All of which is to say, the primary full trailer for the long-threatened Beetlejuice Beetlejuice legacy sequel reveals indicators of a promisingly sinister afterlife. Juno be praised. While we nonetheless know little of the particular plot and supreme mechanics of the legacy sequel that brings again Keaton and Ryder—in addition to Catherine O’Hara as Lydia’s flighty stepmother, Delia—one factor is evident: Beetlejuice coming again is a really, very unhealthy factor.
After framing the trailer across the revelation that an grownup Lydia has taken a bit after her outdated man and is now making an attempt to promote a “preview” of coming sights (maybe this explains why she is once more dressing like a Goth excessive schooler in her center age?), we’re reminded by her that Beetlejuice is extra than simply “the ghostest with the mostest,” who’s right here to supply foolish adventures to both Lydia or now her personal adolescent daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega).
“When I was a teenager, a trickster demon terrorized our entire family and tried to force me to marry him,” Lydia forebodingly warns. “Don’t ever say that name! If you say his name three times, he will appear.” And one act of youthful rebel later, the Big B certainly returns.
Whether Beetlejuice Beetlejuice finally works stays to be seen. It’s definitely good although to know that the movie will likely be counting on stop-motion animation no less than partially, with the sights of Beetlejuice’s famed sandworms of Saturn making a lovingly jerky look (and now earlier than a wider viewers who ought to acknowledge the place Burton and firm nicked the concept again in ’88). It’s additionally a nice shock to see a solid of characters who’re fearful of Our Man Beetle.
The film additionally appears keen to spend so much extra time within the movie’s concept of the afterlife, with the plot seeming to contain Beetlejuice kidnapping Lydia and nonetheless making an attempt to marry her. With each mom and daughter touring additional down into the rabbit gap of the movie’s imaginative and prescient of demise, Lydia finds herself as soon as once more clad in pink and beholden to a personality who’s providing a lifetime of pure chaos—nonetheless lengthy (or briefly) that will final.
If the movie can preserve that power and keep away from the frequent inclination of softening a fan favourite character, or “redeeming” the favored villain from the final film, it can go an extended technique to sustaining that unusual mischievous juju that made the primary Beeteljuice an unlikely traditional. Let the ghostest with the mostest even be the grossest.
