Burton’s 36-years-later sequel is really a collection of chunks and slabs, each carved and hacked from what feels like a dozen scripts that never escaped Development Hell
Here is a 36-years-later sequel to a genuine masterpiece – one of the most deliriously original, inspired and imitated romps of the 20th century – and it has been resurrected from its peaceful slumber six feet under for purposes not so much creative as commercial. So what does Burton do, in a seemingly self-conscious bit of apologia? He fills out some back story on his title ghoul, noting how before he became everyone’s favourite bio-exorcist/Fanta pitchman, Betelgeuse was a craven grave-robber.
The problems start at the very beginning, when Burton and his screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar open with an inciting incident that never, ever goes anywhere: the sudden and confusing re-resurrection of an ancient witch named Delores . It turns out that she is the long-ago ex-wife of Betelgeuse, and also imbued with soul-sucking powers that, um, kill the dead?
Delia Deetz is still an avant-garde art star, although now she is mourning the sudden death of her husband Charles . Delia’s stepdaughter Lydia , meanwhile, has mined her past to become the host of a cheesy-like reality-TV show . And Lydia’s own daughter, Astrid , has spent her teen years trying to distance herself from anything to do with her mother and her macabre obsessions.
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