Strangely entertaining!

Rating: 7/10 (9 September 2005)

starring: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Glen Shadix, Michael Keaton, Sylvia Sydney, Robert Goulet, Dick Cavett and Tony Cox.
Extremely nice people Barbra(Davis)and Adam(Baldwin) in a freak car accident. After the funeral, they become ghosts and try to haunt the owners of their house(Mom-Catherine O'Hara, Dad-Jeffrey Jones and strange daughter Ryder). Lisa(Ryder) can see them and gets pictures of them. They go to the death side and talk to their agent Juno(Sydney), which doesn't do any good, so they resort to bio-exorcist Beetlegeuse(Keaton). Some problems with this movie are that some of it doesn't make sense, like the dinner table haunting song, and that title character Beetlegeuse, only has around 15 minutes of screen time, only having 5 minutes in the first hour of the film. But, nonetheless, Keaton does a great job as that little evil demon, Ryder is great, Sydney is really cool, and my personal favorite is Glenn Shadix as Otho, the flamboyant plumo interior designer that thinks he can control the paranormal. Stupid, but fun!
Watch for Dick Cavett and Robert Goulet as friends of the family that are invited to dinner, at separate occasions.
rated PG for strong language(the dreaded F-word is used), gory violent images and some sexual refferneces. 2 3/4 out of 4 stars. 87 mins.