I'm Actually Excited About "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice"

They finally said it

I saw the original Beetlejuice in the theater when it came out in 1988, and I liked it just fine. Didn’t give it much thought subsequently, and I’ve been kinda ho-hum about a sequel. They’ve been talking about doing one for over 30 years now, and every idea has sounded bad. I mean, Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian? Really?

The only Beetlejuice-related news I’ve cared about has involved Lauren Boebert.

But then a funny thing happened.

This trailer gave me chills up and down my spine.

And the great thing is, this time they didn’t even need any makeup. This is just what Michael Keaton wakes up like now:

You guys get the joke in the title, right? Look at the series:

Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Warner Brothers said it three times. Get it?

It doesn’t matter that it took ‘em over 35 years. He’s a demon, he can literally wait forever.

That’s one of the things I hope the sequel plays with. Time has obviously passed for Lydia and her mom, and especially her dad. (Jeffrey Jones is still alive in real life, but let’s just say his criminal record is even more embarrassing than Alec Baldwin’s.) But time means nothing to Beetlejuice.

He must have built up a huge pile of unused material over the past 30-odd years. Probably has a couple of good Napster jokes.