10 Awful-Sounding Sequels That Have No Business Being Made

5. Beetlejuice 2

Release Date: Unknown I am a huge Tim Burton fan - to the extent that I will profusely apologise for some of his most recent work and grasp furiously to the good points (like the Art Direction in Alice in Wonderland, and the... make-up in Dark Shadows) while the rest of the world loses patience with the cookie director - albeit possibly less now that Frankenweenie has proved he definitely still has talent. But even I don't agree with the idea of adding a sequel to the exceptional Beetlejuice 2. Burton says he will only sign on if Michael Keaton agrees to reprise his role as the ghost who ended the original with a shrunken head having seen his plot to marry Winona Ryder foiled at the last - and if there is a story good enough to tease Keaton back into the stripey suit, and Burton back into the director's chair, it might work. It probably won't however, because Keaton isn't exactly getting any younger, and Burton seems to have forgotten how to make live action movies, and should be concentrating his efforts on making more stop-motions and animations, where he can let his imagination run a little more rampantly, and the universes of his imagination translate a lot better.
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