say it once! say it twice! say it three times!

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2019)

Barbara and Adam are a perfectly cute couple together, and enjoying their nice new home. Things are going great, until an accident behind the wheel claims both of their lives. They quickly catch on to the fact that they are dead, but they haven't moved on, they are still living in the house...as ghosts. Upon finding a book in the house, which is a handbook for the recently deceased, they have everything they need to know to live their lives in the land of the dead, which includes haunting and scaring people if needed. There's only one problem: Neither one understands the book. And the time to haunt and scare is now, because new people have arrived in their home. This family is unacceptably weird. The only one in the family who can carry on a decent and intelligent conversation with is Lydia, who Barbara quickly becomes fond of, but the rest? Not so much. A few haunts and scares go unnoticed, and Adam and Barbara are becoming annoyed by living with this insane household at breakneck speed. Desperate for help, they call for an emergency, which requests them to "draw" a door. Unaware of the fact that they are going to be spending over 100 years in this house, and unaware that these emergency calls are very limited, they learn that they have a case worker who may be able to help them. Their case worker, a cranky but likable old woman, doesn't see that they need any help, that they just need to read and understand the handbook that was provided for them. Frustrated by the book because they can't understand it, they become extremely desperate to rid this family. How? This family is just too weird to scare away. Late one night, an ad for a bio exorcist appears, an unsettling but energetic guy who calls himself Beetleguise ( Beetlejuice is easier to say), they are both intrigued, but hesitant of asking for help, especially since he's exposed just how wacky he is. When Barbara asks about him to Juno, their case worker, she strongly warns and suggests that they do not want his help, that they need to get the family out themselves. She explains briefly about him being problematic, that he used to work for her. Desperate for help, however, they turn to Beetlejuice by calling upon his name three times. Beetlejuice appears, very hyper, very unorthodox, but very eager to do something destructive. Thinking that this is the solution to their problems was a bad move. Now released, and with no way of knowing how to put him back where he came from, Adam and Barbara have unleashed a new problem to their list. Beetlejuice is good at what he does, but he does what he wants, not what's asked of him. And Beetlejuice is after Lydia, who Barbara has become very protective over. What does Beetlejuice REALLY have planned for this little girl, and can Barbara and Adam figure out a way to stop him. With an imaginative and creative story, and mind blowing special effects ( back then), and a strong cast of characters, Beetlejuice is a perfect escapade from reality for the entire family to enjoy.