The 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Review
You had me at “Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara.” But did you, 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,' keep me?
Upon gazing at the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice poster, I couldn’t help but be reminded of Season 1, Episode 2 of HBO’s The Comeback when Valerie Cherish is repeatedly told to go back to her mark. Allow me to set the scene.
Valerie Cherish is filming a promo for her upcoming series, Room & Bored. Her four significantly younger castmembers are placed up front, all of them in bathing suits. Valerie stands in the background in a tracksuit. “More sexy,” the photographer tells the group in the foreground. Valerie begins pouting in an effort to feel included in the direction. “Valerie, could you not do that with your mouth,” she’s quickly told. She fires back:
“Do what with my mouth? How can you even see my mouth when I’m all the way back there? You must have superpowers. Have you seen my mark by the way? Way back there?”
As she says this, she moves into the foreground and begins posing with the rest of the cast. She’s told to go back to her mark. “In Siberia?” she asks. This was the vibe I got (non-derogatory) from Catherine O’Hara on the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice poster. I wish I could write a review of a movie in which Catherine O’Hara somehow shows up in The Comeback cinematic universe, something no doubt far more worthy of praise than the film we got.
The problem with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the decades-in-the-making, good but never great sequel to Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, is that….