“I didn’t want to check off any boxes,” Tim Burton tells People. “(Baldwin and Davis) were an incredible and integral part of the first movie, and now I’m focused on something else. A sequel like this has to be relevant to the times,” Burton explains. “I focused on three generations of women and the mother, the daughter, the granddaughter. I couldn’t have made this movie in 1989.”
“The plot, as befits Burton, is quite tangled and surreal, and the key to it is the slogan known from the first part, which calls the title character. This “magical” formula also clearly brings great joy to the director himself, because it is the vision of the afterlife that constitutes the moment when Burton can truly give free rein to his imagination and almost childlike enthusiasm. Darkness, black humor, exaggeration captured in unconventional shapes and colors. Everything that we know so well from the films of the American creator is also found here,” wrote Kuba Armata in his review.
Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetzes return home to Winter River. Lydia is still haunted by the memory of Beetlejuice. Now her life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers a mysterious model of the town in her attic, accidentally opening a portal to the afterlife. Trouble is brewing in both worlds, so it’s only a matter of time before someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times…
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