Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega lead the Beetlejuice stars leaving Venice Film Festival after their red carpet premiere Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 07:37 EDT, 29 August 2024 | Updated: 07:37 EDT, 29 August 2024 e-mail View comments Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega led the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice stars leaving the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, a day after the film's red carpet premiere. The actress, 52, and her co-star, 21, headed to the city's Marco Polo airport to jet out of the country.
Winona looked effortlessly stylish in a white graphic T-shirt, big floppy hat and huge sunglasses as she was seen at the Venice Lido. Jenna, meanwhile, rocked a stripy cardigan, ripped denim jeans and enjoyed a cup of coffee before the long haul flight. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice director Tim Burton was seen at the airport alongside his girlfriend Monica Bellucci , who stars in the film.
Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega led the Beetlejuice stars leaving the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, a day after the film's red carpet premiere Jenna, meanwhile, rocked a stripy cardigan, ripped denim jeans and enjoyed a cup of coffee before the long haul flight Read More Jenna Ortega stuns in a sheer red gown as she attends Beetlejuice 2 premiere The actress, 59, stopped to sign autographs for fans as she walked through the departure terminal with Tim, 65. Justin Theroux and his new girlfriend Nicole Brydon Bloom were also seen at the airport as well as fellow cast members Catherine O'Hara and Williem Dafoe. Michael Keaton was also pictured leaving.
The actor, 72, and Tim have reunited in the sequel to the 1988 comedy classic which sees him reprise his role as the titular foul-mouthed ghost. Years have passed since the events of the original film, and now Lydia Deetz (Winona) is a mother to a teenage daughter Astrid (Jenna). Tim revealed he had considered retiring from film-making after the disappointing reception of his live-action big budget Dumbo film for Disney.
But he was reinvigorated after making Wednesday, the Addams family spin-off, for Netflix last year. He said: 'The past few years I got a bit disillusioned with the film industry you might say. I just realised if I want to do anything else again I will do it from my heart, it has to be something that I want to do.
The actress, 21, stars as Astrid Deetz in the movie Jenna looked a little windswept as he headed to the airport Winona looked effortlessly stylish in a white graphic T-shirt, big floppy hat and huge sunglasses as she was seen at the Venice Lido Beetlejuice 2 director Tim Burton was seen at the airport alongside his girlfriend Monica Bellucci, who stars in the film The actress, 59, stopped to sign autographs for fans as she walked through the departure terminal with Tim, 65 Justin Theroux and his new girlfriend Nicole Brydon Bloom were also seen at the airport The actor, 53, appeared in high spirits as he flashed a smile to the cameras William Dafoe also jetted out of the country after the premiere Catherine O'Hara opted for comfort for the flight in a stripy co-ord and converses The actress, 70, chatted away as she arrived at the airport Michael Keaton gave a wave as he made his departure Marni Turner received a helping hand out of the water taxi A synopsis of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice reads: 'Three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River after an unexpected family tragedy' 'Winona and Michael and I would talk every few years, talk about doing Beetlejuice but I did get re-energised with Wednesday. Walking the Carpathian mountains in Romania does something to a person.' He added that he had not watched the original film before starting to film the sequel, but had hoped to stay true to its spirit.
Jenna said that she had joined a 'team of giants' on the film and added: 'For me it was about making sure that I wasn’t ripping off Winona’s work back in the day, and making something new.' Winona said: 'I was so thrilled to be with everyone again. It was such a special experience.
My love and trust for Tim runs so deep. There is a sense of playfulness where you try things and you know that if it’s bad, he won’t use it.' Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review: Tim Burton's sequel is unable to pull off the same camp, vampy spirit as its predecessor, writes BRIAN VINER Rating: How dispiritingly apt it is in this cinematic universe of sequels and franchises that the picture chosen to open the world's most venerable film festival should be Tim Burton 's follow-up to his 1988 hit Beetlejuice , long-awaited by just about nobody.
Nobody I know, anyway. The 81st Venice Film Festival opened last night with an impressive cluster of stars on the red carpet, but the movie they were here to celebrate – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - is not quite worthy of the honour. The 1988 original was a comedy-horror classic, which to paraphrase the title of one of the decade's best-known songs, showed that some ghouls just want to have fun.
It was a further indication after Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) that Burton, then still in his mid-twenties, had an outsize imagination. And a couple of years later the point was reinforced by the gloriously weird Edward Scissorhands (1990). But the first Beetlejuice was very much of its time: a camp, vampy, Reagan-era mickey-take of yuppies and consumerism.
Hard as screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar strain to imbue this sequel with the same spirit, they don't really pull it off. Pictured: Willem DaFoe in a scene from 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Actress Jenna Ortega starring in a scene from 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Winona Ryder, still in her teens when she appeared in Beetlejuice (and Edward Scissorhands) , reprises her role as Lydia Deetz. The teenage goth is a middle-aged widow now, a distant mother to moody Astrid (Jenna Ortega) and host psychic of a popular TV show called Ghost House, which is produced by her creepy boyfriend Rory (Justin Theroux).
After Lydia learns from her stepmother Delia (Catherine O'Hara, another 1988 original) that her father has been eaten by a shark, the family gathers for the funeral back in the picture-postcard New England town of Winter River and Rory prepares a singularly ill-timed proposal of marriage. But in the meantime, the decidedly dead demon Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetlejuice and extravagantly played once again by Michael Keaton) has designs on the grown-up and very much alive Lydia who, you might remember, he tried to trick into marrying him all those decades ago - in the days when nobody raised much of an eyebrow at a lustful older man, deceased or not, preying on a schoolgirl as a premise for comedy. Just as he did in 1988, Burton has oodles of fun with the great hereafter.
The Afterlife Call Centre is staffed by a motley collection of spooks, while a deceased actor (Willem Dafoe) playing the part of a detective (a recurring joke that recurringly falls flat) runs the Afterlife Crime Unit. He instructs his wraiths to 'leave no gravestone unturned' in pursuit of the woman Betelgeuse actually did end up marrying, the psychotic leader of a soul-sucking death cult called Dolores (Monica Bellucci), who now wants him back. The cast of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 28 A screengrab from the 1988 film Beetlejuice directed by Tim Burton Michael Keaton in the original film Beetlejuice from 1988 While all this is going on, young Astrid takes a shine to a nice boy, Jeremy (played by Arthur Conti, Tom Conti's grandson) but of course, nothing in Winter River is quite as it seems and before long she too is tottering on the precipice of the great beyond.
As Astrid, Ortega gives a very appealing performance and in terms of her career this film, however it fares at the box office, seems likely to sound whatever might be the opposite of a death knell. The wildly successful Netflix series Wednesday, The Addams Family spin-off, made her a small-screen star. This, following her appearances in three of the Scream slasher movies, should cement her stardom on the silver screen.
She might want to branch out from the kicking-the-bucket genre but I guess that's up to her. In its favour, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice lasts a sensible hour and 45 minutes and a cracking retro soundtrack includes the Bee Gees singing Tragedy as well as the Jimmy Webb classic MacArthur Park. But it too often feels more like an assembly of macabre ideas from Burton's undeniably fertile mind than a coherent film.
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