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Jo-Ann Titmarsh

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice at the Venice Film Festival review: nobody does death like Tim Burton

Tim Burton, Tim Burton, Tim Bur… Dare we say his name three times, conjuring up a charming devil full of guile who is not one hundred percent reliable? Well, you will be relieved to hear that we do. Burton Burton Burton’s Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice opened the Venice Film Festival and got this 81-year-old cinematic party well and truly started.

Beetlejuice is one of Burton’s most beloved films and its eponymous lead (Michael Keaton) is dead, dead funny and a delight to behold. Keaton has exhumed the role he first played in 1988 and plays him with the same energy, intelligence and devilish gusto as he did in the original all those years ago.

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