Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Keaton's 'moldy ghost' and more from the critics

Lidia (and Beetlejuice) are back! After a family tragedy, she returns to Winter River with a teenage child of her own who also has a talent finding the supernatural. Then say his name three times and he shall appear... back with his mischief, back portrayed by Michael Keaton, and back to bring nostalgic vibes to audiences across the globe. Here is what the critics have said.

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"Rife with nostalgia, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is intended for ’80s babies."

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"Michael Keaton, barely ageing a day in his panda-eyed demonic get-up, if anything seems to have more energy than he did 35 years ago, bouncing off the purgatorial walls with hilarious gusto, lifting everything around him."

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“Quirky, joyous, vibrantly macabre, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice managed to recreate the original’s winning mix of innocent, childlike wonder and morbidly mad imagination.”

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“Miraculously, it represents Tim Burton getting his groove back, successfully returning to the dark comedy and outrageous visuals that marked his extraordinary early work.”

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"It’s not Burton at his very best, but like its fiendish antihero, it does the trick."

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“Fans of Burton will definitely not be let down…Tim Burton is back,” Discussing Film.

“I scrawled ‘Tim Burton’s back!’ in my notes," The Hollywood Reporter.

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“Few would mistake Beetlejuice Beetlejuice for a confessional or particularly self-revealing work, but it does hew closer to that original artistic spark that dimmed once the director became a trademark.”

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“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is no Beetlejuice, but in the
end it’s got just enough Burton juice." The critic added that this version was a "a lightweight riff on" the original movie.

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“This gleefully zany farce is one of Burton’s most enjoyable films and a welcome return to his own brand of oddball creepiness after the Disney dud that was his 2019 live-action Dumbo remake. ”

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"It's a silly little sequel to an equally silly original, and it's hard to imagine wanting or needing much more from it."

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"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice feels like a film made by a whole bunch of people who adore the original and were eager to keep playing... That enthusiasm leaps off the screen big time, and it made this hardcore Beetlejuice fan very happy."

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"Michael Keaton's moldy ghost lacks the same bite... Compared to the brilliant original, the overstuffed follow-up lacks the same unhinged, kooky magic."

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"The movie's wacky visual style, which thankfully avoids today's usual blockbuster CGI look to include plenty of practical effects and stop-motion animation, syncs perfectly with the story's sense of humour and quirky imagination."

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"It’s a lot like listening to a better-than-decent cover band do remixed renditions of someone’s greatest-hits collection. Except the person behind all of it is, of course, the creator himself."

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"The return of Beetlejuice is as sharp, funny, gross, oddly touching and deeply bizarre as you’d want it to be, and as it needs to be. He was bound to come back. Thank The Devil he’s made the wait worthwhile."

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