Congratulations to anybody who had “slowed-down pop/choral cover of ‘Day-O ” on their bingo card of things they’d see or hear in a teaser trailer for Tim Burton’s long-delayed sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, because you damn sure nailed it: The mutilated strains of the Harry Belafonte classic, rendered appropriately joyless in the style of every Hollywood trailer of the last 15 years, is the first thing you hear when the brand new teaser kicks off.
But you know why you’re actually here, and so does the teaser, as Ortega’s character then pulls the dusty sheet off a very familiar model town and its very familiar reminder that the antagonist of these two films is actually named Betelgeuse, like the star, no matter what the title tries to tell you. Anyway, the trailer obviously ends with the reveal of Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice, who still looks pretty good, despite being extra-dead for the last 30 years.