“A small but significant relief.”
“A return to joy.”
These are just two of the early reviews greeting Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s new sequel to the 1988 horror comedy that was his second feature film. After two decades of diminishing returns for cinema’s once most-beloved outsider, the auteur behind such beloved films as Edward Scissorhands and Batman seems to be returning to his roots. The albatross of his own once-brilliant aesthetic, dinged in recent years by critical duds like Alice in Wonderland or Dark Shadows, seems to weigh less heavily these days for the filmmaker. Lapsed Burtonites may even feel a bizarre sense of optimism for his latest project, stoked further by the director’s own admission that filming the sequel “reinvigorated [his] love of making movies.”
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