Legend has it that if you chant "Dick the Birthday Boy" 3 times in a mirror at 3:33 AM, Rich Evans will come through it and build you a folding chable.
The guy in front of me in dollar general dropped everything he was holding so he could reach in the mini fridge and grab a Beetlejuice Fanta. I didnt know anybody could be that excited for Beetlejuice or Fanta
Maybe its a good flavor. Ive noticed brands will often refuse to re release old flavors that were popular unless they can get a tie in to make it sell even more.
@@wil2560 It's spiced-apple-flavored. Heavy on the spice, it's like vaguely fruity cinnamon soda. Maybe if you're a real freak you'll like it, but I personally was not a fan.
Speaking of "remember this?" - in the show community they would mention "beetlejuice" here an there. When a character said beetlejuice for the third time, there was a beetlejuice extra in the background. That was a good gag.
They never mentioned the cartoon, but for me, that was a big part of the whole Beetlejuice "thing". If you are slightly younger than Jay and the boys, then you know what I'm talking about. Beetlejuice and Bobby's World on a Saturday morning.
@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat Yeah, they were doing a Tenacious D show, and Kyle Gass made a joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, like a day or 2 after it happened. Jack Black stopped the show, walked off, then told the press he would never work with Kyle again.
I don't understand why you would buzz your hair off when you're lucky enough to have the hair Jay has at his age. I'm not even 30 yet and my hairline is atrocious compared to his. Genes man... they suck.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice needs to be an actual advertised film but after you buy your ticket and arrive in the theater the lights dim and immediately come back on, followed by Michael Keaton running into the theater and assaulting the audience.
movies i don't hate and can watch while shoveling popcorn into my face are honestly a pretty healthy step in the right direction for hollywood after the last dreadful decade.
Agree, it was totally entertaining, and not offensive - but still somehow quite disappointing. For me, it felt like it actually SHOULD have been a streaming mini-series - the first act was all setup, then it had so many plots and characters I wanted to follow, that just lead nowhere or got resolved too quickly - kinda the opposite of most actual streaming mini-series that feel like films stretched out too far.
@kadiriolanipekun6486 true, but after rewatching a bunch of classics from the 50's, 60's and 70's. I want more newer versions of those era. I'm done with 80's and 90's blockbuster nostalgia. But michael Keaton as Beetlejuice is awesome and he still has it. He even looks better as the character since he is 70 years old.
Just the new standard of excellence: mediocrity, spiced with nostalgia. Audience standards have slipped farther than movie standards, so this seems like a turnaround in quality.
This seems like a kind of movie that people will forget like in a month existed at all until the sequel comes out and everyone goes "ohhh right, they made a second one before"
I've said it recently but I'll say it again: Thank you all so much for the videos. This channel has been my favorite form of entertainment for years now.
Rich did burn my house down cooking French fries and he was laughing the whole time. But then he built me a nicer one with his amazing carpentry skill, and plus I've got a million in the bank thanks to my policy insuring me against Rich Evan's. The only problem is I occasionally have to host a tums festival in my living room.
As someone who played Minecraft way early on, why would someone inflict that commercial dumpster fire of a movie on Mike & Jay? If they do, could we at least give them a safeword?
@@neuronic85Aww that's so adorable! You're trying to set yourself apart from "AlL ThOsE OTHER miNeCrAfT PlaYeRs" No one's gonna fall for it. You're still the same 10 year old today as you were when you started playi g it, and as long as you refer to yourself as "sOmEoNe WhO PlaYeD MiNeFrAfT WAY bAcK" you'll never grow past it. The minecraft movie is oddly EXAFTLY what a monecraft movie should be. There was never a story worth adapting, or a conflicting worth exploring. It's as empty and vapid and mindless as every other video game-movie adaptation and the game it's based on is no different.
Not really topical, but I wanna say I’m loving the content from you guys recently! Half in the Bags have been pretty regular, on a wide variety of movies, and with this off-the-cuff energy that reminds me of your pre-Covid stuff. The re:Views and BoTWs have been excellent, too, and I’m just glad to be here for it. Been watching for about 9 years now, and I just thought I’d say thanks.
I just love the idea that the Minecraft movie is a self-inflicted horror that even the soulless corporate boardroom that signed off on making despises. I would kill to watch a "making of " documentary in which everyone involved from the interns on set to the corporate ceo is just like "What kind of a God would allow this to exist?"
@@soangry It was also something they did on the set for the 90s Mario Bros film because it was such a mess According to John Leguizamo iirc Bob Hopkins caught everyone else smoking pot and was angry he hasn't been invited to partake lol
I still am not positive the Minecraft movie won't just be a tax write off we'll never see like the Batgirl movie. They seem to be putting effort into pissing off every potential fan possible from children to adults. Nobody wants that movie.
@onojioboardwalk9748 first, you're replying to the wrong comment thread. Second, in an older interview Burton mentioned how he doesn't hire minorities for his movies. This movie only had black people in the "soul train" parody segment, so his old statement is still relevant.
Not sure how true this is but it’s a fun story. Back in the 90s studios really wanted to make Beetlejuice 2 but Tim wanted to do other things. However, every meeting they would bringing it up. So eventually Tim came in really excited about Beetlejuice 2 and gave them the script Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian which was awful but the execs wanted to keep him sweet so were like “this is great but it needs a little punch up before we green light it”. So it got passed round from writer to writer while Tim made his other films. He wrote a Beetlejuice sequel with the intention of sending it into production hell so they would stop bothering him to make one.
Kevin Smith talked about this about 20 years ago. He said in the 90's, he was offered to punch up Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian for some script doctor work, and that ironically led to him drafting a Superman script before Burton swooped in, canned that script, and wasted a few years developing it with Jon Peters before that fell apart.
They've largely eliminated the scripted shenanigans from Half In The Bag, so its basically become a Spotlight Best Of The Worst, except they wear a uniform.
I love that we can't say certain words, so we come up with other words to mean that and everyone still knows what everyone is talking about. So all we've done is change the word for no reason. What a cool world
By watching just one episode of Farscape a day you can make a difference in Rich Evans life, watch now and bring a smile to his face. So watch the series today and change the life of a single Rich Evans forever.
Its genuinely on almost every streaming site. Hell UA-cam even has the first 2 seasons available with for free with Ads and it looks like whoever owns the IP has also started uploading full episodes on its own channel. Make Rich Evans happy check it out everyone. It's got Jim Henson made creatures.
Beetlejuice Goes to Camp Beetlejuice Saves Christmas Beetlejuice Goes to Jail Beetlejuice Scared Stupid Beetlejuice Rides Again Beetlejuice Goes to School Slam Dunk Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Goes to Africa Beetlejuice in the Army 😆
oh yeah, frozen empire happened... in March? that was a scheduling and marketing problem as much as a bad movie problem. i don't get how an obvious christmas movie was sent to die in spring.
@thetramp123 I kinda disagree solely because afterlife was the biggest "member this?" movie I've ever seen and it annoyed the absolute SHIT out of me. At least frozen empire was somewhat original compared to the other sequels. New villain, different plot, somewhat fresh ideas, it felt like an extended episode of the ghostbusters cartoon which I'm fine with. Of course, originality isn't the only thing that matters, but it's usually only an issue if the original thing is also WAY worse, but I think both films were okay.
The best thing about the sequel is the title. Genius. I’m excited for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. And then see how the studios will be stumped trying to come up with a title for the fourth one.
IIRC Keaton told Burton to use Beetlejuice sparingly because the first movie worked best with him popping in as an agent of chaos and keeping the focus on the Maitland's story
@@robertmagill6005 It felt like they'd mapped out enough plot for an 8-episode Netflix series, and then that fell through, so they crammed it all into one movie.
@@AbbaZappaIt's more a "you can't say certain things even if they're relevant on social media" thing. UA-cam has an unpublished list of words you can't say either alone or near each other or the whole comment gets deleted without warning. This applies to videos, but the video won't be deleted, only demonitized. UA-cam has no problem monetizing videos that say these things for their own benefit, but the creator won't get paid, and anyone that repeats the exact thing the video says has their comments vanish. No list is available to know what you can't say, so if you were to spend 2 months making a video and say one of these words, oops, no money for you. They'll still run ads on it, but the creator doesn't get any of the revenue - only the website. So, you have to censor yourself if you want to actually make money off of your work. Imagine if there were rules at your place of work that if you broke them, you didn't get paid that day, but no one told you what they were. You'd still be allowed to work the whole day without notice you weren't getting paid for it, and even questioning what these rules were was against the rules. That's youtube these days. I may not even be able to post this because I'm questioning UA-cam as a platform. I won't know until I hit send and refresh the page!
I am hardcore-torn between "this movie didn't exactly suck" and "I am sick and tired of franchises that are relying on 'member-berries". Like, I get the theory that there are no new stories, but, for example, when the original Beetlejuice came out, it really felt like a new story.
Beetlejuice still feels unparalleled. It's hard to even categorize it. Unless they had another hour and a half of stuff no one seen before they shouldn't have done this. Not to mention the energy factor of Mr Keaton. I don't want to say what might have played into the magic of the first one but I don't think he would be participating in it any further.
To me "it didn't exactly suck" is enough of an indictment already. My philosophy is that a sequel needs to be really good in order to be worth any positive consideration at all. A sequel that is merely "fine" might as well be terrible for all the difference it makes to me.
I agree with Jay, when that opening Danny Elfman theme started playing I was instantly enjoying myself. Plus, I was seated in one of those D-Box seats, so as the camera panned around the aerial shot of the town, the seat gently moved with the matching motion of the camera. So cool!
15:38 I was genuinely fully invested in Mike downing that can, to see him just throw it on the floor as I zoned out from listening at the same time as him cracked me up 🤣🤣🤣
I found out 5 minutes before I got this notification. Tapped it and the ad just before was for Megalopolis and he was doing the voiceover. It was an emotional roller coaster ride. 😢🥲💔❤️
The prequel to the Beetlejuice Cinematic Universe will be Beetlejuice Minus One because they need an origin story. Michael Keaton will be dead by then, so they’ll have a CGI version of him dancing inexplicably to calypso music.
This whole "avoid saying these perfectly acceptable words to describe this uncomfortable topic" shtick pressed on us from social media platforms is getting out of control.
@@JTS-u3lThey're protecting their bank accounts because advertising revenue won't be as easy to get. I don't mean the creators - I mean the platforms.
yeah, true. for example, whenever someone says something like: "someone unalived themselves" or "game ended", it always sounds so fucking disrespectful to me, it sounds like the mockery of what happened. same with stuff here, like minimizing something and trying to hide the truth. this censorship shit has got to go man, its too much
I think it's fair to mention that they kept the naughty jokes and outrageous moments such as kicking "Babyjiuce" behind the couch; very refreshing! I felt like watching a 90s movie at times and enjoyed myself so very much!
Have to acknowledge that 2024 at least has been a good year for Mike, record low attendance levels in movie theaters, meaning no sweaty nacho men holding back production of weekly HITB episodes.
@@Billy_Williamson this is why i go to the nice theaters with the individual reclining seats. My kid has a theater subscription and just takes the block of seats so nobody's around.
it's End of Life crisis for all these directors and actors. They're feeling old, irrelevant, so they gotta go back to their claims to fame to feel important again before they die
Beetlejuice 2 made $400m at the box office so at this point with the grave status of the industry, especially here in LA in particular, they're going to retreat to recycling nostalgia and adapt popular IPs to do anything and everything to find profits. Meanwhile, Terrifier 3 is absolutely shunned by just about everyone in said industry, and it's already looking to make 10x its budget in one box office weekend.
@@Fiveash-Art Agreed, he has composed some of my favorite film scores of all time. A lot of people I would describe as geniuses are often freaks in some way.
What I don't understand is the "soft rebranding" of Beetlejuice as a "Trickster Demon." I don't recall him ever getting that title, though I could be wrong (HIGHLY DOUBTFUL). It just sounds like something Zak Bagans would say when he's out and about hunting ghosties. "Within these walls lies the evil spirit of a known Trickster-Demon, said to taunt those who dare trespass in his hallowed halls. I plan on uppercutting him out a window." And then Aaron would say, "Talk about spirit box." And then Zak would say, "Good one, Aaron."
Sounds like you guys didn't notice that Willem Dafoe's secretary in the movie had a bullet hole in her chest, implying she had been accidentally shot on set. Assuming she was an actress in the real world.
Thanks Mike for explaining what happened to Jeffery Jones and his character. The fact that he ****** that *** in the **** while ***** on the horse was news to me. Incredibly insightful as always. Voy cooauge!
His character was one of the best additions. An actually original character who fits into the style of the original while expanding the world. He absolutely killed it, too. They could have found a way to incorporate his character into almost any of the various plots.
I LOVE the original, but this was like eating microwaved french fries. It's something to eat, but isn't very appetizing. Ultimately it just leaves you wanting what you had the first time.
i think people get to a certain age, and no matter how great or cromulent new things are, we'd just rather watch our old thing. It's also a product of now having every piece of content immediately available at the touch of a button. We don't marinate on one thing over and over like we used to.
It's literally nostalgia bait. It's just over the minimum run time, waits tons of time on the father character, the corpse bride adds nothing. They literally used a checklist for the film to copy the original. Oh, we haven't had a sandworm yet, need to add one of those. We haven't had a possessed song yet, need to add one. It's a series of loosely connected skits that are rarely funny unless you just keep going, ooh I 'member.
rumor has it the rationale behind "Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian" was just that Tim Burton thought it would be funny to put macabre German expressionism in a tropical paradise.
I know it's been almost 20 years, but I'm still amazed that Charlie and the Extraordinary Rendition Blacksite movie actually happened. That movie looks like it was cut from Event Horizon
So glad jay also thought of the dead alive baby. Also I thought the Asian dry cleaner character was a bit more suspicious than the soul train scene haha
At first I thought the Soul Train bit was was a nod to Tom Savini because they all looked like the zombies from that first scene in Dawn of the Dead. Now I'm realizing they're just dead black people in 70s clothing.
Gotta love when a character keeps the exact same haircut for their entire life so the audience can easily recognize them.
This is how we know Mike is a fictional character and Jay is real, he changes his hair.
you're describing MIke
Same fashion sense, too.
@@notjocelyn seriously, though, thank god he cut his hair. He looked exactly like Seth Green's character from Airborn. Google for confirmation
No one is every truly gone
OK A.I Mike
Legend has it that if you chant "Dick the Birthday Boy" 3 times in a mirror at 3:33 AM, Rich Evans will come through it and build you a folding chable.
Lmao ded
Sounds like a good time to me!
When I read this comment it had 333 likes and 3 comments.
@@danielwilliams7161 so you ruined it?
@@NeonNijahn
I refreshed the page to make sure the count had gone up before I commented. I did take a screenshot though
Not gonna lie, hearing Mike complain about A Minecraft Movie for 2 hours actually sounds like a good time
Plinkett review when?
Enough young people complaining about the Minecraft movie, it’s time for old people complaining about the Minecraft movie.
Mike completely checking out and loudly throwing beer cans around when Jay starts talking about Jenna Ortega and tiktok is the only correct response.
"I forgot you were talking!" is a legendary response
B..e..a..utiful!
She is a tight wee thing though
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is the role Jeffrey Jones was born to play.
Obsessively stalking a schoolboy
😂😂😂
lol
He went too method
He played an evil monster in Howard the Duck as well, I think.
@@Freakazoid12345and The Pest
The most jaw-dropping thing in this movie was Jeffrey Jones' funeral music being performed by a boys choir. REAL subtle Burton, real subtle.
The boys are celebrating that he’s dead.
They invited those that were closest to him
I only had to find out what happened to that actor and I wish I could say.... I didn't want to know....
"Thats Hollywood, baby," to quote the bestestest of actresses.
Ironically they probably wanted to go home after daylight come
When Rich Evans isn't on the screen everyone should be asking "Where's Rich Evans?"
We do
Give him a nice schmear of surfer 🤙
He died on the way back to his home planet.
Rich Evans should also have access to a time machine.
he's credited so gotta be somewhere in it right ??!
The guy in front of me in dollar general dropped everything he was holding so he could reach in the mini fridge and grab a Beetlejuice Fanta. I didnt know anybody could be that excited for Beetlejuice or Fanta
It's a pretty good fanta
Maybe its a good flavor. Ive noticed brands will often refuse to re release old flavors that were popular unless they can get a tie in to make it sell even more.
LBJ loved Fresca so much he had all the White House fountains dispense it, so anything is possible.
Honestly, I would probably do the same thing. Mostly because the idea is just so strange.
@@wil2560 It's spiced-apple-flavored. Heavy on the spice, it's like vaguely fruity cinnamon soda. Maybe if you're a real freak you'll like it, but I personally was not a fan.
Mike didn't watch Beetlejuice a lot as a kid because, as a believer in ghosts, he thought it was just a documentary.
Hahaha! Spot on comment!
Speaking of "remember this?" - in the show community they would mention "beetlejuice" here an there. When a character said beetlejuice for the third time, there was a beetlejuice extra in the background. That was a good gag.
I said Rich Evans three times and he appeared in my garage asking for Shaq Meat.
Not Dick the Birthday Boy? 🤔
You sure mean that JUICY Shaq Meat.
Best comment I've read in 3 months. Praise Nukie
I said Rich Evans three times and he came and I got AAAAAIIIIIIDDDDDDD with my XCom 2 playthrough. Thanks, Rich!
Just did it myself n he gave me aaaaiiiiiiddddsssss!!!
Intro: This is nostalgia bait trash
Actual Review: It's fine
Same difference with this movie.
Mike's intros are always exaggerated for comedic effect though im sure at least some of those thoughts were real.
They're actually ok if a remake/rehash can at least be in the same ballpark as the original, who can blame them after ghostbusters 2016.
They subverted my expectations
The broke new ground!@@rhetiq9989
I was here when the HACK FRAUDS called the video "Best of the Worst: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice."
@@TheBrianJ the dementia appears to be setting in, it's not long before we're nursing home bound
They should have just kept it like that it would’ve been way funnier
I can't believe how unprofessional this channel has become. I'm taking my single view per video elsewhere!
we will NOT forget
They did?
They never mentioned the cartoon, but for me, that was a big part of the whole Beetlejuice "thing". If you are slightly younger than Jay and the boys, then you know what I'm talking about. Beetlejuice and Bobby's World on a Saturday morning.
I know they didn't. I'm bummed about it. 😢
I feel like I only watched the BJ movie twice, but LOVED the cartoon and comic books.
Agreed, the cartoon was a big thing for me. Definitely a generational difference.
I still quote a line from the cartoon:
Lydia: “It doesn’t matter if your win or lose, all that matters…”
Beetlejuice: “is how much you get paid.”
It's interesting how Jack Black managed to make everyone go from loving him to hating him in just a few years. Be careful what you star in, god damn
Be careful not to throw your oldest friend under a bus to save face with heartless movie producers so you can afford that new mansion.
@@whompronniewhat, the bald one?
@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat Yeah, they were doing a Tenacious D show, and Kyle Gass made a joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, like a day or 2 after it happened. Jack Black stopped the show, walked off, then told the press he would never work with Kyle again.
@@whompronnie Or maybe tell your friend to have some sense and not be a rabid, TDS-infected clown.
@@MayfWasHere Told the press via social media, no less.
Jay is a true friend for donating his hair to Rich Evans. I sure hope the transplant takes hold.
Rich Evans is pioneering the worlds first Head to Ass hair transplant! What a visionary!
I don't understand why you would buzz your hair off when you're lucky enough to have the hair Jay has at his age. I'm not even 30 yet and my hairline is atrocious compared to his. Genes man... they suck.
@@LeavinMyTown Hey, that's America's head ass.
I hear Rich Evans is a trans plant. He identifies as a bonsai
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice needs to be an actual advertised film but after you buy your ticket and arrive in the theater the lights dim and immediately come back on, followed by Michael Keaton running into the theater and assaulting the audience.
Would make for a marginally better experience.
Sexually
I'd pay for that
I don't think he has a great cardio to do that on every movie theater on the USA all alone...
Or Threetlejuice (not my joke)
movies i don't hate and can watch while shoveling popcorn into my face are honestly a pretty healthy step in the right direction for hollywood after the last dreadful decade.
Agree, it was totally entertaining, and not offensive - but still somehow quite disappointing. For me, it felt like it actually SHOULD have been a streaming mini-series - the first act was all setup, then it had so many plots and characters I wanted to follow, that just lead nowhere or got resolved too quickly - kinda the opposite of most actual streaming mini-series that feel like films stretched out too far.
thats why movies are dead, because of people like you.
They still make good movies bro. It’s not just blocbusters
@kadiriolanipekun6486 true, but after rewatching a bunch of classics from the 50's, 60's and 70's. I want more newer versions of those era. I'm done with 80's and 90's blockbuster nostalgia. But michael Keaton as Beetlejuice is awesome and he still has it. He even looks better as the character since he is 70 years old.
Just the new standard of excellence: mediocrity, spiced with nostalgia. Audience standards have slipped farther than movie standards, so this seems like a turnaround in quality.
Jay will never do a re view of Fight Club because he can’t talk about Fight Club.
This seems like a kind of movie that people will forget like in a month existed at all until the sequel comes out and everyone goes "ohhh right, they made a second one before"
I've said it recently but I'll say it again: Thank you all so much for the videos. This channel has been my favorite form of entertainment for years now.
Kiss arse
I said Rich Evans 3 times and he showed up trying to burn my house down making French fries.
Clearly he still hasn't learned to be cool about fire safety after all these years.
Rich did burn my house down cooking French fries and he was laughing the whole time. But then he built me a nicer one with his amazing carpentry skill, and plus I've got a million in the bank thanks to my policy insuring me against Rich Evan's. The only problem is I occasionally have to host a tums festival in my living room.
The same thing happened to me 2 years ago and nobody believes me...
I'm fucking wheezing right now!
Thankfully it's over your joke and not all the smoke from the grease fire Rich just left in the kitchen( ! ! ! )
HEY RICH… be cool about fire safety.
I honestly cannot wait for the RLM Minecraft Movie review. Gonna be the highlight of my year.
As someone who played Minecraft way early on, why would someone inflict that commercial dumpster fire of a movie on Mike & Jay? If they do, could we at least give them a safeword?
They ain’t touching that
@@53knightsnot true, they're doing the two-flick Half In The Bag episode with Minecraft and Matt Reeves' The Batman 👍
@@neuronic85Aww that's so adorable! You're trying to set yourself apart from "AlL ThOsE OTHER miNeCrAfT PlaYeRs"
No one's gonna fall for it. You're still the same 10 year old today as you were when you started playi g it, and as long as you refer to yourself as "sOmEoNe WhO PlaYeD MiNeFrAfT WAY bAcK" you'll never grow past it.
The minecraft movie is oddly EXAFTLY what a monecraft movie should be. There was never a story worth adapting, or a conflicting worth exploring.
It's as empty and vapid and mindless as every other video game-movie adaptation and the game it's based on is no different.
That movie looks GAWDAWFUL
Not really topical, but I wanna say I’m loving the content from you guys recently! Half in the Bags have been pretty regular, on a wide variety of movies, and with this off-the-cuff energy that reminds me of your pre-Covid stuff. The re:Views and BoTWs have been excellent, too, and I’m just glad to be here for it. Been watching for about 9 years now, and I just thought I’d say thanks.
I just love the idea that the Minecraft movie is a self-inflicted horror that even the soulless corporate boardroom that signed off on making despises. I would kill to watch a "making of " documentary in which everyone involved from the interns on set to the corporate ceo is just like "What kind of a God would allow this to exist?"
I believe that describes the twilight movie. I think an actor said they were all stoned on set and didn't care at all.
@@soangry It was also something they did on the set for the 90s Mario Bros film because it was such a mess
According to John Leguizamo iirc Bob Hopkins caught everyone else smoking pot and was angry he hasn't been invited to partake lol
I still am not positive the Minecraft movie won't just be a tax write off we'll never see like the Batgirl movie. They seem to be putting effort into pissing off every potential fan possible from children to adults. Nobody wants that movie.
There wasnt any damn ''Controversies'' related to tim burton recently. +
@onojioboardwalk9748 first, you're replying to the wrong comment thread.
Second, in an older interview Burton mentioned how he doesn't hire minorities for his movies. This movie only had black people in the "soul train" parody segment, so his old statement is still relevant.
Not sure how true this is but it’s a fun story. Back in the 90s studios really wanted to make Beetlejuice 2 but Tim wanted to do other things. However, every meeting they would bringing it up. So eventually Tim came in really excited about Beetlejuice 2 and gave them the script Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian which was awful but the execs wanted to keep him sweet so were like “this is great but it needs a little punch up before we green light it”. So it got passed round from writer to writer while Tim made his other films.
He wrote a Beetlejuice sequel with the intention of sending it into production hell so they would stop bothering him to make one.
Every poor effort I've made was actually me being clever as well
Maybe I'm weird but I think Beetlejuice goes Hawaiian would have made for an interesting movie. I just read the script and boy was it sure something
Kevin Smith talked about this about 20 years ago. He said in the 90's, he was offered to punch up Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian for some script doctor work, and that ironically led to him drafting a Superman script before Burton swooped in, canned that script, and wasted a few years developing it with Jon Peters before that fell apart.
Mikes dementia really spiked in thinking this was a BOTW
He was thinking about Star Trek the ENTIRE time when shooting this video and while editing....
They've largely eliminated the scripted shenanigans from Half In The Bag, so its basically become a Spotlight Best Of The Worst, except they wear a uniform.
@@JaDav40 and they'll review and spotlight decent, lesser known films here every so often.
@@JaDav40 Mike will need an earpiece like Brando soon
I thought Mandela struck again
I'm less scared of Beetlejuice and more scared of Jay going on a revenge killing spree because he looks badass with that haircut.
He looks like he's going to ask me if I want to wait for dogs to arrive
What did you do to Jay that you fear vengeance?
He's the clone. He's Jay's X-23.
Jay is one beard shave away to become Paul Walker resurrected corpse
American History RLM
That Charlie & The Chocolate Factory movie he did is almost 20 Years old damn can we even call it modern Tim Burton anymore lol
Tim has been bad for 20 years.
A sad thought.
@@alanpennie8013It's been over 20 years and counting, my friend.
@@citypopradioFM
As we get older we do not get any younger...
We call those films his Gray Years.
@@alanpennie8013 Yes that's indeed that getting older means, my friend.
I made the exact same Simpsons reference after I saw it.
"Whenver Beetljuice isn't on screen, everyone should be asking "Where's Beetlejuice"
That line is from the Simpsons? I thought it was mocking something a dumbass director said in an interview or something like that
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeatthat's actually the context of the original joke!
Great to see Jay embracing his Max Payne 3 hairstyle. Must be going through some rough times.
He's turning into a venture capitalist
When you're that close to Kenosha you have to be ready for a zombie apocalypse at any time
I love that we can't say certain words, so we come up with other words to mean that and everyone still knows what everyone is talking about. So all we've done is change the word for no reason. What a cool world
Speaking in code is completely Orwellian and so utterly depressing. It makes me want to 'unalive' myself.
It's basically a return of minced oaths. Farking disgraceful.
@@Fiveash-Art Teenage suicide, don't do it!
We don't want to hurt the pwecious widdle feelings of version men, do we?
@@charlottecorday8494 What the hell are you talking about? 😂
By watching just one episode of Farscape a day you can make a difference in Rich Evans life, watch now and bring a smile to his face. So watch the series today and change the life of a single Rich Evans forever.
Its genuinely on almost every streaming site. Hell UA-cam even has the first 2 seasons available with for free with Ads and it looks like whoever owns the IP has also started uploading full episodes on its own channel. Make Rich Evans happy check it out everyone. It's got Jim Henson made creatures.
Jay would like it more because it's a show for perverts
Farscape is legit one of the best sf shows ever. I just downloaded a 4k upscale one that is supposedly pretty good, haven't checked it out yet
@@dagrimmreepau definitely didn’t download anything. What a strange thing to lie about
@@dagrimmreepa Why the hell did you just make the decision to lie to people in the comments section?
Beetlejuice Goes to Camp
Beetlejuice Saves Christmas
Beetlejuice Goes to Jail
Beetlejuice Scared Stupid
Beetlejuice Rides Again
Beetlejuice Goes to School
Slam Dunk Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice Goes to Africa
Beetlejuice in the Army 😆
lol god bless Jim varney
Cursed Crossover
You just summoned him three times...
2:52 Suburban Sasquatch sound
Amazing
I had completely forgotten they'd recently made new Ghostbusters movies until Jay mentioned it in passing just now.
oh yeah, frozen empire happened... in March? that was a scheduling and marketing problem as much as a bad movie problem. i don't get how an obvious christmas movie was sent to die in spring.
didnt Sony move it up from Autumn into Spring to cover the hole that Beyond The Spider-Verse left after it went on an indefinite delay?
One came out this year even. I remember mainly because it might be even worse than the last one.
@thetramp123 I kinda disagree solely because afterlife was the biggest "member this?" movie I've ever seen and it annoyed the absolute SHIT out of me. At least frozen empire was somewhat original compared to the other sequels. New villain, different plot, somewhat fresh ideas, it felt like an extended episode of the ghostbusters cartoon which I'm fine with. Of course, originality isn't the only thing that matters, but it's usually only an issue if the original thing is also WAY worse, but I think both films were okay.
Jay's haircut heralds the beginning of the Dark Jay Saga.
Rich put gum in Jay's hair
Jay is entering his Banshee era
It's the start of American History Jay.
I'm sure he will keep his elimination of the younglings and hatred of sand to a minimum, or else...you know...demonetized.
Best of the Bag
Half in the Worst
Half of the Worst in the Best re:View Bag
I can just imagine that boardroom:
"Johnson, you're being assigned to the Minecraft movie."
"Oh, no thank you sir." *Promptly shoots self in the head*
*Hits button on speaker*
Ms. Brown please send in Mr Smith
@ULTRAOutdoorsman
You have 50 seconds to comply!
This movie deserves an award for being under an hour forty-five
I hope Jay recovers from whatever divorce and/or custody battle that caused him to lose his mind and shave his glorious hair.
He’s doing it for a role. He’s a stand in for Gladiator 2.
@lookoutforchris he's the pleasure boy for the gladiators. Character name: Vin Di-Bona
Get a haircut for the job you want (being paid millions by Russia through proxy corporations), not the one you have
Don't worry. He's one of those jerks that can grow it right back. Not like me.....
I dunno i think he looks pretty good with a shaved head. Dude looks crazy good for 50 something
The best thing about the sequel is the title. Genius.
I’m excited for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. And then see how the studios will be stumped trying to come up with a title for the fourth one.
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice 4
It will be "Beetlejuice 2027: Juiciest"
@@ZBTEproductions Ah, yes, the Alien³ dilemma
"its prequel time"
In fast and furious logic the next one would be Beetlejuice : Tokyo Drift
watched the title change before my very eyes, thank you for your service whoever did that
You are the blessed one 🙏🏽😌
Straight to DVD movies are now "Blockbusters"
Mike's Milwaukee accent is getting stronger and stronger as the years march on by.
IIRC Keaton told Burton to use Beetlejuice sparingly because the first movie worked best with him popping in as an agent of chaos and keeping the focus on the Maitland's story
And it would have worked for this one too if it bothered to focus on a single story.
They had about three sequels in one movie.
@@robertmagill6005 It felt like they'd mapped out enough plot for an 8-episode Netflix series, and then that fell through, so they crammed it all into one movie.
@@Green_Tea_Coffee I wish that was real. Doing this as a Netflix show would've been brilliant.
@@robertmagill6005 Agree! Then they could have actually had time for each story thread instead of having to rush through everything.
Richevans Richevans Richevans!
You’re messing with powers beyond your comprehension!
It says here "translate to English" and I didn't like what I saw.
You have to say bloody rich evans into a mirror… it doesn’t work on UA-cam duh!
It won’t work, he’s transcended being The CandyMan and now just has crippling diabetes.
It's Rich Evans X3 actually. Rich and Evans are 2 separate parts. I'm not sure who or what Richevans is. Maybe it's related to Geteven perhaps?
Man, that minutes long censored bit dancing around demonetization "explaining" that shit with Jeffrey Jones was wild.
DEMONetization! 😈
I laughed so f'ing hard!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
And Danny Elfman
Mike: well, Catherine O'Hara's Out
Jay: "No One's Ever Really Out."
Red One legit looks like SNL pardoy movie come to life.
Jay's hair has more of an arc than any movie character of the last 5 years.
I never thought i would hear Mike say PDF file
Has he said gif yet?
Let's just hope he doesn't take one to the local FedEx office!! ..That would be embarrassing. **slide whistle sound**
Is that a dr.disrespect reference??
@@AbbaZappaIt's more a "you can't say certain things even if they're relevant on social media" thing. UA-cam has an unpublished list of words you can't say either alone or near each other or the whole comment gets deleted without warning. This applies to videos, but the video won't be deleted, only demonitized. UA-cam has no problem monetizing videos that say these things for their own benefit, but the creator won't get paid, and anyone that repeats the exact thing the video says has their comments vanish. No list is available to know what you can't say, so if you were to spend 2 months making a video and say one of these words, oops, no money for you. They'll still run ads on it, but the creator doesn't get any of the revenue - only the website. So, you have to censor yourself if you want to actually make money off of your work.
Imagine if there were rules at your place of work that if you broke them, you didn't get paid that day, but no one told you what they were. You'd still be allowed to work the whole day without notice you weren't getting paid for it, and even questioning what these rules were was against the rules. That's youtube these days. I may not even be able to post this because I'm questioning UA-cam as a platform. I won't know until I hit send and refresh the page!
Mike relating to the younger generation using hip words "hello fellow kids"
I am hardcore-torn between "this movie didn't exactly suck" and "I am sick and tired of franchises that are relying on 'member-berries". Like, I get the theory that there are no new stories, but, for example, when the original Beetlejuice came out, it really felt like a new story.
Beetlejuice still feels unparalleled. It's hard to even categorize it. Unless they had another hour and a half of stuff no one seen before they shouldn't have done this. Not to mention the energy factor of Mr Keaton. I don't want to say what might have played into the magic of the first one but I don't think he would be participating in it any further.
The way I describe it is every story's already happened once. But not every storyteller has told their version.
i'm torn between "this is made for all the wrong reasons" and "i am never watching this pile of shit"
@@josephirizarry5195Well, sounds like you are between a pillow and a soft place.
To me "it didn't exactly suck" is enough of an indictment already. My philosophy is that a sequel needs to be really good in order to be worth any positive consideration at all. A sequel that is merely "fine" might as well be terrible for all the difference it makes to me.
I agree with Jay, when that opening Danny Elfman theme started playing I was instantly enjoying myself. Plus, I was seated in one of those D-Box seats, so as the camera panned around the aerial shot of the town, the seat gently moved with the matching motion of the camera. So cool!
15:38 I was genuinely fully invested in Mike downing that can, to see him just throw it on the floor as I zoned out from listening at the same time as him cracked me up 🤣🤣🤣
Best of the Worst?
*Un-Halves your bag*
Just watched the text change before my eyes. I feel blessed. I hope it was Rich Evans.
@@MattrickBT the most human interaction I've had all week
Un-Fucks Your Movies.
lol, they’ve already changed it. Thought they were doing a bit at first.
Mike forgot what show he was on again! 😂
Welp, we've gotten Michael Keaton's Batman again and now Beetlejuice, I can't wait for Mr. Grandma!
Or that remake of Multiplicity.
Nah, I was thinking Gung Ho-Ho-Ho. It writes itself.
I'd watch a Multiplicity sequel. We can call it Division and it will be him dealing with a new batch of clones who are all midgets.
Johnny dangerously 2 baby!!!!!
@@beatlefreak67 Johnny Dangerouslier
Perfect timing for James Earl Jones.
I’m glad he didn’t have to see this.
They talked about James earl Jones once the curse continues.
James Earl Jones should have never had to say the word "Padme."
RIP
Now he's James Earl Bones
I found out 5 minutes before I got this notification. Tapped it and the ad just before was for Megalopolis and he was doing the voiceover. It was an emotional roller coaster ride. 😢🥲💔❤️
The prequel to the Beetlejuice Cinematic Universe will be Beetlejuice Minus One because they need an origin story. Michael Keaton will be dead by then, so they’ll have a CGI version of him dancing inexplicably to calypso music.
28:30 I don't think I've ever seen Mike look more disappointed than here, when Jay I guess didn't start singing the Beetlejuice theme with him
I assumed it was the Star Trek theme, and the disappointment was Mike realising he wasn't hanging out with Rich Evans.
This whole "avoid saying these perfectly acceptable words to describe this uncomfortable topic" shtick pressed on us from social media platforms is getting out of control.
Agreed. Who are they protecting? "The children. Think of the children!" It's goofy.
@@JTS-u3lThey're protecting their bank accounts because advertising revenue won't be as easy to get. I don't mean the creators - I mean the platforms.
@@JTS-u3l The advertisers. Can't cut into advertisers profits by saying something "unseemly".
Agreed. I resent not being able to just speak plainly like reasonable adults.
yeah, true. for example, whenever someone says something like: "someone unalived themselves" or "game ended", it always sounds so fucking disrespectful to me, it sounds like the mockery of what happened. same with stuff here, like minimizing something and trying to hide the truth. this censorship shit has got to go man, its too much
It's easy to go back to your "roots" after you've sold out. - Mike
Jay's starting to look like a GI Joe I had as a kid. Not the little modern ones, the old GI Joe with the fuzzy hair you had to rub all the time.
"Had to"
G.I. JAAAAAAY.
The next G.I. Joe movie can only be the greatest movie ever made in history if Rich Evans from The Ellen DeGeneres Show stars as Snake Eyes in it.
Jay-da Plinkett Smith
True to scale, also.
There is a horizontal scuff under the window of Plinkett’s living room set, I swiped my screen several times thinking it was a rogue hair lol
I think it's fair to mention that they kept the naughty jokes and outrageous moments such as kicking "Babyjiuce" behind the couch; very refreshing! I felt like watching a 90s movie at times and enjoyed myself so very much!
Have to acknowledge that 2024 at least has been a good year for Mike, record low attendance levels in movie theaters, meaning no sweaty nacho men holding back production of weekly HITB episodes.
@@ennayanne I think Mike has also encountered them picking their noses and coughing all over him during Marvel or Star Wars movies.
@@Billy_Williamson this is why i go to the nice theaters with the individual reclining seats. My kid has a theater subscription and just takes the block of seats so nobody's around.
This is the weirdest best of the worst I've ever seen
They are a group of weird guys to be fair
If only The Dunkster was there to help ground things.
No u r
They might gone too far in a few places
Weirder than the one with that coked-up sex-pest?
Starring Jenna Ortega as Jenna Ortega and Winona Ryder as Winona Ryder
That's not fair, sometimes Winona gives unique performances like Crying Lady in Stranger Things or Wooden Plank in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
More like Winona Ryder as Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega as Winona Ryder
Ryder is still more attractive than ortega
And Jerry Mathers as the Beaver.
@@EricWoodend Thief irl her only role where she was different
The bleeping of the Jeffry Jones situation made me burst into laughter after the 6th bleep 😂
I really hate this midlife crisis phase that Hollywood's been in for the past 15 years.
it's End of Life crisis for all these directors and actors. They're feeling old, irrelevant, so they gotta go back to their claims to fame to feel important again before they die
Beetlejuice 2 made $400m at the box office so at this point with the grave status of the industry, especially here in LA in particular, they're going to retreat to recycling nostalgia and adapt popular IPs to do anything and everything to find profits. Meanwhile, Terrifier 3 is absolutely shunned by just about everyone in said industry, and it's already looking to make 10x its budget in one box office weekend.
When Half in the Bag has the piano intro you know it's gonna be a banger
Holy shit that Oingo Boingo clip was so sinister in that context lol
It doesn't help that Danny Elfman has always looked like a sex pest.
Or in any context…
Danny Elfman now looks like everyone's old lesbian aunt now
That song has always been creepy. Great record. Guy has always been a complete genius.
@@Fiveash-Art Agreed, he has composed some of my favorite film scores of all time. A lot of people I would describe as geniuses are often freaks in some way.
Slide whistle guy perfectly timed it again!
What I don't understand is the "soft rebranding" of Beetlejuice as a "Trickster Demon." I don't recall him ever getting that title, though I could be wrong (HIGHLY DOUBTFUL). It just sounds like something Zak Bagans would say when he's out and about hunting ghosties. "Within these walls lies the evil spirit of a known Trickster-Demon, said to taunt those who dare trespass in his hallowed halls. I plan on uppercutting him out a window." And then Aaron would say, "Talk about spirit box." And then Zak would say, "Good one, Aaron."
I found Mike's alt account
@@theomacer3094 Says MIke's alt account. I'm on to you.
“When Beetlejuice isn’t on screen, have everyone ask where’s Beetlejuice.” I clapped, I clapped when I heard that.
Mike "I forgot you were talking" Stoklasa
Sounds like you guys didn't notice that Willem Dafoe's secretary in the movie had a bullet hole in her chest, implying she had been accidentally shot on set. Assuming she was an actress in the real world.
I've never really considered Red Letter Media as a "detailed" focused channel
@@kazmark_gl8652 I would have to disagree, all they do is focus on details. Which is why I'm a happy subscriber.
There is also the scene of Dafoe’s character pointing the gun in the mirror directly at the camera. Another Baldwin reference?
So. Alec Baldwin did that....too soon?
I didn’t notice that myself… omg lol
Glad to see Mike was completely sauced and disinterested for the entire review
Thanks Mike for explaining what happened to Jeffery Jones and his character. The fact that he ****** that *** in the **** while ***** on the horse was news to me. Incredibly insightful as always. Voy cooauge!
Always nice when you on a current channel binge and a new video comes out
Thank you for this 9/11 gift Mike and Jay!
Look there is always room for William Dafoe. Always. He doesn't have to have anything that is even remotely close to being in the plot
Come on, man. His name is Willem.
William is his nemesis.
Da foe, if you will.
His character was one of the best additions. An actually original character who fits into the style of the original while expanding the world. He absolutely killed it, too. They could have found a way to incorporate his character into almost any of the various plots.
Watching Willem Dafoe ham it up with an over-the-top Clint Eastwood impression was definitely great.
Jeffry Jones is a "Significant Other?"
He's banned from Appalachia, because of all the Miners.
You made me make a phony phone call to Edward Rooney?!?!
He WAS married to my 2nd cousin
As always, I looked forward to this much more than the actual movie
The editing on this video is hilarious-feels so effortless how funny you all are (though Rich Evans is RLM GOAT)
If you say Best of the Worst 3 times fast Neil Breen will appear and cover your house in green screen effects
He was much smaller than I expected
He emerged out of a can of tuna and told me evil corporate forces are stroking my diamonds while cat ornaments meow.
I'm feeling. Less. Stable.
Isn't that Immoral?
I'm not gonna mess with him. I don't want to retire as president of the bank.
I love it when my favorite UA-cam channel uploads semi-regularly!
I LOVE the original, but this was like eating microwaved french fries. It's something to eat, but isn't very appetizing. Ultimately it just leaves you wanting what you had the first time.
i think people get to a certain age, and no matter how great or cromulent new things are, we'd just rather watch our old thing. It's also a product of now having every piece of content immediately available at the touch of a button. We don't marinate on one thing over and over like we used to.
10/10 analogy
I like microwaved fries and also enjoyed the sequel. So good analogy for me 2. It’s the best nostalgia bate ever actually a decent film.
It's literally nostalgia bait. It's just over the minimum run time, waits tons of time on the father character, the corpse bride adds nothing. They literally used a checklist for the film to copy the original. Oh, we haven't had a sandworm yet, need to add one of those. We haven't had a possessed song yet, need to add one. It's a series of loosely connected skits that are rarely funny unless you just keep going, ooh I 'member.
Exactly
When I was a kid, I watched Beetlejuice so many times that I broke the VHS tape and my mom had to take it to blockbuster to get it fixed haha.
"All the best stuff was the random, like, tangents." how i feel about RLM honestly
I was legitimately excited for a best of the worst spotlight on a new movie, only to be met with a half in a bag.
YOU HACK FRAUDS
They reviewed the Borderlands movie and now they're talking about the Minecraft movie. Somewhere, PreRec is spinning in its grave.
rumor has it the rationale behind "Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian" was just that Tim Burton thought it would be funny to put macabre German expressionism in a tropical paradise.
I love how every review Mike writes an alternate movie.
I know it's been almost 20 years, but I'm still amazed that Charlie and the Extraordinary Rendition Blacksite movie actually happened.
That movie looks like it was cut from Event Horizon
I did a legit spit take at that 👍
So glad jay also thought of the dead alive baby. Also I thought the Asian dry cleaner character was a bit more suspicious than the soul train scene haha
7:50 Tim Girthon
Thanks
Tim Gherkin
Probably how he keeps getting so many hot girlfriends.
@@thetramp123you're forgetting he's a billionaire
27:59 Jenna Ortega's character picked up climate change as her cause due to environmentalism being a big part of her dead father's interests
At first I thought the Soul Train bit was was a nod to Tom Savini because they all looked like the zombies from that first scene in Dawn of the Dead. Now I'm realizing they're just dead black people in 70s clothing.