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Movies that feel likeBeetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.

If you loved Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the closest films we have are The Brand New Testament (2015), Into the Woods (2014) and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014). All three share Beetlejuice Beetlejuice's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Liar Liar (1997).

🍅 76% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tim Burtonwittyplayfuldreamlike
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Beetlejuice (1988)

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The Brand New Testament
2015 · dir. Jaco Van Dormael
🍅 82%★ 7.1comedy · fantasy

Both land wit and play at once

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...

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Into the Woods
2014 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 71%★ 5.9fantasy · comedyDisney+

Dreamlike comedy, and it commits to that

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

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🍅 90%★ 6.9drama · comedy · fantasy

Fantasy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Beetlejuice Beetlejuice does

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

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The Visitors
1993 · dir. Jean-Marie Poiré
🍅 31%★ 7fantasy · comedyPrime Video

Comedy built on play, twice over

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with his dimwitted servant, Jacquouille la Fripouille. Startled and perplexed by modern technology, the duo run amok, destroying cars and causing chaos until they meet Beatrice de Montmirail, an aristocratic descendant of the nobleman, who may be able to help them get back to 1123.

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Liar Liar
1997 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 83%★ 6.9comedy · fantasyNetflix

Both lean on dream logic more than on fantasy

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.

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Monster Hunt
2015 · dir. Raman Hui Shing-Ngai
🍅 68%★ 6.1comedy · fantasy · adventure

Witty comedy in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Beetlejuice Beetlejuice does

Young monster kids try to make peace between the world of humans and the world of the monsters.

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Dark Shadows
2012 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 35%★ 6.2comedy · fantasy

Tim Burton directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

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If I Were You
2006 · dir. Daniel Filho
🍅 13%★ 6.1comedy · fantasy

Fantasy with a pulse of play, in both cases

The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.

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Ted 2
2015 · dir. Seth MacFarlane
🍅 45%★ 6.3comedy · fantasyRent or buy

Both sit in the same dreamlike register

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

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17 Again
2009 · dir. Burr Steers
🍅 57%★ 6.4comedy · fantasyNetflix

The same comedy instincts

On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.

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Ghostbusters II
1989 · dir. Ivan Reitman
🍅 57%★ 6.6comedy · fantasyHulu

The same preoccupation in both: halloween

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

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When We First Met
2018 · dir. Ari Sandel
🍅 45%★ 6.4comedy · romance · fantasyNetflix

Cut from the same fantasy cloth

Using a magical photo booth that sends him back in time, Noah relives the night he met Avery over and over, trying to persuade her to fall for him.

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