A Cosmic Corruption and Delightful Distortion

Rating: 9/10 (10 August 2012)

Tim Burton's second feature film after Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985) and made one year before he became a household name with Batman (1989), Beetlejuice is one of the Director's quintessential movies.
It is a dementia of style that permeates all his work and is never more evident than in this unbridled, unique presentation of pure underground art.
There is nothing to compare this film too because it is a singularly novel piece of work. Burton's animated features also present his quirky vision and the work is probably most at home in that venue. Although Edward Scissorhands (1990) might be his masterpiece.
All art is a matter of taste and the art of Tim Burton, love it or not, is fully exposed in every frame of this film. A horrifically funny foray that is a cosmic corruption and delightful distortion of time and space that molds things into caricature with an irreverent interpretation.