coffee’s review published on Letterboxd:
great effects work across the board cannot save a movie with such deeply uninspired emotional arcs and trite legacy nonsense (practically eyeroll worthy by the time it rehashes the original’s climax) that still manages to to bomb with anything not directly established by its predecessor. everything dealing with Ortega’s character (and by association, Ryder’s) is up there with the most uninspired moments of Burton’s career, total Netflix original filmmaking and writing from a guy who used to craft compelling gothic melodrama. the original is a great film (by my friend Zach’s description) about living people haunting a ghost’s house, and a legacy sequel to it can only be about itself and its reverence for the source. made for facebook. pretty bad, but it’s very funny how much of this film (that barely mentions the main characters of the original presumably because Alec Baldwin is not the most beloved person right now) revolves around the absence of convicted pedophile Jeffery Jones lol. shoutout to the god Justin Theroux
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