Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and The Great Beyond

There’s nothing like a great comeback story just as much as there’s nothing quite like watching the downfall of mean spirited people.

Like a bunch of highschool children with hormones and egos flowing believe they “know everything” happily bully other students and laugh at strangers while they walk around in crowds, Such lowbrow behaviour is nothing new.

Some of those children sadly will shine brightly and crash hard but more importantly the people they mock may be the very people paying their cheques in the future or even are related to family that pays their parents cheques and what do you know Mummy and Daddy lost their job. It pays to be kind and respectful. Always.

What does that little tidbit of ranting have to do with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice the sequel to 1988’s(what a beautiful year) hit Beetlejuice, well Karma and The Wheel of Fate.

Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton these are two individuals who to many fell off when in reality they never really went anywhere.

Despite Winona’s incident in the past involving shoplifting incident that at the time made her much the focus of mockery a downfall from the ill archetype of “America’s Sweetheart” where if you make one wrong turn everyone is ready to tear you down. Michael’s focus to other pursuits for his time (Keaton was a rocking comedian in those early days much like early Jim Carrey) moved away from Batman but both never stopped working in fact they both pulled out some amazing performances in movies and media pieces I often came across. The mainstream just had other talents to focus on and that’s fair enough as the landscape to report on updates were quite narrow back then.

To the average person busy with their own lives and only really paying attention to what was presented to mainstream when it came to celebrities you could easily think they fell off. Which isn’t hard to believe I mean when it comes to most information people wont actually know. Without googling tell me where Mongolia is located? Is it landlocked? Did you even know it existed maybe you pictured a huge open fields with a ger neatly placed. Maybe nothing.

The point is out of sight out of mind. Some information just isn’t important. This is just an out their example Aliens or The Messiah came back but decided to operate purely in Portugal communicating only in Portuguese so English be damned but nobody bothered to translate their work (which is what they wanted) would you go out of your way to get this information? Perhaps a few die hards would, but the rest of the world would just have to chime on with their own bubble of reality.

There is simply too much information to keep up with and bills to pay, no?

That’s kind of what I love about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, it does its best to update us on everything that’s happened since we last saw all of the unusual characters from the first film. Some things concluded happily ever after, some took a tragic turn and other follow-ups are just… complicated.
Heck we even get a call out to the age difference with The Juice’s inappropriate infatuation with Lydia. I love it.

Now I don’t want to spoil too much about the film gotta keep it real but it’s most certainly worth watching and I truly hope many of you will come aboard that soul train and watch it. Before you do though give the first Beetlejuice movie your attention. While it’s not explicitly needed to enjoy this sequel it will leave you feeling more filled up.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a rush, it’s rushed and you know what that’s okay.
A well deserved 7.5/10

Regards,

Alexander/Zenchi

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