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Beetlejuice

1988

Tim Burton

Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder ...

6.8

51,886

Fantasy. Comedy A childless couple, Barbara and Adam (Geena Davis & Alec Baldwin), move to the country only to be killed in a car accident while passing over a quaint covered bridge. Their ghosts return to their beloved Victorian home, and find the handbook for the recently deceased, which not only lets them know they're dead, but comes in handy when they learn that they can continue to live in their house, even though a new family--from the land of ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Kyle Counts The Hollywood Reporter	"The film is colorful, delightfully deranged and endlessly inventive (...) As eye-popping as it is impossible to describe. And that's what makes 'Beetlejuice' such a delight; it's an 'experience'"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Beetlejuice' gets off to a start that’s so charming it never lives it down. The movie is all anticlimax once we realize it’s going to be about gimmicks, not characters (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"The joy of 'Beetlejuice' is its completely bizarre -- but perfectly realized -- view of the world"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"Amazingly, it all still feels fresh, even though Burton has since become something of his own franchise since (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"[It] demands respect, even if it's more enjoyable in concept than in execution (...) Even as you marvel at [Burton's] imagination you wish he'd found a story worthy of it."	NEU
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"By the time this irresistible treat is over, it has created some of the funniest moments and most inspired visual humor and design we may expect to experience at the movies all year."	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"The primitive joy of the movie lies precisely in noticing its seams (...) Keaton’s an outlandishly funny comic dynamo in this part"	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Jones Radio Times	"Burton's marvellously imaginative view of the afterlife (...) is a visionary masterstroke crammed with wit and invention (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Steve Grant Time Out	"[It] provides some of the most surprisingly enjoyable viewing in years (...) A truly astonishing piece of work."	POS

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