Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. BEETLEJUICE! 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Beetlejuice 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Available on DVD October 7. What’s a couple of stay-at-home ghosts to do when their beloved home is taken over by trendy yuppies? They call on Beetlejuice, the afterlife’s freelance bio-exorcist to scare off the family ? and everyone gets more than she, he or it bargains for! Read more …

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A dead couple make the mistake of calling on Beetlejuice, a renegade, enterprising, shady entity, to evict the annoying living from their beloved house.

Director Tim Burton, with “Beetlejuice,” delivers a delightfully odd, and oddly entertaining comedy.

The talented cast includes: Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, Sylvia Sidney, Annie McEnroe, Robert Goulet, and Dick Cavett.

We can say many positive things about this fun movie, including: great casting, great performances, great effects, great art direction, and a clever story, that has fun speculating explanations for why ghosts stick around and generally don’t leave their haunted house, and offers a fascinating, speculative look at the after life, which involves paper work and a slow working bureaucracy, employed by people who had killed themselves. Screen veteran, Sylvia Sidney, shines as an overworked case worker, Juno. Even when dead, the script imagines that ghosts have to follow rules set forth by a slow working bureaucracy, and a hard to read book, that reads like a stereo manual. In such an inefficient system, what would an unhappy couple do about getting the obnoxious living, the Deetzes, out of their house? They go to the private sector, to a shady entrepreneur - Beetlejuice!!

Michael Keaton, as Beetlejuice, is wildly out of control, and wildly hilarious as the ultimate dead pest. He has so much fun with a crazy comedy role like this, that it’s easy to see why he didn’t want to keep playing Batman forever. He is “a jangled juggernaut of jokes, jolts and jive.” He hurls one-liners, spins into grotesque, gobbles insects, and just can’t leave the ladies, living or dead, alone.” Read more …