#beetle juice 2 spoilers

[sourb0i]

Just got out of Beetlejuice 2! I'd give it a 4/10 overall

Pros:

All the original actors (Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara etc, Wynona Rider) reprised their roles really well; Catherine O'Hara in particular

The relationship between Lydia and Delia was nice; I enjoyed the whole 'you did it to me, now it's happening to you' between Celia, Lydia, and Astrid

Practical effects were good; honestly it was just refreshing to have any at all. I especially liked Charles' shark-bite effect

There were some genuinely funny parts, especially the (first part of) the wedding musical number

I thought Dolores was interesting as an antagonist, and I liked her character design (though I have gripes- see below)

Cons

The vibe just wasn't there. The plot didn't really feel committed to any one thing, and when the movie ended my first thought was "what the fuck was that about?"

There were also a lot of plot holes-- or at least, worldbuilding holes. Why was Beetlejuice working in the Afterlife office? Why is there a crime unit (and laundromat)? Why couldn't Lydia see her dead husband, even though he said he "checked up on [her and Astrid]" periodically?

I am honestly really pissed about how Barbara and Adam were written off. Obviously they can't have the original actors reprising their roles, but they deserved a better ending than a hand-waved one liner.

While Dolores had a lot of potential as an antagonist, she wasn't given nearly enough character. Her only lines (as far as I can remember) were "Where's Beetlejuice". Why is she so obsessed with him? What does she hope to gain by reuniting with him? What's the deal with her soul-sucking quest for immortality? So much wasted potential

The same was true of...the Murderous Boyfriend Who Was Such a Non-Character That I Forgot His Name As Soon As He Said it.

Seriously. They could've set up a great plot twist if they'd given him more character/more set-up with the parents. Instead the guy was a walking red flag.

I also wasn't a huge fan of Astrid's character. Like they set her up to be this girl who is ostracized bc of her mom (fair), but then instead of leaning into that they made her into this Gen Z Feminist/Eco-Warrior archetype, and it just felt like the writers were trying to make fun of that instead of actually making her into a whole person. Like, ok, she knows who Marie Curie is (even tho she got the nationality wrong), but what does she do for fun? What kind of music does she like? Does she have any hobbies outside of activism?

While I enjoyed some of the musical numbers (the wedding, and the soul train particularly) on their own merits, they just felt really out of place. The original had a solid musical theme, but this felt all over the place

Also! I wish we'd gotten to see more of Lydia interacting with ghosts in her day-to-day life! That seems like something that could be really traumatic and/or played up for comedic purposes. I loved the gag with her and the other actress in the bathroom! Give me more of that!

Overall, the movie felt like it didn't really know what to do with itself. There were so many out-of-place cameos (Burn Goreman, I'm looking at you), and stylistically and thematically it never really felt committed to one thing. It was an empty movie with nothing to say, and that's really disappointing, because it had a lot of potential to be something fun.

(Also. Produced by Brad Pitt?????)

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Creepy InfoDump

(I Copy Pasted this stuff from discord lol) So, Creepy is like... And owl and Arachnid mix with the way spider can Contort Spider's body. giving spider the ability to fit into any place and be comfortable there. the reason i say owl is because Spider can twist Spider's head a full 360 degrees, or 180 if Spider decides to look at you from behind. which gives for some screams which spider loves So I've Separated the two Versions of Creepy as Canon Creepy, and FunPop!Creepy. (FunPop is the Au that I have decided to call like these wholesome interaction between all out oc's) So Canon Creepy still Love Chaos and Discord but differently, Chaos, Discord and the misfortune of others is a better way to put it. FunPop!Creepy Is very nice and kind, They still makes chaos, but its through pranks, getting stuck Tw: i know a few people are sensitive to this junk soo spoiler Bottling up emotions ,Breakdowns, aggression towards self, and anything related to such so I have mentioned before that creepy has trouble expressing anything that is negative since spider is made to bring happiness, so that all spider thinks spider's supposed to do. But if spider dose this for too long spider withh just shut down in a really bad way, often taking it out on spider's self often reapeating to spider's self that "If he smiles through it spider will be better". Obviously spider never shows this since his mindset is screwed thanks to being turned into something ment for people's happiness. not many people have seen his breakdowns other than spider's "brother" Ven and jack. spider's breakdowns can be intense, often he either cries for hours on end, bashes spider's head into a wall till he knocks out or just laying down and staring at a wall not moving. spider dose this in spider's little webcave spider made in an unfinished part of the factory. Creepy has a pullstring like woody, spider dosen't know it.. until spider gets it caugut while free falling which which confuses the hell outta creepy like.... ????? i have a pullstring??? since when Alright alright, so the creepy crawly doll was sold along side many other dolls as a Halloween exclusive huggy, being based slightly after beetle juice, the rejected doll was quickly taken of shelves due to unknown reasons. Creepy as a creature is chaotic and discord inducing feind which is driven by the scared screams and laughter they get from scaring people or player. Creepy's body is found unconscious underneath a few of the reject bodies that where moved in order to get skitter and coinky out. Creepy is an antagonist and will follow the player, constantly trying to trap them in the webs they create, as well as generally sabotageing their attempts to get to the flower. His main scene comes in after you box huggy. He will jump down from the catwalk the box was on and begin chasing the player and the 2 reject huggies inti the flower, once again the last vhs tape is inside the flower instead of outside on the catwalks Random Creepy knows how to moon walk Creepy can fit in anyplace and will fall asleep in anyplace so sometimes you'll find him in a jar, or in a really uncomfortable position that he is just chilling in Creepy smells like Buttered Popcorn, and butterscotch as well as a little bit or burnt flesh tis be faint but you know still there. legit you hug creepy and spider smells like a movie theater Creepy can't wear shoes or like socks cause spider just loose the ability to walk because spider can't feel the ground and spider finds it weird. But spider will wear socks for a photo Creepy's feet pawbs are velcro, it's hands are magnets. Factory error. it can't walk on carpet or it just gets stuck Creepy love chin scritchies as well as being brushed Creepy's Tonge is like really long and i mean l o n g it wraps around the inside of his head like a wood pecker. like you have a glass of water a foot away from creepy and he's feeling lazy he'll grab it with his toungue O Creepy's Personality is complete hogwash. cause i havent really finalized it. but i know spider is fun loving and a

prankster, spider is really bad with expressing negitive emotions so spider often resorts to jokes and pranks. Huggy is probally the only person that Spider has ever broken down around. Spider just clung to Huggy while sobbing uncontrollably. normally they would climb up into the vents and crawl to an unfinished area of the factory that no one but spider knows about. Spider hide it with webs. Creepy also has some issues with texture. Spider cant touch metal that has a certain finish otherwise they will Creepy.exe has stopped responding and just stand there. take em a bit untill they come back. Creepy when spider's bored will just sit down, spider's eyes will get bit, and spider will start cooing like a racoon ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0TiFZA68ZU (like this) o Creepy's Favorite food are crepes specifically when they are made like this

creepy really likes icing baked goods. makes em all spooky. spider is good at making chocolate bats Creepy as well, I F you get on the topic of their special intrest oh boi you're gonna get a very excited spooder and a lot of rambling So creepy wasn't always a huggy, spider was once a human teenaged by the name of Marshal Marshal is just, Issues. He has a lazy eye and his teeth stick outta his mouth bullies are common because they just had to pick on him for his looks so ye his mentality isn't the best So some general things, marshal is tall pale and skinny, use he/They pronouns and has a more gothic sence of style. He has a bunch of physical and mental issues that just make marshal marshal. Some main physical issues are his jagged teeth, lazy eye (which he keeps covered sifh hair or an eyepatch) And the fact that he can't really walk well without crutches. more mental junk TW causes talks about disorders and junk so gonna be spoilded so course with all this junk comes being picked on. Few choice words that really gets to marsh, freak, crippled kid. Crooked leggs lead to major self esteem issues. So much so that there have. Been timez where he has gone to school without his crutches. Long story short he collapsed after 2nd and had to be taken to the infirmary and on worse occasions the hospital. Course Jacob got on his ass about it. Marsh has very mild PTSD from being in and outta forster care. He flinches alot to sudden touch, sudden movements, sudden loud noises (exploding eggs are fine) marsh stims a l o t, weather it be for positive resons, negitive resons or just being bored in General he stims. Most of the time its fiddling with his scarf, running his hands through his hair. Making small noise and flappy hands. Most of the time he only dose thjs around people he knows since people new to him find jt weird ( (You've made it to the end of the Creepy Master post, Congrats, If you couldn't tell, Favortism)

[betelguide]

𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 : BETELGEUSE. 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏 : single, quite right. 𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔 : professional pain in the ass, able to pull his spleen out through his ear, excellent at parlor tricks but a disaster to hire at birthday parties, 36 ft actual snake for a tongue, can become pocket-sized for your convenience, killin’ it in heels, very bendy, extra limbs, super duper mega pungent. also dead. extra dead, and a shapeshifter. and more cursed than this entire website’s ability to function. drafts are broken now huh 𝒆𝒚𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓 : big yellow. 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓 : mood ring, with a nice electric green for neutral. 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔 : spoilers, but, uh. juno. his beloved mother. :/ 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆  : you, probably. it’s not a personal thing, it’s just? you use too much sage when you make beurre noisette. yeah. check yourself, maybe. :/ 𝒉𝒐𝒃𝒃𝒊𝒆𝒔 / 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 : lurking in the plumbing and whispering sweet nothings from the garbage disposal, nail polish touch-up, curling up under your bed whenever you sleep and scritch-scritch-scratching at the trim along the wall, snacking on the roaches in the basement, screaming at 2:31 in the afternoon, embroidery by hand. he made his own stripes. while wearing them. the stitches are upside-down, go on, take a closer look!!!! 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 : absolutely not????? how dare you imply-- 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 : yea. 𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎  : b.......................... . beeee...... damn sorry it was on the tip of my tongue was it the butternut squash? 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒔 : sucking up to strangers, nail gnawing, too much trash tv, too many b movies, clutching desperately at opportunities to try to make friends and then develop and maintain healthy relationships but near-inevitably destroying them. wait wh 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒔 : elvis. he’s dead. 𝒔𝒆𝒙𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 : Yes. (bi) 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒈𝒆 / 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒔 : sure but ya gotta be right yknow he wont do this thing twice 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 : once told him he was a waste of a good gravestone. in reality the count’s much more like 143 times by now, carefully kept in the unabridged official record 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔 : approaches friendships at a brisk walking pace and / or jumps out at them from around corners and tries to throttle them, just to make sure they see him there ya know?? and then doesn’t quite realize why they tend to break :( 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 : beetle juice and sprite. 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒕  : in your pantry, waiting. 𝒔𝒘𝒊𝒎 𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒂𝒏 : alas he cant swim but he makes a mean sand castle. very mean. rude, even. 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒆 : for real? anyone who gives him the light of day. 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒔 : has he ever even been outside :/

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