Fun and Terrific Ghoul Film.

Rating: 9/10 (6 June 2007)

This is fun and terrific film to watch from Tim Burton, a story about a happily married couple, Adam and Barbara Maitland, played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, who were killed in a car crash. They turn into ghosts and are trapped in their beloved farmhouse. Soon, the house was inhabited by the Deetzs, who has completely odd taste in decoration and personality and turns their home into a modern museum-like house. Unable to drive them away, the ghosts summon Beetle Juice, the Ghost with the Most, by calling his name three times. He gave the family a good haunting, but wants the family's daughter, who befriended the Maitlands. So, the movie goes on-don't want to spoil the ending.
The acting is superb, and Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice is simply hilarious, with endless tricks up his sleeves. Winona Ryder as Lydia gave a hands-down performance, eerie and somber, yet passionate and haunting. The scenes involving the "other side" brings your imagination to a whole new level, everything you would expect in a ghost world-moving skeletons, lost souls, a moving hangman, unorganized and chaotic-looking offices (papers everywhere), a lady with her body cut in half, uneven rooms and a football team who was unaware they were dead, just to name a few. And, one of my favorite scenes is the dinner party, where the ghosts tried to drive away the family by controlling their actions and making them sing a Harry Belafonte song. Danny Elfman gave us a fabulous music score-haunting, exciting and refreshing.
This is just a great movie that I could watch again and again.
So, go say his name three times and watch Beetle Juice.
Grade A