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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Review: It’s A Wonderful Afterlife For Tim Burton’s Joyously Macabre Sequel – Venice Film Festival
In Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton unveils a wonderful afterlife for Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega in a sequel that's a blast to watch.
Her father has gone missing in action on a birdwatching trip, but she has reached a truce with her socially ambitious concept-artist stepmother Delia; Catherine O’Hara is back in that role, her pinpoint comic timing better than ever. Actually, everybody here — from the old Burton clan to the newcomers, who also include Monica Bellucci as Delores, a malevolent corpse stuck together with staples; Willem Dafoe as an actor forever playing a cop in the underworld; and Arthur Conti as an intense young man who spends his days reading Dostoevsky in his childhood treehouse — is obviously having fun to burn. And once you’ve spent a few thousand years filling out forms, it’s all aboard the Soul Train — after a groovy wait on the platform with hep cats disco dancing, just like they did on the famous TV show — for the Great Beyond.
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