Beetlejuice

Pros: Funny dark humor, great music, wonderful acting

Cons: None

The Bottom Line: A very funny dark comedy that continues to make me laugh, 14 years after it first came out (boy, I'm gettin' old!). Great acting, wonderful script and stellar music.

Review: I used to work at a video rental store when I was about 18, 19 years old. We had TVs set up throughout the store and we were allowed to show G and PG (some PG-13) movies while we worked. Partly to entice people to rent more movies and partly to keep us...

Pros: Great script, Great vision and Michael Keaton on tip-top form

Cons: Leaves some viewers cold

The Bottom Line: The very definition of weird and wonderful

Review: Ghost stories told from the perspective of the ghosts are something of a mixed bag. More often than not they are overrun with depressing sentimentality or buckle under the weight of their own self-important profundity (Heaven Can Wait and the positively...

Pros: Story is original, characters are well written, Micheal Keaton is brilliant

Cons: It's silly, hokey, and sometimes sick. Some people don't like that.

The Bottom Line: This movie only works if you have a quirky sense of humour. I am blessed with one of these, so I could watch this one again and again.

Review: Adam and Barbara Maitland (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) are a young yuppie couple who are spending their vacation at home together restoring a big old house that they have bought. Their life is pretty normal until it all ends in a car crash. However, ...

Pros: Michael Keaton

Cons: none

Review: Beetlejuice is a very hilarious movie. I have seen it more times than I can remember. My whole family loves it.

The ghost with the most is Beetlejuice. He is played by Michael Keaton, who does a wonderful job with this role, I must say.
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Pros: Laugh riot from start to finish, esp. Michael Keaton in the title role

Cons: Macabre humor not to everyone's taste (the poor fools!)

The Bottom Line: For my money, one of the all-time great comedies

Review: When Beetlejuice was first released in 1988, a friend of mine spent his entire lunch hour explaining the plot to me. I couldn't imagine anyone being enamored of such a bizarre-sounding comedy. I saw it a year later on cable TV, and it has become sy ...

Pros: Burton at his best, Baldwin, Davis, Ryder, and Keaton

Cons: well, that it's not on television more often

Review: This is the film that vaulted Tim Burton to fame, starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, a very young Winona Ryder, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, and Michael Keaton. This was Keaton's finest comic performance, as the lewd, obnoxious Beetlejuice....

Pros: Terrific performances by the entire ensemble, Burton's suitably over-the-top direction.

Cons: I can imagine that the film's sensibility may be off-putting for some. Pity for them.

Review: By Max Scheinin.

You want a great Halloween rental? 'Fraid I'll have to point you elsewhere. Want an intellectual, stimulating comedy? Nope, sorry. You want to laugh? You want to revel in great atmosphere? You want to see one of the...

Pros: Brilliantly funny, original

Cons: none

Review: Tim Burton is one of my favorite directors, second perhaps to Terry Gilliam (I like strange movies...) and Beetle Juice is him at his best. Not only is it a funny and brilliantly original movie, but the art direction is simply stunning. A shining example...

Pros: not too scary

Cons: can be gross at times

Review: Another classic in my opinion. Who hasn't seen this movie at least once? It's great! It's not terribly scary, and it's funny at the same time.

“Beetlejuice” is a film about a couple who have gone on to the afterlife and contact a raunchy...

Pros: Michael Keaton ( Who knew he would be funny? )

Cons: None that I can think of.

Review: Hilarious! I haven't seen this movie in years and would dearly love to see it again. I'm not one to get scared at much and not surprisingly Beetlejuice did not scare me. But it certainly made me laugh.

Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis make a...