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A classic visual effects 80's film
by Adam (movies profile)
Jan 27, 2007
5
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6 people found this review helpful
Every movie made by Tim Burton is a must-see: Batman, Sleepy Hollow, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, and even Pee Wee's Big Adventure. All of them are unpredictable and outstanding in visuals and direction. Beetlejuice is one of Burton's surpreme films, and if you haven't seen it, well, you better.
Alec Baldwin and Gina Davis are Adam and Barbara, a happy couple who live in a house that is a little too big for them, but they're very happy. But when they almost run over a dog and into the side of a bridge over a river, the dog who's still alive is balanced on a raised board that's keeping the car from falling, and the dog walks off and the car falls into the river! As ghosts, they get to their house not remembering how, and there they realize that they're dead.
Things get worse when a New York family moves into the house, a family that includes Charles(Jeffrey Jones) Delia(Catherine O'Hera) and Lydia(Winona Ryder). They all have different opinions of the house. Charles loves it. Delia hates and changes it. And Lydia, who is a strange and unusual girl, suspects an unknown presence in the attic, which is where Adam and Barbara are hiding out, though the family can't see them.
Adam and Barbara are having problems of their own. If they try to leave the house, they are transported to an unknown desert inhabited by a gigantic creature known as a Sandworm, which always tries to eat them. So Adam and Barbara try instead to enlist the power of a bio-exorcist named BeetleGeise(I don't know why the title is spelled differently) to scare the family out. But BeetleGeise is only a troublemaker who's acts to scare the family are cruel and silly. Lydia then meets Adam and Barbara and convinces them to stop their acts of scaring, but they forget to send BeetleGeise out of the picture, who thinks up his own crazy plans to make things worse...
The special effects may have movement problems, but they are really works of art. The acting is great and the movie is hysterical. Critics like Roger Ebert did not appreciate this film because they didn't know how much of a classic it would be. The score by Danny Elfman is fantasic and memorable. BeetleGeise is played hysterically by Michael Keaton, who we can't see in all the make-up, but we can hear his voice pretty well. Every time you watch the film, it's hilarious. Beetlejuice is such a wild ride that Tim Burton probably got lost in it having so much fun! That's what the results are like. |
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