The Best And Worst Michael Keaton Movies According To Rotten Tomatoes

"Where do we go when we die?" is a question that has plagued philosophers, theologians, and angsty musicians since the dawn of humankind. We can save them the trouble and point them to Tim Burton's 1988 macabre comedy, Beetlejuice. Turns out the afterlife is just a waiting room, which if you've ever been to the DMV is worse than any Hell imagined by Dante. In the movie, a dead young couple hits a bureaucratic snag on the way to the great beyond and must haunt their old home, which is now occupied by a pack of yuppies (shudder). Given their haunting skills are incompetent at best, they enlist the skills of an expert demon named Betelgeuse (pronounced "Beetlejuice") who can only be summoned by saying his name three times. 

Beetlejuice is the kind of out-there original idea that would never get made today, and honestly, we're shocked it got made in 1988 or that it worked as well as it did. Critics gave it an 84% Tomatometer score, praising Keaton's "most deliciously manic work," and audiences gave it 82%. Supernatural dark comedies tend to die at the box office, but Beetlejuice earned $72 million on a $15 million budget (or $162 million adjusted for inflation). The series launched a successful cartoon series from 1989 to 1991, changed the way we hear "The Banana Boat Song" forever, and gave goth girls their doppelgänger in Lydia Deetz. "It's showtime!"