The first review for Beetlejuice were released after its premiere at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. Tim Burton’s long-awaited sequel sees Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara reprise their respective roles as Betelgeuse, Lydia Detz and Delia Detz, while Jenna Ortega joins the cast as Lydia’s rebellious daughter Astrid. Other newcomers to the Beetlejuice The workshops include Justin Thor, Willem Dafoe and Monica Bellucci.
BeetlejuiceInitial reports are generally positivewith Screen RantS Alex Harrison praised the film for “Prov[ing] You can fill a movie like this with callbacks to the original and still make it feel like its own unified experience. IGNSiddhant Adlaka commends the sequel for embracing its tone, vi “Every decision Burton makes here is simply geared toward cartoonishly macabre fun in the vein of its predecessor.” This sense of fun is also expressed by IndiewireSophie Kaufman, who observes “The two worlds and the rules that enable characters to move between them remains an all-consuming pleasure.”
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is poised to be Tim Burton’s best-received film in years
The legacy sequel is an overdue success for Burton
with The main thread in Beetlejuices reviews are that it works as a fun legacy sequelThis bodes well for it being Burton’s best-received project in a decade or more. The last film he directed, the remake of Live Action Dumbowas poorly received and is considered one of Disney’s worst live action remakes. before to DumboBurton’s adaptation of the popular fantasy novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children By Ransom Riggs was met with a lukewarm reception.
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Movie |
Rotten Tomatoes critical score |
Rotten Tomatoes audience score |
|---|---|---|
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Dumbo (2019) |
46% |
48% |
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) |
64% |
60% |
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Alice through the looking glass (2016) |
29% |
48% |
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Big eyes (2014) |
72% |
68% |
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Frankenvenie (2012) |
88% |
70% |
Beetlejuice Ends the streak of negative to lukewarm reactionswith VarietyOwen Gleiberman emphasized this “What this new movie delivers is honest nostalgia for the moment when Burton’s clown-spirit-from-hell sensibility still had a frisson of shock value.” Not all critics were won over by Burton’s return to the sensibility of his best work, though, as The GuardianS Xan Brooks notes that “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hits back at the scene of past triumphs. It’s once, twice, thrice a lazy lovable horror sequel.” The balance between nostalgia and innovation is seemingly difficult for the legacy sequel.
Despite not being as groundbreaking as its predecessor, Beetlejuice Looks to be Burton’s best movie in years and a return to form. It’s a much-needed and fitting resurgence for Burton After directing and producing several missing adaptations. Beetlejuice is grounded in the stylistic and narrative preferences that make Burton’s best films feel distinct, this time in a manner full of the director’s own nostalgia.
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