I've never been impressed with the "Mako Mori test", but the Bechdel test is a great little thermometer for "does your work have a realistic number of women in it?" In the real world, women talk to each other!

Wish wasn't one of the movies in this post. (Translation issue?) Although I have the same "this feels like a disjointed mishmash of scenes that were originally intended for different movies" complaint with Wish that I had with Spellbound.

What impressed me about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was how much it didn't seem like a marketing ploy or a cheap cash grab. It wasn't perfect, but it felt like they really cared about the characters, and put serious thought into "this is a big opportunity, how do we avoid squandering it?"