Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - Budget of $100 million - 1 hour and 44 minutes
Psychic Medium Lydia halts the taping of her show, Ghost House, after seeing Betelgeuse in the crowd. She runs to the bathroom and opens her pill bottle. Her boyfriend, manager Rory, chases after her. He spots the pill bottle, grabs it, and empties it into the trash can. Lydia promises to stop taking them but needs them now to calm her nerves. He fishes them out and takes one with her. Then, Lydia gets several urgent texts from her stepmother, Delia.
Lydia runs to Delia's latest art installation and gets woeful news. Lydia's father, Charles, died. Lydia calls her daughter, Astrid, but she won't answer. Astrid believes her mother is a fraud because Lydia can't see her dad, Richard. Delia and Lydia drive to Astrid's school to tell her. She wants to stay because the last funeral she attended was Richard's. But Delia went over Astrid's head earlier and got the school to let Astrid leave. Lydia, Delia, Astrid, and Rory arrive at the original Ghost House in Winter River. They have a funeral for Charles, and Delia shrouds the house in black cloth for a grief collective. During the wake, Rory proposes to Lydia, and she reluctantly agrees. He wants to get married on Lydia's favorite holiday, Halloween, two days away. Astrid leaves in disgust, jumps on her bike, and narrowly escapes death by crashing through a fence and into a tree. A boy, Jeremy, sees her from his tree house and runs down to help. The two connect and make plans to meet before the wedding.
In the afterlife, Betelgeuse manages a call center. He pines over and haunts Lydia but hasn't made a connection yet. He gets a call from Ghost Detective Wolf Jackson because someone accidently reanimated Betelgeuse's ex-wife, Delores. She stapled herself together and left a message on the wall. Betelgeuse is mine. Betelgeuse tells them he married Delores, thinking he found the love of his life. He didn't know she was a witch who traded immortality for taking people's lives. She poisoned Betelgeuse on their wedding night. Before the poison took effect, he killed her. Now she is traveling through the afterlife, sucking the souls out of anyone standing in between her and Betelgeuse. Betelgeuse barricades himself in the call center. He believes marrying Lydia will save him from Delores.
Before the wedding, Astrid roams to the attic and finds the town model, a Betelgeuse flyer, and a photo album with pictures of Richard. She questions Lydia about the flyer and says Betelgeuse's name twice. Lydia pulls Astrid out of the attic and forbids her from going inside. Later, Lydia walks into the attic, and Rory finds her. He believes Betelgeuse is a figment of her imagination and says the name three times. Betelgeuse acts as their marriage counselor before Lydia and Rory escape. Lydia seals off the attic. She relocates Betelgeuse to her past until Astrid gets in trouble and enters the afterlife. Lydia will say the three words that put fear in her heart. Will she regret it?
This sequel has callbacks from the first with songs, outfits, and art but tells a unique tale. Lydia kept her ability to talk to ghosts and now uses it to make a living. Delia moved beyond sculpture and now uses her body as a canvas. Both women grew up and bonded with time. However, Lydia's confidence shrinks, unlike Delia's. This dynamic affects Lydia's relationship with Astrid. Astrid watches Lydia cave to Rory's manipulation and resents Lydia for not seeing Richard. On the surface, the movie is about Lydia, Delia, and Astrid escaping Betelgeuse. However, it's about bringing Lydia and Astrid together because Astrid doesn't understand Lydia's love for her. Viewers will get a new possession song and dance while laughing with their favorite bio-exorcist. Also, the audience learns more about Betelgeuse before his death in a foreign-film-style retelling. They also get an animated version of Charles' death and the Soul Train. Fans of the original movie will not be disappointed (FTC Affiliate Disclaimer).
I give it 4 out of 5 stars
I didn't blame you. I resented you. There's a difference - Lydia
Where's that obnoxious little goth girl that tormented me all those years ago? You need to go find her - Delia
We parted ways - Betelgeuse
Where's Betelgeuse - Delores
Where have you been all my life - Jeremy
Someone said life's harder - Astrid
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