‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ review: Michael Keaton turns back time in pointless sequel
nypost.comWinona Ryder) dad and Delia Deetz’s (Catherine O’Hara) husband from the first flick has just been chewed up by a shark. Lydia’s spouse Richard, with whom she has a daughter named Astrid (Jenna Ortega), was killed on an Amazon trek.
And Lydia’s new boyfriend Rory’s (Justin Theroux) wife is six feet under, too.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 (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, who aren’t in this one), is now the host of a paranormal TV show called “Ghost House” — a lazy and dated idea.
Tortured by ghouls, she pops anxiety pills and dates her pretentious, hippie-dippie manager Rory.Ryder’s eyebrow acting falls somewhere between her paranoid “Stranger Things” mom and the kooky behavior she exhibited onstage at the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
As her boring beau, Theroux tries too hard to match the big personalities around him.One is O’Hara, whose Delia is still a cliche of an artist in NYC.
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