Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) is the sequel to Beetlejuice (1988), the ghost story in which a young married couple goes off a bridge and end up dead, after which they discover that the dead have their own culture, including hucksters, and their own set of dangers.
But what happened to the huckster? That’s the point of this sequel, but, despite the best efforts of the actors, this movie doesn’t make the grade. Promising characters are developed and discarded, the delights of the first movie are repeated and extended to no particular end, the parts that might have charmed us fall flat, and the central mystery is clumsily handled.
It was a disappointment, at least for me, even if I did like the actor playing the arguable lead, Jenna Ortega. But your mileage may vary.
