A ghost of a good time!

Rating: Null/10 (20 September 2002)

Beetlejuice... beetlejuice... BEETLEJUICE! A film I really enjoyed, it was just plain fun.. love the score done by Danny Elfman, who generally produces top notch scores.. the features are kind of dissapointing, but the movie more than makes up for it.. Micheal Keatan is great in it, now why he didn't do more character driven pieces like this? And he did Batman, and did it well! What's happened to him since then? Do we see him as a big star, or hell, I'd take a cult star? No, we see crap like Multiplicity.. WTF? Grrr.. Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin do their parts sufficiently.. don't really s ee much of Alec anywhere.. but Geena is keeping up appearances at least with her role in Stuart Little 1 and 2.. her best role would have to be Thelma & Louis, however.. then Winona Rider, who is one of my weird/strange likes.. who was in one of my favorate films; Girl, Interrupted - which was like representative of my experiences at SEPS (Seperations from the Navy), in fact, some of it was spookingly similiar.. and I had seen it barely months after that whole mess.. Anyway, back to Beetlejuice.. Tim Burtan is a frickin cool director.. Love many of his films, including Edward Scissorhands, and Nightmare before Christmas (he didn't direct, but his influence is clear).. I even watched the Beetlejuice animated series awhile.. which was ok, mildly entertaining.. but could in no way touch the film.
The special effects are appropriately off the wall, the humour is constantly flowing here and there, and Burtan's style literally leaks off the walls.. like a dream, where even in the after life, the problems never seem to go away, they just get more interesting...