# Beetlejuice Beetlejuice **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 23, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985 "2024-05-23T20:29:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/1 "2024-05-23T20:29:11Z")
Full trailer is out. I’m guardedly optimistic. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HWGKPceD71s/maxresdefault.jpg "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - Official Trailer (2024) Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWGKPceD71s) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/2 "2024-05-23T23:20:07Z")
Ooh, with all the original actors? That’s what gives me hope. I really want it to be good. ETA: I was watching Dune the other day… Do you think the sandworms are a Dune reference? Went over my head as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/3 "2024-05-23T23:25:30Z")
Well, no Daddy Deets (canceled for being a sex offender), no Ortho (cancelled for being dead) and no Maitlands (cancelled probably for not being unaging). But _three_ of the original actors. And the sandworms almost certainly were inspired by _Dune_. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/4 "2024-05-23T23:28:35Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > But _three_ of the original actors. And Willem Dafoe! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/5 "2024-05-23T23:39:37Z")
This actually looks good? And just think, at one point they were considering a Hawaiian-themed sequel. O\_o ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/6 "2024-05-24T00:32:12Z")
Already setting up for a third, possibly titled “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/7 "2024-05-24T00:36:34Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > This actually looks good? > > And just think, at one point they were considering a Hawaiian-themed sequel. O\_o - 🎶 Come Mr. Tallyman, tally me pineapples. 🎶 ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/8 "2024-05-24T02:59:48Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > And just think, at one point they were considering a Hawaiian-themed sequel. O\_o In his famous story about working on the aborted Superman Lives movie, Kevin Smith notes that he was offered the chance to work on _Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian_; I always loved his response: “Didn’t we say all we needed to say with the first Beetlejuice? Must we go tropical?” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/9 "2024-05-24T03:16:34Z")
Batman and Beetlejuice are, I believe, Michael Keaton’s favourite characters he’s played. I’m glad he has gotten chances to revisit them. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/10 "2024-05-24T03:33:37Z")
Are you _sure_ he’s the bad guy? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/11 "2024-05-24T09:27:16Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Already setting up for a third, possibly titled “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?” I’m still waiting for “Rhubarb Rhubarb Rhubarb.” > **[Rhubarb (1969 film)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb_(1969_film))** > > Rhubarb is a 1969 British short film written and directed by Eric Sykes, starring Sykes, Harry Secombe and Jimmy Edwards. The dialogue consists entirely of repetitions of the word "rhubarb", all the characters' last names are "Rhubarb", the vehicle number plates are "RHU BAR B", and a baby "speaks" by holding a sign with the word "rhubarb" written on it. Sykes remade the film in 1980 as Rhubarb, Rhubarb for Thames Television. > "Rhubarb" is a radio idiom for unintelligible background speech. Ty... > **[Rhubarb Rhubarb](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb_Rhubarb)** > > Rhubarb Rhubarb is a 1980 30-minute television comedy special written and directed by Eric Sykes for Thames TV. It is a re-make of Sykes' 1970 film Rhubarb. > A police inspector is so intent on winning a round of golf against a vicar, despite his lack of ability at the game, that he employs his constable to furtively disentangle his ball from the odd spots in which it usually comes to rest, while his opponent looks for help from a higher power. The constable's help takes on an increasingly mira... ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/12 "2024-05-24T10:03:11Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Beetlejuice are, I believe, Michael Keaton’s favourite characters And now he doesn’t need much makeup to play the part! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/13 "2024-05-24T16:23:24Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Well, no Daddy Deets (canceled for being a sex offender) Yet some in Hollywood want to welcome back Kevin Spacey with open arms. And remember they gave an Oscar to a rapist during the height of the Me Too movement. So Hollywood cancellation seems arbitrary ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/14 "2024-05-24T17:10:40Z")
I hope they include some sort of nod to Otho. Glenn Shadix, who portrayed the character, had a truly tragic life. His parents gave him shock treatments when he came out as gay, leading him to attempted suicide. The home he bought to retire to burned down, and he died from hitting his head in an otherwise harmless fall. Like others though, I’m cautiously optimistic. If anything, aging has just made Keaton shaggier and more in character. Hopefully Burton can recapture the magic instead of the mostly-dreck he’s put out the last couple of decades. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/15 "2024-05-24T17:55:52Z")
It just won’t be the same without Dick Cavett. He just made the original great. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/16 "2024-05-24T18:43:19Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Already setting up for a third, possibly titled “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?” Had to go and say it, didja? [![](https://i0.wp.com/25.media.tumblr.com/7713d422b1d9e74dc692c5699d2e3959/tumblr_mvdyopZ4G61qm3togo4_500.gif) ](https://i0.wp.com/25.media.tumblr.com/7713d422b1d9e74dc692c5699d2e3959/tumblr_mvdyopZ4G61qm3togo4_500.gif) ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/17 "2024-05-24T19:03:17Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > It just won’t be the same without Dick Cavett. Or Robert Goulet! ---
**Author:** ![Boudicca90](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boudicca90/32/16818_2.png) [@Boudicca90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boudicca90)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/18 "2024-05-24T19:06:12Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > I hope they include some sort of nod to Otho. Glenn Shadix, who portrayed the character, had a truly tragic life. His parents gave him shock treatments when he came out as gay, leading him to attempted suicide. The home he bought to retire to burned down, and he died from hitting his head in an otherwise harmless fall. That’s really terrible. I didn’t know he passed away before this thread or how it happened, but I wish things in his life were much better. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/19 "2024-05-24T22:19:31Z")
> [@Boudicca90](#): > > That’s really terrible. I didn’t know he passed away before this thread or how it happened, but I wish things in his life were much better. Agree. He was great. Is this a re-make, or part two? ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/20 "2024-05-24T23:16:58Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Is this a re-make, or part two? Part two. Wynonna is a bit old to be recreating her teen self. Believe from the trailer that she is the mom in this one and her parents are now dead. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985.md?page=2)