An All-Time Great!

Rating: Null/10 (17 October 1998)

Michael Keaton is hilarious in this wonderfully bizarre tale of life after death. One of the best things about the story is that it develops well with its central characters, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, as they try to figure out what is going on and what to do about the new people moving in. In Beetlejuice, the title character played by Keaton is a supporting character. In fact he doesn't make his first full appearance until an hour into the movie, by then its highly anticipated and I guarantee it won't disappoint you. In this way, the movie doesn't beat you to death with one character's antics the entire time like Ace Ventura. Instead it has a great plot and solid execution, so when Keaton's Betelgeuse comes onto the screen its extra special and tons and tons of fun. Burton's directing is solid, Danny Elfman's score is marvelous, and Keaton simply turns in the performance of a lifetime.