Michael Keaton is hysterical

Rating: Null/10 (7 September 2005)

Beetlejuice is Tim Burton's film about a young couple (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) who die in a car crash and come back to haunt their house. A new family moves in and the ghosts want them out so they hire another ghost, the self proclaimed "bio-exorcist" Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) to scare away the new family.
Keaton's Beetlejuice is one of the strangest characters in the movies. His makeup and costumes are just outrageous and the lines he gets are a riot. Keaton was one of the most talented funny-men in the movies as this film shows.
There are some really bizarre scenes such as the one in which Davis and Baldwin sit in a waiting room for the newly dead with a bunch of grotesque dead people.
Danny Elfman's music is as funny as the film.
If you liked Edward Scissorhands you'll like the totally offbeat Beetlejuice.