We recently picked up the Beetlejuice movie in Bluray and watched it again.
This has become such a great classic movie. How could anyone not like this Tim Burton movie?!
Seeing it in bluray, with everything so crisp and clear and sharp, made this movie all the more enjoyable.
This starts out with that very catchy tune, the great banana boat song, Day-O by Harry Belafonte.
I forget how many great stars are in this movie:
Alec Baldwin
Geena Davis
Catherine O'Hara---She was in the Home Alone series as the mother.
Winona Ryder--classic!
Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse and also known as Batman!
Robert Goulet and I know not many may know him but he is a classic star and has been in quite a bit including a cameo in Scrooge.
Dick Cavett, another classic older actor.
As this movie starts out, you soon realize you are actually in the model that Alec Baldwin's character has created. With such great attention to detail and even spotted a Wise potato chip van! This is set in White River, CT. The beginning starts out with another Harry Belafonte song.
Spoiler....
The premise of the movie is a couple are spending their vacation time at home, Geena and Alec.
You can see how dated this is when Alec uses a tape cassette player for the music.
They go to town to get a part at the store and on their way home, they avoid hitting a dog and smack into the side of the covered bridge and end up going over the side into the water.
They walk back home all dripping wet and are confused and feel that something is not quite right.
Small telltale signs take them to the conclusion that they did not survive the crash and are in fact, dead even including seeing a book entitled: Handbook for the Recently Deceased.
Not long after, we see Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse,The Bio-Exorcist.
Now an interesting note here is the spelling of the name in comparison to the title.
Betelgeuse is the name of a variable red super giant star of the first magnitude near the eastern shoulder of the constellation Orion.
In the movie with the phonetic spelling of the name, he is depicted as a mischevious bio-exorcist or more so a rather pesky ghost. He was originally designed to be a demon but the way he ended up made him be more comical.
Here is some interesting notes about the movie from Huffington Post:
The Day-O song plays in the background as the gorgeous house gets sold. Catherine O'Hara and Jeffrey Jones (you may remember him from Ferris Buehler as the principal) buy the house.
A lot of music from Harry Belafonte is featured in this movie.
So as the Deats move in, Geena and Alec try to be ghosts and scare them away.
And then the fun ensues!
It would be cool to replicate the dead help area, like a fun house checkerboard with slanted floors.
Funny to see the old Zag nut candy bar.
One of the great lines from this movie said by Winona's character:
"Live people ignore the strange and unusual...I, myself am....strange and unusual"
This movie isn't really for little kids as there are some adult references to it so I would place it more for higher teens. Just the Dantes Inferno Room, for girls, girls, girls and the whole gestures that Betelgeuse makes places this movie in a more older audience.
A nod to the Night of the Living Dead movie in that clip above too! :)
I really adore this movie! It's just catchy and funny and with a nice ending to it.
And you gotta love the voodoo priest!
Highly recommend it!
~*Bugs n Hisses*~
GP
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