“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” follows the Deetzes back to their old home in Winter River, including Lydia, her off-kilter artist mother Delia (Catherine O’Hara), and Lydia’s unruly teen daughter Astrid, played by Burton, Gough, and Millar’s “Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega. No doubt, Warner Bros. is hoping to court Ortega’s Gen-Z and younger fans as much as, if not more than, older filmgoers nostalgic for Burton’s glory days in the ’80s, with the studio’s marketing splitting its attention pretty evenly between Keaton’s hijinks and the original cast, and Ortega’s angsty high school heroine getting sucked into an afterlife misadventure of her own. That also makes the film’s PG-13 rating kind of a no-brainer.

Speaking of which: the MPA has now unveiled an official explanation for its ruling, citing the film’s “violent content, macabre and bloody images, strong language, some suggestive material and brief drug use.” Really, that all sounds par for the course for Burton. Save for his occasional ventures into adult territory (like his exceptionally bloody “Sleepy Hollow” and “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” movie adaptations) and more family-oriented offerings with the stop-motion features “Corpse Bride” and “Frankenweenie,” the filmmaker typically prefers that sweet spot where he can indulge his whimsical, macabre inclinations without alienating his younger admirers entirely. That “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” also looks more or less on the same intensity level as the original movie is all the more encouraging for those of us who really, really just want to like — and, dare we dream, even love — one of his films again.

Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Willem Dafoe, and Burn Gorman round out the cast of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” which will jump in the line, rock your body in time into theaters on September 6, 2024.