Thank you for this review. As someone recently pointed out, the sequels are usually worse than the original (notable exceptions being “Star Wars: A New Hope” and “Alien”). As a fan of the original “Beetlejuice”, I’ve been tempted to go see it, but you’ve saved me from that. It sounds like this sequel has thrown so many new people into th…
Thank you for this review. As someone recently pointed out, the sequels are usually worse than the original (notable exceptions being “Star Wars: A New Hope” and “Alien”). As a fan of the original “Beetlejuice”, I’ve been tempted to go see it, but you’ve saved me from that. It sounds like this sequel has thrown so many new people into the mix that there’s no one to really care much about. If I get to feeling nostalgic, instead of waiting for the occasional sop to me in this one, I’ll just watch the original.
Beetlejuice is firmly in my top-10 all-time favorite films; I must've seen it three times in the theater when I was a kid. I'll catch the sequel on a streaming service in a few months, with the mindset that it won't be as good as the first in order to minimize disappointment.
Thank you for this review. As someone recently pointed out, the sequels are usually worse than the original (notable exceptions being “Star Wars: A New Hope” and “Alien”). As a fan of the original “Beetlejuice”, I’ve been tempted to go see it, but you’ve saved me from that. It sounds like this sequel has thrown so many new people into the mix that there’s no one to really care much about. If I get to feeling nostalgic, instead of waiting for the occasional sop to me in this one, I’ll just watch the original.
Beetlejuice is firmly in my top-10 all-time favorite films; I must've seen it three times in the theater when I was a kid. I'll catch the sequel on a streaming service in a few months, with the mindset that it won't be as good as the first in order to minimize disappointment.
And “Godfather II.” Brilliant in every way and superior to the excellent first movie, which was really a sequel. It’s a mobius.