Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

I genuinely struggled to get through it. It has the feel of a cinematic universe movie, just rushing to handle all the different plotlines and franchise elements that it feels obliged to cover. Just jampacked with story elements that it unceremoniously drops or forgets about, barely any jokes and the ones that are in there are painfully unfunny, full of fanservice in ways that almost never make sense, and zero new ideas. The reason "Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian" had promise as a title was that it suggested a sequel that took a complete left-turn and dared to throw out a bunch of elements from the first movie; the replacement, "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice", seemed like a clever title but in retrospect it's an accurate indictment of a movie that does nothing except repeat the original.

Rating: Atrocious.