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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review: These ghouls just want to have fun - shame the film is a mess! writes BRIAN VINER
BRIAN VINER: Tim Burton's 1988 Beetlejuice was horror classic, which, to paraphrase the title of one of that decade's best-known songs, showed some ghouls just want to have fun.
But in the meantime, on the other side of the grave, Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetlejuice and extravagantly played once again by Michael Keaton) has designs on the grown-up Lydia who, you might remember, he tried to trick into marrying him all those decades ago — in the days when nobody raised much of an eyebrow at a lustful older man, even a dead one, preying on a schoolgirl as a premise for comedy. Alicia Vikander co-stars as Henry's final wife, Katherine Parr, forced to deploy her considerable intelligence to keep her head, literally, in the face of scheming courtiers (led by Simon Russell Beale) and the whims of a tyrannical, ailing husband. Based on Elizabeth Fremantle's novel Queen's Gambit, the meagre story takes a cavalier attitude to historical accuracy, and fails to capitalise on its terrific ensemble cast, which also includes Eddie Marsan, Erin Doherty and Sam Riley — sporting a very silly stick-on beard.
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