D.Moore

A fine sequel to one of my favourite Tim Burton films (the favourites are completely different though). The logic was already haphazard then and it's not much better this time around, but who could be mad when Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is such irresistible mayhem, genuinely entertaining and made with love for all things dead and undead.

The film wanted to collect plus points mainly with references to Alien and Aliens and at first it succeeds, but the references soon got boring, the actors turned out to be completely uninteresting in the vast majority and one stupid situation after another started happening (the temperature in the corridor, the acid in weightlessness), until Alien: Romulus completely annoyed me. In the results, it's a spectacle almost on the level of Aliens vs. Predator that doesn’t bring anything new, in fact it probably didn't even try to. And that's a great shame. Ridley Scott's (imaginative!) Prometheus is somewhere else, and in fact so is Shane Black's The Predator.

The fourth time didn't work so well. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are still an excellent duo, and they are opposed by a pretty decent villain, but what good is that when the plot revolves as much if not more around them as it does around completely uninteresting (old) new characters who don't have much to say. The film was worth seeing in the cinema mainly for the frantic action, which can probably turn into quite a mess at home on TV.