Beetlejuice Beetlejuice coming this fall

Loved the intro. A minute seems wasteful for intros now but I liked the music and certain scenes in it.

Definitely preferred that intro to the other one.

Saw it. No extra scene at the end.

They mashed two plots together and both are kinda weaker for it. There was a part that made me gasp. It was actually pretty slow for me until that point. Then I got invested.

Resolutions was kinda too abrupt for me. Actually, a bunch of stuff were just loosely strung together. Could have had tighter plotting but, yknow, comedy.

Clever way to deal with one of the characters though. Sad for others.

Have to say Willem Defoe did not need to be there, really.

Actually enjoyed it well enough. Wasn't disappointed but then wasn't expecting a lot.

Just saw it.

It was.. a movie. It wasn't an awful movie, it also wasn't a good one. As Fero said Defoe really served no purpose in the film other to run up the screentime and the same could really be said about Monica Belluci. Delores is a really visually interesting character and we get tantalized with a hint of an interesting backstory only for her to just... barely do anything or even show up in the movie. Honestly she shows up in the movie probably less than Beetlejuice did in the original film which is to say not a lot and they do even less with her than they did with the juice in said film.

To everyones dismay, there is no Alex Brightman cameo. I suppose I shouldn't have expected one but it would have been nice

This is doing surprisingly well; it's #1 at the box office for a second time this weekend, and projections have it on track to earn around $250 million domestically.

I saw it this weekend, I have to to say I quite enjoyed it. While it's true a few of the characters (played by surprisingly noteworthy actors) seem to be there to mostly extend the runtime, it didn't really bother me all that much. I very much liked how it was really nothing AT ALL like the original film, which is maybe why it's doing so well with critics and audiences. It's just another look into the Beetlejuice universe, it shows us a lot more of the Tim Burton's unique-looking afterlife, and we even learn a little bit more about Beetlejuice himself in a fun flashback.

Here's hoping for one more, which of course would be titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. It's just a shame holographic technology on a mass scale isn't very practical, because that title is begging for a super meta sequence in 3-D, 4DX and whatever other gimmick theatres have to offer.

Btw, did the Alex Brightman play add or change anything from the original movie?

Its both a big departure from the source material and not. The bones of the story is there, Maitlands die, Deetz move in, BJ gets hired etc. But Beetlejuice is there from the get go and is basically one of the primary characters instead of being someone summoned to the house and only being in the thing for 15 minutes. Obviously a lot more musical numbers.

The play is quite a good time but I think its not playing anymore. People were hoping for Alex to cameo in the movie and honestly there is a perfect place they could have put him but they didn't end up going that route.

Fero McPigletron said:

Btw, did the Alex Brightman play add or change anything from the original movie?

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The play also made Beetlejuice a more likable and less of a creep. I'd say Brightman's BJ is probably closer to the Cartoon version the the Movie version.

This is true. You could see the play version leading into the cartoon

And Lydia is more the focus. You could honestly argue she's the main character.

The original cast recording is on Spotify among other things; at the very least you owe it to yourself to listen to the closest thing we'll probably ever get to a musical soundtrack penned by Weird Al.

Ooooh, I like the idea that the Beetlejuice in the play becomes Lydia's 'best friend' in the cartoon.

But how did the play change Beetlejuice forcing Lydia into a marriage, which was the climax? Like, he still got sandwormed but comes back and goes no hard feelings and is friends with Lydia right after?

Btw, from the new movie, did they say the word Netherworld at all? I recall waiting for it (since they repeat it a lot in the cartoon) but don't recall hearing it.

Wasn't it called "the Neitherworld" in the cartoon? (Which is both a clever way of getting around S&P and a weirdly evocative name for a realm of pure weirdness.)

Fero McPigletron said:

Ooooh, I like the idea that the Beetlejuice in the play becomes Lydia's 'best friend' in the cartoon.

But how did the play change Beetlejuice forcing Lydia into a marriage, which was the climax? Like, he still got sandwormed but comes back and goes no hard feelings and is friends with Lydia right after?

Btw, from the new movie, did they say the word Netherworld at all? I recall waiting for it (since they repeat it a lot in the cartoon) but don't recall hearing it.

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They change it completely. The play pretty much has a whole different ending then the movie. The wedding still part of it, but its handled completely differently and is somewhat consentual, but with Lydia having alterior motives. It leads to another villian showing up, BJ quickly reforming to help defeat the villian by feeding them to a Sandworm. BJ takes his leave, and then the ending kinda proceeds as normal.

...I kinda want to see that now.

Is there any way besides finding and attending a performance?

I mean it's not the same as watching the whole play (which I got to do when it came to Hartford earlier this year. It was great.) but most of the main musical numbers have fan-made animatics online, some of which are very good.


-ZacWilliam, after seeing it I was saying it really felt like it was halfway between the movie and the cartoon and it was cool to see the creators confirm that was intentional.