BEETLEJUICE (1988) 👀 First Time Watching 🎬 Movie Reaction

[@Gealaiche]

“$300 sheets! What is she the bloody queen” may be the most Scottish thing I’ve ever heard 😂

[@brandonspain12345]

Damn, if they were $300 in 1988, that would mean they cost $798.30 in 2024.

[@LordVolkov]

"If you don't let me gut out this house and make it my own... I will go insane and I will take you with me!!!" Catherine OHara is a delight in everything. I've used "I will go insane and I will take you with me!" all my life thanks to her.

[@drdoktor77]

O'Hara is a treasure, I've loved her since seeing her on SCTV when I was a kid in the 80's.

[@RicoCosta317]

Betelgeuse is a giant star in the constellation Orion and it's pronounced Beetlejuice colloquially so that's where Burton and company got the name. Some useless trivia for you 😀

[@DawnMarieX]

Ooooh! Interesting

[@SFOlson]

Damn, you beat me to the punch on this bit of useless trivia!

[@HuntingViolets]

@@DawnMarieX It may explode or might have already exploded but we don't know yet.

[@nittyblahblah8939]

"All the Zones have names like that in the Galaxy of Terror."

[@DrumsTheWord]

The star is pronounced Beetle-guise. But yeah, it's definitely where Tim got the idea from.

[@tenmark7055]

The book said that they get to spend 125 years haunting their house

[@DawnMarieX]

And then?

[@jayhawks4life354]

@@DawnMarieX Then they can move on...presumably heaven, eternal bliss, or whatever. Some place nice.

[@oddthequiet4868]

they died in a "77 Volvo, so the book is set in 2101

[@bluebird3281]

@@oddthequiet4868 Nice

[@Sirala6]

@@jayhawks4life354 Some placed like -- Utah.

[@diarrheagondola]

Head shrinking is a practice of certain tribal people in South America. The guy with the shrunken head in the movie was a hunter that fell afoul of one of said people. The reality would be that his head would have been severed first, but having it shrunken and still attached to the body is funnier.

[@georgebailey98]

There were also headhunters in Burma in WW2. The Nagas were allies of the British and Americans against the Japanese.

[@LordVolkov]

Well, the shaman does it with magic dust, not the traditional methods 😅

[@TheCaptainSlappy]

While true...let's remember Otho is also Associate Bob in Demolition Man.

[@o0pinkdino0o]

It all started when a voodoo witch doctor was paid by some guy who wanted "a little head".

[@garethalford682]

Headhunters

[@sweiland75]

I am impressed you notice Jack Skellington on his head. This movie came out even before anyone knew who Jack Skellington was.

[@DawnMarieX]

Love Jack 😁

[@DEZaster13]

@@DawnMarieX then, you’d be happy to know that Lydia’s stepmother voiced Sally & Shock. Otho is also the mayor.

[@83diehard83]

When I was a child, I drew a door on my bedroom wall, with permanent marker, after watching Beetlejuice 😂

[@newworldastrology1102]

Did you forget the handle?

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

Silly-billy, you have to use chalk.

[@83diehard83]

@@newworldastrology1102 No, I did not.

[@83diehard83]

@@Deathbird_Mitch Now I know.

[@meadowenthusiast]

Fun fact #1: Michael Keaton's birth name is Michael Douglas. Fun fact #2: He got his start on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

[@BEBruns]

And he has recently announced that professionally he will start going by Michael Keaton Douglas.

[@Gravydog316]

@@BEBruns what why? he's over 70!

[@sdhartley74]

Keaton's recently decided to change his name to blend his professional stage name with his birth name, to be known now as Michael Keaton Douglas.

[@RileyJlaw-yd6qb2tl7s]

@@Gravydog316Why not?

[@robertmatechuk2660]

The mother Catherine Ohara..is such a great Canadian..she was alsao the mother in Home alone,played the mother on the sitcom Shitts creek and got her start on SCTV along with John C andy

[@LordVolkov]

She and Veronica Cartwright do the best hysterics. I could watch them freak out for hours 🤣🤣🤣

[@3DJapan]

We can tell it was the Maitlands doing the dinner party possession because the song is Harry Belefonte and Adam was listening to Harry Belefonte in the beginning.

[@DreamingVoid]

They clearly left BJ behind and she said "I have an idea" as the last line of the previous scene. Way too many blonde moments in this one. She must have been high or tired or something.

[@magules13]

And “Jump in the Line” is the closing song lol

[@tim_davidson6344]

The visitor at the beginning of the movie is Jane, the town's realtor. In small towns where the volume of houses that go on market is sparse, the local realtor sometimes has to "drum-up" business by encouraging people to sell their homes to prospective buyers.

[@DawnMarieX]

Well that's kinda crazy 🤣

[@tim_davidson6344]

Thanks for the love, Dawn! You do great reviews.

[@zedwpd]

In the UK they are called estate solicitors.

[@John_Locke_108]

And they're sisters, right? Or cousins? They're definitely related which makes it more crazy.

[@KimEllis-kt8ei]

It reminds me of the last few years in the U.S. Many of us including myself have received a thousand phone calls near daily from ever changing fake local numbers with people wanting to buy your house. As well as hundreds of postcards and letters in the mail every few days to week of the same type We Buy Houses offers from realtor groups. It's beyond annoying and no real way to stop it.

[@robertyeah2259]

19:24 Winona was caught in-person and on-tape attempting to shoplift an absurd amount of items from a store in 2004. To me, it was clear she wasn’t doing well because her actions were obvious and senseless, and she spent several years (I think about 6) outside of Hollywood to go to her old home and live with her family. I don’t know if it was ever confirmed that she had any kind of “problems” but she seemed to get the rest that she needed, returning in 2010 to have a supporting role in Black Swan.

[@McPh1741]

My daughter is 9 and she watched this movie for the first time about a month ago and LOVED it. She likes a lot of Tim Burton movies- Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and this movie. For the last few weeks I have had to hear "Alexa. Play the banana boat song." coming from her room. Which, I don't mind. It's sweet she likes the song.

[@DawnMarieX]

That's so cute!!

[@0okamino]

Well, there’s just one thing a responsible parent can do in that situation. Introduce her to rest of Harry Belafonte’s discography. 😄

[@McPh1741]

@@0okamino You know it.😁

[@CinWin516]

7:20 "She's good at freaking out..." OK, it's time for Dawn to get better acquainted with Catherine O'Hara!

[@stupidsmart-phone6911]

Home Alone time for December? Dawn also needs to watch some SCTV. Monster Chiller Horror Theater and Doctor Tongue's House of 3D Stewardess and Cats both had Catherine O'Hara in those skit.

[@JacobDennisHarris8586]

My Favorite Scene in this Movie is when he KICK DOWN THE TREE AND SAYS "NICE _______ MODEL!!"

[@MIkey2008g6]

That was a shot at the prop department, I heard the tree wasn’t supposed to fall, and Keaton improved that not in the script line

[@paulstroud2647]

That was an ad-lib by Michael K. The tree wasn't supposed to fall down! Tim Burton thought it was so good he left the scene in.

[@bwilliams463]

Long before Alec Baldwin became scary IRL. Fun fact: the tree in the graveyard wasn't supposed to fall over when Beetlejuice kicks it. So Keaton's reaction was totally off-the-cuff, and it became on of the film's biggest laugh-getters.

[@harleyjackson3708]

Otho isn't wrong in the movie about people who off themselves becoming civil servants in the afterlife. They actually showed us proof of that before he even said it. Look at Juno's receptionist in the waiting room. She was Miss Argentina, but she slit her wrists, and now she's got no choice but to be a receptionist in the afterlife.

[@bwilliams463]

Also meaning Flat Guy threw himself under a bus and Juno cut her own throat.

[@harleyjackson3708]

@@bwilliams463 EXACTLY.

[@meltorme-ntor2933]

A bit more info for you. 1) the "Pea head" guy is not an alien, he had his head shrunk by head hunters, which is what killed him. 2) Many younger folks miss this, but when the fly is eaten, and yells "Help me, help me!", it's a nod to the old movie with Vincent Price, "The Fly". In case you ever watch that one, I won't tell you where that comes in or why. 🙂

[@davidpumpkinsjr.5108]

If you really like Michael Keaton, see "Multiplicity". You get four times the Keaton for the price of admission.

[@BronyDanProductions]

And this was the guy who would play Batman a year later.

[@DawnMarieX]

Never seen it 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@vodengc520]

@@DawnMarieX You need to throw that one on your list immediately, lol. Everyone has a favorite Batman, he'll always be mine (especially in the sequel, which can also be considered a Christmas movie, lol).

[@davewhitmore1958]

@@DawnMarieX Yes, you must watch Batman 89 ASAP

[@farmerbill6855]

​@@DawnMarieXThe best movie Batman. Second best Batman over all.

[@PeteO-v4y]

Batman 89! ​@@DawnMarieX

[@magules13]

The more times you see this movie the more you appreciate it. I saw it in the theater at 4 or 5 years old and watched it on repeat when it came out on video.

[@Raven5150]

Remeber the most inportant lesson of life never trust the living

[@DawnMarieX]

Got it!

[@toyota420xp]

I like your Master and Commander review

[@Ultracity6060]

Another fun fact; Winona (like Elvis) is blonde, and dies her hair black. You can see her real hair in Edward Scissorhands.

[@tomchesley2604]

Fun fact. I live about 15 miles from the school that Winona rode her bike from.

[@rubroken]

We're supposed to understand anything that comes from Tim Burton?....Best movie ever!!!

[@DawnMarieX]

Probs best to not question him 🤣

[@angeldawnmorningstar]

Betelgeuse is an ENORMOUS mega-bright red star in the Orion constellation ..in fact it was roughly six to eight months ago that it experienced a supernova explosion (if I remember correctly) and then it began dimming 😇❤

[@tim_davidson6344]

Jeffrey Jones portrays the dad in this movie. Previously, he played Emperor Joseph II in "Amadeus" and the school's principal in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

[@tntcyclespdx640]

hes not in the second thankfully, since hes a convicted sexual assaulter.

[@davewhitmore1958]

and the newspaper man in "Deadwood"

[@jeffmartin1026]

And the Dad in Mom and Dad Save the World.

[@davelister2961]

... and the antagonist in Howerd the Duck.

[@joelwillems4081]

"Mmm-hmm..."

[@stupidsmart-phone6911]

I watched Beetlejuice cartoon everyday in the early 1990s. Didn't see the movie until 2020, not even clips. I did see Mr. Mom 167 times between 1985 to 1990 whenever they quit showing it on TV.

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

Did it keep getting funnier every damn time?

[@stupidsmart-phone6911]

@@Deathbird_Mitch every single time

[@B-a-t-m-a-n]

I've seen this movie 100 times, and I still notice new stuff when I watch this flick. And I also realized how quotable it is, especially Beetlemeyer's lines.

[@mikegilgenbach4840]

A couple of my favorite Michael Keaton comedies is Mr. Mom and The Dream Team.

[@thestingman2966]

and Night Shift and Gung Ho.

[@wyldhowl2821]

@@thestingman2966 Gung Ho... I could never remember the name of that film.

[@wyldhowl2821]

He was also hilarious as a supporting character in the film The Other Guys.

[@IAMM4C]

I've got a Michael Keaton movie for you. His first movie, I think, was Night Shift and he play a funny guy with lots of bad ideas. He wasn't considered the big name actor for that movie but it is probably what got him recognized. The leads for the movie were Henry Winkler (Fronzie of Happy Days) and Shelly Long (Diane from Cheers). You might also like Pacific Heights. It is a serious movie though and again he isn't the lead but the antagonist. Trivia: Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. The other Michael Douglas is the son Kirk Douglas and was already working in Hollywood so Michael Keaton used by the Beetlejuice actor.

[@cixelsyd40]

The civil servants in the afterlife actually do have something in common, they all ended their own lives.

[@tigerburn81]

". . . he's got hair down to his god damn shoulders." That's my favorite line as an adult. "HONK! HONK!" That was my favorite line as a kid.

[@phillipwatson9906]

"too much forehead,not enough chin" 😂 classic

[@DawnMarieX]

If only there were brains to fit the forehead 😋

[@davewhitmore1958]

@@DawnMarieX Detective Dawn says otherwise . . .

[@ink-cow]

Catherine O'Hara is the best! ❤She was one of the original members of SCTV, along with John Candy and Rick Moranis. Winona did get arrested once for shoplifting, and her defense was that she had been prescribed some bad drugs. And as a matter of fact, the doctor did turn out to be a quack and his license was revoked. She was sentenced and did her punishment. The actor who played her dad though, Jefferey Jones... ai yai yai, maybe we better not talk about him. But there's a big, fat sex offender reason he's not in the sequel. It's been nice seeing Winona and Catherine together again for the press interviews, along with Jenna Ortega. They seem like unusually nice, level-headed people, for Hollywood.

[@lordtrigon1733]

The promotional tour for the new movie is a blast, I love seeing Catherine being so loud and funny and Winona is showing a lot more confidence than she usually does.

[@joelandriscina4248]

I saw Beetlejuice 167 times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it!🤣

[@hydrosan13]

I like what you did there😂

[@exile220ify]

When we first met Michael Keaton he was known only for comedy, which is why he got this role. But since then he's branched out. He was Batman in Tim Burton's version, and (much later) played Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's. He can definitely do both comedy and drama.

[@hoagsmash4188]

I don't trust anyone who doesn't like this movie LOL GREAT vid as always 🙌🙌

[@justindenney-hall5875]

Dawn Marie: Like, comment, subscribe, post notification, Patreon everything you can to make the channel grow and I will love you forever! "Chicago" (Circa 1986): Just say you'll love me for the rest of your life, I gotta lot of love and I don't want to let go!

[@drdoktor77]

Saw this in theaters when I was eleven years old- Tim Burton became the first director whose work I made a point of following after this. Also, I had a huge crush on Winona Ryder after this.

[@Well_hello_there_]

"I'm so confused" should be on your merch.

[@DawnMarieX]

I get royalties every time someone else says it

[@davewhitmore1958]

@@DawnMarieX I'm so confused (you're welcome!)

[@glen1ster]

Keaton first appeared on TV in the Pittsburgh public television programs Where the Heart Is and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1975). For Mister Rogers he played one of the "Flying Zookeeni Brothers" and served as a full-time production assistant. (In 2003, after Fred Rogers' death, Keaton hosted a PBS memorial tribute, Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor; in 2018, he hosted a 50th anniversary special of the series for PBS, Mister Rogers: It's You I Like. Keaton also worked as an actor in Pittsburgh theatre; he played the role of Rick in the Pittsburgh premiere of David Rabe's Sticks and Bones with the Pittsburgh Poor Players. He also performed stand-up comedy during his early years to supplement his income.

[@jameskelly8586]

Y'know, there was a cartoon series--with Lydia and Beetlejuice having adventures--1989 - 1991.

[@LordVolkov]

I never realized as a kid how weird it was that Lydia and The Juice are best buds in the cartoon after he tries to child-bride her in the movie 😅

[@ginichimaru2712]

@@LordVolkov stockholm syndrome?

[@Kovich13]

People die more often than not when they become trapped in their car under water. You have to know what you’re doing to get out of a submerged car and when panic sets in, most people can’t think clearly enough to figure it out. It’s not as easy as opening the door or breaking a window when you take water pressure into account

[@joelwillems4081]

It was probably easier when we had hand crank window roller uppers.

[@tsmartin]

You just need to go with it and not overthink things. Having said that. Watching you try to figure things out is fun.

[@DawnMarieX]

You're right!

[@bookwoman53]

I love the afterlife waiting room. The makeup is so specific to each person’s method of death and well done.

[@TheTrashStash]

Everyone still needs a job in the afterlife and Beetlejuice basically was a professional haunter. He was hanging out in their little model because they were newly dead, he wasn’t actually stuck there. He was trying to get them to hire him. The deal he makes with Lydia was to get him out of the after-life, so he’d be walking around with all the alive people again

[@robmcscotty2974]

To the editor of this vid that added the "almost 80s fog" level of clarity to get it on youtube...nice job....feels like I'm watching a recorded tape version of this in the best way possible

[@bobschenkel7921]

This movie always makes me want to move back to New England. So many cool little towns that have been around for 300-400 years. Lots of history, and lots of ghosts. Another Michael Keaton movie from early in his career is "Night Shift", where Keaton works in a NYC Morgue, and winds up running a prostitution ring out of it. It is VERY funny.

[@DawnMarieX]

Maybe funny but GYADS! 🤣

[@flerbus]

that Barney Rubble...what an Actor

[@NoahMalec-fn9gd]

I grew up with these type of movies has this movie the Adams Family and more but I mostly watch these kind of movies in October so keep up the good work thank you for reaction to movies that bring back to many memories from my childhood.

[@robmann400]

Michael Keaton has three movies that a lot of people aren’t familiar with but ones I saw in the theatre back in the day, and really enjoyed: Night Shift (1982), Johnny Dangerously (1984), and Pacific Heights (1990). The first two films are comedies and his roles are very different from each other; they show off some of his comic range, but the third film is a serious thriller, and Keaton plays the bad guy. He is surprisingly disturbing as a villain; such a great actor. If you’re a Keaton fan, check them out. Thanks for making videos eh.

[@quixote6942]

Betelgeuse (pronounced "Beatle juice") is actually a red supergiant star thats over 700 light years away. (That means the light we see today took over 700 years to reach us) It's also the 10th Brightest star we can see. Each Ghost has to stay within a specific place and depending on the situation, to stay there for a specific amount of time (in the case of he Maitlands, they have to spend a total of 125 years in their home).

[@billtisch3698]

Some of my friends watch it for extended periods when they can in case it explodes as a nova in our time.

[@joelwillems4081]

@@billtisch3698 Well, it's predicted to explode any time from now or the next one million years. It's so much larger than our sun, that it would expand beyond the orbit of Mars.

[@tubekulose]

Yes, Betelgeuse/Beteigeuze is a supergiant in the constellation Orion but actually its name is pronounced like this: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/DE_Beteigeuze_GT.ogg/DE_Beteigeuze_GT.ogg.mp3

[@guitarman8462]

Does this mean your Halloween costume for this year will be of : Beetlejuice ?😂

[@Oz349]

She kept repeating "ask him what happened" and the dudes mouth was sewn shut 😊

[@corralescoyote]

I just realized Beetlejuice came out the year before Keaton played Batman, also with Burton. My first girlfriend and I had our “first kiss” in the back of the theater watching Beetlejuice when we were in 8th grade. 😉 Huge fan of your channel, from NM USA ✌️

[@TSIRKLAND]

At the dinner, Otho jokes about people who commit 'siuceide' become civil servants in the afterlife. He thinks he's joking, but if you notice, Juno slit her throat, the receptionist had a "little accident" and slit her wrists, the flat guy jumped into traffic: they all died by their own hand.

[@mandyb2245]

I had a crush on Beetlejuice when I was five (in the late 80's). My mom has told me that the snake bannister scene gave me nightmares. I don't remember that, but I do remember the crush. I was a weird kid. But I didn't find out he was played by Michael Keaton until my teens. My reaction: "Beetlejuice is Batman?!" Mind. Blown.

[@meheuck]

The elderly caseworker for the Maitlands is played by Sylvia Sidney, who had been a glamorous actress in the '30s. She starred in a brilliant drama about alcoholism called MERRILY WE GO TO HELL, one of the few studio pictures directed by a woman, Dorothy Arzner. She acted steadily all her life, but she got a significant boost working with Tim Burton. She pops up in a later movie of his, MARS ATTACKS, cackling the immortal line, "THEY BLEW UP CONGRESS!"

[@jamesmcclain5005]

This is the first time I had ever seen Alex Baldwin in a movie.

[@DirtRoadAuto]

please add 'Every Which Way but Loose' to a poll a young Clint Eastwood playing a tough guy with an animal sidekick named Clyde.

[@DawnMarieX]

Sounds amazing!

[@domidium]

Otho meant to perform a seance, but instead accidentally performed an exorcism. Something that was described as “death for the dead”.

[@andreasbenning]

Stop it!! You have just the right amount of forehead and chin! Your facial expression when you first saw the guy with the shrunken head, you're just adorable!!!

[@jdeamaral]

I said the name Dawn Marie,, three times! She didn't appear, so I can I can tell her what an INCREDIBLE person she is! Let me try again!...Dawn Marie, Dawn Marie, Dawn Marie!

[@DawnMarieX]

Well Hello There 😏

[@rivera22-c6m]

Holy crap you let her out, now you have to put her back in and quick. Ha Ha

[@jdeamaral]

@@rivera22-c6m She should remain free! Her laugh is infectious! Best laugh ever!

[@Northbravo]

All I imagined was her showing up in a puff of smoke with the Beetlejuice voice saying "Hey toots whatdya need?" Don't know why but I thought it was funny.

[@michaelmythology]

Otho was right says that people who commit suicide become civil servants. Juno slit her throat, the Receptionist cut her wrists, and the Flat Guy jumped in front of a bus. That's why they have to work in the afterlife and haven't been able to cross over.

[@blakewalker84120]

1:15 "I can't believe he picked him up like he's not poisonous." If it is poisonous, then there won't be a problem unless he eats the spider. You have to eat or drink poisonous things to be harmed by them. Maybe you meant "venomous"? Yes, if that's a venomous spider it could bite him and inject its venom. Maybe he knows it's not venomous, or at least not dangerous.

[@lmcgregoruk]

Well the majority of spiders ARE venomous, just that most either can't pierce human skin with their fangs, or the venom is relatively harmless to humans. (as opposed to their usually insect prey)

[@TheRoidemortetfleur]

I think the 125 years. Is how long they are stuck haunting the house. It was mentioned quickly when they read the dead book.

[@flrrb]

I've seen 3 ghosts in my life: 1. Scottish castle converted to a hotel. It was up around the Highlands. 2. Random guy (cool, though) in a 100 year old house I bought. He thought he still lived there. 3. My late wife peeked around a corner in our place and told me, "Go to bed, stoopid." It was something we'd tell each other often.

[@edwardchristensen414]

Stop doing drugs mate.

[@CHRISTALGIA]

Great reaction to this movie! Loved this movie so much growing up and still do! ❤

[@vermithax]

"You won't see anything with no head." I don't think I've seen anybody, reactor or not, have as much fun with the dinner party dance scene. A delight as always, Dawn.

[@KevDaly]

Betelgeuse is the name of a very bright star. I think they had to spend 125 years in the house

[@biguy617]

The little head man had his head shrunken by a witch doctor

[@mrkrinkle72]

Still have my wacky 90's action figures! I'd get stoned watching the cartoon series on Saturday mornings!

[@jonathanrobertson3406]

10:22 forwards, I was hoping that she would have said "He does not play well with others." instead of "He does not work well with others", but seeing as how Beetlejuice hadn't been really formally introduced at this point, setting Beetlejuice up as being utterly undesirable and dangerous is what makes Michael Keaton's performance so funny. You expect a dark, foreboding, spirt of the afterlife but end up with, well... Beetlejuice. Also, the "doesn't wok well with people" is a joke in itself, as if Beetlejuice was simply a reclusive, socially awkward spirit in the afterlife that couldn't maintain an honest afterlife job to save his already deceased life.. Great writing.

[@bluebird3281]

"Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. It is usually the tenth-brightest star in the night sky and, after Rigel, the second-brightest in its constellation. It is a distinctly reddish"

[@marytate6637]

I'm writing that my name is Josh and i'm writing that i've been reading online that Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will have an official 4K HD digital release on Tuesday October 8, 2024. the digital release will also include special features including a second version of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with an audio commentary by Tim Burton. this means that everybody at home can do first time watching videos for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice beginning on Tuesday October 8, 2024. i can also confirm that there won't be deleted or extended scenes to be included on the official 4K Bluray and DVD release on Tuesday November 19, 2024. that's the same day the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice becomes available to stream on MAX.

[@Bloodreign1]

125 years would be how long they'd be confined to their house. The sequel retconned that of course, and the Maitlands aren't in it.

[@lordtrigon1733]

It's kinda poetic that you're asking so many questions about the specifics when the main running joke in the movie was that the afterlife is a tedious bureaucracy with many pointless rules. XD

[@DaveBukowski]

10:33 actually you saw BG early on but not his face. He was the one reading the dead newspaper where it showed WELCOME to the newly dead. So that was his first introductiom but kept him a mystery.14:25 Michael Keaton was also Batman in the 1989 Batman. However that is not the first Batmam movie that many reactors think is. The first Batman was Adam West in 1966 Batman. 14:45 this is why the receptionist said she would not have had her "little accident". If you notice all the dead working in the place they went to through the door were all "self-deleted" people. The receptionist with her slit wrists, the flat guy was run over, probably jumped in front of a truck (notice the tire marks on his body), their case worker even slitting her own throat (notice the smoke coming out of her neck). Also the guy delivering papers hung himself.

[@jamesdee759]

Believe it or not, they even made a Beetlejuice cartoon back in the 80's. I remember watching this movie and the cartoon when I was a kid.

[@buzbom1]

9:38 Oh my goodness, a generation that was never taught about "Headhunters". Stories of dead folks turning green(rotting) blue(freshly) dead, and the burnt up cigg smoker trying to cut down LOL. Oh my. Of course my fav was the runover by a truck guy......."Feeling alittle flat..baaahhhhh". My gen was......The Munsters tv show we got used to seeing them in black n white broadcasts. Then they had a movie a couple years later and they were light green skinned. Blew our minds. Love your reactions Dawn, don't ever change heh heh.

[@RozenockDoll]

17:03 Its been kinda set up from the beginning that Otho can also somewhat see and experience the ghosts and afterlife, even as early as feeling them running past him.

[@mikedignum1868]

This is the film that got Keaton the Batman gig. Geena Davis's best role is in the 1996 action film The Long Kiss Goodnight, with Samuel L Jackson.

[@filthycasual8187]

I thought they were filming this and Batman at the same time.

[@guitarman8462]

Catherine O' Hara got her start on SCTV

[@Peter-f2m]

Hey dawn. The guy that played Betelgeuse also was the Batman in the first batman movie . Michael Keaton.

[@SFOlson]

Another one of my favorite childhood movies!! And pretty interesting to think that this was only Tim Burton’s second film.

[@DawnMarieX]

What!? I didn't know that

[@derekroberts6654]

His first was with Pee Wee Herman in “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure”

[@SFOlson]

@@DawnMarieX Yes, he had directed PeeWee’s Big Adventure three years earlier. And he had pitched his idea for Batman starring Michael Keaton to Warner Brothers in 1987, but they wanted him to do one more movie first, and it was this movie that convinced the studio executives to green light Batman with him directing, and Michael Keaton in the title role.

[@markwilliams6394]

Keaton is funny in Night Shift. It's the first thing I remember seeing him in. It was directed by Ron Howard.

[@dos3622]

People are gearing up for Halloween!!!! Happy Halloween!! Do let the ghoulies scare you!!

[@brianbutz3306]

It seems funny that you didn't know Michael Keaton as a comedic actor. Before he did Batman, that's all he did and got his start in stand up. He did a bunch of comedies in the early and mid 80's, but most haven't aged well. He was probably best known for Mr. Mom which is sort of a dramedy. My personal favorite, which I feel has held up better is "Dream Team". Keaton plays a mental patient and along with some fiends gets lost on a field trip to a baseball game and gets in trouble with a gang after witnessing a shooting.

[@Lightswitch002]

1. Its funny that the movie is named after Beetlejuice but he's on screen for less than 20min 2. In the animated series its revealed that one of his weaknesses(Besides his name) is tricking him into splitting himself into pieces. Each part of his body has a mind of its own while separated and while talking to his floating Brain, Lydia's learns that Beetlejuice is actually powerful enough to conquer the entire Netherworld. He just doesn't feel like it and prefers to annoy and prank his fellow Netherworld residents . They consider him a pest

[@collectingmythoughts991]

Tim Burton doesn't usually do the writing for his movies...he only really wrote the Nightmare Before Christmas children's book that the movie was based on and the Oyster Boy poetry book as far as I know....the writers that came along before Burton had a much more gruesome, darker horror movie idea for Beetlejuice before Tim Burton got involved.

[@beatmet2355]

She struggling with understanding a Tim Burton movie 😂😂😂

[@biguy617]

The Fly scene is a reference to the original Fly movie from the 50s that had Vincent Price as a supporting character.

[@futuramayeah]

Dawn , Catherine o hara used to be on a sketch comedy tv show called SCTV , it was like the alternative to Saturday Night Live, her and other comedians were on it, like Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty , Martin Short , Dave Thomas , Rick Moranis, John Candy , they had funny skits, like Joe Flaherty would play a vampire , i forget what he did , and Dave and Rick played drunk Canadians who sat on their couch and hosted a tv show , they got their own movie, called Strange Brew, that was funny

[@texasdustfart]

The Shrimp Cocktail scene would scare my Son (age 4) a lot.

[@misterprickly]

This movie was so good that it got a video game and a animated series, that lasted for *FOUR YEARS!*

[@jarsenaultj]

Can't wait to see the sequel. My favourite fact about this movie (that really doesn't seem like it should be true...but is) is that Beetlejuice is only in it for 17 minutes.

[@garethalford682]

Basically, the couple at the beginning of the movie die and somehow are stuck in limbo because of some unfinished business they can’t move on and when new people move into the house the dead ghost couple don’t like the new people because the new people want change the house so it’s unrecognisable And Beetlejuice is a ghost who scares away the living and in the end the the ghosts and the new owners of the house learn to live with each other

[@mr.knowitall6440]

Notice that the "pea-head guy" is dressed like he had been on a jungle safari or expedition. So the inference is that he ran into a tribe of head hunters, and they shrunk his head... 😵

[@Spindler2007]

I think the reason why Beetlejuice's name is spelt as Betelgeuse is because when he was banished, he was cursed to never be able to say his own name nor can he spell it out in writing correctly so he spelled it out as Betelgeuse (which is pretty close to his actual name) in hopes that someone would get it right.

[@therealhawkeyeii7888]

Beetlejuice is the star that designations the shoulder of Orlon (i.e., Betelgeuse).