Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: pure 'nostalgia bait'

Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder return for sequel to the 1988 cult classic

A scene from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice starring Michael Keaton
Beetlejuice is back from the dead
(Image credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. / RTRO / Alamy Stock Photo)

"Hollywood has a history of reanimating the decaying corpses of long-dead movies", so it was perhaps "just a matter of time before somebody delved into the grave marked Beetlejuice", said Wendy Ide in The Observer.

Tim Burton made his name with the original, and he has also directed this "belated sequel" – and it's not bad at all.

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