Tim Burton's directing is so visible it's almost a cameo

Rating: Null/10 (10 July 2000)

The best thing about BEETLEJUICE is without a doubt Tim Burton's directing. Tim Burton is one of the first reasons I got interested in film whatsoever. It was with BATMAN from 1989. A great, big masterpiece, if you ask me his finest piece of film. However, BEETLEJUICE, is not one of his best. But it's great, funny like few and in most aspects good, but it can't stand up to movies like EDWARD SCHISSORHANDS or BATMAN. I gave it a 7. It was great, but not "very good". Well, for this simple reason:
When the movie starts it is funny as hell. And the first half hour a 10-pointer. But I think that after an hour it's not that funny anymore. Beetleguise is funny all the time, but Juno and the waiting room and all that is old news buy now. It's not funny anymore. The first time I saw it, I loved it. And the storyline is also a bit disappointing. It wasn't a very great idea to make the family want to make money out of them. It would be funnier if they got terrorised and had to stay. Sure, it was a more realistic way out, but I think in a movie that's about two haunting-sucking ghosts and the link to another world, with evil snakes, Junos, Beetleguises and painted doors opening, it doesn't have to be.
7/10