mfwcurran
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Wednesday Season 1 was amazing. Truly, aside from Stranger Things, it was the highlight of TV in the last 5 years.
Unlike Stranger Things, however, Wednesday Season 2 is a car wreck. What happened? The ingredients are the same, it's just an utter mess. You can't blame it on a single aspect, such as the casting of one character, but on a culmination of flaws. The only thing I can point to is the similar wreck that is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, that has some of the same ingredients and similar problems of bad scripting, bad editing, and a camera that won't linger for more than two seconds on anything before it has to peel away, like it's been created by someone on speed or a poor attention span. It's a rollercoaster ride, but not a good one. Wednesday Season 2 has just too much going on; it's like they've used a room full of writers to include their greatest hits and got this. Or, worse, they've used non-human writers to do it for them.
Whichever the reason, it's a sad demise to a series that had potential. Either Tim Burton's curse for all things sequels rears its head again, or the producers need to work on what was magical about Season 1 and start again. Maybe ask the fans, perhaps?
Unlike Stranger Things, however, Wednesday Season 2 is a car wreck. What happened? The ingredients are the same, it's just an utter mess. You can't blame it on a single aspect, such as the casting of one character, but on a culmination of flaws. The only thing I can point to is the similar wreck that is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, that has some of the same ingredients and similar problems of bad scripting, bad editing, and a camera that won't linger for more than two seconds on anything before it has to peel away, like it's been created by someone on speed or a poor attention span. It's a rollercoaster ride, but not a good one. Wednesday Season 2 has just too much going on; it's like they've used a room full of writers to include their greatest hits and got this. Or, worse, they've used non-human writers to do it for them.
Whichever the reason, it's a sad demise to a series that had potential. Either Tim Burton's curse for all things sequels rears its head again, or the producers need to work on what was magical about Season 1 and start again. Maybe ask the fans, perhaps?
This is one of those try-too-hard movies. Predictable at best, lacking any tension and any understanding of what makes a good horror. Incoherent script, not great acting, this is a wasted opportunity. It's a film that's so in love with itself, it's missed the point entirely, that is to conjure fear.
Compared to the original its a fan-movie with a budget. Avoid if you love the original.
Compared to the original its a fan-movie with a budget. Avoid if you love the original.
If the ambition for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was to avoid being a terrible sequel, then they've achieved it.
If the ambition was to make a great, or even just a decent movie, they failed. Despite the great actors, special effects, a director who has returned to their game, and the original soundtrack composer, and all the ingredients for a great sequel, it fails due to the almost amateur, I'll conceived story and script.
Honestly, I don't know what's happening in Holywood these days - hacks have always existed but the evidence shows that's all Holywood has. This is the same formulaic, unimaginative dross they churn out these days (it felt like an AI script).
And god alone knows what the critics were thinking praising this movie. Nostalgia is all well and good, but get that from the original, not this laugh an hour hash-up of awkward flashbacks and unoriginality.
3 stars for much of the film then, but an extra two for Bob and Beetlejuice's flashback - 2 scenes of genuine joy in what was a boring, confused mess of a movie.
If the ambition was to make a great, or even just a decent movie, they failed. Despite the great actors, special effects, a director who has returned to their game, and the original soundtrack composer, and all the ingredients for a great sequel, it fails due to the almost amateur, I'll conceived story and script.
Honestly, I don't know what's happening in Holywood these days - hacks have always existed but the evidence shows that's all Holywood has. This is the same formulaic, unimaginative dross they churn out these days (it felt like an AI script).
And god alone knows what the critics were thinking praising this movie. Nostalgia is all well and good, but get that from the original, not this laugh an hour hash-up of awkward flashbacks and unoriginality.
3 stars for much of the film then, but an extra two for Bob and Beetlejuice's flashback - 2 scenes of genuine joy in what was a boring, confused mess of a movie.