Personally I liked it. It was light, nore of a treat for fans of Beetlejuice rather than a proper separate movie. There was not a lot of focus on the afterworld or the ghosts, so definitely need to watch the first part for context.
What I'm very sour about are two mistakes:
- no one ate the snakes, so we can't say they're poisonous. They did bite someone and they died, so they were venomous. Like come on, that's primary school knowledge for native English speakers.
- Maria (SKŁODOWSKA) Curie was Polish. She's the first woman to get the Nobel Prize and the only one to get 2 in 2 different fields. She moved to France from occupied Poland to study, then married a French man. She was proud to be Polish, used her maiden name, and named polonium as such because of Poland. To know enough about her to put those 2 sentences of explanation in the movie, they had to google it. First thing that comes up? Maria Skłodowska-Curie, a Polish scientist.