Thirty-six years after treating us to the demented delights of his 1988 horror-comedy Beetlejuice, Tim Burton re-opens the doors of that superbly ghoulish cinematic funhouse with long-delayed sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice — and, I'm happy to report, it’s been worth the wait. Not only that, it's Burton's best movie since his enchanting 2012 black-and-white stop-motion animation film Frankenweenie.
The original Beetlejuice was only Burton's second full-length feature film, following cult 1985 hit Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, and it established the trademark mix of the macabre and silly, grotesque and surreal that cinema audiences would quickly come to recognize as "Burtonesque".
