minute if Jeremy killed both his parents then why did they both acknowledge him and say all good sweetheart….

Wouldn’t they have, shouldn’t they have warned Astrid our son is a murderer? We’re they in on it? See this is one of the issues o have with the film….so Lydia takes the book of the recent deceased and runs back home….so now I’ll give an abridged rundown of what happens so we can get to the ending…

• so she goes up to the attic and summons Betelgeuse…..btw All while she’s doing this, Delia is outside at her husband’s tombstone recording herself with 2 snakes she brought that are defanged…..according to her but instead while she recording the 2 snakes bite her and she dies…….womp womp….so she ends up In the afterlife waiting room…

• Wolf investigates another soul-sucking murder that happened at a laundry wash…..this leads to another favorite line…..he says this is why I became a cop, which his female secretary pops up with a coffee and says Sir ur, not a cop…which he says thanks u ur the only one who keeps me level headed…..lolo.

BTW I should mention the ghosts in this film seem a bit more gross…I mean for instance we got a ghost who’s entire top body is bitten off and every time he talks through the neck flap…it spurts out blood…..how Riveting….

• Anyways Lydia summons Betelgeuse…..he comes out of a Crack that forms in the table and he says “The Juice is loose”….she asks him to read this small part in this book which he says Long story short ur daughter is screwed….she’s agreed to be taken to the soul train which is a one-way ticket to the afterlife….

So Lydia comes up with a deal, where Betelgeuse helps her get her daughter back…in return, she’ll have to marry him, again….he gets this written down on a contract this time. Eh clever him…so he draws a bomb on the wall and ignites his thumb and sets off the bomb….

Which causes a hole in the wall to his hotline place…..all his men look at him. He tells Bob to hold down the fort….then the 2 of them run off…

Bob somehow with a stitched mouth mumbles out ok everyone gets back to work (don’t worry subtitles show up) but all the shrunken head people notice the hole in the wall…and they proceed to go run through the hole….in Lydia’s house…..uh oh…

All this happens while Rory is handing out healthy food….he notices these shrunken-headed people come running down his stairs then he runs outside where the kids are….he screams and they all scream for ice cream! Lololo sorry had to do that…no they just all scream because the shrunken head people  run around outside causing chaos…..and they go downtown and do random stuff…..

BTW Wolf gets a notification that an unsanctioned alive person has entered the afterlife….and this breaks the rules, so now he has to go hunt down Betelgeuse….right here’s the issue I have…so this break the rule? But a group of shrunken-headed people running out of the afterlife into the real world doesn’t?

How the heck does that work? Huh, also side note Wolf is reading off of cue cards his secretary is holding up behind the soldiers……because get it he’s an actor…..ok no offense but this 1 note joke can only last so long before it becomes not funny…

Anyways Delores makes it to Betelgeuse’s office but no one is there, but Bob who’s hiding under the desk….he’s then taken in for questioning later……Wolf screams at him where’s Betelgeuse!?

• Anyways Jermey finally reveals his plan that he had to exchange his soul for Astrid’s…..wow what a prick, so 2 guards take her away to the soul train…also she passes by her father who working at one of the booths, and he has piranha sticking out of him….uh ehhh…and guess what the soul train is? A train with a bunch of afro-wearing people from the disco area….dancing to disco music….

Oh hahaha so funny, get it? Because There used to be a show called Soul Train…..so funny and not cringey at all…

Also, I could maybe perhaps see this being offensive to some people….it’s just a train with black people with afros dancing….and only black people, while the white people walking aboard the train are normal……hmmmmmmm.

Anyways Betelgeuse runs off to use the men’s restroom…..Lydia locates Astrid who gets put onto the train while disco-dancing people are dancing aboard….

Anyways Delores locates Bob in a room where he was being interpreted….she asks where’s Betelgeuse? She then sucks out his soul…turning him into a deflated sack of flesh…. no not Bob I liked Bob…

Bob really got treated poorly, he got killed off oh and he was only here to be verbally abused by Betelgeuse….he basically was just the punching bag that Betelgeuse would use as a human shield…

• Anyways Lydia and Astrid escape through a door where they find themselves in the sandstone…they get chased by the sandworm from the first film…..just then her dad comes and saves them, and he lifts them up through a door…

He shows them a way out after he tells them they both need each other and need to stop fighting…oh also Delia calls up Betelgeuse and asks him for hemp to find her dead husband….because she believes he can help her out…

He says sure as long as u help find my future wife….which Delia says eh…

Anyways both Astrid and Lydia run past Jermey who’s getting his documents signed…..to officially return to the loving, he says it’s too late….but just then Betelgeuse appears at the booth and stamps Jeremy’s pass and says whoops seems ur best out of luck….then he opens a trapdoor which drops him to hell!

Ok that I won’t lie was kind of anticlimactic…..they set this up as something big then the scriptwriters wrote like ehhh we got a 3rd act to get taken……yeah if u can’t tell I’m slightly disappointed by this story arc…..it was an interesting story, but got finished up abruptly…..I swear it feels like the film’s scriptwriters accidentally lost some notes because they dropped their papers…

They just grabbed whatever papers they could find and at the last min decided well shite….we lost the notes so uhhh f**k it was gonna end this subplot now…

So anyway both Lydia and Astrid make it out through a Mausoleum…..Astrid apologizes to her mom for not believing her all this time….they both run up to her church where the wedding is about to happen….oh right I completely forgot about sleezebag, he’s so forgettable…..

Anyways Betelgeuse shows up with Delia and Rory says u, ur the thing from my dreams….which Betelgeuse says is more like nightmare material but thanks….he then injects Rory with a truth needle which Rory admits to Lydia he never believed in the whole ghost mumbo jumbo…and was only getting married to her just for the money….

Wow what a sleezebag, so Lydia punches Rory, but unfortunately now she has to marry Betelgeuse because she agreed to….which her family judges her but she said hey I had no choice…..I was desperate….

Then Beetlejuice says to the entire folks sitting down there who are recording all this “Thank y’all for coming, but right now we’d like a little privacy” he then causes everyone’s phones to suck them inside to it……hmmmmm wonder if this is a meta-commentary of social media sucking us in…..

So Betelgeuse gives himself the same tuxedo he wore at the end of the last film…..and puts on the same red dress on Lydia Deetz….just then he breaks out into singing…he tells her he made this song from the bottom of his heart….then he tosses her his heart that he pulls out of his pocket….yep.

He controls everyone to start singing and dancing, his voice coming out of them….he spawns in a choir of dead people in the background to do background music…

Anyways after this hysterical choreographed dancing around this cake that comes rolling in….as Betelgeuse is about to kiss Lydia, guess who shows up? Wolf Jackson and ghost cops……yep, they’re here to arrest Betelgeuse for doing an unsanctioned blada blah blah of bringing ghosts back to the normal world….

Then he freezes the cops and Wolf Jackson in place….just then Delores shows up, oh good I almost forgot she was in this film….which Betelgeuse stars at the distance and says what the F**k….except they kept in the bleep noise that’s in the trailer….. boooooo what a cop out….the original film had no issue with doing an F-bomb.

Anyway if u think some big battle is about to happen, I’m sad to say unfortunately that is not the case……Betelgeuse almost gets her to date Rory, saying u don’t want me…u want this guy he’s pathetic and loves u….then he changes Rory’s shirt to say I ❤️ Delores…..for some reason she almost considers this…

Just then Astrid summons in the stop-motion sandworm from the sand realm near Saturn…..it comes out of this trapdoor…..for some reason, Betelgeuse all of a sudden Betelgeuse dresses up as a matador…..and lures the giant sandworm over to Delores and Rory with a red flag….

The worm then eats both Rory and Delores……ok well that was also anticlimactic, so Delores was set up as the main antagonist for the film….except wait a minute how many antagonists did we need in this film? We had

Jermey

Betelgeuse

Delores

Rory

Why’s there 4 antagonists!? There only needs to be one!

Also glad to see they reused the same ending as the original……antagonist gets eaten by a sandworm.

Anyway Betelgeuse did keep his end of the bargain up so now time for Lydia to keep hers up….but then Astrid says not quite…..the contract is no longer valid because u broke a law by bringing a living person into the spirit realm….which I guess breaks it somehow..

Lydia says sorry the 600-year gap wouldn’t have worked, then she says Betelgeuse’s name 3 times which causes him to inflate into a balloon….then he pops for some reason…..no idk how saying his name 3 more times causes him to pop…

Then a piece of his flesh on the floor with his face on it says “should have got married in Las Vegas” and then he vanishes…..hurray? Anyways Wolf takes Delia back to the afterlife where she’ll get to be with her husband….

Also, what was the point of William Dafoe in this film? Can someone explain that one to me….

BTW remember how I mentioned the fact there’s a ghost with its top torso bitten off? Well, that’s Delia’s husband……oh goodie, now they can rest in peace forever….also for a movie that wanted to not bring back that character because the actor is a predator…they seem to use this guy a lot in this film, including images of the actor!…..this is weird..

Anyway so Lydia quites her show, she takes Astrid to go visit Dracula’s castle because she wanted to go visit there…..also there she meets a guy and marries him…..really? Especially after the whole Jermey situation? Thought u would have learned….

Then we cut to Astrid in the hospital about to give birth to a baby…..uhhhh ok, but guess what comes out of her instead? It’s baby Betelgeuse…….ahhhhhhhh, he then attacks the doctors….he then climbs up on the ceiling and falls into Astrid’s hands and says “mommy?”

Uhhhmmmmm I’m sorry what? I have no words, that’s just an absolutely odd scene….I love it, anyways Lydia wakes up….turns out it was all a dream, so wait she didn’t take Astrid to Dracula’s castle and she didn’t get married?

But then Betelgeuse wakes up next to her and asks woah had a weird nightmare…..then Lydia wakes up for real and no one is near her, I guess this is a tease that Betelgeuse will continue to torment her…….maybe we’ll possibly get a 3rd film titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice….I hope, anyways the end…

As stated I prefer this film over the original, anyways hope y’all enjoyed this review and here’s a tease for the next review I’m working on, it’s another Tim Burton film….till next time.