Beetle Juice and Tim Burton, shapers of my youth

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2008)

This was the second film that started my love affair with Tim Burton. I watched this film more times then I can count as a little girl, and it still holds it's magic for me, eighteen years later. This film is dark, strange and amazing. Geena David and Alec Baldwin are great as the couple who die, Winona Ryder rules as Lydia the daughter who can see the couple and Michael Keaton almost steals the show as Beetleguese a.k.a. Beetle Juice. Catherine O'Hara is Lydia's high-class Step-mom who only cares about herself and people's opinions of her and Jeffrey Jones is Lydia's dad who only wants to live a quitet life away from the City and make money. If you haven't seen this dark masterpiece and one of Tim's finer works, you must! 10 out of 10 for genius.