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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is once again
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directed by Tim Burton and stars Michael
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Keaton returning as this iconic
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character and it's coming out 36 years
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after the first one so after a family
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tragedy three generations of the Deets
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family returned to Winter River still
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haunted by Beetle juu Lydia's life is
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turned upside down when her teenage
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daughter astred accidentally opens the
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portal to the afterlife whenever these
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sequels come out like decades after the
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first one that everyone loves nobody
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ever likes it as much as the first one
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because they were shown the first one in
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their crib and they've seen it 3,000
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times and they watched it with a family
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member who no longer is alive and they
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have memories about that core memories
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that have influenced their entire life
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and these people are never going to like
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a brand new movie that they just saw for
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the very first time in a theater filled
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with other people more than that first
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movie it's just not going to happen it
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never happens maybe it does every once
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in a while like that movie but it's it's
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rare When I Say Never I mean mostly
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never which is why I think I'm a good
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person to be talking to you about this
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movie because I've only seen Beetlejuice
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twice I was not allowed to watch it when
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I was a kid because the way I was raised
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so I saw it for the first time in my 20s
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and again like a couple days ago so I
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don't have Nostalgia for that movie
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although I deeply enjoyed it and thought
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it was extremely fun and Michael Keaton
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of course is awesome as that character
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but my favorite character in the first
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movie was actually wona writers Lydia
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Deets she felt like a personification of
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how I felt as a kid and sometimes still
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feel as an adult so I really like seeing
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her return in this movie because she has
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all of that still clearly likes the same
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look but she's also running a paranormal
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ghost hunting show which seems like the
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modern-day equivalent of exactly what
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Lydia Deets would be doing having seen
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the trailers for this movie which didn't
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do anything for me I have to say this
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movie was much better than I thought it
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was going to be especially in the amount
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of screen time that Beetlejuice actually
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has one of the things that shocked me
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the most when I saw the first movie
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again like I said for the first time as
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an adult was just how little Beetlejuice
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is actually in the film The Title
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Character is only in the movie for a
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brief period and he doesn't even really
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show up until something like after 45
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minutes into the film obviously a
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Temptation with a sequel when you know
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you have a character that people love
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and have loved for like 30 years is to
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give you more of that character this
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movie has maybe a few more minutes of
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screen time for Beetlejuice compared to
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the first it's really well balanced and
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his appearances liven things up
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considerably W not ryer is great once
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again I loved seeing her back in this
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role but I also really liked the no
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longer antagonistic relationship with
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Katherine O'Hara's character who of
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course is the cliche artist who other
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artists are actually terrified of
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encountering because she's a miserable
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person but Lydia also has a daughter now
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played by Jenna Ortega and their
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relationship is very strained because
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she doesn't believe in the Paranormal
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and obviously her mom is this legend of
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the Paranormal and that makes things
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difficult this is already a lot of
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characters and it's enough characters I
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think but there's still some stuff going
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on Justin thorough plays a manager of
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wona Ryder's character who really likes
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her but also would like to be further
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into her life and he's very creepy and
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off-putting purposefully in the role
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you've also got William defo in the
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afterlife and I won't spoil what he's
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doing because I think a lot of the fun
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is in the discovery of it but what he
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was in real life is impacting what he's
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doing in the afterlife and it brought me
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a lot of laughs Monica beluchi is in the
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film and she has an incredible character
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introduction genuinely brought this
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gigantic smile to my face and I was so
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excited about what she was going to do
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in the film which brings me into a few
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things I want to talk about the high of
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her introduction sustained me for a
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while
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but eventually as she began to do less
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and less for the narrative I realized
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that she just wasn't really going to be
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that much of an important part of the
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story and that was a little
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disappointing this is really the one
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thing of Beetlejuice 2 that I would
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pinpoint is that there are an
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overabundance of characters and all of
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them are focused on for considerable
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amount of time that being said when you
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look back on the whole movie all of them
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lead to this specific thing that has to
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happen and I thought that that it worked
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really nicely it's just that while
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you're watching a lot of these
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characters inevitably some of their
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story lines become more interesting in
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others and you want to get back to the
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more interesting story lines when you're
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stuck with some of the other people that
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aren't as fun but Beetlejuice 2 is a
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great looking movie with impeccable
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production design makeup costumes and
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animatronic effects and puppets things
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that I did not think would be in this
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movie I was really scared it was going
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to be filled with a lot of very not ible
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CGI I think it's handled wonderfully
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there are so many great dead people in
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the afterlife sections of the movie that
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are very unique and you can look at them
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and you know exactly how they died just
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like the first one it has that same
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Creative Energy in all of that and even
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things that are CGI for sure you can
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tell that they have tried to make it
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look like stop motion like in the
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original 88 film and with the movie
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taking place around Halloween the whole
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look of the movie The set design
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production design of it just made me
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very excited about spooky season and
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that kind of thing is always going to
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sit right with me so it didn't fall into
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that decades later sequel trap of having
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whatever character we like so much have
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way more screen time it was very careful
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with that and this also in no way felt
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like a retread of the original obviously
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it's not about a family discovering that
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they're dead and then trying to figure
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out how to scare people out of their
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house it feels so much bigger than that
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it feels like they've really explored
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the afterlife way more more than they
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did in the first film this movie is not
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going to please everyone because as I
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said in the start of this
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video it's not the thing you watched
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when you were five like there are going
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to be people who watch this right now
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when they're like five or six and we'll
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see how they feel about it in 30 years I
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think we've seen that a lot recently
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with a lot of films that people didn't
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love in the 90s and 2000s getting this
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burst of new love because people who
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were kids when they came out aren't kids
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anymore I think Beetlejuice 2 is
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everything that I enjoy about that first
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film with a bigger world and more
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characters it's not quite as focused as
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that first movie it feels maybe a tad
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too big like there's just a bit of an
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overabundance of characters and
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storylines but it does all come together
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in the end and it worked for me
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considerably so I'll be very curious to
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see what you guys think of the film
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