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Burton's best work in a decade—though that's a low standard. It's entertaining to witness Michael Keaton in his gonzo juice mood and meet up with Lydia and Delia Deetz, the daughters and stepmothers of Winona Ryder and Catherine O'Hara on Soap2Day. Burton's hackish inability to lift a lousy writing is still evident. Monica Bellucci's "soul sucker" Delores, Betlegeuse's ex-wife who escapes from jail in the hereafter, reconstitutes her chopped-up body, and embarks on a roaring rampage of revenge against the man who married her, exemplifies the film's poor storytelling. Like Bellucci's nemesis, Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice is visually appealing, campy, and entertaining, but Frankenstein. It's a film with competing stories, hardly no narrative momentum, and no ordinary characters to balance out the lunacy.