Juice Cocktail: Burton Revamps His First Demon
There’s no way to reproduce the imaginative awe of Tim Burton’s 1988 idiosyncratic goth YA classic Beetlejuice. Or, for that matter, any of Burton’s exceptionally weird but trailblazing offerings through the 1980s and 1990s, including his first two Batman films, Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Ed Wood (1994). He lionized Michael Keaton and gave us Winona Ryder as the Gen-X pin-up girl who made brooding cynicism a living, breathing sensibility, the likes of which would only be equaled in animated form by Daria. But he’s an iconoclast whose favored themes and tactics suffered mightily when CGI poisoned his tangible alchemies, and his counter culture worldview eventually became rote.… Read the rest
