BeetlejuiceBeetlejuicethe sequel to Tim Burton’s cult film starring Michael Keaton was revealed in a trailer full of nostalgia.
From the cardboard Alice in Wonderland in 2010, Tim Burton received mixed receptions before finding a certain success with the mega-hit Wednesday on Netflix. This new adaptation of the Addams family universe, for lack of being blatantly original, allowed the director to put himself back in the spotlight. Has the filmmaker left to return to glory? To verify this, what could be better than launching a sequel to one of its most cult films?
So this is what happens BeetlejuiceBeetlejuicethe late sequel to Beetlejuice from 1988. Burton relaunches the macabre and colorful universe of his black comedy, in a project tinged with nostalgia which sees Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder return in their emblematic roles. To appeal to the new generation, Tim Burton brings Jenna Ortega, his Wednesday, history of giving this sequel an appeal for its fans from the first hour as well as those of the last. Beetlejuice is ready to come back to haunt us, and has revealed a little more of himself in a new trailer.
Also read: our review of Wednesday
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After a first image breaking the fourth wall in which we see Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) warning us that “it’s going to shake”, the trailer takes us on a journey between nostalgia and novelty. In the first trailer released two months ago, very little was shown, and everything was just winks and repetitions of the settings of the 1988 film, perhaps to reassure fans. But this second preview is much more complete, and presents what should be one of the central points of the film: the world of the dead.
We discover in particular its new characters, played by Monica Bellucci and Willem Dafoe, who seem to feel like fish in water in the director’s joyfully morbid world. The rest of the cast includes Justin Theroux and Catherine O’Hara, who reprises her role as Delia Deetz. New decors are also eye-catching, like the station of the dead with its retro train, and the open space with an otherworldly atmosphere. Paradoxically, and as usual for the director, the afterlife seems more alive than ever. Under all a thick layer of referenced fan-service, would the Burton touch make a comeback?
“Good to see me again?”
Arriving no less than 36 years after the first opus, this Beetlejuice 2 seems to be part of Tim Burton’s desperate attempt to rediscover the spark of the early years, as he did by making a long version of his excellent short film in 2012 Frankenweenie, dating from 1984. A purely marketing gesture, marked by the current legacyquels frenzy, or a real new morbid nugget? Response to the start of the school year, since BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice is scheduled for September 11, 2024 in our theaters.
