Lottergeist beetlejuice 20th anniversary special edition

Continue Reading. You may like. Click to comment. Published 15 mins ago on January 13, By John Squires. Our attention. You have it. More as we learn it! TV 6 days ago. Movies 2 days ago. However, the one that stands out and has become a classic of cinema is the Day-O scene where Adam and Barbara possess a dinner party and force them to dance to calypso music and finish by grabbing their faces with evil shrimp hands.

Everyone does. This film is filled with memorable moments and dialog that people still reference and quote today. Beetlejuice is presented in anamorphic widescreen 1. Sound is presented in Dolby 5. French and Spanish language tracks included as well as English, French and Spanish subtitles. Also, this is the first time the film has been released in widescreen, which is huge. The film has never looked or sounded this good. Beetljuice TV Series: 36 min. You get three cartoons from the animated series that ran from to The cartoon shares little resemblance to the film.

Beetlejuice is the star of the show and is best friends the Lydia and the Maitlands no longer exist. Beetlejuice still stands as one of my more memorable theater going experience as a child. They call on Beetlejuice, the afterlife's freelance bio-exorcist to scare off the family - and everyone gets more than she, he or it bargains for! And Michael Keaton is Beetlejuice, the ghost with the most who flings one-liners, spins into grotesque forms, gobbles insects, and who just can't leave the ladies living or dead alone.

Ghoul love it! Back at the start of , Michael Keaton's career had taken more than a slight downturn. Whatever spark he exhibited during his promising start in films like Night Shift and Mr. Mom seemed completely doused by the time he appeared in low-brow dreck such as Johnny Dangerously and Gung Ho.

After only a few films, he seemed doomed to suffer the fate of a comedic journeyman: year after year of mediocre comic piffle. However, the events of were to alter that path, at least briefly. Keaton starred in two films that year - Beetlejuice and Clean and Sober.

While the two films featured extremely divergent subject matter, they coalesced in one respect: the near unanimous praise for Keaton's work in both pictures. Via this one year and one National Society of Film Critics award as best actor - which was given to him as a result of his work in both movies - Keaton made it to "A"-list status with his starring role in mega-hit Batman.

It seems extremely unlikely that he could have obtained that plum part as the Dark Knight had he not made such positive impressions with his output. White Noise? Of the two Keaton flicks in question, I find Beetlejuice to be the far more compelling film. I loved and continue to adore Pee-Wee. Although many snobbishly dismiss it as piffle, few films have ever approached its level of creativity, wit, and manic energy; it easily remains one of the five funniest films ever made. I had always assumed that this was because of Pee-Wee himself; I figured it had to be Paul Reubens' show, right?

How wrong I was! Within a few months of each other, we saw the follow-up efforts from both Reubens and Burton. As already discussed, Beetlejuice was a delight and it performed well at the box office. Big Top Pee-Wee , on the other hand, was an absolute disaster. I saw that thing opening night, and not only did it fail to reignite the sparks caused by Pee-Wee , it couldn't even muster any giggles. I didn't laugh once during the entire - mercifully brief - enterprise.

In fact, I think the on-screen antics only provoked me to smile once or twice. Most of the time, I sat gape-jawed in horror at the putrid "comedy" shown before me. Clearly, Burton was the real auteur behind the brilliant extravaganza that was Pee-Wee , though it took his subsequent films to establish that fact even more clearly.