The sequel to "Beetlejuice" is enhanced by Michael Keaton's performance, according to critic Peter Travers.

Tim Burton returns to the tangible strangeness of his early career with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, aided by a game returning cast.

"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" brings back director Tim Burton and stars Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder, adds Jenna Ortega. Is it as good as the original?

Arriving 36 years on, this follow-up to the director's classic supernatural comedy is a gleefully zany farce packed with knock-out punchlines and great pract...

Michael Keaton returns as the demon so nice, you must say his name thrice. Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara are also back in this grisly and fun sequel.

It's showtime once more as Michael Keaton deftly revives the wisecracking ghost, still low-down and loquacious.

Tim Burton surrounds himself with friends for a less scary, more silly sequel.

In Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton unveils a wonderful afterlife for Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega in a sequel that's a blast to watch.

Flat lega-sequel is both overstuffed and undercooked.

Tim Burton, Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder reunite for a long-awaited Beetlejuice sequel. Read the Empire review.

Our verdict is in!

But at least everyone is having fun

Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortega and Justin Theroux also star in the Venice opener, a sequel to the 1988 horror comedy about a renegade “bio-exorcist” li...

Venice: Embedded within a jamboree of gags, visual spectacle, and charming practical effects, is a distinctly human tale. What a pleasure!

There’s a resultant clumsiness to it that makes the traditional zaniness of the whole project feel telegraphed

Larry and LAist film critics Amy Nicholson and Lael Loewenstein review the latest releases on FilmWeek.

Despite the weird and wonderful chemistry between Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton, the sequel 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' should never have been summoned.

Beetlejuice and Lydia Deetz return in "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," which unfortunately doesn't know how to use its most beloved characters.

Burton, Keaton and Ryder turn up the juice and see what shakes loose in a sequel 36 years in the making that manages to deliver plenty of laughs even if it's...

Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder back in action, and as good as ever.

After 36 years, is Beetlejuice still the Ghost with the Most?

The director Tim Burton and the actor Michael Keaton resurrect a classic collaboration with supernatural-screwball verve.

Fun, frivolous and totally freaky

Director Tim Burton seems more interested in updating than duplicating his 1988 hit. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice demonstrates affection for the characters and ...

Tim Burton’s belabored movie, which is much more serious than its predecessor and takes nearly an hour to take off, feels like it lasts a Day-O.

Tim Burton has brought the band back together — Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, even Bob the shrunken head guy — for a fun but less edgy sequel.

Tim Burton’s sequel to his 1988 classic is a hilariously strange and charismatic voyage through Hollywood’s best creative minds and most skilled special ...

Tim Burton’s latest movie is such a staccato, incomplete collection of half-finished storylines

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a worthy follow-up to its1988 predecessor, Beetlejuice. For this much-delayed sequel, directorTim Burton has hewed close to the st...

It's an overstuffed toy bag of a movie: every minute or two, the director digs into the bag and produces a new toy.  

The ghost with the most (plotlines) returns in an overstuffed, but fun sequel.

Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder take a ghoulish trip down memory lane in Tim Burton's full-blooded sequel

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice isn't just a good sequel – it's a return to form for Tim Burton, a filmmaker whose work used to matter, and should continue to matter.

Film review: Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton reunite for the sequel that never allows schmaltz to overtake the morbid gags.

In the sequel to his classic film, Tim Burton’s brand contends with Tim Burton’s art.

The hotly anticipated “Beetlejuice” sequel just premiered at the Venice Film Festival. It’s certainly a fun time, but, like its title, feels woefully r...

Tim Burton’s energetically grotesque sequel proves you can go home again, even when that home is haunted.

This is ultimately an ungainly, lumbering golem of a movie that, were it to be killed by fire, no one other than Tim Burton might mourn

The Beetlejuice tagline is the ghost with the most and the sequel is absolutely doing the most it can possibly do.

Tim Burton is so back. 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' starring Michael Keaton, Jenna Ortega, Winona Ryder and more is his best film in decades.

The long-awaited sequel "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" is directed by Tim Burton and stars Jenna Ortega, Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder.

After a string of disappointments, Tim Burton has shaken loose again with his return to the story he introduced in his 1988 cracked pop masterpiece.

Michael Keaton's crude demon returns in the Tim Burton sequel "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," but it can't recapture the magic of the 1988 original.

It's no "Beetlejuice," but Tim Burton's sequel — starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega — has just enough Burton juice.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice isn’t just a nostalgic retread — it’s a jolting reminder of what makes the director so seductive.

... But maybe that's not such a bad thing.