Os Fantasmas Divertem-se
A história é a de um jovem casal cuja morte prematura os leva a uma série de experiências bizarras e loucas no outro mundo. Já como fantasmas, na sua casa em New England, são colocados perante o desafio de assustar os novos, ricos e barulhentos habitantes da casa. Para piorar a situação, a filha dos novos inquilinos tem uma afinidade especial por coisas mórbidas. Beetlejuice é um fantasma que oferece os seus serviços ao jovem casal fantasma.
Directed by
Tim Burton
Written by
Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Genre
Comédia, Fantasia, Terror
Video
1080p
Audio
English (DTS-HD MA 5.1)
Subtitles
English
Cast
Alec Baldwin
Adam
Geena Davis
Barbara
Winona Ryder
Lydia
Catherine O'Hara
Delia
Jeffrey Jones
Charles
Michael Keaton
Betelgeuse
Glenn Shadix
Otho
Sylvia Sidney
Juno
Patrice Martinez
Receptionist
Dick Cavett
Bernard
Robert Goulet
Maxie Dean
Maree Cheatham
Sarah Dean
Susan Kellermann
Grace
Carmen Filpi
Messenger
Annie McEnroe
Jane Butterfield
Rachel Mittelman
Little Jane
Hugo Stanger
Old Bill
Maurice Page
Ernie
J. Jay Saunders
Moving Man #1
Mark Ettlinger
Moving Man #2
Cindy Daly
3-Fingered Typist
Douglas S. Turner
Char Man
Gary Jochimsen
Dumb Football Player
Bob Pettersen
Dumb Football Player #2
Duane Davis
Very Dumb Football Player
Simmy Bow
Janitor
Adelle Lutz
Beryl
Tony Cox
Preacher
Jack Angel
Preacher (voice)
Charles Schneider
The Hanging Man (uncredited)
Reviews
Gene Siskel
An overly ambitious special-effects comedy obviously influenced by the success of Ghostbusters.
Eric Henderson
Tim Burton's imagination jumped into the saddle and held onto the bridle with Beetlejuice.
David Ansen
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.
Jay Boyar
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.
Kevin Thomas
The film is a dazzling display of director Tim Burton's unique pop culture sensibility.
Dave Kehr
Much as Joe Dante did in ``Gremlins`` and ``Innerspace,`` Burton delights in creating in live-action format the impossible effects of cartoons and comic strips.
Kyle Counts
It's an experience, rather than another helping of the same old thing.
Richard Corliss
Beetlejuice means something good: that imaginative artists can bring a fading genre back from the dead.
Variety Staff
Luckily, Keaton pops up from his grave to liven things up when the antics pitting the good ghosts against the intruders become a trite cat & mouse game.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
An appealing mess.
Pauline Kael
Though a lot of [Burton's] moves don't connect, enough of them do to make this spotty, dissonant movie a comedy classic.
Joe Pollack
It's a movie that's mostly bright, witty and wry, and sometimes exceedingly funny.
Eleanor Ringel Cater
A certifiably zany movie in the best possible sense of the word.
Linnea Lannon
Beetlejuice is a weird but often funny blend of special effects and Yuppies that sounds a lot dumber that it plays.
Michael H. Price
The film could coast on crackerjack special effects, but Keaton strengthens the premise with an irresistibly vulgar, unrestrained portrayal.
Betsy Sherman
The makers of Beetlejuice manage to go beyond pastiche and succeed in creating a unique, wacked-out world.
AP Staff
Unrecognizable in his weirdo makeup, Keaton behaves outrageously; it's a marvelous characterization.
Carrie Rickey
While Beetlejuice will make absolutely no sense to those who demand coherence from a film, all viewers will delight in its dizzy, postliterate, postmodern style.
Owen Gleiberman
At the end, you feel exhilarated, because the cunning way Burton works is part of the joke. His innocent deviousness lifts you up high, like helium.
Lynn Darling
It's the apparitions that are the real stars: They're gross, gaudy and appropriately horrific.