TangledThorns Posted July 19, 2024 Posted July 19, 2024 Way better than the previous trailers so I'm back on board, lol. Quote
sh9000 Posted July 28, 2024 Posted July 28, 2024 Saw the trailer in the theater and it looked good. Quote
Thom Posted August 6, 2024 Posted August 6, 2024 On 8/6/2024 at 12:08 PM, TangledThorns said: Forgot this comes out in a month. Expand Don't forget, this comes out in a month.😉 Quote
TangledThorns Posted August 28, 2024 Posted August 28, 2024 Reviews are out and so far it looks positive. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beetlejuice_beetlejuice/reviews?type=top_critics https://www.ign.com/articles/beetlejuice-beetlejuice-review-tim-burton-michael-keaton-winona-ryder-jenna-ortega Quote
Hikuro Posted September 7, 2024 Posted September 7, 2024 It wasn't bad, not anywhere near as good as the first film.... Reveal hidden contents Lydia being a talkshow ghost hunt psychic medium sellout was a bit of a head scratcher, and I was sort of at this toss up of Ray, the boyfriend, either being some sort of black widow scammer or someone who really is just attention starved who wants to be noticed all the time. Beetlejuice's ex-wife as some sort of villain really felt shoe-horned and totally unnecessary, think she got less screen time than Keaton did in the first movie! You could had the family all back at the house for Charle's funeral, which btw, wow....that was something of a death, yikes, Astrid meets Jeremy while fed up with Lydia and the boyfriends antics, get scammed cause he's dead and the reason's why and Lydia could been using Beetlejuice to help save Astrid crossing into the afterlife while also coming to terms with Astrid's missing dad's whereabouts and get some closure with the dad saving Lydia and Astrid from Beetlejuice. Still have Dilia's death by the snakes, reunite with Charles, and be done with it. Instead, we got this sort of a mess of a movie with a very awkward and pointless ending credit. Every time Keaton is on screen it sort of feels messy and all over the place unlike the original film almost as if Burton really doesn't have a good idea on what to do with the character. Beetlejuice having a sort of Bio-Exorcist business with a hord of shrunkin head minions which I don't think that ever gets sorted out at the end was funny, but sort of pointless.....I felt pretty bad for Bob. And the voice overs and song montages, wtf? Truthfully I got more holes I can poke at that just doesn't make sense than people can with things like Terminator Zero or Alien Romulus that I think were standup productions. Quote
TangledThorns Posted September 7, 2024 Posted September 7, 2024 On 9/7/2024 at 12:32 AM, Hikuro said: It wasn't bad, not anywhere near as good as the first film.... Reveal hidden contents Lydia being a talkshow ghost hunt psychic medium sellout was a bit of a head scratcher, and I was sort of at this toss up of Ray, the boyfriend, either being some sort of black widow scammer or someone who really is just attention starved who wants to be noticed all the time. Beetlejuice's ex-wife as some sort of villain really felt shoe-horned and totally unnecessary, think she got less screen time than Keaton did in the first movie! You could had the family all back at the house for Charle's funeral, which btw, wow....that was something of a death, yikes, Astrid meets Jeremy while fed up with Lydia and the boyfriends antics, get scammed cause he's dead and the reason's why and Lydia could been using Beetlejuice to help save Astrid crossing into the afterlife while also coming to terms with Astrid's missing dad's whereabouts and get some closure with the dad saving Lydia and Astrid from Beetlejuice. Still have Dilia's death by the snakes, reunite with Charles, and be done with it. Instead, we got this sort of a mess of a movie with a very awkward and pointless ending credit. Every time Keaton is on screen it sort of feels messy and all over the place unlike the original film almost as if Burton really doesn't have a good idea on what to do with the character. Beetlejuice having a sort of Bio-Exorcist business with a hord of shrunkin head minions which I don't think that ever gets sorted out at the end was funny, but sort of pointless.....I felt pretty bad for Bob. And the voice overs and song montages, wtf? Truthfully I got more holes I can poke at that just doesn't make sense than people can with things like Terminator Zero or Alien Romulus that I think were standup productions. Expand I'd like to see it but I'm completely burnt out from sequels this year. Quote
jvmacross Posted September 9, 2024 Author Posted September 9, 2024 Saw it this weekend...had it's moments but for the most part it didn't work for me.... I liked the flashback-origin scene, my favorite of the entire movie...it was perfect...but the rest just seemed like it was just rehashing the original... The ending was kind of a mess....but definitely left everything open for a third movie.... Quote
Thom Posted September 9, 2024 Posted September 9, 2024 (edited) Came back from watching 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,' and though I like to give movies a bit more leeway, this one... I was sadly disappointed. There's a lot of flash and nostalgia, but the story just wasn't there. That's not to say there was no story, but it was lost amid useless scenes and characters. the most I enjoyed about it, other then Jenna Ortega, was the intro. Reveal hidden contents They should have gotten rid of Lydia being a haunted house talk show host. I would have preferred that they had her as some kind of half-hack medium, being treated as a town joke, and they could have gotten rid of Rory completely, as well as Wolf (Dafoe), as neither brought anything meaningful to the story and were just wastes of time. An afterlife police force was done in RIPD, and much better, IMO. What we needed more of was Dolores and Jeremy, our two baddies, but Dolores (the woman with the staples across her face) is mostly just walking around and sucking the 'life' out of ghosts she comes across in an aimless search for Beetlejuice, and Jeremy is just dumped near the end without any satisfaction. There's no real tension in Jeremy tricking Astrid into trading her life for his, as they don't go into depth with it at all. Just cut to Beetlejuice being Beetlejuice, which is normally great. Of course, dealing with the character of Charles Deetz will have its 'problems,' which meant they probably just should have made him dead and gone, rather than dead, headless (while still somehow talking) and, like Delores, just aimlessly wandering. The Maitlands are mentioned, but just in passing, in that they found a 'loophole' in order to move on. And that's all the info we're given. No trying to say that helping Lydia and stopping Beetlejuice in the first movie could have cut their time down in Limbo. No, just gone. Then there's the whole wedding scene, which was almost painful in the way they did it. Just one long music number with the characters awkwardly acting possessed by Beetlejuice. Sadly this movie should have been cut down and new scenes added to flesh out the two main arcs, that being Astid/Jeremy and Lydia/Beetlejuice/Delores. My suggestion, wait for it on streaming. Edited September 9, 2024 by Thom Quote
Tking22 Posted September 10, 2024 Posted September 10, 2024 I saw it, I liked it, it didn't blow me away, but as far as legacy sequels are concerned I thought it was pretty good. Quote
danth Posted September 10, 2024 Posted September 10, 2024 I saw it and was thoroughly entertained. I don't hold up the original as anything special, and I normally don't love Tim Burton movies, so I went in worried I'd be bored, and focused on just enjoying the movie for its own sake with no other expectations. The whole thing was a treat. It felt like Tim Burton with the self-indulgence turned down to zero (unlike recent Wes Anderson movies). Catherine O'Hara is frakking amazing and I loved her in every scene. Reveal hidden contents I loved the outrageous baby scenes. Bob was super cute and his death was hilarious yet so sad at the same time. The sight gags were well done. I thought the Beetlejuice character was actually funnier and less annoying this go round, thankfully. And who doesn't want to see a Catherine O'Hara/Winona Rider team up in the afterlife? It was a bit frenetic but totally in a fun way and the different story arcs were resolved satisfactorily IMO. It seemed like as good a Beetlejuice sequel as anyone could ask for. Quote
Black Valkyrie Posted September 11, 2024 Posted September 11, 2024 Overall it was good but too many characters. Quote
Thom Posted September 11, 2024 Posted September 11, 2024 (edited) Actually, Reveal hidden contents Considering how great de-aging is today, they could have had the Maitlands show up, even for a small scene at the end. That would have been better than the song number during the wedding scene. Edited September 11, 2024 by Thom Quote
mikeszekely Posted October 15, 2024 Posted October 15, 2024 (edited) My wife and I watched it over the weekend. It was... fine. As others have noted it's nowhere near as good as the original, but it was better than a lot of the crap Hollywood's been shoveling out lately. Keaton and O'Hara were great, and I hope my wife looks as good at 52 as Wynona Rider does .💕 Edited October 15, 2024 by mikeszekely Quote
pengbuzz Posted October 15, 2024 Posted October 15, 2024 On 9/11/2024 at 2:27 PM, Thom said: Actually, Reveal hidden contents Considering how great de-aging is today, they could have had the Maitlands show up, even for a small scene at the end. That would have been better than the song number during the wedding scene. Expand Right? Just saw it last night; definitely not as good as the original, although I did get a kick out of (and perhaps I shouldn't) when: Reveal hidden contents Beetlejuice stamped the kid's passport and sent him straight into the flames. Quote
Thom Posted October 15, 2024 Posted October 15, 2024 On 10/15/2024 at 9:26 PM, pengbuzz said: Right? Just saw it last night; definitely not as good as the original, although I did get a kick out of (and perhaps I shouldn't) when: Reveal hidden contents Beetlejuice stamped the kid's passport and sent him straight into the flames. Expand On one hand, I wish it was better, but then I am glad it is still doing good at the box office, as I hope Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be better. Quote
TangledThorns Posted December 9, 2024 Posted December 9, 2024 Finally saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice on MAX streaming last night and... it was OK. Had two villains not fully baked and the end climax with the second villain felt rushed. Overall it was a disjointed film and another reminder on why I'm preferring to wait to till a film comes to streaming instead of paying $20 to see it in a theater. Quote
Thom Posted December 9, 2024 Posted December 9, 2024 On 12/9/2024 at 12:55 PM, TangledThorns said: Finally saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice on MAX streaming last night and... it was OK. Had two villains not fully baked and the end climax with the second villain felt rushed. Overall it was a disjointed film and another reminder on why I'm preferring to wait to till a film comes to streaming instead of paying $20 to see it in a theater. Expand That's how I felt. Too many plots jammed together rather then concentrating on Suture Lady as the main threat. They probably should have had the Ghost Guy for this on and saved Beetle's ex for the third. Seeing as it did well regardless, we might get a third with a good plot. Quote
Dynaman Posted March 9 Posted March 9 Just saw this on a LONG plane ride. It was, OKish. Someone on IMDB said it was like having three plots smashed together but only getting 1/3 of the story from each and that is the best way to describe it. The callbacks to the original film seemed like pandering to me instead of nostalgic as well (the Day-O song being the prime offender there). Quote
TangledThorns Posted March 10 Posted March 10 On 3/9/2025 at 11:45 PM, Dynaman said: Just saw this on a LONG plane ride. It was, OKish. Someone on IMDB said it was like having three plots smashed together but only getting 1/3 of the story from each and that is the best way to describe it. The callbacks to the original film seemed like pandering to me instead of nostalgic as well (the Day-O song being the prime offender there). Expand Long flights. The only excuse to watch bad films, lol. Quote
mikeszekely Posted March 10 Posted March 10 On 3/10/2025 at 2:14 AM, TangledThorns said: Long flights. The only excuse to watch bad films, lol. Expand Pre-COVID my wife and I would visit her family in Beijing, which for us usually meant a short flight from Pittsburgh to Detroit, then a 12-13 flight from Detroit to Beijing. And I'll tell you, there's something about being bored out of your mind six hours into a flight and knowing that you're only halfway there that'll turn a movie you wouldn't give a second glance at on Netflix at home and turns it into an Oscar contender. Quote
Thom Posted March 10 Posted March 10 Sounds like there should be a new genre of movie, being those soooo bad they are only entertaining on long, mind-numbing flights. Quote
Dynaman Posted March 10 Posted March 10 On 3/10/2025 at 3:32 PM, Thom said: Sounds like there should be a new genre of movie, being those soooo bad they are only entertaining on long, mind-numbing flights. Expand Since I was up for roughly 40 hours straight (between flights and waiting for transfers) they could have shown ANYTHING and I would have said it was OK, if I remembered it later at all. BB I saw at roughly the halfway point in the trip and it was still just, MEH... Quote
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