Warning! Spoilers may be ahead! On September 6th, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice began showing in theaters around the world! Theaters opened their doors to millions of fans eager to see what chaos their favorite apparition had planned for the Deetz family, and most went home happy!
The movie starts with Lydia Deetz, who has grown up and become a talk show host based on ghosts. She’s in the middle of filming an episode, when she has a vision of someone in the crowd becoming Betelgeuse. She runs to the bathroom in a panic, starting the downward spiral for the movie. According to IMDB.com, “After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.”
The movie itself has had many mixed ratings, but currently stands at a 7.1 on IMDb and a 77% Rotten Tomatoes score. Watchers have voiced very different opinions, with Stephanie Zacharek, a movie critic, saying “Burton has just allowed himself to be silly and have fun; Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is filled with low-stakes wisecracks and kindergarten-style one-liners, but the effect works. The movie carries you along on its wriggling magic carpet of mayhem—and features one sequence of creepy-elegant-funny cracked poetry that’s classic, old-school Burton.” But Diana Tuova, another movie critic, says “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is…a frenzied series of darkly comic sketches & various scraps of random stories introduced in such a hectic whirlpool of a motion, we won’t take a breather anywhere…, much less care what is being thrown at us every 5 minutes.”
With a budget of $100 million, the movie itself has so far grossed over $147 million worldwide within 4 days of its release and is bound to grow much further. Many fans are incredibly satisfied with the sequel, especially with one of the final scenes being a comic dance scene, which is an ode to the first film.
