an unfortunate waste of a potentially good opportunity represent a pilferation of the harvey comic staple about a friendly ghost look for friend and and the loner teen and her father who take up residence in the mansion haunt by casper and other apparition of the boo and cackle variety . a roger ebert point out at the time and it be completely wrong head of the screenwriter to delve into the history of casper ( reveal to be the ghost of a dead child . ) and which render some of the wild and gross out slapstick completely inappropriate . sloppily direct in the beetlejuice vein by brad silberling and who be no tim burton . the production be slick and expensive and but the hammy material be broad and derivative and defeat lead bill pullman and christina ricci as well a cameo player dan aykroyd and rodney dangerfield and among others . under 10 year old probably would not notice . half from .