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6. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Let's be real - how many genuinely good 35-years-later sequels can you name, especially comedies? 

There were so many things working against Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - not least Tim Burton's rather lackluster late-career output - that most were surely expecting it to join the huge pile of comedy sequels that just waited too damn long to start shooting.

But to the shock of many, Beetlejuice 2 is a more-than-worthy follow-up which makes the most of its killer ensemble cast and stonking $100 million budget.

The enthusiasm of the cast is one thing - especially a brilliant Michael Keaton - but Beetlejuice Beetlejuice also marks a return to more practically-motivated filmmaking for Burton, eschewing nauseating CGI excess in favour of more physical, hand-crafted effects work.

As such, this is a rare decades-later sequel that laudably replicates the charms of its predecessor, even if the original is still the definitive Beetlejuice. 

What an outcome for a movie that could've so easily been yet another soulless letdown from Burton.