Everything GREAT About Beetlejuice!

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! Risky title for a sequel, but hey, it's not like he's a cautious guy that…BJ. Anyway the first is a classic! So let me prove it to you. Here's everything right with Beetlejuice! Uh oh…

CinemaWins Socials:

[dancingcarapace]

Fun fact, Keaton has gone on record and said that Beetlejuice was his absolute favourite movie of all time that he’s worked on. I bet Tim Burton just had to start with “Hey so do you wanna do a Beet-“ and Keaton just went “YES! FINALLY!”

[GabePlaysYT]

I love how this movie actually pushes how important life is. Even Beetlejuice is confused and asks "why?" when Lydia wishes she were dead. This movie is delightfully dark and we explore the afterlife, but it always reinforces that life is precious and shouldn't be thrown away.

[lainwakura]

11:17 i'm surprised you didn't touch on it, Lee, but fun fact! That tree model wasn't supposed to fall over. The "NICE FUCKING MODEL!" was (unsurprisingly) improvised by Michael Keaton, in direct response to the set designer guy lol.

[trinaq]

I really adore the message about Found Family, and how you don't have to be blood related to consider yourselves kin. It's gently implied at the beginning, when Barbara is talking to the pushy realtor, that she and Adam are having trouble conceiving. Ultimately, the Maitlands become surrogate parents to Lydia, who are more attentive than the more self absorbed Charles and Delia. The two families compromise by sharing the house, and coexisting peacefully.

[averymerrick]

Lydia's birth mother is never mentioned in the film.

A large portion of the fanbase is convinced that she died when Lydia was very young and that this fact heavily contributes to Lydia's fascination with death.

[BeeWhistler]

I did notice as an adult that Delia was actually not a terrible person. After the first time they met Beetlejuice, she and Lydia’s dad were talking with genuine concern about staying there with a kid they knew was already dangerously depressed. And at the end of the climax sequence Delia is holding Lydia close as if to protect her. If she was more like Otho she might have tried to save herself but instead she was acting at least a bit like a mother. She may not have much maternal instinct in her but she clearly doesn’t wish the kid any harm.

[bookreader]

18:30 You know it's bad when even Lee Cinemawins himself only acknowledges an actor long enough to say "Screw you." Jeffrey Jones is a scumbag, and even Lee's not gonna waste time being nice about it

[mysticalkeyblade]

Legit the only character I hate in this entire film is Jane. She’s so annoying and I’m like “they don’t want to sell the house! Go away please!” Also she’s so inconsiderate when she hinted at Barbara’s infertility

[preciouspixie]

i adore adam and barbara, but things like the tv series and musical really makes me appreciate charles and delia just as much. rewatching the ending, i really think it's adorable when charles goes "looks like lydia got that a" when he hears the music coming from downstairs; it really feels like it's less of adam & barbara taking lydia from them, and more like they're all co-parenting, which i think is great!! i never considered either delia or charles to be bad parents, just a little oblivious to their teenage daughter (which, to be fair, happens in real life), but they never seem to actually impede or stop her from doing what she wants! she dresses how she wants, and charles even indulges her (even if jokingly) by saying he'll make her a dark room in the basement, something she'd probably really enjoy. delia is a little more unhinged, of course, but she seems just more?? stressed out about everything than actually ever antagonistic towards lydia, which is fair given the whole move & remaking the house thing (moving is so stressful). plus, i mean, she adapted & accepted pretty much instantly that they had ghosts, and was willing to live with them.

this was a longer comment than i meant to make, but the tdlr: when people think of the "found family" in beetlejuice, they're usually only thinking of adam, barbara, and lydia... but i think the real found family is both couples co-existing and co-parenting!

[claytonrios]

Beetlejuice definitely started a trend of horror comedies with an over the top performance from someone who isn't the lead but who steals the show with every scene. But this is definitely a film that shows why there were so many imitators.

[BlastedOblivion]

You keep saying BJ like you are trying not to sunmon him and I love it.

[AmantheV]

I love how over the years Jude has grown and evolved passed the "cute character = Jude win" to the guy being so Film-coded that he's pointing stuff out to Lee. Now I want Jude and Lee commentary tracks for all the movies I loved growing up.

[Firebender]

Fun fact about that black petticoat Lydia wore under her school uniform since you brought it up, that actually belonged to Winona Ryder and she just brought it to wear under the costume.

[christheleavittman]

I enjoy how Lee didn’t say BJ’s name at all throughout the video. Also, the talk about Suicide Prevention reminds me you haven’t talked about Nimona yet.

[BP-efmr]

You didn't win Catherine O'Hara acting at the first part of the singing. The way her face shifts from SINGING WITH INTENT to "WTF" is just... amazing.

[Tom-mbji]

When I first heard BJ's line that The Exorcist "keeps getting funnier" I took as a sign he was insane. I have since learned that the writer of The Exorcist wrote comedies before trying his hand at horror, and he actually put subtle humor in The Exorcist, so, yeah, it keeps getting funnier every time I see it.

[LadyCaspar]

I will never forget being 4 years old and repeating “nice f’n model!” and my parents freaking out lol.

[trinaq]

I still can't believe that I was allowed to watch this film as a child. I was particularly shocked that they were able to include an F Bomb in a family picture, but then again, many 80's comedies did the same thing, such as "Big", "Adventures in Babysitting" and "Sixteen Candles."

[AmaranthOriginal]

A lot of the..*ahem* unaliving references went over my head as a kid. I remember being a little older and realising what "I wouldn't have had my little accident" meant and I was FLOORED

[TheCommenterDragon]

Beetlejuice is one of my all time favorite Michael Keaton characters! His performance of the role was ever so marvelous, And seeing Michael reprise the role in the sequel after 36 years was a real treat!!!