Beetlejuice - 1988

Yes, it's a stupid film, and you can see from the make-up how old it is, but it's an 80s cult, and has its charm in that 80s aura and in a funny Michael Keaton. Alec Baldwin (as Adam) and Geena Davis (as Barbara) are ok too playing these two peaceful and nice ghosts who are trying to scare away the new owners of their house but fail, miserably, becoming an attraction instead. To be ghosts they are quite 'physical', meaning that they open doors, and pain, and generally act like living people, only when Lydia (Winona Ryder) photographs them they appear as floating figures, but that's because they don't appear in pictures at all, being ghosts, and only the sheets they borrowed from them to scare them are visible.
Adam and Barbara are so nice that can't think of anything actually scary, so out of desperation they call Beetlejuice (that in the plastic model where he lives now is written Betergeuse or something like that, but pronounced Beetlejuice) by saying his name three times. He turns out to be too dangerous and way too scary, so they put him back by calling his name again, and keep trying their own way, but the new family's friend Otto stole the book of the deceased and now makes a rite to call back the ghosts of the house. Poor Adam and Barbara are back in their wedding dresses in flesh and bone, only, being dead, their flesh is rapidly decaying and Lydia feels pity for them but Otto doesn't know what to do now, he simply read one thing in the book, he has no idea how to stop it now, so Lydia runs to Beetlejuice for help, and he promises to help them if she lets him out by calling his name. Trouble is, he has now learned his lesson and wants to stay out and free without the possibility of being put back in the plastic again, and apparently to accomplish this all he has to do is get married, and Lydia accepts, to save her ghost-friends. Once free, he's dangerous and apparently unstoppable. At the wedding moment, both Adam and Barbara try to call his name three time, but are stopped every time. Adam is sent inside the plastic and Barbara in some kind of 'Dune' world, where she finds one giant worm and rides it to get back home and the worm eats Beetlejuice, freeing them all. Now the ghosts give up scaring them, instead they all line in the same house, happily. They help Lydia with her studying, and everybody's happy. What I liked less of all is the last scene, when as a reward for her good school test results they make her sing and dance floating in the air. Now, the music is good, but Lydia's dancing was awful, she was kept in the air with cords or however you call it, and her moving was so unnatural, her legs going left and right in an awkward way. I understand why that is, but I don't like the scene at all.
Beetlejuice is funny, I like Michael Keaton. It's not an award-winning role, but it's funny how he speaks, the voice he makes :-) He has big makeup on, so it's basically all body-language and voice, mostly voice. Ok, it's not a great film, but it's still enjoyable and it has its own charm. It's a cult, in its own way.