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It's been so long
Since I watched this movie. It is great I recallt hough. But my movie store was to lazy and couldn't get up yo help me find it.

Weird, Silly, Pseudo-Spooky Fun
The most apt adjective to describe this film is "weird". On secend thought, "insane" comes to mind as well. It is so completely off the wall that it is difficult to describe but that does not stop it from being lots of fun.

The story is about a young married couple that was recently killed in a car accident. They find that they are stuck in their home and unable to leave. Just as they are getting used to their new situation, a family from New York moves in. The father just wants to "get away from it all". The mother is horrified that she is now stuck in the sticks away from the "art scene". Her solution is to bring her live-in interior decorator. And then there is the daughter, a teenager into the gothic and macabre. The dead couple does not like the newcomers and wants them out of their house. That's why they call in Betelgeuse, the "bio-exocrcist" to get rid of the living.

The antics of everyone in this film are hilarious to watch. Michael Keeton in the title role is especially fun. He seems to have a chemistry with Tim Burton that lets them come up with some pretty bizzare gags that work.

The entire film is a feast of sight gags, one liners, snappy comebacks and unexpected happenings that are so outrageous that you cannot help but laugh. There is nothing spooky or scary about it; it is pure comedy.

This one is worth watching time and time again. It is a masterpiece of dark comedy.

Off-color, Irreverent Hilarity
I love this film. Barbara and Adam Maitland, a young couple madly in love (played by Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) discover that they are not only dead but trapped in their home as ghosts waiting for the bureaucracy of the afterlife to set them free. When a New York couple (Catherine O'Hara and Jeffrey Jones) and their teenage daughter Lydia (wonderfully macabre Winona Ryder) move into their beloved house, the Maitlands want nothing more than to remove them. The problem is, the Maitlands are too nice to truly scare anyone. They meet a rogue ghost, the ribald, disgusting Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) who promises to drive the family away, with a few strings attached. Lydia, whose goals aren't that far from the Maitlands and who has a morbid, poignantly sad outlook, discovers the ghosts and tries to help them. But Beetlejuice has his own agenda.

The casting for this movie is perfect, with only Alec Baldwin's performance less than memorable. Michael Keaton is suitably slimy and decadent, while Geena Davis plays the earnest innocence of her character equally well. The most startling performance is a young Winona Ryder, who shows tremendous range in her role as the morbid but good-hearted Lydia.

One of the most hilarious, dark scenes ever filmed is contained in this movie, when the New York couple throws a pretentious dinner party and the Maitlands take over. Director Tim Burton uses sight gags, situational comedy, and one-liners that all bear his trademark quirkiness to make this film inventive and, even years after its release, fresh. What's most amazing in this film essentially about the weirdness of being dead is the emotional drive of it. The Maitlands' yearning to reclaim their home even in death and Lydia's wounded, lonely adolescence lend humanity to an otherwise wild comedy.

I highly recommend this off-beat film for its hilarity and irreverence. Parents of young children should be warned that the film contains off-color humor as well as images and ideas that might disturb young minds.

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