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Title: Beetlejuice (1988) Starring: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page, and Hugo Stanger Director: Tim Burton Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Runtime: 92 minutes Avg. Score: 5 Submit Comment Hits: 81

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• Posted on 2008-05-26
  Heads off, I mean up, Beetlejuice fans! New DVDs due out in September, details here
  
  Beetlejuice is coming back to DVD in a newly remastered 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, in both standard definition and Blu-ray, on September 16th, 2008. The extras announced so far are very limited: three episodes of the Saturday morning Beetlejuice cartoon series ("Skeletons in the Closet," "Spooky Boo-tique," "A-Ha!"), and for the Blu-ray version an exclusive CD soundtrack sampler. Possibly more features will be announced later, but don't count on it. The new Blu-ray will be 1080p video, but the specs for the sound haven't been announced.
  
  Beetlejuice is a very Tim Burtonesque Tim Burton movie, establishing his fascination with the macabre and, especially in this case, the funny, campy side of death and horror. It's the story of a newly dead couple (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) who are essentially stuck as ghosts in their house, and don't like its new owners (parents Jeffrey Jones and Catherine O'Hara and daughter Winona Ryder). They enlist the help of a more experienced, half-crazy but very insistent ghost, Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), in an effort to scare the new owners away by haunting them. Beetlejuice turns out to have his own agenda, and alliances shift as the story winds through learning to be dead, afterlife bureaucracy, wild chases through small spaces, Calypso dancing at dinner to Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song" ("Day-O"), a very goth wedding ceremony, and supernatural comeuppance.
  
  The cast, for the most part, is perfectly suited to the wacky material, the sets and make-up and other effects very imaginative, the story engaging. Great fun.
  
  If you don't have the old, not-so-great DVD, the new release might be worth waiting for. Amazon has a page to pre-order the new standard DVD here. The Blu-ray version has a pre-order page here.
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2008-05-09
  BeetleJuice- DVD
  
  If you like BeetleJuice and the supernatural then buy this movie you won't be let down. This is a very good movie fun for all ages. See this movie is what started the cartoon series on cartoonnetwork in the early 1990's BeetleJuice. Personally I think Micheal Keaton did a fantastic job as playing BeetleJuice I just really like this movie alot it talk's about what the after life is like basically see Barbara and Adam Maitland die and their ghost's in the movie and they meet BeetleJuice and I'm not going to tell you the rest because you have to watch the movie trust me this movie is really good it will make you want to say BeetleJuice three times.
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2008-04-23
  old school
  
  This is an old school DVD. The only extras are "Read only" no making of or anything. Still, it is a nice picture that we love about DVDs.
  Score: 3
• Posted on 2007-05-10
  Only difference is the case
  
  This is not a new edition of the movie, the only difference is the case is a standard DVD case instead of the cardboard snap kind.
  Score: 5