By the end of "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," I was fully convinced that Michael Keaton really is a ghost. Thirty-five years have passed since Tim Burton's original horror-comedy hit theaters, but you'd never know the "Birdman" actor has aged a minute, let alone more than three decades. It's spooky.
...this belabored movie, which is much more serious than its predecessor and takes nearly an hour to take off, feels like it lasts a Day-O. During the creaky first half, Burton and screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar cake on exposition to justify their film's existence.
There's a lot of "trauma" talk. It's overkill, so to speak. And those who aren't in the grave yet are hammy cartoons.
Lydia, who was the only living person in the first film who could see the recently deceased Maitlands, is now the host of a paranormal TV show called "Ghost House" - a lazy and dated idea.
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