Beetlejuice is Tim Burton's follow-up to the amazingly good Pee Wee's Big Adventure in which a couple played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis play the perfect Norman Rockwell couple who are recently deceased and sentenced to 125 years in their countryside home. They run into trouble when yuppies buy the house and begin to turn it into a post modern nightmare, leading them to hire the self proclaimed "bio-exorcist" Beetlejuice, played by Michael Keaton. The problem is that Beetlejuice is a bigger problem than the yuppies.Like most of Burton's films Beetlejuice is a dark film, though most of it is comedic. The afterlife is nothing you've ever seen, being that it is reminiscent of Tuesday morning at the DMV. Keaton, playing the title character, gets very little screentime with most of the interaction going between the couple and the yuppies daughter Lydia, played by Winona Ryder in full goth mode.
The film is a quirky little death tale that is highly original and thusly has never been sequelized. Sssshhh. Hero's twenty years gone seem to be the current thing lately.
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