Tim Burton (second from left) with his “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” cast Monica Bellucci, Michael Keaton and Catherine O’Hara at the opening night of the Venice Film Festival on August 28, where the film got a nearly 4-minute standing ovation.
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The wait was worth it.
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” director Tim Burton’s follow-up to his 1988 classic horror-comedy “Beetlejuice,” had its world premiere on the opening night of the Venice Film Festival on August 28 – 36 years after the first movie was released. The long-in-the-works sequel, which screened out of competition, delighted the audience and earned a nearly four-minute standing ovation for Burton and his cast – led by Beetlejuice himself Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara, both also reprising their roles in the original, and new cast members Jenna Ortega, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci and Willem Dafoe.
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“It’s truly exciting to see Burton’s return to form, making something both grotesque and funny,” wrote Collider. “He appears to be energized and having fun, something we haven’t seen in quite a while.”
(From left) Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortega and Winona Ryder at the Venice Film Festival on August 28.
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The Hollywood Reporter lauded Burton and the cast: “The zippy pacing, buoyant energy and steady stream of laugh-out-loud moments hint at the joy Burton appears to have found in revisiting this world, and for anyone who loved the first movie, it’s contagious. That applies also to the actors, all of whom warm to the dizzying lunacy.”
In their review, Time magazine wrote, “The movie carries you along on its wriggling magic carpet of mayhem – and features one sequence of creepy-elegant-funny cracked poetry that’s classic, old-school Burton.” They also praised Keaton’s portrayal once again of the ghost with the most and said seeing the actor in full costume again as Beetlejuice was “like greeting a decrepit, kvetching old friend, the kind you keep around just for entertainment value. Michael Keaton clearly adores this character; once again, he pours pure love into Beetlejuice’s maniacal, depraved soul.”
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