Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024 Movie Review

Richard Leland Neal

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00:00Now we review Beetlejuice Cash Grab Bember Berries.

00:05I mean, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.

00:09Alright, ladies and gentlemen, I am Richard, this is my channel, and I have seen Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.

00:17Interesting fact for you, something I didn't know.

00:21The title of the film is Beetlejuice as in, to make juice from beetles.

00:27The name of the character is Beetlejuice as in Orion's hand.

00:32The star in Orion.

00:36Beetlejuice.

00:37One is with a G and one is with a J.

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00:56Now, 40 years ago, Lydia Dietz and her family moved into a home in the country that were inhabited by ghosts.

01:08And those ghosts set upon them a poltergeist named Beetlejuice.

01:14The ghosts sent Beetlejuice packing, but for all these 40 years, he has had a hard-on for Lydia Dietz.

01:22And I can't blame him. Winona Ryder is hot.

01:26I would very much like to spend some quality time with Winona Ryder, were she willing.

01:37In this particular film, not only is Beetlejuice trying to get on Lydia after all these years,

01:44but Lydia's father has been eaten by a shark or something, and they're all coming together for his funeral.

01:55This culminates into very many moving parts that from this point forward would be spoilers.

02:04But the point is, at this point, Lydia needs Beetlejuice to help her because her daughter's in trouble.

02:15I don't want to go any further. I haven't seen the trailers, but I mean...

02:23Well, look, you can tell 40 years have passed since the original film.

02:28I did re-watch the original film to see this, and I have to say, you know...

02:37This does not feel like a very solid follow-up to the original film.

02:41There are a lot of things that appear to be there just to be there.

02:47It's like the shrunken head characters. They don't look the same.

02:53They, you know, look... Well, they're not the same.

02:57There was one of them in the original.

03:00At the end of the original film, Beetlejuice got his head shrunk.

03:05Now there are these shrunken head characters, and you see more of Beetlejuice.

03:09You see scenes from him being alive, and you learn more of his backstory, which is good.

03:15The backstory of Beetlejuice is that he was a grave robber

03:21during the time of the Black Death. I believe this was in Spain?

03:25Or... I don't know.

03:28And, you know, this woman falls in love with him in order to suck out his soul, because marriage.

03:35And she poisons him. He chops her into a bunch of pieces.

03:40And he turns into the afterlife entity known as Beetlejuice, being vengeful and angry.

03:46It doesn't make any sense.

03:49And his ex-wife, or his current wife, being till death do his part, so I guess ex-wife, is back.

03:57The first scene, early part of the film, is her story.

04:02And she's there to find Beetlejuice and suck the souls out of the ghosts and ghoulies that she can.

04:12Which, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Her scenes are very simplistic.

04:16It's the same scene over and over again.

04:20It's like she's not even an intelligent character.

04:23She's just a repetitious ghost, constantly saying, you know,

04:27Where is Beetlejuice? Where is Beetlejuice?

04:29And sucking out souls.

04:31And it really feels like this character was put in there for the sake of,

04:36we need something to pad the run time.

04:39And it does give us a Danny DeVito cameo, which is cool. I like that.

04:43I mean, appreciated Danny DeVito.

04:45But his character wasn't given much to do, and he wasn't with us long.

04:49And now you've really got to explain more about how dead people can die.

04:53Because, I don't know if you're aware of this, but in the Bible,

04:57soul refers to a living person.

05:00Souls are mortal.

05:04And spirits are immortal.

05:08There is a difference, biblically speaking.

05:12Now, of course, this doesn't say that there's a Christian paradigm,

05:15but there are Christian imageries in this,

05:20and marriage, at least in a Christian setting, is accepted.

05:24So I'm really confused.

05:27There are all these rules for the afterlife,

05:30and the more you push these rules, the less they tend to work.

05:35One of the aspects, one of the dynamics of the original film that I do have to question

05:40is, you know, why is Beetlejuice essentially a subcontractor who you could hire to get rid of people?

05:49What does he get out of the deal?

05:51I mean, it's implied that he's hired by people to do this,

05:56but it's never explained how he is paid or what his payment is.

06:02In this particular iteration, he has an office with multiple employees,

06:08so theoretically he's doing something,

06:11but, you know, whatever currency populates the world of the dead

06:18is completely, completely unaddressed.

06:25It's a very strange, very strange movie.

06:28And that's kind of the problem with Beetlejuice,

06:30is that the more you talk about him, the more he comes undone.

06:35Another point is he's referred to as a demon in the film,

06:38but he's not a demon.

06:40Demons were not, at one point, human.

06:42He would be a poltergeist, right?

06:45A troublesome spirit, a spirit that causes trouble,

06:48damages things, and is generally unruly.

06:53I would have to, of course, point out this is a comedy,

06:55and it's just a movie, and nobody cares,

06:57but that's kind of the thing,

07:01is that when you're dealing with these comedies,

07:03one of the greatest expressions ever told is,

07:06comedy ain't no joke.

07:08Unless you're calling him a demon for the laughs,

07:11poltergeist would have probably made more sense.

07:14So, yeah, look, I thought this movie was fine.

07:19It's middle of the watch list.

07:21It's not a great movie.

07:23It's not the all-inclusive film that was Beetlejuice

07:26that's incredibly dark, yet still solidly funny,

07:30and, you know, an animated film with a huge energy to it.

07:34This is like Beetlejuice, a little slowed down,

07:37it's a little tired,

07:39and, you know, they're kind of bringing this together.

07:44This is the...

07:50amusement park ride movie Beetlejuice.

07:53Not the cool, interesting, fun Tim Burton film.

08:00Now, look, I haven't been a fan of Tim Burton.

08:03I have not watched a lot of his more recent films,

08:06which is weird, because I'm a film critic,

08:08and I understand that his visual style has changed a lot.

08:13And, yeah, you see that in this film.

08:16You don't see the same use of practicals.

08:18You see larger sets.

08:20You see more...

08:23expanse.

08:24And in this world, kind of less is more,

08:27because the less you see, the more questions you have.

08:30But they're not questions like,

08:32wait, why does that happen like that?

08:34They're questions like, I wonder what this world is like.

08:38So, yeah.

08:39Look, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,

08:41it is a middle-of-the-watch-list film.

08:43You're probably going to see it at some point.

08:46I mean, look.

08:48It has more of a feel of a Generation 2 blockbuster

08:52that is pre-Jurassic Park.

08:57But it does not have the charm and love and energy

09:04of a true Generation 2 blockbuster.

09:08It's just...

09:09It is a film. It is a solid film.

09:11It is just not the great film that Beetlejuice was.

09:14So it's got some big shoes to fill.

09:16This doesn't mean it's a bad film.

09:18It's probably one of the best things at the box office this weekend.

09:22It's, you know...

09:25It's high in the pack, but it's a slow pack.

09:29Anyway, that's just my opinion.

09:30I'd love to hear yours in the comments below.

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