Beetlejuice

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Summary: A very good fun.
Review: I loved it. Tim Burton made a great movie with a simple story, a great imagination and cool actors(Winona Ryder is VERY young in this one:) and I couldn't imagine Alec Baldwin with such sense of humour. Michael Keaton is sensational and the FX, 15 years old are still very correct. Beetlejuice is a very funny character and you can't wait for the moment when finally he becomes free to act. Just say BEETLEJUICE three times and have a great laugh.

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Summary: A FUNNY, FUNNY GHOSTS TALE.
Review: 3 and a half stars, actually. "Beetlejuice" was one of the biggest surprises in 1988, it revolutionized the visual effects field, established Tim Burton as a director with a huge imagination, put Winona Ryder on the map, and helped Burton & Michael Keaton to be signed by Warner Bros. to film their strongest 1989 project: "Batman".

"Beetlejuice" is a very funny ghosts tale with a lot of creativity and imagination, the characters are easy to love, the situations are funny and bizarre at the same time, all this translates into a very entertaining movie.

There are several memorable scenes in "Beetlejuice", among them a possession scene at the tune of Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song", another is the one on which Adam & Barbara (Alec Baldwin & Geena Davis respectively) are taken to the underworld offices.

"Beetlejuice" is a good option to see the gorgeous Winona Ryder in one of her key roles, to see the creativity of Tim Burton at his best, and to see a very funny supernatural comedy.

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Summary: Underrated showcase of scary-zany Burtonland
Review: This is definitely a guilty pleasure. As often as I think I'm not supposed to be liking this film, I can't help it. The cast is what does makes this a solid and rewatchable vehicle. It also has the steady feel of a Burton film, with great production values and a great sense of its own ability to frighten and delight all at the same time.

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Summary: Wacky and original
Review: Beetlejuice is Tim Burton's 2nd film after Pee Wee's Big Adventure and it's his most popular next to Batman. A lot of films such as Monkey Bone have tried to copy it's strange originality and have failed. It wasn't the best reviewed movie when it came out but that's because critics most likely didn't know what to think about it.

It has fun effects, a wacky and energetic performance by Michael Keaton and an original plot. After all these years there's still nothing quite like Beetle Juice. I mean what other movie has giant sand worms that eat dead people ?

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Summary: Quirky and Fun!
Review: Beetlejuice is a good movie, it is so quirky and funny and a fun movie to watch and has an excellent cast including Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Michael Keaton. I don't have this movie in my collection yet but will probably buy the DVD. I recommend Beetlejuice and I think this movie would be fun to watch on Halloween.

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Summary: ONE OF THE FIRST MOVIES OF AN AUTHENTIC ARTIST
Review: Tim Burton is a guy Hollywood should honor every day. He's one of the few who agree to stay in the system and direct personal movies for the majors.

And his personal world is something very special. Things have a soul or, at least, come to life under Burton's camera.

Beetlejuice is one of the first efforts of Tim Burton and it's already great. There's a style, a signature, a world , details which reveal an authentic creator.

It's possible you will hate this world but you will not have losed two hours, I guarantee you. Come and see what can be created with a camera and a little brain.

A DVD I'm proud to have in my collection.

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Summary: Day - O!!
Review: Not many people were prepared when they stepped into the world of director Tim Burton. They probably didn't know that they would be entering a director's vision unlike anyone else's. It will be one great ride!. Up until this point, the only work that the general public would of known of Burton, would of been his 1985 fillm, "Pee Wee's Big Adventure". That movie was more normal than anything else he has done. Not that that movie was entirely normal. This film was the first time Burton's wacky world was truly developed. Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis star as a young married couple named Adam and Barbara. They live in a small, idyllic looking town, that appears to be in the country. They live in a nice, old fashioned type house, and seem to be perfectly happy. One day, they decide to take a ride into town to pick up some things, and they get into a car crash. All seems normal when they return home, until new people begin to move into their home. Adam and Barbara realize that they didn't survive the car crash, and they are dead. They are horrified and sad when the new owners begin moving in. They are a rich, uppity, New York family named The Deets. Catherine 'O' Hara and Jeffrey Jones(who later went on to become a Burton regular, appearing in "Ed Wood" and "Sleepy Hollow"), play the parents, while young Winona Ryder(who also re-joined Burton in his classic "Edward Scissorhands" movie), plays their black wearing, goth looking daughter, Lydia. Adam and Barbara are so upset with the new owners and what they are doing to their house, that they decide to scare them away. Their efforts go unnoticed by the couple, but not by Lydia. She befriends them. Adam and Barbara call on Beetlejuice, a ghost who is living in the cemetary of Adam's model of the town in the attic, to rid the pests. Little do they know that Beetlejuice himself, will be the biggest pest of the two. Michael Keaton plays Beetlejuice, and it is one of his stand out roles. He is brilliant in the role, and seems to really be having a good time with it. He is rude, crude, smelly, gross, and mischievious. He is truly one of the best screen oddities in a long time. The rest of the cast are all solid, if not exactly earth shattering. Winona, who I believe was around 15 at the time, is really cute to watch. Odd visuals and decorations are pretty common place in films nowadays, but this one was really the first of it's kind. There had been nothing like it before. Burton would continue to top himself with movies like "Edward Scissorhands", "Ed Wood", and "Sleepy Hollow", but this film was the first one where we really got our first glimpse into his macabre world. The script is quick and sharp, with witty dialogue and entertaining set pieces. The art direction is astonishingly cool and very well done. Not everyone got this movie, and were turned off even further because of it's many odd eccentricities. Too bad for them. This is a one of a kind movie that should be enjoyed over and over again. Beetlejuice!! Beetlejuice!! Beetlejuice!!.

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Summary: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!
Review: I love this movie! It is probably one of the best movies ever made, written, acted, and filmed.
Tim Burton, is literally, a genius. To create such a dark, gothic world in this film, with great dark humor, and great charactets must have been fun
Danny Elfman even brings more spirit to this movie as the composer. Some of his most famous composed songs are in here (The Beetlejuice theme).
Winona Ryder does a terrific job as the sad, gothic daughter Lydia, who has to move with her parents to the country. Her parents don't understand her, no one does, until she sees ghosts in the house. THe previous owners, by the way, want these people OUT! So they find a bio-excorcist named Beetlejuice to help them.

10 out of 10! A perfect movie!

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Summary: Freaky, silly, wry and creative
Review: Ah, Tim Burton before he started taking himself too seriously. You have Michael Keaton unleashed, an unusally restrained Alec Baldwin and a supporting cast of known loonies all dancing to the puppetmaster Burton's tune.

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Summary: Certificate: Puerile
Review: Embarrassing comedy that comes over like a child with 'attention deficit disorder' begging for your approval. Even the film's own internal logic is thrown away towards the end to no extra purpose. The girl floating in the air at the end is rather sweet though.