Reviews of Beetlejuice
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Phil Worfel
11Sep09
This is one of those films that I certainly missed in the theater, but then missed it on VHS as well and by then wasn’t all that interested in seeing it. I was chastised, however, by my contemporaries so i picked it up and was unfortunately underwhelmed. Burtons style is definitely on show and the “Shake,Shake, Senora” sequence is cute but nothing really hit for me. I’m sure if I had watched it back in the late 80’s early 90’s I would feel differently but alas…
- Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
Byron Brubaker
22Jul09
I totally agree with Roger Ebert’s review, which begins with, “The movie is all anticlimax once we realize it’s going to be about gimmicks, not characters.” I’ve just now, in my 20’s, seen this movie for the first time. I haven’t been living under a rock so I have seen pictures and clips from the movie, but I am surprised how little of the movie was what I expected. It seemed custom made to be adapted into the Saturday morning cartoon that came in the special features of the DVD. But it was not nearly as funny or charming as I was led to believe by everyone who has enjoyed it since the 80’s. I had no idea Beetle Juice, the character, was a ghostly genie-like guy who can grant supernatural assistance to the ghosts of Baldwin and Davis. I had no idea that he was miniature (like a genie would be in a bottle) and lived in a model of the town where Baldwin and Davis live in their house’s attic. I don’t think I ever realized that Winona Ryder befriends the ghosts and Beetle Juice in this movie. The movie definitely shows Burton’s creativeness, but it was all so weird, and in this case that didn’t make me like it any more.
- Currently 3.0/5 Stars.