10 Recent Movies That Avoided Obvious Mistakes

7. More CGI Than Practical Effects - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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Even when Beetlejuice Beetlejuice finally went before cameras, there was anxiety from many that Tim Burton simply didn't have "the sauce" anymore, given the wildly uneven quality of his output from the last 15-or-so years.

More to the point, Burton's increasing reliance on excess CGI seems to have dulled his sense of creativity, and so there was a very reasonable fear that the Beetlejuice sequel would abandon the original's charming practical effects in favour of relentless VFX sludge. But what a pleasant surprise it was for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to be awash in so many physical, on-set props and effects, from makeup to prosthetics, puppets, and even a sequence rendered in claymation.

Of course, the $100 million fantasy-comedy employed plenty of digital effects throughout, but the foundations were almost always practical, ensuring that this not only felt stylistically consistent with its predecessor, but turned out to be Burton's most lovingly produced creation in many years.

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