Beetle Juice Movie
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Storyline
TAGLINES
Say it once... Say it twice... But we dare you to say it THREE TIMES
In This House... If You've Seen One Ghost... You Haven't Seen Them All.
The Name In Laughter From The Hereafter.
The Deetz's gothic daughter discovers the Maitands in the attic and befriends them. She finds their after life handbook which is eventually confiscated by the family's interior decorator who is fascinated by the paranormal, and during a seance,conjures up the Maitlands. Most of the trouble starts as the free lance bio-excorist, Beetlejuice gets involved.
| Alec Baldwin | Adam |
| Geena Davis | Barbara |
| Annie McEnroe | Jane Butterfield |
| Maurice Page | Ernie |
| Hugo Stanger | Old Bill |
| Michael Keaton | Beetlejuice |
| Rachel Mittelman | Little Jane |
| Catherine O'Hara | Delia |
| J. Jay Saunders | Moving Man #1 |
| Mark Ettlinger | Moving Man #2 |
| Jeffrey Jones | Charles |
| Winona Ryder | Lydia |
| Glenn Shadix | Otho |
| Patrice Martinez | Receptionist |
| Cindy Daly | 3 Fingered Typist |
| Tim Burton |
7.20 out of 10 (37342 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Could easily be Burton's finest hour.
posted on 02 May 2009Adam and Barbara Maitland are literally the perfect couple. They are blissfully in love, and they live their lives renovating their gorgeous old house in New England. Tragedy strikes when they crash their car into a river, but when they get back to their house, they realise that they may not have survived. They soon discover that they're stuck in their house, armed only with "The Handbook for the Recently Deceased" for guidance. But they have bigger problems ahead, when wealthy socialites the Deitz's move in. Husband Charles is desperate to get back to the simpler way of life, wife Delia is a wacky artist with plans to turn the house into her own perfect living space to express her talent, and daughter Lydia is a sullen, lost soul with a passion for the occult.Naturally, Adam and Barbara aren't happy that they've taken over their home, and try to think of a way to send them packing. Their desperation takes them to another realm, where their assigned case worker Juno advises them on how to use their new haunting talents to scare off the Deitz's. But they're getting frantic, and call upon the help of notorious ghost Beetlejuice to help them. But Beetlejuice is bad news, and becomes too much for the Maitlands to handle. He wants to get out of the other realm, and decides to use Lydia to his advantage. He's also taken quite a shine to her, and since Lydia is the only one who can see Adam and Barbara, it's up to them to try and stop him. But Beetlejuice is prepared to use every trick up his sleeve to thwart their attempts.Beetlejuice is an instant classic. Original, colourful, creepy and deliciously dark, there's absolutely nothing that stops the film from being a brilliant piece of work. Watch it once, and you won't forget it in a hurry. The set pieces are inspired, and Tim Burton directs with flair and a sense of fun. His style rarely fails, and this is no exception. The cast are also excellent, turning in magnificent performances. Michael Keaton is a phenomenon as Beetlejuice, spewing out one hilarious line after another. Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis have the definitive thankless roles, but they use the best of what's given to them. Jeffrey Jones is wonderful, Winona Ryder delivers her usual best, the great Sylvia Sidney is a joy to watch as disgruntled Juno, but it's Catherine O'Hara that steals the show as flamboyant Delia. Her rendition of Day-O will no doubt go down as one of the funniest moments in recent film history. The soundtrack is also exceptional, mixing Danny Elfman's score with jaunty calypso numbers. You'll be dancing along to the end credits, trust me. Beetlejuice is definitely one of the best film's of the '80's, and arguably Burton's finest hour. It's what films should be, memorable, exciting and fun. To quote a tired expression, miss it and you most certainly will miss out.
Lydia Deetz is my idol.
posted on 02 May 2009"My whole life is a darkroom. One... big... dark... room." Winona Ryder was perfectly cast as the morose outsider of Beetlejuice. She can do anything. True, Winona is actually my idol, but that has nothing to do with how great this film is. I've liked this movie since I was 5 years old... before I knew who Winona Ryder was. Tim Burton is the epitome of a great filmmaker (Edward Scissorhands) and Michael Keaton is totally Beetlejuice. Alec Baldwin is SO Adam Maitland - I have yet to see him in a better role. Everything about this film is great. I love it!
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
posted on 23 Apr 2009Tim Burton's most twisted nightmarish movie ever is a hilarious high water mark for late eighties comedy. A great cast puts in wonderful performances. Baldwin, Davis, O'Hara, Jones, Goulet, Ryder, and especially Keaton in his most memorable charecter. Great writing, cinematography, and good special effects highlight this film. Not very many movies as original as this. I personally credit Winona Ryder's character for starting the Gothic dress trend among today's teenagers. Lots of good lines, mostly delivered by Keaton in the title charecter. Stark imagery in set design lasts long after you've seen the movie. I give it 8.5 out of 10. Want a Zagnut?
FANTASTIC!!! This movie screams late 80's.........
posted on 17 Apr 2009Just caught this movie on HBO again for the 100th time. This movie brings back so many memories of the late 80's and is also a great horror-comedy by the master, Tim Burton. I have always been a Tim Burton fan, ever since I was 7 years old and saw Batman, which blew me away. Great performances by everyone, especially (obviously) Michael Keaton, who is also great in Batman and the even better Batman Returns. I suggest you go and check out all of Burton's past movies...because they'll be around for a long, long time. His stuff never gets boring, I can watch it over and over again.
An Awesome Funny Flick
posted on 25 Feb 2009This movie is GREAT!I absolutely fell head over heels for it the first time I saw it.The comedy was TOTALLY hilarious, the acting was perfect, and the songs, such as at the table and at the ending, were catchy and all around fun to watch.Geena Davis is an amazing actress anyway, Michael Keaton was of course great too, Winona Ryder is one of the awesomest characters in this movie, and although I don't care for Alec Baldwin, he was great as well.Bettle Juice is a movie that every Halloween it is a tradition for me to get out and watch this wonderful film.I don't see how anybody couldn't like it!It was so wonderful, and I think of this to be an absolute classic.
A Great Black Comedy
posted on 19 Feb 2009While Michael Keaton is the "name draw" despite his character's relatively small screen-time (and as he cuts loose in one of these occasional "insane" roles that Keaton likes to take on), the real focus is on the rest of the cast. Baldwin and Davis are great as the bewildered ghosts, Ryder is great, and Jones and O'Hara (often overlooked) are great comedy actors. There's a kind of "anything goes" attitude to the whole thing, giving Beetlejuice's antics a Robin Williams-sort of improvisational air (how would Williams have played the part)? Keaton is still great though: he doesn't even bother to try make his character likeable, but just kind of sweeps you along.
Horror? Are you joking?
posted on 16 Feb 2009Some people regard Beetle Juice as a horror movie. This is actually not true -- it would be true if Wes Craven directed it, as planned -- but it isn't.Burton, Rider and Keaton proof immediately to be a great team, and the jokes, especially the handbook for the recently deceased-gag. The personalities, art direction and music are great, and fit exactly in the movie. It gives a very original view to what happens in the afterlife, and it contains very original material, and very original stuff.I give it a 9/10.
a dark and unique comedy.
posted on 10 Feb 2009Beetlejuice is a very unique movie, but I'm not surprised. Tim Burton, master of the macabre, directed this odd movie. I have to say that this movie isn't only dark, it's hilarious. The movie is truly funny, and the blend between horror and humor was superb. It's about a wife and husband, played by Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin, who die in a car accident. The two still live on Earth, but as ghosts. Suddenly, a family moves into their house and changes it all around into a cold and weird house. The two ghosts are now miserable, so they decide to try to scare them out. It doesn't work. They go into the spirit world to ask for some help. Their advice lady gives them some excellent ways to scare them out. It still doesn't work. But something else happens, too. The family's weird daughter, played by Winona Ryder, finds out about them. She becomes they're freind. It still doesn't stop the ghosts desire to get them out of the house, so they do something no one thought of. They called a man from the spirit world, one who specializes in these sort of things. His name is Beetlegeuse, pronounced Beetlejuice, and the scares he has in his bag of tricks are much, much scarier than the ones the two have tried already. But they start to figure out that Beetlejuice isn't doing this for them, but for himself. He loves to scare, and he'll do anything to do it. They find out that he threatens the life of the family's daughter, and themselves. They must stop him.Although it sounds sort of like a serious horror story, the movie is a total comedy. Still, it has a lot of Tim Burton style quirkiness in it. Michael Keaten is wonderful as Beetlejuice, and once again, Danny Elfman does a great score. If you like dark comedies, and you love Tim Burton, go rent this movie this second.
Makes death look like a lot of fun
posted on 10 Feb 2009It's only his second movie, and yet it is obvious Beetle Juice is pure, unmistakable Tim Burton: macabre, darkly comic and crammed with weirdos, not least Michael Keaton's career-best performance as the perverted titular "bio-exorcist".But what does a creature like that actually do? Well, it depends on who requires his services: in the case of Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis), a recently deceased married couple, he is supposed to get rid of the "terrible people" (Jeffrey Jones and Helen O' Hara) who have taken over their house. As his employers will soon discover, though, Beetlejuice doesn't exactly play by the rules and has an agenda of his own, a fact that could cause more damage than expected. Unless the new owner's daughter, the death-obsessed Lydia (Winona Ryder), finds a way to stop him, that is.Burton was famously accused for favoring style over content in his two Batman films (fair assessment, but they're still awesome), something that can't be said of this black comedy: the visual element may be incredibly strong, especially in the fantasy sequences, but the director never loses track of the wonderfully witty script, taking the audience with him on a trip that, similarly to his later work Corpse Bride, paints a merrier portrait of the afterlife than we are used to imagine, albeit with the occasional grotesque scenarios and people.Oddly enough, the extravagant imagery is also where the film shows its biggest limit, as some of the special effects have dated quite badly, most notably a stop-motion animated snake that attacks Adam and Barbara in an early nightmare scene. Such shortcomings, however, are compensated by the consistent twisted humor and a committed cast: Baldwin and Davis are amusing in roles few people would imagine them playing, Burton-regular Jones is a reliable source of laughs and Ryder's "troubled" teenager (not like her Heathers character, though) is a neat and charming counterpoint to her heartbreaking turn in Edward Scissorhands, also directed by Burton. But it is the underused Keaton (about 18 minutes of screen time in an almost two-hour long movie) who deserves the hot spot in the audience's memory: he is twitchy, rude, dirty and VERY naughty - nearly too much for a PG feature. And if that isn't enough, consider this: Burton wanted him and no one else to play Batman because of his work in this picture, and the result was the finest celluloid Dark Knight until Christian Bale took over the suit. That's gotta mean something, right?
A ghost of a good time!
posted on 26 Jan 2009Beetlejuice... beetlejuice... BEETLEJUICE! A film I really enjoyed, it was just plain fun.. love the score done by Danny Elfman, who generally produces top notch scores.. the features are kind of dissapointing, but the movie more than makes up for it.. Micheal Keatan is great in it, now why he didn't do more character driven pieces like this? And he did Batman, and did it well! What's happened to him since then? Do we see him as a big star, or hell, I'd take a cult star? No, we see crap like Multiplicity.. WTF? Grrr.. Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin do their parts sufficiently.. don't really s ee much of Alec anywhere.. but Geena is keeping up appearances at least with her role in Stuart Little 1 and 2.. her best role would have to be Thelma & Louis, however.. then Winona Rider, who is one of my weird/strange likes.. who was in one of my favorate films; Girl, Interrupted - which was like representative of my experiences at SEPS (Seperations from the Navy), in fact, some of it was spookingly similiar.. and I had seen it barely months after that whole mess.. Anyway, back to Beetlejuice.. Tim Burtan is a frickin cool director.. Love many of his films, including Edward Scissorhands, and Nightmare before Christmas (he didn't direct, but his influence is clear).. I even watched the Beetlejuice animated series awhile.. which was ok, mildly entertaining.. but could in no way touch the film.The special effects are appropriately off the wall, the humour is constantly flowing here and there, and Burtan's style literally leaks off the walls.. like a dream, where even in the after life, the problems never seem to go away, they just get more interesting...
A New Funny Ghost In Town And His Name is Beetle Juice
posted on 17 Jan 2009I think this was one of his best films that Tim Burton did in his whole life.Over 93% of people must love this great film,it should be top 205 in top 250 greatest movie.The acting was all good and funny,especially Mickeal Keaton.He was a very funny person in this film,he was born to play Beetle Juices' role.I hope he will make another part to this,and Mickeal Keaton will play his role again.If you did not see this film,go outside to a video store,and rent it or buy it.I have the movie and you should to.I all ready give the movie 4 stars.I love this movie more than Star Wars.Some of his other movies were okay like Planet of the Apes,Corpse Bride,Batman,but this beat them all.I love you Tim Burton,you are my second favorite director,next to Spiliburg
Cool Gothic-Inspired Movie
posted on 02 Jan 2009This movie is very cool. A depressed, gothic-inspired outsider teams with two newlywed ghosts makes this movie an interesting contrast. While I never particularly like Michael Keaton, I though he did a superior job as Beetlejuice. What I don't get is how they finally got to pronouncing his name right when they wanted to call him. I really liked the contrast of the movie, and although some people would consider it weird, you can learn alot from the plot.
Now this is life after death!
posted on 21 Dec 2008You gotta figure that only Tim Burton could come up with this! An ultra-zany story of rural couple Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis), who accidentally get killed and witness a tasteless couple moving into their house, forcing them to hire "bio-exorcist" Beetle Juice (Michael Keaton), is truly something else. With a new joke almost every minute, the movie never gets dull. And how about that soundtrack? "Day-O" in the most morbid comedy ever? Yep, it's all here. Great support from Catherine O'Hara and Jeffrey Jones as the tasteless couple, Winona Ryder as their disaffected daughter Lydia, and Sylvia Sidney as afterlife counselor Juno, make this one of the coolest movies of 1988!
One Of Burton's Best
posted on 03 Dec 2008This is only Tim Burton's second feature length movie (His first being 'Pee-Wee's Big Adventure') but he has clearly established styles that would remain in his films past, present and future. A deliciously black comedy with Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis playing a recently dead couple who seek help of Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton, Batman and Jackie Brown) to rid their house of art freaks Charles (Jeffrey Jones) and Delia (Catherine O'Hara) who have came to live with their ghost-seeing daughter Lydia (A younger Winona Ryder). What follows is a surreal, crazy and hilarious comedy with the best performances of both Alec Baldwin's and Michael Keaton's careers (Keaton's being only second to his performance in 'Batman'). One of the most smartest screenplay gems by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren which is beautifully directed by Tim Burton who also came up with the story and would go on to direct such gems as 'Batman', 'Edward Scissorhands' and 'Mars Attacks!' This film proves that there are some directors with real talent out there and that Tim Burton has remained in that group through all of his films. 'Beetlejuice' is one of THE best films of the 80's and it's engrossing visuals and hilarious dialogue haven't paled in the years. This film still remains an excellent film. Make sure you check it out.
Strangely entertaining!
posted on 30 Nov 2008starring: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Glen Shadix, Michael Keaton, Sylvia Sydney, Robert Goulet, Dick Cavett and Tony Cox.Extremely nice people Barbra(Davis)and Adam(Baldwin) in a freak car accident. After the funeral, they become ghosts and try to haunt the owners of their house(Mom-Catherine O'Hara, Dad-Jeffrey Jones and strange daughter Ryder). Lisa(Ryder) can see them and gets pictures of them. They go to the death side and talk to their agent Juno(Sydney), which doesn't do any good, so they resort to bio-exorcist Beetlegeuse(Keaton). Some problems with this movie are that some of it doesn't make sense, like the dinner table haunting song, and that title character Beetlegeuse, only has around 15 minutes of screen time, only having 5 minutes in the first hour of the film. But, nonetheless, Keaton does a great job as that little evil demon, Ryder is great, Sydney is really cool, and my personal favorite is Glenn Shadix as Otho, the flamboyant plumo interior designer that thinks he can control the paranormal. Stupid, but fun!Watch for Dick Cavett and Robert Goulet as friends of the family that are invited to dinner, at separate occasions.rated PG for strong language(the dreaded F-word is used), gory violent images and some sexual refferneces. 2 3/4 out of 4 stars. 87 mins.
Beetle Juice AWESOME movie
posted on 27 Nov 2008I would just like to say how much I love Beetle Juice! I was obsessed with it when I was a kid and to this day I am still obsessed. I am doing a Speech on Tim Burton and a huge reason why I am doing this speech is because of all the great movies he made. Beetle Juice being one of my favorites! I cannot stress enough how much Beetle Juice was a part of my childhood. I know it sounds stupid but ever since that movie (and even the sweet cartoon) I loved that type of sick humor. It molded me, I swear I'm not all weird or anything I just know what I love and that is FOR SURE one of the bests! I can't Hep It! All I have to say...Nice F*****G Model!
lasting charm and offbeat humor
posted on 13 Oct 2008[possible spoilers] Having nearly forgotten this 13-year-old film, I recently took it down off the shelf to watch it again, and was reminded of its enduring charm. An offbeat and original story line, an intelligent and witty script, some truly off-the-wall special effects and scene-setting, and an essentially warmhearted and gentle tone make this a movie that has possibilities of attaining the status of a minor classic. Michael Keaton of course steals the show as Betelgeuse (pronounced ‘beetle-juice') an indefinable creature of the nether regions, whose manically offensive crudeness comes close to moving beyond repulsive to endearing. It is a unique characterization, but then never before - or since - has such a character been committed to cellulose. Provides a very enjoyable evening's entertainment, and leaves a surprising feeling of well-being, as ghosts and humans live happily ever after.
Michael Keaton at his best.
posted on 11 Aug 2008BEETLE JUICE is one of the funniest and most odd "family" films ever to have been made. There are pretty awesome special effects at work (sand worms, Beetle Snake, and a scene where Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin compete to see who can make a scarier face), tons of make-up, some legitimately eerie moments, and a hilarious performance by Keaton as the troublesome everyman ghost, Beetle Juice.Classic Tim Burton combining humor and scares, the morbid and the silly, and the bizarre visual flair we've all come to know and love. Danny Elfman, as usual, makes the film sound just right, and Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song" is used perfectly. Twice.There's some blood and some creepy stuff going around: plenty of dead bodies(mostly doing and saying funny stuff) with all sorts of ailments, constant talk of the afterlife, some risqué jokes that will most likely go over the brow of your ten year old, and one of the best usages of the "F" word in cinema history.Everything about the film is exceptional, and if you like your horror with some humor, look no further.
Beetlejuice + Tim Burton = fun!
posted on 03 Jul 2008This is one of my favorite films. It is unbelievable ! Don't put this movie down. It is a wonderful film starring the wonderful Michael Keaton . Here are some reasons:1) It won the Oscar for Best Makeup.2) It has a fantastic sense of humor.3) Tim Burton's 2nd film is the best yet. If you do agree with me, thank you. Now I would like to say, "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!" Oops!! Oh-no! This is so not good at all! But still this motion picture is fantastic!THE END
Beetlejuice
posted on 06 Aug 2009A friendly ghost couple ask a loony "bio-exorcist" to drive away the obnoxious family that has moved into their home. An entertaining film with a perfect blend of comedy and horor. Keaton is incredibly off the wall as the title character. It's hard to believe that a year later, he would be playing Batman. Who knew? Directed by Tim Burton.