This Movie Make WAY More Sense as Adults! - Beetlejuice Reaction

[@paulhewes7333]

27:54 The whole joke was Otho was a "hip" fashion type from NYC and his most horrible nightmare was a 1970s polyester leisure suit.

[@philliphernandez2649]

I've seen this many times and never put that together! I always assumed he ran away because of the suit's color!

[@GedanJ]

For some reason i read "otho" as "ohio" and idk if that makes it better or worse

[@Arcannabis]

I’m so dense, this is my first time noticing the chairs are green screen behind them, I thought they sat in real red chairs lmao.

[@pReviewd]

What are you talking about? What green screen? 😊

[@TheRRP88]

🤯🤯🤯

[@Nemmy-sys]

I felt this exact feeling a couple months back after watching them for at least a year or 2. Glad i wasn't the only one not paying too much attention to the background lmao

[@KD-xp2eo]

😭😭😭😭

[@voxdraconia4035]

Honk honk! Nice fucking models!

[@WiqidBritt]

Jay's gonna fall down the model rabbit hole. First you build a tiny christmas village, then a tiny town, and then a model train set that travels between them.

[@bemasaberwyn55]

*Scowling Raymond Holt has entered the chat* I AM A HUMAN MALE 🙃 (IYKYK)

[@TheBubblerum]

The thing with Alec Baldwin is he aged into a Baldwin. He was the only Baldwin that didn't look like a Baldwin.

[@Arcannabis]

@@TheBubblerum hard agree, I was too young to notice that he was the same Alec Baldwin from 30 rock when I first watched this. They look like different people

[@loginyes3745]

Young Alec Baldwin looks like Ryan gosling

[@LeeCarlson]

Betelgeuse put that poor "medium" in a polyester leisure-suit, which was the anathema of his class.

[@pReviewd]

Ahhh, thank you!

[@Geth-Who]

12:30 Taliesin Jaffe's one of the kids in Mr Mom, watch out for him. Temporarily crammed all 5000 years of eldritch existence into a child's form and walked around like that for a while.

[@reinrose82]

That dog was the anti-Lassie. Later they found he’d pushed Timmy down the well

[@Cityweaver]

That dog threw the puppy basketball game for $10,000 in cash. That dog didn't journey home, he defected to Russia.

[@adamcarlson2192]

@@Cityweaver That dog murdered all the pets from Homeward Bound.

[@Kloudrunner]

Haha That utter bastard dog lol

[@hollywoodguy70]

My head canon says he became Zero from Nightmare Before Christmas

[@johnw8578]

I work with dogs, and I recently found out that my younger co-workers do not know who Lassie is. I think Old Yeller and Rin TIn TIn have been forgotten too.

[@LeeCarlson]

"The song" was Harry Belafonte's first hit record.

[@backtoearth1983]

Shot in Vermont, the house was purely for the production. There was no existing building. They rebuilt it in the exact same spot for the sequel. A very dark joke... Otho jokes that suicides become Civil Servants in the afterlife... he's shown to be right.

[@bemasaberwyn55]

Yup

[@JAPelicano1]

So the SANDWORM THING: When Barbara first steps out into Saturn (the Sand Planet outside their home)....and the Sandworm appears, she SMACKS IT really hard and scares it. THAT'S why she was able to tame one at the end and ride it in to devour Beetlejuice.

[@Iejir_Isk]

he really does hate sand worms

[@TheMidnightPhil]

The whole Beetlejuice marrying Lydia thing is creepy, but I think the idea in the story is less that he's creeping on her (in this particular scene, anyway) and more that he's trying to cement "citizenship" in the world of the living by marrying someone who's still alive. He describes himself as an "illegal alien" right beforehand.

[@FuzzyBunnyofInle]

"This IS MY ART & it IS DANGEROUS!" is a quote I've used many times.

[@Engiflux]

I think the only mention of the mom's death is when Lydia corrects someone and says "Stepmom" during the moving scenes

[@starhawk63]

The mom isn't dead....

[@Phoenix_DarkMoon]

Mom's not dead. Confirmed in the seqyel. The musical is its own canon

[@maximillianosaben]

P.S. Michael Keaton in The Other Guys is quietly one of the funniest parts of that movie. And 13:14 - Jay mentioned Surge, which I will forevor stand behind. When I was little, I got a bottle from the vending machine that was outside the supermarket downstairs, and I got a winning bottle cap that granted me WCW Nitro for N64. With a short mail-in of the bottle cap courtesy of my parents' help, the game arrived brand new and free in the mail, and it sure got tons of play!

[@garretthenderson5738]

Peewee's Big Adventure is one that I remember putting on after a heavy night of drinking at a college party house. As each person woke up they pipe in with: "why the hell are you watching Pee-Wee?" Cut to an hour later and 15 hung over idiots dying laughing.

[@AL-fl4jk]

I discovered Firefly and BSG in this exact scenario

[@IceMetalPunk]

Adam: "I haven't seen it in 35 years." Jay: "I can't remember the last time I've seen it." My Beetlejuice-obsessed sister: "I watch it multiple times a year, and I force my children to watch it with me, and I buy every bit of merch I can find, and I got a picture with Beetlejuice at Halloween Horror Nights this year and will send it to EVERYONE IN THE FAMILY." Like, I like the movie, but she goes to insanity about it😂

[@mrmikeshea]

I think the reason he is able to interact with the Handbook is because, after that dinner, he now 100% believes in the paranormal, like Lydia.

[@airbrushpower]

I really wanted to see your reaction to Beetlejuice running through his "qualifications". One of the best deliveries of the entire film

[@ErinCHardin]

Ve Neill designed and applied the Beetlejuice make-up. She won an Academy Award for it. Michael gave input on some elements, but she's the one who put it together and created an iconic look.

[@DaveCrokaert]

"You need an adult" - "I AM an adult!"

[@dcaslick]

Winona Ryder was only 15 when this film was shot. Also Lydia’s mom isn’t dead. I know the musical had her as dead, but in the movie universe her mom is not dead. She and Charles are just split.

[@srichardf]

Yeah in the sequel Lydia mentioned that her mom wasn't dead and implied that Charles had left Lydia's mother for Delia, which was the reason why Lydia resented Delia.

[@heltaku9397]

Yeah but it really works well for the plot of the musical.

[@ericstark5094]

So... according to Adam he's 44 year old. Looking young my man!!!!

[@adamcarlson2192]

I always assumed he was younger then me, but he's the same age as my older brother!

[@jackiec859]

I'm having a hard time believing that.

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@jackiec859 He's immortal 🤷‍♂ Just don't ever let him see his own portrait.

[@IgnisKhan]

I think he and funnylilgalreacts both spent 15-20 years in cryostasis.

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@IgnisKhan YES! She just mentioned her age in a video today, and I was like, "...there's no way she's a decade older than me. She looks like a baby!" 😂 Some KZbinrs are feeding off the life essence of their viewers, it seems....

[@DarthTingleBinks]

This movie was shot in Vermont, I believe. My mom and her boyfriend went and visited the town some time ago when heading up there for a family emergency. The house doesn't exist anymore as it was only built for the film, and the bridge no longer has a top to it, but it was shot in Vermont. Specifically Corinth, Vermont. Partially, anyway. Google says they also shot in Leavesden, which I assume is somewhere in England.

[@Icegirl1513]

It's so nice to hear someone talk about the musical while also talking about the film! Thank you Jay for your musical theater knowledge!

[@veltzon4322]

Since they’ve released this movie, my biggest question has always been what Beetlejuice’s “scary face” looked like from the front. I know there’s plenty of prosthetics showing it but still

[@jamesmorehouse9896]

I love that both you guys and Blindwave take the opinion of the realtor using the dog to kill them

[@heltaku9397]

Which is very disturbing since Jane mentions that they were family. I mean, they better be with how much she harassed them about selling the house and made digs about their childless status.

[@kaybadberg534]

@@heltaku9397 yeah. bet she felt really bad when she heard they'd died.

[@Xman_supreme]

The house was built on location in the town for the movie. Also, they built the red structure around the bridge and had to further modify it to allow for the car crash scene...and they had to damn up the stream to get the water deep enough for the car to sink into.

[@JonathanMartinez-ei4up]

This movies effects are gold, even by today’s standards. Seeing this movie when “I was too young for it” is a very formative moment in my life. This and The Munsters.

[@DJHolte]

This is pretty tame compared to some of the stuff I saw as a kid. Even horror anthology TV series are more nightmare inducing than this is.

[@JonathanMartinez-ei4up]

@@DJHolte Beetlejuice never gave me personally nightmares either, but it did introduce me to the visual, architectural, and spooky fashion style (which got majorly reinforced with the batman movies). I would also watch munsters a lot as a kid, and really could relate to kind hearted monsters. Medusa became my favorite mythological character, and the Del Toro Hellboy films became my favorite super hero movies.

[@TimWuzHyaProductions]

I could be wrong because it's been a minute, but the living being able to use the Handbook is something The Musical addresses well. I think in the second act, Lydia gets her hands on a copy, but can't open it because she's alive, so she gets Adam and Barbara to open it for her.

[@sleeper-cassie]

I always thought Alec Baldwin’s scary face (the one that got stuck) looked like one of those Spy vs. Spy guys from Mad Magazine.

[@DJHolte]

Me too, haha. Kind of surprised they haven't made a feature-length animated Spy vs Spy movie -- especially with all the older I.P.'s they've been turning into movies these days.

[@manu87495]

This movie has a very unique place in my heart. I saw it waaaay too young, and the scene where Alec & Geena change their faces is 100% in the top 3 things that gave me nightmares when I was little. Probably because it was most likely the first time I was introduced to body horror. But as I grew older, it went from being scary as hell to absolutely hilarious. I can say that about no other movie in the history of Hollywood for me. A truly unique and weird movie.

[@zacharybartolo5111]

This is NOT a kids film and yet most people first saw this movie as a kid, myself included. This film has a unique blend of scary and fun that a kid could appreciate and then appreciate it more when they're older because, yeah, I did not get a lot of the adult jokes or adult dialogue in this movie.

[@bemasaberwyn55]

"More reprehensible a character the more chance they'll get a Saturday morning cartoon" NC 😂😂

[@heltaku9397]

I will never not find it extremely funny how popular Beetlejuice is with kids as a character, given that he's the last person you'd ever leave a kid alone with.

[@ghostmkc4045]

It is a kids film, from the 80s, its rated PG.

[@heltaku9397]

@ghostmkc4045 a 1980's PG is definitely NOT a 2000's PG, yence why the PG-13 rating mostly took its place. It's kind of amazing that Beetlejuice wasn't rated PG-13, but again, it was the 80's. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice IS PG-13, but contains less offensive, mature material but more gore.

[@Knightowl1980]

Multiplicity is probably Keatons best comedic work

[@adam1third]

I agree! Such an underrated gem

[@DJHolte]

Fun movie. Although I'd probably rank Mr. Mom higher. Another good one is from that era is Night Shift with Henry Winkler. But for pure quotability, I've gotta put Johnny Dangerously at the top.

[@eembers]

@@DJHolteOh my god, to this day Mum will text badly spelled swear words like “farging bastiges” because of that movie and it makes me crack up every time

[@sarahlouise7991]

I was the same age as Adam when I first watched this movie. Watching it again over the years I've loved noticing things that went right over my head as a kid. That was the beauty of 80's cinema, kids saw stuff that they didn't register but their parents were probably in stitches. 😂

[@robdilauro4344]

Glen Shaddix who played Otho died from falling down stairs. Freaky. Oh, and Jeffrey Jones is a PDF file as the kids say.

[@Otisboy121]

He turned into a computer?

[@wham-shirt-trimmer]

​@@Otisboy121😂😂😂

[@mindime1499]

My favorite line that cracks me up everytime: Man, all I got was this rock 😂👻

[@Kellie_McDixon]

Fun fact, the scene where he kicks the tree and it falls over was totally improvised. The tree wasn’t supposed to fall and when it did Keaton did that and Burton thought it was hilarious and kept that take in the movie.

[@radicaladz]

18:30 - there's a bunch of subtle hints dropped that Adam Maitland is possibly dyslexic - him mispronouncing Betelgeuse's name and the name of the Handbook, and saying it reads like "stereo instructions".

[@wtimmins]

DAAAAAI -o! has lived in my brain rent-free since this movie came out. WOOOPAH

[@rainyatsu4588]

I’ve probably watched this movie at least once a year for the past 15 years and this is the first time someone pointed out that Barbara punches the sandworm in the nose. I never noticed that. I always thought that the sandworm missed biting Adam and Barbara for some unknown reason that I never really questioned.

[@drewc981]

This movie apparently scared the hell out of me as a kid and I mean I watched it when I was 4 years old in 1990. I learned the phrase "Nice fuckin model" really young 🤣 It's now one of my favourite Halloween movies the watch every year along with Hocus Pocus

[@Michelle-DiPalo]

The seance scene is the only part that ever scared me and do this day, I still look at the screen during that part.

[@duck-tape]

FUN FACT: The "Nice Fucking Model" bit was NOT originally supposed to be in the movie. It is actually a blooper, bit it was so funny that they kept it in. Originally the tree that Beetlejuice kicks was supposed to stay up, but it wasn't attached (properly?) so the "NIce Fucking Model" was a direct jab at the set designer/ art department. Michael Keaton confirmed this in an interview

[@brewstopher2233]

Finally! Someone acknowledged Robert Goulet! I also enjoyed his role in an earlier season of The Simpsons when Bart had a casino in his treehouse.

[@Ilix42]

I like to think that Beetle Juice is more chaotic neutral. He’s not really evil, but he has no problem messing with people to get what he wants.

[@StoryTimewithMissAnna]

Michael Keaton has another role where he's just completely insane, and that is in Much Ado About Nothing with Denzel Washington, Kate Beckinsdale, and dear sweet Keanu Reeves doing a terrible English accent playing the villainous Prince. It's such a fantastic movie, and I haven't even touched on the fiery pair in the movie of Emma Thompson and Kenneth Braunagh! If you guys haven't seen it, that's an excellent thing to add as an option to some of your polls, because I think you would get a complete kick out of it. It's a wild fun little ride with Shakespeare.

[@mauralee9987]

Guys Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was a Funtime at the movies for my sister and I! We love it!!!

[@traupman84]

Never thought I'd get a Dashboard Confessional reference in a Beetlejuice reaction.

[@HotPotakis]

I made the same face at Adam's mention that he hasnt seen Pee-wee's big adventure. IMMEDIATELY needs to be added to the list!

[@teesh871]

This movie is close to my heart because I was obsessed as a kid. I watched it so much as a 4 year old I broke the VCR. But mum and I loved it. To this day I still find it funny that she is this adorable sweet little lady and this is what she finds friggen hilarious. She was so careful with other movies but this one she's like 'yeh this is fine'. Didn't scare me as a kid but just the most random other stuff did that wasn't really scary. Funny you mention the Simpsons and pee wee...watch it now and you will see about a billion pee wee references in the Simpsons.

[@beqi4254]

Another banger! And the MST3K reference in the intro? *chef's kiss* 🎉😊

[@bligemonk2283]

When I was a kid, after I saw this movie, I would draw doors and knock three times all over our house.

[@sdinvt]

I don't know if someone else answered this already, but while this is supposedly Connecticut, exterior shots were filmed in East Corinth, VT. Which they went back to for the sequel. When filming was nearly finished for the sequel, a bunch of local boys stole one of the statues (the centipede looking one IIRC). Like backed the truck up to the set, threw it in the back (not that heavy apparently) and sped off into the night. Sherrifs couldn't find it or them for several days before it was returned.

[@S.E.Walker]

8:35 This is one of my favorite lines and line deliveries in movie history. Were I to go insane, I would take a lot of people with me!

[@fedos]

Exterior scenes were filmed in Vermont, in a village near Montpellier. Interior scenes were filmed at a studio in LA.

[@carlosrvra]

14:34 - I learned in the past year that the green receptionist with the "little accident" also played Carmen in THE THREE AMIGOS. Also, 60s/70s talk show host Dick Cavet is Delia's agent, right? Anyone know why he randomly appears in this movie?

[@BigEvilNetwork]

This movie holds a special place in my heart. First time I ever cussed in front of my mom! haha I was probably 9-10 when I first saw it & after a critical moment, ran into the kitchen & said "Hey mom! Nice f*ckin' model!" complete with the honk honk crotch grab.

[@therealarchaeo8823]

Can we talk about the fact that Michael Keaton, arguably the best Batman, also would have killed it as the Joker. There are multiple moments as Beetlejuuce that would have translated to a pretty captivating Joker character.

[@eberwald4438]

8:41 Ladies and Gentlemen, Ms. Catherine O'Hara. [slow clap]

[@Otisboy121]

20:05- 20:12 😳……. Wow. Got it in one and the behind the scenes of the musical even called him that.

[@bemasaberwyn55]

😅😅

[@atozatiny]

I saw Beetlejuice for the first time when I was 8. The seance part also gave me nightmares for days. Now its my favorite movie at 26 LOL

[@DJHolte]

When they were talking about the sequel, Michael Keaton told Tim Burton he'd only do it if Beetlejuice wasn't in the movie any more than he was in the original. Burton completely agreed.

[@misterderp4566]

Yum Yum Duggan. Jay, you never get enough love for random asides. That was PERFECT.

[@million2juan]

Fun things about the music composer Danny Elfman that did the themes for Batman and Beetlejuice. He is also responsible for the themes of The Simpsons, Pee Wee's Big Adventure and Tales of the Crypt!

[@bemasaberwyn55]

Spider-Man 1 and 2

[@Luna-zw6te]

Me when I see a Preview’d notification: It’s Showtime⚡️⛈️

[@uosdwiSrdewoH]

The house itself is not real. It was just a facade and it was torn down after filming then rebuilt in the exact same place for the sequel. The exteriors were filmed in East Corinth, Vermont where most of the town in the movie still exists. You just can't visit the house. You'd have to make do with looking at an empty hill. I read that the roof was just canvas, painted to look like the roof and when they filmed on location they used giant fans to pressurise the house so the canvas expanded and looked like it was real.

[@MrDagonOfTheDead]

@1:19 Pee-Wee's BIG Adventure!

[@alexandercate8552]

23:52 I was really hoping you guys would catch the theater of dead people watching the movie from their side!

[@DrewSwenson]

One thing I didn't expect to see in this was Jay's shirt lol. Rockford, IL is my hometown and I sometimes forget that "A League of their Own," is a thing.

[@3xPin]

20:38 Yeah. I remember the first time I got that “joke”. 😬

[@soulstealer82]

my top 3 things winona ryder has been in, beetlejuice, heathers and stranger things

[@Otisboy121]

Two of them are Broadway musical!

[@lazzman8230]

Actually there is more Juice's attitude in the sequel than you would think lol

[@ariebarnhil1671]

Multiplicity is absolutely hilarious

[@mariaghiglieri78]

Also-Mr Mom features a very young Tallesin Jaffe, the Lord Percival Fredrickstein von Mussel Klossowki de Rolo III, or my fav Caduceus Clay

[@Vman9484]

Did you guys do the Willow movie yet? I had a vhs tape that we recorded Beetlejuice - Willow - Masters of the Universe - and half of Jaws: The Revenge. I watched that VHS like close to 100 times.

[@unforeseeable2.058]

This movie was filmed in Vermont where I lived 😊

[@jamejame1497]

Oh they have the Beetlejuice cartoons on Tubi right now I didn't realize there was 4 seasons we watched that as kids too... We got the kids watching that now too 🎉🎉🍂👻

[@Mumraw_]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??!?!?! Adam has never seen Pee Wees Big Adventure?!?!?! It's a family friendly movie! Please tell me he's allowed to watch it now on the channel.

[@SpankDMunky]

From now on, I shall refer to Jay only as “Yum-Yum Dugan.”

[@originalwoolydragon8387]

Harry Belafonte singing without the music is odd! lol

[@formideimos]

Love this movie, this and Mars Attacks! are my two favourite Tim Burton movies. Watched them so much growing up. As a kid I watched the Beetlejuice cartoon first and loved it so much my parents bought the movie for me and, character-wise, going from cartoon Beetlejuice to real Beetlejuice really threw me for a loop XD

[@marytate6637]

I'm writing that my name is Josh and i've been reading online that Beeteljuice Beetlejuice will have an official 4K HD digital release on Tuesday October 8, 2024. the digital release will also include special featiures including a second version of Beetlejuice Beetlejucie 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 confirm that there won't deleted and extended scenes included on the 4K Bluray and DVD release on Tuesday November 19, 2024. that might be the exact same day that Beetlejuice Beetlejuice becomes available to stream on MAX.

[@cerosaroset2263]

Glad to see y'all reacting to Beetlejuice. Also sad to see the Barbie reaction video was taken down from KZbin - would Warner Bros also go for things on Patreon?

[@StoryTimewithMissAnna]

Pee-wee's Big adventure is the best Tim Burton movie. Hands down. I'm very close to saying that it's the best Danny elfman score as well. Oh please watch Peewee! That would bring us all so much joy!

[@RobEmmer412]

I was 3 years old when this movie came out, and while I obviously didn't see it as a 3 year old I honestly couldn't have been THAT much older than that because I remember watching this a lot as a kid. It's always been one of my favorite movies, which is odd in hindsight because I was never a horror fan. Though I do love a good horror comedy so what do I know about myself.

[@SteveODonnell]

The house was built for the movie on top of that hill. The town is East Corinth, Vermont.

[@ankelbarajas4396]

The first appearance of Jack Skellington on screen

[@kelleycarr9065]

Great re watch. Thanks guys!!!

[@sarrasponda1]

I recently rewatched the movie for the first time in years, after seeing and falling in love with the musical. It's definitely fun, but really made me appreciate the musical as an adaptation even more! I don't think the movie would make a good direct translation to stage, they were smart to do their own thing.

[@iainemackay5681]

Was real suprised and happy about the dresden files reference lol

[@henninggirl261]

Hot Take: Winona Ryder’ portrayal of Lydia Deetz was Michael Keaton’s main inspiration for Batman. 😉

[@bemasaberwyn55]

😂😂

[@jeannettestachecki823]

Funny you say Christmas village...In my neck of the woods, Halloween village is Huge.

[@necronsouls404]

just from the way Adam whinced so hard at the sculptures moving around, I KNOW that Phil Tippet's Mad God would be a crazy fun reaction (for me to watch)

[@uosdwiSrdewoH]

So glad it's not just me who thinks of Will Ferrell when they hear Robert Goulet. I couldn't even tell you anything they guy himself actually does. The only thing I know him from is SNL and that impression.

[@AttackRunRepeat]

This is the movie that taught me PG-13 movies are allowed to say Fuck once. Not a fact I wanted to learn in Highschool when I recommended it to my teacher as a Halloween movie we should watch and Beetlejuice said "fuck" in front of my entire class. Whoops.

[@KD-xp2eo]

AAAAHHHHH!! The reaction I never knew I needed!!! You guys made my day!!! 👏🏾👏🏾

[@diaborosyuzuha9865]

The musical makes the cartoon far more plausible as having a friendship between Lydia and Beetlejuice.

[@CCFONESOL]

They built the entire house and the cover for the bridge.

[@mich_grace]

I saw Beetlejuice twice on broadway and sorry if this is blasphemous but I like it way better than the movie. Alex Brightman is a legend and the musical gives everyone (including Beetlejuice and the dad) a good character arc. The story is easier to follow and Beetlejuice is in it the whole time (because its called... yunno... Beetlejuice). Plus the wedding being like "a green card thing" and the fact that they make fun of it in the song Creepy Old Guy is just gold.

[@zombiepicnic9683]

While this is an iconic role for Keaton, I'm partial to his leading titular character in the movie which ran constantly on mid-day Comedy Central in the late 90s/early 2000s; Johnny Dangerously

[@DJHolte]

A classic. Even Joe Piscopo is great in that! "My mother hung me on a hook once... ONCE."

[@tejida815]

This classic film lover is always thrilled to see Sylvia Sydney turn up in this movie.

[@gacchan]

I love that this is what got Keaton the role with Batman, his dedication, the Jokerish aspects. I'm excited for the sequel.