Did anyone else see Beetlejuice 2?

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Acceptable-Olive-968@reddit

I loved this movie. It was fun, silly and over the top. The music was great. The costumes, the sets were great. I enjoyed it better than the 1st.

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DeezSaltyNuts69@reddit

Spoilers for those who haven't seen it - Which OP should have put in the title

I had low expectations going into this and yeah it was a big fat disappointment - I give it 1 star out of 5

There was really no point to the movie in that they could pick one plot point to go with

You had Dad dropping dead, so the family needs to come together at the house

Beetlejuice had a wife - ok why

Murder house - still haunted by the family and POS murdering son is looking for a way to come back to life

Well none of these threads were fully developed at all

The original was a shorter run time and had a tighter story

This one didn't know what direction it was going in

There were no memorable scenes/quotes at all in this movie which the original had a number of

Seemed like everyone was phoning in their performance, like sure tim we will take the paycheck, don't bother us again

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YamAlone2882@reddit

I want to see it but I’ll wait until it’s streaming.

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RandomRedditNameXX@reddit

Same. I pretty much assumed it wasn’t going to be great but I’m still curious.

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Agreed. It was... fine, but was loaded with so many plot threads that it didn't have the time to be fun. It's like they had a ton of script ideas for the sequel, couldn't decide on a direction and just threw them all in.

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belunos@reddit

This was really the biggest problem. Like, why the ex wife? She played almost no real role, just some excuse for some shitty background on the big guy. Didn't want it, didn't need it.

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CoverMeBlue@reddit

They could have tied that in better, like have her be the one who prevents his marriage to Lydia or emphasis her missing finger as the one B had in the first movie with the ring he gave to Lydia ("She meant nothing to me.")

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belunos@reddit

Ha, either of those tie-ins would have been nice!

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Formal-Cut-4923@reddit

The ex wife plot was the only part I didn’t like. When she would come on that was my time to run to the bathroom. Worked out nicely.

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DarthGuber@reddit

Because Tim Burton is dating Monica Bellucci, that's why. It's a role even Lisa Marie could have pulled off.

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sjmiv@reddit

There were multiple attempts at a sequel in the past, so they put elements of those into one movie.

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Night_Porter_23@reddit

Whenever there are more than two writers, it’s a corporate producer driven shitshow with no soul.

The great thing about the original, is it was a small, ensemble with quirky characters, using creativity to cover the lack of budget.

Bloated, too many subplots, too convoluted.

I really wanted to love it, and it was fun to revisit, but ultimately disappointing.

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TJ_Fox@reddit

!I thought the '90s ghost kid made an effective villain. Given that Beetlejuice himself was weirdly helpful at at least one crucial juncture, I would have just leaned into the kid as the Big Bad and let his scheme serve as the main plot, allowing Beetlejuice to function as a chaotic/reluctant anti-hero teaming up with Winona Ryder to save Jenna Ortega.!<

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surfdad67@reddit

Saw it, enjoyed it, daughter is a beetlejuice fan, so she really loved it.

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Fitz_2112b@reddit

It was...a movie

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

I was talking about it the other day:

I mean, it had moments. Some of it was decent but some of it was unnecessary nostalgia bait. It honestly felt like three different story ideas they couldn't really figure out how to make full movies out of so they chopped them them up and put them into this and you end up with something feels thrown together and kind of not very cohesive. The most interesting part was Monica Bellucci's character who was offensively underused and would probably have made a good horror movie character on her own. It also doesn't really have an ending, it just sort of...stops.

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TheyCallMeElHeffay@reddit

I feel like the best bellicci scenes were probably left on the cutting room floor.

I do like how the dealt with Lydia’s dad, given that the original actor is in jail and a total piece of shit.

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

I did laugh at every scene with the dad, they way they handled that was pretty funny.

But yeah, somewhere there's a movie about her character that was better than the whole of Beetlejuice 2.

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kangaroolionwhale@reddit

Team Monica! <3

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SallyThinks@reddit

I felt like they left it open for a third that will be on the horizon soon. 🤷‍♀️

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

God, I hope not.

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MyriVerse2@reddit

It had a very big ending. All of the plots were tied up nicely.

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

There was a lot going on and they did wrap it up but it was very abrubt and kind of just....there. it had that weird dream sequence that referenced The Fly then...bed and...nothing...it was just a very non-ending.

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GoogleZombie@reddit

Nope. Never enjoyed the first one.

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WarrenMulaney@reddit

Same.

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xfileluv@reddit

My family enjoyed it!

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steelcoyot@reddit

I felt they had too many stories going on, they could have focused on one major one like they did with the original. And adding your girlfriend just so she can have screen time doesn't help

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it_rubs_the_lotion@reddit

Too many stories and they introduced too many characters really quickly.

No need for the ex-wife, no reason to have a Charles corpse walking around, could have gone without Delia’s overbearing boyfriend or later her daughter’s ghost boyfriend.

All in all it was an over busy script that seemed to care more about packing famous names than building a story.

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steelcoyot@reddit

I know I'm getting spoiled, but I felt this story could have been done better as 8 Disney/Netflix episodes. I feel even for a short season that they could have flushed out all of the story lines better and gave more depth to the Ex Wife, Boyfriend, and a couple of other side charcaters.

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jtphilbeck@reddit

Just waiting on Happy Gilmore 2.

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TheVoicesOfBrian@reddit

Unpopular opinion: Burton hasn't made a really good film since Big Fish.

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mndsm79@reddit

He reminds me a lot of Cameron- who I strongly believed peaked with Terminator 2.

Seems like these guys get hot, make their magnum opus (titanic for Cameron, Burton could be argued as any number of things) and coast on overhyped mediocrity for ..forever. I'd say it about Peter Jackson as well, but I just don't like that guy at all.

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Im_tracer_bullet@reddit

I actually think that's kind of the popular opinion.... I'm not sure what anyone could legitimately point to in defense of a different opinion.

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TheVoicesOfBrian@reddit

I don't hear him dragged like Shyamalan as being past his prime. But his last 10-20 films have been merely...meh.

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Inamibles@reddit

Nah, the original wasn’t great, it didn’t need a sequel.

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Bigdaddymatty311@reddit

It was just bad.

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lukifer_333@reddit

You can not get lightning in a bottle twice. It was perfect, let it be

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The_Dixco_Bunny@reddit

I’m one of the freaks that made a whole outfit to go see it! I haven’t gone yet - going this weekend!!

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KittyTB12@reddit

No. But I want to.

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HeavyTea@reddit

Was ok. Had good bits. Some new stuff that was not needed/went nowhere. Had the hits for the oldies.

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MyriVerse2@reddit

I enjoyed it, but Monica Bellucci's character should have been more important.

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CK1277@reddit (OP)

Or cut altogether.

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Sitting_pipe@reddit

I liked it but they waited way too damn long to do a p2.

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tireworld@reddit

I'll give it an 8/10. For me Catherine O'hara stole the movie, but then again I love her entire body of work, especially Best in Show. Anywho, being the "cool" grandpa I took my 4yo grandkid to it, he had to wear his Beetlejuice onesie to see it. I will have to say the merchandising for the film is completely out of hand..

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cheesecheeseonbread@reddit

All Catherine O'Hara has to do to be funny is have her own face

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MysteriousDudeness@reddit

I saw it yesterday. I enjoyed it but I thought the overall storyline was weak. Plus the two concurring iffy storylines that they did have were resolved way too quickly and easily. I also thought that Keaton was not nearly as energetic as Beetlejuice. He delivered the lines fine but he wasn't nearly as energetic as before. Granted, he's 72 or 73 now? It was pretty much what I anticipated and I wasn't disappointed at all. It was a fun escape and great nostalgia. I think it kind of left the door open for a third movie.

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sjmiv@reddit

I liked it a lot. Especially the end. The Big Picture podcast reveals quite a bit about why it was made the way it was. And the shark fin headstone was *chef's kiss*

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tescosamoa@reddit

It never got going and when it did, it was over. Could have used another hour or two on the main plot.

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mndsm79@reddit

I enjoyed it.

There were some good callbacks, some decent expansion on the story, good jokes, etc. Obviously it wasn't as good as the first one, but 30 years later it was never going to be. I appreciated what they did with a lot of the sfx, staying truer to the original than they could have given the updates to the technology in the ensuing decades. There was one storyline in there that felt extremely forced, and one other thing that I felt wasn't given enough screen time given what they did for a different, but similar situation (trying to avoid spoilers here) but out of all the rehashes of our youth this year, this has been the best of them.

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Intelligent_Arm_7186@reddit

see there lies the problem. Hollyweird wants to remake every freaking thing we watched in the 80s. shit go do Legend then...remake that shit...or or Goonies...wait...they are about to remake that one. sorry

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Intelligent_Arm_7186@reddit

plus im not a Jenna Ortega fan.

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mndsm79@reddit

I don't mind Jenna. She did ok as Wednesday....she was ok here.... She was ok in x or whatever that horror movie was....she definitely has a type.

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Magik160@reddit

I saw a review that if you removed the 2 people, you would still get to the exact same ending. And after watching, I agreed. Although I enjoyed Willem's performance.

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groundhogcow@reddit

Well stated. And I agree.

In the end I was glad they didn't try to force the old story into a memory jar and force feed us the same thing. Even if that was was I thought I was going to get. I liked it and while my wife was peeing I looked up the lyics to that song so I could sing it to her exactly when she came out of the bathroom.

I agree that one story needed more time but I am not sure what they would have done. It is clear it could be a spinn off. If nothing else it will make some nice fan fic.

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BeltfedOne@reddit

Thanks for the "no spoilers"!

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DistributionSoft3202@reddit

It was feeling a little flat? Like it was sleeping with Prince Valium that night.....?

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Cheesesauceisbest@reddit

I had fun at the movie. It felt like a direct sequel, I loved all the sets built, all the practical effects, the way the whole movie felt. The new characters were all not needed, and all their story lines were wrapped up way too fast, but it was a good experience in total.

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ultimate_ed@reddit

Honestly, with as much as movie tickets cost along with concessions, it really takes something special to get me into a movie theater at all anymore. I've got a pretty good setup in my media room, so I'm generally at the point of waiting for a streaming run in most cases, or a Blu-Ray if it something more critical in terms of sound.

So, I don't have any plans to see BeetleJuice 2 in a theater. Might catch it on streaming someday.

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SeethingHeathen@reddit

Yes. I expected more from Tim Burton.

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DarthGuber@reddit

B2 is what happens when you take your kid off Adderall for the weekend and he just stims on the original and decides to tell you how he would make it better.

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Alternative_Sock_608@reddit

I saw in in 4Dx and loved it. It was just wacky and partially nonsensical and seemingly purposefully random. I brought my teenage daughter and her friend and they laughed out loud all the way through.

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James_Mays_Hair@reddit

It was okay. Winona phoned it in, but I still like it. The original Is too unique and a classic to expand on it in any meaningful way. I bet the new goonies movie will have similar vibes

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BigOldComedyFan@reddit

I enjoyed it except for two elements: too many story lines (the original is SO simple plot-wise, and all the better for it) and also I felt Beetlejuice's appearances werent as crazy/funny/visual/unexpected as they were here. He pretty much stayed in his traditional form, told some jokes etc... whereas the first one there were so many crazy visual gags and transformations that made him more fun and unpredictable.

Overall though, one of the better legacy sequels. At least it kept the same tone, unlike the new Ghostbusters movies which for some reason decided to take SERIOUSLY the plot elements that the first two films were satirizing.

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BeigeAlmighty@reddit

I’ll see it when it streams.

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8Deer-JaguarClaw@reddit

Saw it Saturday with the wife and daughter. They both love the original, while I only liked the original okay. I enjoyed the sequel more than the original, but I'm an outlier since I didn't love the OG film.

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YogurtclosetBroad872@reddit

I thought the first 30-40 minutes was very slow and began to think it was going to be a flop. It really picked up towards the middle and got a lot better. Overall it was good but nowhere near the first one. I'd give it a 7/10

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ThinWhiteRogue@reddit

I thought it was a lot of fun. There were too many subplots that didn't go anywhere: I love Dafoe and Bellucci, big fans of both, but you could have easily cut their characters out of the film without affecting the story at all. But I enjoyed all the performances, laughed a lot, and said "what the fuck" in delight a few times. I also enjoyed how they handled the Jeffrey Jones Problem, which I thought they solved in a hilarious way.

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