The liberating moral of "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice"

This fun movie misses a deeper point about what being haunted really means.

Michael Keaton as the title character in “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”. (Warner Bros.)

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice wasn’t a bad movie. But it was thisclose to being great.

Like many people, I wondered if Tim Burton would revisit this 80s classic. The insanity of it all, the stark contrasts between the worlds of the living and the dead, Michael Keaton’s wonderfull…