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In Beetlejuice sequel, Michael Keaton looks the same 36 years on

In Beetlejuice sequel, Michael Keaton looks the same 36 years on

The actor delivers a barnstorming performance as the fast-talking sleazebag demon in Tim Burton’s Burton’s comedic vision of the Afterlife as a nightmarish bureaucracy.

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Thirty-six years is a long time to wait for a sequel, but Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice feels like it was made immediately after the first film wrapped.

The same characters reappear, while sets and props seem to have been carefully preserved against the day they were required for a second instalment. Even Michael Keaton in the title role looks identical to his 1988 self. He’s now 73 but under all that make-up, who can tell?

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