Film No. 67. BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE (2024). 10th Oct.

 

Film No. 67  (2024) Oct 10th.  10.30 AM  MIDLAND SQUARE Complex, Cinema 6, Nagoya, Japan.

"I've never seen that chick before in my life; or afterlife" (Beetlejuice answers a question related to the woman he made his wife, second time round). 

WINNER: Fanheart3 Award (Tim Burton) Venice FF.

Why is such a mish-mash of silliness and fun becoming the "run-away" Box Office phenomenon of 2024? I'm not sure. The 36 year wait for a sequel to a movie phenomenon may have something to do with it.

Devotees of the original won't be missing BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE (BB). That's a certainty. And perhaps they deserve the most attention when it comes to critical comment. Me, well I saw the original, and while I thoroughly enjoyed the mayhem caused by a younger Keeton in a far more structured story about ghostly cleansing in the suburbs, it hasn't left a lasting impression. BB comes with a whole lot less structure, but a myriad of brand new effects technology. It's here that the uninhibited Burton revels and releases his inhibitions. 

That BB has become the most successful September release film in cinema history heaps great credit on the Burton/Keaton following. Keaton has said that the only sequel he might consider would be this. The devoted have remembered, perhaps.   7GUMS.