Beetlejuice

critic Reviews

, 86% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • Brilliantly bizarre and overflowing with ideas, Beetlejuice offers some of Michael Keaton's most deliciously manic work - and creepy, funny fun for the whole family.
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Pauline KaelNew Yorker
    Though a lot of [Burton's] moves don’t connect, enough of them do to make this spotty, dissonant movie a comedy classic.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Steve RoseGuardian
    The story almost comes off the rails, but Beetlejuice's charm lies more in the execution. The movie is crammed with visual invention and snappy comedy.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    David AnsenNewsweek
    For sheer off-the-wall audacity, Tim Burton's demented Beetlejuice certainly demands respect, even if it's more enjoyable in concept than in execution.
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    Tim RobeyDaily Telegraph (UK)
    The movie's such a riot of invention we let him take it more or less anywhere.
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    Jay BoyarOrlando Sentinel
    Betelgeuse doesn't fully emerge until the film is half over, but Michael Keaton makes a strong enough impression in the role to explain why the picture is named after his character.
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  • , Rotten Tomatometer Score
    Gene SiskelChicago Tribune
    An overly ambitious special-effects comedy obviously influenced by the success of Ghostbusters.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    David PountainVague Visages
    Indeed, in a film that so gleefully satirizes and undermines any attempts to impose order on existence, Betelgeuse can be regarded as a subversive savior.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Terry FrancisSouthern Voice (Atlanta)
    Tim Burton's Beetlejuice is a farce that's blessedly lunatic.
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    Bill ChambersFilm Freak Central
    Beetle Juice is founded on...absurd juxtapositions--none funnier, if you ask me, than when an undead football team calls the ancient, gravel-voiced Sylvia Sidney "coach."
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Mike MassieGone With The Twins
    An exciting, hilarious, extremely outlandish, oftentimes touching, otherworldly adventure that is utterly unlike anything else.
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