Beetlejuice(1988) ♦Movie Reaction♦ First Time Watching!

[@AerialEmber]

24:13 "Dropped a house on her sister" is a reference to Wizard of Oz. Dorothy's house dropped on the sister of the wicked witch of the west. He is calling her a witch.

[@justsomebody-1665]

Exactly!

[@01ls1z28dabx]

@@justsomebody-1665 I hope she does a reaction to Wizard of Oz.

[@silirat]

Spoilers. 85 year old spoilers.

[@mackeyman13]

@@silirat Ehh not really a spoiler. Happens in the first 10 mins of the film

[@little-wytch]

Blast it! You beat me to it lol.

[@ink-cow]

A house dropped on the sister of the Wicked Witch in the classic Wizard of Oz.

[@chrissmalley83]

Yep. It's not any deeper than that. Otho was just calling Beryl a witch.

[@Bfdidc]

I got that reference!

[@DustinAxelson]

[@mikethemotormouth]

​@@BfdidcGood jorb Steve

[@normalityrelief]

@@mikethemotormouthlol beat me to it!

[@TheReturnOfSak]

"I don't even like flies, but I know Geena Davis does." That, Whimsory, was a good one!

[@victore6242]

The "Help me, Help me" line is a reference to the original movie The Fly 1958.

[@brianboye8025]

As said by a fly sized fly with a human head while caught in a spider web.

[@jonmercano1138]

I’m pretty sure it was also said in the remake. Goldblum says it to Geena when he’s falling apart I think

[@NZBigfoot]

Hmm that never clicked for me... always thought it was a bit of dark humor having the fly have an actual voice.

[@WarGamerGirl]

The "shrunken head" guy at 22:43 was a victim of the headhunter tribesman sitting next to him. There have been tribes that remove the skull and shrink the head (by boiling it) of their enemies. This was just a funny reference to that.

[@UncleUncleRj]

Yep - but at the time it was a mystery how it was done - and the local legend was that the medicine-man (the headhunter) was able to do it with "magic", which is what he did to Beetlejuice.

[@carl_anderson9315]

Which is more evident by his outfit. He seems to be a lion or elephant hunter.

[@johnrohlf7902]

Keaton maintains that 90% of his dialogue was improvised. “Well, I attended Juilliard. I’m a graduate of the Harvard Business School. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I’ve seen The Exorcist about 167 times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it, not to mention the fact that you’re talking to a dead guy. Now what do you think? You think I’m qualified?” Genius!

[@wulf76]

What I meant can you be scary ?

[@ink-cow]

The Black Plague line came back, since it's now part of his back story in the sequel. Which makes sense.

[@olternaut]

Seriously though Whimsory, you absolutely need to add 'The Wizard of Oz' to your list of greatest movies of all time that you sometimes go by. You deserve to experience it while you still have that sense of wonder about you.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

Michael Keaton is an amazingly versatile actor. Comedies, drama, superhero, supervillain, psychopath, tear jerker... Anything he's in is worth a watch, but see something from every genre. Incredible talent!

[@GKithoTakaxathi]

ありがとうございます！

[@paulayala6174]

And the award for the reactioner's best joke goes to: "I don't even like flies, but I know Gina Davis does". I literally laughed out loud (well, chuckled anyway). 😅

[@davewhitmore1958]

"Go eat a steak!" Whimsory always bustin' out the good advice, lol

[@andrewgrossman4982]

OMG. You've never seen The Wizard of Oz???? That is an absolute must watch! I think you would absolutely love it. Loved your reaction, as always!

[@stevemiller6923]

Your outros and analyses are always such a delight.

[@Gnomojo]

“This is why you shouldn’t have only children” is by far the wildest curveball I’ve ever heard from you.

[@billthomas478]

If you unalive yourself you get condemned to be a civil servant. I still love that idea.

[@jscan4442]

Even Captain America understands Wizard of Oz references.

[@brianboye8025]

I got that one!

[@menotyou8369]

Right?

[@promiscuous675]

Well yes, but for him it's been less that six years since it came out and he saw it. For Whimsory it has been eighty-five years since the movie was released.

[@mikegilgenbach4840]

Captain America SHOULD recognize a Wizard of Oz reference above any and all others

[@JRSiebz]

I understood that reference

[@PierceArner]

That ending joke was spectacularly done!

[@olternaut]

I love how they say the place keeps getting weirder and weirder like they were still in the waiting room. But it turns out they were in their house! 🤣

[@wcemichael]

The original "The Fly" movie in black and white. A fly gets into the prototype teleporter machine and the fly and the man testing the machine, switch a couple of body parts. Towards the end of the movie a fly is found with a tiny human head, stuck in a spider web screaming with a tiny little voice "help me. help me" over and over ...and when Kmart was around, they really used to announce on the PA "attention Kmart shoppers" and tell you about a blue light special they were having.

[@BEBruns]

The original The Fly was in color. There were two sequels and they were in black and white.

[@wcemichael]

@@BEBruns Opps.. You're right, it is in color. I must remember it being BW because color was still pretty new back then. I don't think I watched the sequels

[@BoOmBANG_]

When they announced Tim Burton was making a Batman movie the following year starring Michael Keaton we all thought he was playing the Joker not Batman! 😂

[@Bfdidc]

He was a great Bruce Wayne.

[@BoOmBANG_]

@@Bfdidc I agree! My second favorite Bruce Wayne besides Christian Bale 👍🏽

[@Metzwerg74]

and jack nicholson the best joker to date...

[@CanceIed]

@@Metzwerg74 1. Heath Ledger 2. Joaquin Phoenix 3. Jack Nicholson

[@Metzwerg74]

@@CanceIed ledgers was a great batman villain... he just never got to BE the joker... if he had not died, he never would have gotten that undeserved oscar... but that´s why i hate the batman franchise today after each of all this many reboots, with each one, they got further and further away, from what it was in the beginning... and ledger never got that joker vibe... as i said a great psychopath villain, but one of the worst jokers... i think only letos joker was worse....

[@trailblazerterrafirma]

Best reactor in the biz! 😉 Love rewatching some of my favs with you!!!

[@seansersmylie]

Pee Wee's Big Adventure is great. The guy with the small head was the victim of the head shrinker, that was a thing way back in the day.

[@KevyNova]

The real villain isn’t the dog, it’s the dog’s owner for letting it run around the neighborhood.

[@joerenaud8292]

Finally some recognizes the dog as the evil one in this picture because if you watch closely you'll notice that dog gets in front of their car 3 separate times as though it has it in for the Maitland's.

[@MrGadfly772]

Nice to see you watch this. Also, you're very well scripted end notes! Your reactions manage to still be well worth the wait.

[@alexkaen1701]

"That's the last time I'm going to say his name" And then she read the title for the sequel...

[@andrejuarez]

This is going to sound random, but something about the intro you did makes me feel like you're going to be an amazing gandma.

[@Whimsory]

Thank you! I actually know what you mean--I see that in people too sometimes😂

[@J.Johnson-hf1nn]

@@Whimsory Will you be calling your grand daughter "Pumpkin"?

[@QuarantinedCapricorn]

The moral of the story is that it doesn’t take blood to be family. And that even people who seem like polar opposites can come together and coexist.

[@menotyou8369]

Just like the car scene in Deadpool & Wolverine.

[@QuarantinedCapricorn]

@@menotyou8369 yes!

[@TheMadMurf]

Whoa... you need to add the Wizard of Oz to your list of movies to see. Came out in 1939 and one of those classics everyone should see.

[@renlessard]

Michael Keaton had actually been pretty established from Night Shift, Gung Ho, Johnny Dangerously and Mr Mom

[@bobbleslackmore4127]

My favorite part is when Delia's agent calls her a hack. "You are a flake, you have always been a flake. If you insist on Frightening people, do it with your sculpture." MIKE DROP!

[@Holy_Wraith]

But Lydia did not create the art, she's just a child. The step-mother Delia created the art. 😒

[@bobbleslackmore4127]

@@Holy_Wraith How embarrassing. You are absolutely right. corrected

[@mattstanford9673]

Speaking of Robin Williams, a good "creep" movie, for October, would be "One Hour Photo," if you haven't seen it. Great movie. I genuinely think I loved Robin the most when he was in non-comedy roles.

[@tonyb7615]

His best non comedy role for me was Moscow on the Hudson. Then good morning Vietnam, (well half comedy half serious). Towards the end of his career it felt like studios were throwing any trash his way cause they knew his name would put butts in seats.

[@tonyb7615]

These vids are always on my must watch immediately short list, i wish whims could make at least 4 times as many on the same schedule. But then it would water down the outro's. And that my friends, is when you know you've come across quality.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

If only someone in the comments would have explained the "dropped a house" joke

[@KevyNova]

I was thinking the same. She’ll never know.

[@clarkness77]

It's a reference to wizard of oz

[@Skrulzie]

I've seen about 3 comments explaining it before seeing this one. Not sure what you are not seeing. Lol

[@KevyNova]

@@Skrulzie they obviously saw the comments, hence the joke.

[@thesicksquad]

“I don’t even like flies but I know Geena Davis does” is the best joke I heard so far about this movie. Excellent Halloween choice 🎃

[@Fiendy]

Fun Fact: When Beetlejuice kicks the model tree it wasn’t supposed to fall over, but when it did Michael Keaton improvised “nice fkng model” and grabbing his junk 🤣🤣🤣

[@jkayrichardson3366]

beat me to it

[@zmarko]

*honk honk*

[@0okamino]

It makes me wonder just how many movie scenes in general would have been bloopers, but were kept in because character wasn’t broken, and they did something even better than planned. When something like that happens, you can rest assured that you made the right casting choice.

[@zimvader25]

There’s literally no other reason to kick that tree in that scene other than for it to fall.. i swear you all will believe anything you read on the internet

[@Hellseeker1]

"Girl you need some Iron, go eat a steak" That's my girl!

[@bigdream_dreambig]

6:51 "You walk down the stairs weird." She has her feet turned significantly sideways which means the tread of the stairs is probably quite narrow. This narrowness allows a staircase to take up less space and doesn't impede you much when you're going up because you generally climb stairs on your toes, but it makes going down -- especially quickly as seen here -- much more challenging. Most modern construction no longer allows stairs to have such narrow treads because it's a falling hazard.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

Also, jeez! That's the legendary Geena Davis, MENSA member, 24th best archer in the U.S. (according to her placement in tryouts for the 2000 Olympics), and longtime activist for women actors in Hollywood. Please show some respect. She can descend stairs however she dern well likes.

[@ronnyschedler24285]

Adam West being the only Bat-Man you know is awesome. I remember watching the show as a kid in the early 90's

[@plectrumura]

Watching this from Tampa and very much needing some of your energy at the moment.

[@Whimsory]

Be safe!

[@chrisscheidt9643]

Stay safe in Tampa, plectrumura. it's gonna be a bad one

[@James-m5w]

Watch out for that storm surge and evacuate if you can! I'm in Orlando so I'll be right behind you. Good luck and God bless!

[@zedwpd]

You are in Florida, where the last remaining US K-Mart exists.

[@terrygalliher-v5y]

loved your ending when you said beetlejuice for the third time😄adorable!

[@razorfett147]

I miss these kinds of original, goofball movies. They didnt take themselves too seriously and were just alot of fun. The 80s and 90s were full of them.

[@TheTrashStash]

Great reaction! The point of the movie somewhat is that living together amongst differences is better than trying to be segregated. Barbera and Adam finally found the daughter they always wanted and the house was happier with everyone living together. Even as gross as Beetlejuice was, he really did help them out in a time of need by stoping them from dying, so he was low key kind of a hero who never got the thanks he deserved.

[@jamesdee759]

That joke you didn't get 24:01 tells me that you need to watch "The Wizard of Oz" from the 1930's. If you watch the movie then you'll understand the joke. 😁

[@Tofushoots]

"I've seen BEETLEJUICE ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT"

[@thseed7]

You NEED to watch the Wizard of Oz. It's legitimately required viewing that's referenced through 80 years of pop culture and it stands up to this day.

[@kunaekinslaughterer]

Thank you for correctly identifying the actual villain in this story. That dog was a jerk.

[@jstraight1667]

10:27 Her eye twitch here is PERFECT!

[@Wungolioth]

I saw this movie at least 10 times in the theater back in '88, and countless times since. Some details you might've missed: When Charles sits down in the den and opens a magazine, little subscription cards fall out. Every time he turns a page, more of them keep falling out. In Juno's office, behind her on the wall is a mirror, at times you'll see what appears to be dead people, skeletons and zombified people sitting in a theater, they're supposed to be the audience in the theater watching the movie, their dead reflections.

[@lunatikoniko1546]

i knew it, that dog was going to win the award to the real villain !!!!!

[@MrSmokingfrog1]

A Robin Williams movie I would suggest is, Club Paradise (1986). A great comic cast along with him in that one. 😊

[@oscardiggs246]

“I will go insane and I WILL TAKE YOU WITH ME!!!” Everyone talks about Michael Keaton, but this movie is propped up by Catherine O’Hara. Turns out we were gifted a replacement for Batty White and we never even knew it.

[@sean---the-other-one]

Winona is great in Girl, Interrupted, but everyone in that cast was totally and gloriously upstaged by Angelina Jolie and her Oscar winning performance.

[@davelister2961]

Dropped a house on her sister? Wizard of Oz? He's calling her a witch. Oh, sweet summer child. 😂

[@JSBIRD69]

Whimsory : "Dropped a house on her sister..." Wizard of Oz. Dorothy 'dropped' a house on the Wicked Witch of the East. Her sister, Wicked Witch of the West, was not amused.

[@Etticos.]

Right, to simplify, he is calling her a “witch”, but not like a modern hot witch, more like an old school green skin big nose, pointy chin and warts type witch.

[@scottstevens7639]

Fun cultural references that Whimsory doesn’t know about (yet): Otho’s joke about the lady having a house dropped on her head is a reference to “The Wizard of Oz”. Can’t call yourself a real reactor without seeing that one. The fly screaming “help me!” is a reference to the original version of “The Fly” (the 1958 one, not the more modern one with Jeff Goldblum). The afterlife waiting room was filled with people who died in different ways. The lady in 2 pieces was obviously a magician’s assistant who literally got sawed in half. The guy with the tiny head was the victim of a head shrinker. That was the same guy who shrunk Beetlejuice’s head at the end. Final note - yes, check out the 1989 “Batman”. Michael Keaton proved many overly critical Batman fans wrong by doing a more than passable job in the role. Plus, it has Jack Nicholson as the Joker… Love your reactions. Get a few more under your belt. ❤

[@AlexanderStewart-k2v]

I want Ryan George to react to that movie!

[@seansersmylie]

Tim Burton at his best! Winona Ryder hasn't changed very much from her twenties until now and yes she still looks incredible.

[@johnpittsii7524]

Hi whimsory hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤

[@otsugan]

the fly getting eaten is a gag related to "the fly" movie from 1958 🎃

[@Zebred2001]

Great reaction Whimsory! Gotta check out Fright Night (1985), The Addams Family (1991) and The Frighteners (1996)!

[@Billinois78]

Ok, when you gave the award for best dance, Beetlejuice with the spikes, doing a thrust dance to the brothel is exactly what came to my mind, too LOL. It gets me every time

[@mikevanh]

"Help Me!, Help Me!" were the last lines of of the unfortunate scientist whose head was swapped with that of the titular insect in ":The Fly," a 50s movie with Vincent :Price.

[@botz77]

If I heard you right you said this is your first Michael Keaton movie. I recommend Mr. Mom, Gung Ho, Batman (89), Night Shift, Spotlight, and The Founder.

[@toochangz]

You are the most thoughtful reactor in the game. Love that ya take time to digest and think before giving a review

[@mr_chill77]

I really enjoy how thoughtful you are in your evaluations! I was 11 when this came out, and it is one of the big cultural milestones of my childhood. It was hugely popular at my junior high, and of course everyone was in love with Winona Ryder. I love how it’s just chaos, but it’s fun chaos. In that way, it reminds me of Gremlins. If you want to see a really good Michael Keaton role where he is much more serious and absolutely kills it, he did a great movie called My Life. I’m pretty sure it was the first movie that ever made me cry, but it was super touching.

[@thinkbolt]

I think we all agree that Whimsory IS Lydia Deetz. (OMG, she didn't get the Wizard of Oz reference...)

[@MadcapMatt]

Tim Burton works with the actress who played Juno again in the movie Mars Attacks! She plays the grandma of one of the characters.

[@KaBeeM]

80/90s Winona Ryder was one of my first big crushes when I was a kid. she was so cool and beautiful and always in these crazy movies.

[@zGamerGodz]

idk, id maybe give the biggest villain to Jane. She harrasses them constantly and had already went to show pictures of their house to prospective buyers despite them not being willing to sell and her having nothing to do with the property and then instantly sells their house that wasnt hers to sell when they die and i doubt she was the inheritor of their property in their will. Also her again trying to take advantage of their death by trying to advertise to Lydia of all people about how she ''single handedly decorated'' the house while handing her a business card. Despite Adam, who im more prone to trust the word of, talking to Juno about how much work he and Barbara had put into the house and specifically also complaining about the new decor in the same scene. So shes making a further sales pitch while also taking credit for other peoples work.

[@Daniel-kx3xs]

"They're so cute"...proceeds to sneeze the cutest sneeze ever😮

[@liabowden8526]

OMG. Despite having seen both movies millions of times, I *never* made the connection til 25:16 of there being a The Fly reference in a movie with *Geena Davis* who obviously was in a The Fly remake!🤯😲

[@liabowden8526]

Lol, love that you awarded Betelgeuse the best dance move!🤘... also, got warm fuzzy feelings noticing the background music is the same as Mark Narrations' Oct into music.😅💚🤷‍♀️

[@richardrobbins387]

24:41 The ghoulish janitor guy in the hallway who only has one or two lines also shows up in "Pee-wee's Big Adventure"... (not necessarily the same character, of course) As always, Great Reaction.

[@BlackavarWD]

"Worst accident I ever seen" 😬

[@jeffgray7922]

Whimsory: *doesn't get Wizard of Oz joke* Me: *Crumbles into dust*

[@WEREWOLF707]

This is my childhood every October, you just made my day Whimsory! Much love ❤

[@wolfpredator1000]

24:33 A hunter that was offed by headhunters, probably he killed that other tribal guy with the mafic dust.

[@BrianWhitmarsh]

K-Mart hasn't been "gone" all that long. Most of the full sized stores shut down around 2017 - 2020, but there are still small (strip mall sized) stores. And apparently you can still shop from them online.

[@dsc5754]

Yesssssssss! Beetlejuice is enhanced with the incredible cool hat girl reacting 🌹👑👏🏿

[@RoGueNavy]

For another great black comedy starring Winona Ryder and Glen Shadix, (Otho), check out "Heathers". You'll absolutely love it!

[@menotyou8369]

Meh.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

There is a channel called Cypress Hickory re-posting your reactions as their own. It just put up this reaction as a premiere today. The channel only posts your videos with no attribution. We all need to report the channel for impersonation (via the channel's main page), so it will get taken down.

[@J.Johnson-hf1nn]

Thanks for the info.

[@Frank_San_Nicolas]

Im old af and this Winona is actually the Winona im used to. Weird seeing her as a mom in Stranger Things still.

[@sean---the-other-one]

Michael Keaton blasted onto the screens with Night Shift - he was unknown and it was just a typical 80s comedy with Happy Days’ Fonzie (Henry Winkler) starring alongside Shelley Long being the drawcards, but Michael captivated viewers and then he followed up with lots of great comedies like Mr Mom, Multiplicity, Working Class Man and more. He was an Everyman but damned funny and charismatic to boot. When he was cast as Batman I think we all collectively went “wha…?”, but he was far better than expected (and back then superhero movies hadn’t generally worked well given the men in tights and poor special effects available). The payoff for watching some of his early comedies and then Batman is to then watch the totally unique Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance) - yes, that is the actual title of the movie - which holds parallels to his career and gives it a much greater resonance (not that it needs it, but it’s even better when you can blur the lines between Kenton’s character and his own career).

[@DHARMN00]

Hey, I've got one for you that I haven't seen a reaction for yet... "Mr. Destiny " staring James Belushi and Michael Caine. You might also like "Stardust". Kind of a hidden gem of a movie.

[@Ty_The_Bonsai_Guy]

Bless you. 🙂 for the sneeze. 😂

[@shainewhite2781]

He's The Ghost With The Most Babe and.... It's Showtime. RIP, Warren Skaaren, Screenwriter RIP, Glenn Shadix, Otho RIP Sylvia Sidney, Juno RIP, Simmy Bow, Janitor RIP, Patrice Martinez, Receptionist RIP, J. Jay Saunders, Mover#1 RIP, Robert Goulet, Maxie Dean RIP, Jack Angel, voice of the Preacher.

[@Gathbard]

"she is still upset because somebody dropped a house on her sister" is a Wizard of Oz reference, where a witch (who has a sister who's also a witch) gets killed by a house being dropped on her head. Happy October, Whimsory.

[@maxvonsydow6180]

🎃 namedrop... ( if you know - you know...also " strange and unusual " ) 🙂

[@CigarMick]

Speaking of Robin Williams, another great film is "Good Morning Viet Nam". One of his greatest roles in my humble opinion.

[@tonyb7615]

I think Moscow on the Hudson portrays his range better. Back when actors could do an accent and it didn't suck. And it was the better movie because Vietnam was just another nam movie but with some comedy thrown in. Moscow was a cold war movie that wasn't just another cold war movie.

[@EduardoRodriguez-tu8nf]

Bicentennial Man is an underrated gem.

[@P5YcHoKiLLa]

24:13 It's a Wizard of Oz joke, Dorothy's house dropped on the Wicked Witch of the East, hence why her sister wants revenge on Dorothy 24:32 You've never heard of shrunken heads? A lot of "natives" did it (as well as other stuff) 26:55 Uhhhhh are you sure? Cos there's no way that could be misconstrued for ANYTHING else? 27:36 Yeah, hence why A LOT of comic book fans were horrified to learn he was going to be playing Batman but, of course, he proved them all wrong cos he was amazing in it.

[@MichaelHonscar]

Great review. I’d love to see you review Amadeus (1984) and Spirted Away (2000)

[@hobbithottie24]

Great movies!

[@3DJapan]

The last Kmart location in the US is actually closing this month. You can still ship on the website though.

[@olternaut]

The guy with the shrunken head is a big game hunter because of how he is dressed and that he's holding a rifle. He has a shrunken head because apparently he was attacked by a native tribe probably from the Amazon rain forest. Hunters, I would think, get in trouble with local native tribes all the time. You saw one of them attack Beetlejuice at the end of the movie. Amazingly hilarious movie!

[@aklimar2208]

Thought for sure the Best Dance Moves award would go to Beetlejuice trying to step on the teeth. That part just cracks me up every time

[@strivingtobalance]

This was great fun to listen to you give awards at the end.

[@ReeveAers-rg6gx]

hi, how you doing? i'm glad you're here. you contribute to my smile )

[@killwalker]

So, the "screaming fly"... The "help me, help meeeee" was a direct reference to The Original The Fly, and it was BeetleJuice saying it, not the actual fly. 😊

[@Bookworm-ye9qi]

Thank you Whimsory

[@carlwkemp3]

The thing with the fly is even more disturbing because the line "Help me! Help me!" Is from the movie The Fly starring Vincent Price. In that movie, a fly with Vincent Price's head is caught in a spider web and is screaming "Help me!" as a spider is descending upon him.

[@jeanine6328]

25:11 OMG you absolutely slayed me with this reference here. I was laughing so hard.

[@timothywilliams2252]

In 1993, Kenneth Branagh release his film adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"... Micheal Keaton played Constable Dogberry, and he did it with a Beetlejuice flair... it was so funny! Plus you got Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, and Kate Beckinsale!

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Tim Burton did a stop motion short before this called "Vincent". An animated poem about a little boy who wants to be Vincent Price (a classic horror actor who really leaned into the silly creepyness of horror) when he grows up. They got Vincent Price to narrate it too ♥️🤟😎♥️