2024 · comedy · fantasy · horror
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Directed by Tim Burton1h 45m2024
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
Our read: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal comedy · fantasy · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
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