Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

A nostalgic sequel with as much original cast and set throwbacks as they could cram into 90 minutes, and little else.

Grown up Lydia (still Winona Ryder) has recently lost her husband to sharks, a reference to the fact that the Beetlejuice franchise has already jumped the shark.

Her daughter Astrid, massive-eyed Jenna Ortega still wearing her costume from the set of Wednesday, doesn't believe any of her mom's nonsense about ghosts. Catherine O'Hara is also still around.

An entirely unrelated ghost suckers Astrid into a trip through a chalk door, and gets her stuck in the afterlife. Lydia figures it out and makes another deal with Beetlejuice (still Michael Keaton) to marry him (again) in exchange for saving her daughter.

Monica Bellucci and Willem Dafoe pop in from the afterlife to disrupt Beetlejuice's plan. They get eaten by sandworms, but the marriage contract is invalidated for uninteresting reasons.