After 36 years, Burton comes back with a sequel to his iconic comedy horror film, and takes basically the same approach as what Danny Boyle did with Trainspotting 2: continue the story with the same main characters and other elements. Granted, due to age and other commitments, the original ghost couple occupying the house aren't there (cheekily referred to in the dialogue as having left after finding a 'loophole'), but madcap fun is expected. This is duly delivered, although with unsurprisingly a lesser impact than the first time around, in a story where the teenage goth of Winona Ryder's Lydia has now become a haunted house talkshow host with a teenage daughter in the form of Jenna Ortega, not far removed at all from her current role as Wednesday Addams, attending the funeral of Lydia's father in the town where the events of the original film took place.
Naturally, it doesn't take too long before grand scale mayhem is unleashed as Michael Keaton's Betelgeuse is brought back by a Lydia desperate to get her daughter, abducted by a pychopathic ghost, out of the Netherworld. Betelgeuse has a problem of his own, with Monica Bellucci as his soul-sucking ex-wife out to kill him for good. So, lots of wisecracking by Keaton and ghoulish visions, ticking all the boxes and thereby satisfying all and sundry, even if adding nothing new as such.
7/10
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