I liked this movie except for the parts that had Beetlejuice in it. I mean Betelgeuse. The movie was non-committal on what his actual name was, despite the fact that his name contained all his power.
Beetlejuice (as I will call him for the sake of consistency) is a creepy womanizer who died doing something green and prisony. The movie takes place in the afterlife, or something close to it, where everyone except the protagonists' deaths are made apparent by their appearances.
The movie uses claymation in a way that reminded me a bit of Evil Dead, but I don't think it was done for budgetary reasons, which I understand is why Evil Dead did it. It also did some interesting things with perspective visually and played with your idea of what was real and what was fake, which became most notable when they kept hanging out inside a toy village.
There is an old lady named Juno who died of smoking too much. She is extremely busy, and the waiting room has over nine billion waiters in it, though you can only really see a few at a time. You are only allowed to see her three times ever. We see her more than three times in the movie. I wish I only saw Beetlejuice three times in the movie.
Another thing about her is that the protagonists, who died drowning but were not wet, wake up after dying basically in or near their house, I forget. However, the football players who died in a vehicle accident and think all authority figures are their coach all seem to have materialized directly in that room. They also need to use the restroom, despite no longer having functional bladders.
I totally called that the shrimp were not shrimp. I did not call that the shrimp were hands.
Alec Baldwin is in this movie, but I didn't recognize him for a while because his voice sounded different, and also everything else about him looked different. His primary character trait was that he was bad at reading. Both bad at pronouncing words he looks at and bad at remembering to read very important books, despite having little else to do besides end up on Saturn.
Oh yeah. But I forgot to talk about Beetlejuice (the character). He was a nasty-ass creep. He kept trying to touch women in the butt and he was really gross. There was a horrible scene where he forces a kid, played by Winona Ryder, to marry him in exchange for her dead friends not becoming double-dead. She agrees to do so, and then all the famous wedding music plays in minor keys and some confusing shit happens and then they're not married or something. She can also fly and stops being a goth, so I think she died.
After the movie was over, I researched how to shrink heads. It turns out you don't use magic dust to do so.
Whoa, I just got distracted by reading about Geena Davis. She played one of my favorite characters in this movie. It turns out she was a women's archery Olympics team semi-finalist, is a member of Mensa, and is starting a film festival this year (2015) to encourage diversity in the cast and crew of films. I am hugely in favor of Geena Davis. She makes up for Beetlejuice, who is probably the grossest character I've seen in a movie in a while.
Thus concludes my review of Beetlejuice. I hope in the sequel he stops being a nasty womanizer and starts being a nice guy who helps Geena Davis with her film festival and doesn't sit with his legs out on the subway and hit on underaged kids and touch people's butts.
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