title: beetle juice
year: 1988
rating: ★★★1/2
summary: adam and barbara were dead, to begin with. (dickens reference! yeehaw!) but no, seriously, adam and barbara are dead. while they're trying to figure out the ropes of the afterlife, a family from new york moves into their idyllic country house and start tearing it apart. now adam and barbara have to figure out how to get rid of these people so they can rest in peace.
review: how did i not remember that adam was played by alec baldwin? he's so young. he's like a baby baldwin. anyway, i loved this movie when i was a kid. i feel as though this was one of those early clues to my rather morbid sensibilities. i can't remember how young i was when i first saw it, but it was a staple of my childhood. (i was young enough to be afraid of beetlejuice, i remember that much. my family had to convince me that it was okay, because the actor was the same person as the man who played batman. i was dubious, to say the least.)
it's another one of those movies that has held up well for me and is still amusing to me all now, twenty-two years after it was made. i think it's that camp factor again. this movie is campy, cheesy, gaudy, and completely over the top, and that's what makes it awesome. delia deetz is supposed to be a tacky horrorshow. the afterlife is supposed to be bizarre and weird-looking. and it is! and it's great! still like this movie, quite a lot. i'm glad i remembered to watch it again. :)
(also, did anyone else watch the beetlejuice cartoon after school? because you bet your sweet bippy i did.)
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