# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/61 "2024-09-09T17:54:43Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I missed mentioning one of the major antagonists in my earlier post, so there were _five_, not four: Beetlejuice, ghost kid, overzealous ghost cop, (Lydia’s) fiance, and Beetlejuice’s ex. Overzealous ghost cop didn’t come across as an antagonist. He felt more like a character that was trying to do good but just didn’t have the full picture of what was actually going on. He was sort of filling the role that Juno had in the original. On a positive note, and not mentioned yet, I enjoyed Danny Devito’s cameo as a careless ghost janitor. I think they were hinting at him possibly being the ghost of his version of The Penguin. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/62 "2024-09-09T18:00:00Z")
Thinking about it, I think I would have liked the movie more if it was trimmed down to one new antagonist: the ghost kid. Lydia would have to make a deal with the devil (um, a deal with the Juice) to save her. There wouldn’t even be a need to show ghosts of the two dads–having them tied to the location of their deaths for a number of years was an already established bit of world-building from the original movie and plenty of explaination for their ghosts not showing up. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/63 "2024-09-11T19:31:12Z")
I agree that the Dolores subplot was kinda pointless and unnecessary, but Rory is basically a living parallel to Betelguese. They both want to trick Lydia into marriage, but Rory was just doing a better job since he was still alive. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/64 "2024-09-11T19:36:46Z")
The first 40% was yawn. The last 60% pure classic Beetlejuice. I don’t get the whole Delores thing. They should have left it out and developed it for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Interesting way they worked in Jeffery Jones being cancelled by Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/65 "2024-09-16T20:15:57Z")
Saw it this weekend after watching the original the night before. I agree that there were just too many moving parts. I wasn’t a fan of the ghost kid as he reminded me too much of that doofus kid in _Wednesday,_ who of course had the same chemistry with Jenna Ortega as the ghost kid had… with Jenna Ortega. Willem Dafoe’s character was just superfluous, as was Beetlejuice’s ex. If they just stuck to the Lydia/Rory story and expanded that a bit then I think it would’ve had much of the magic of the original. Adding Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis would have made the movie an absolute treasure, no matter how bad the rest of it was (of course, I kind of have a schoolboy crush on Geena Davis so I’m biased there…). I wonder if Burton et. al. tried to get them to come back? I had high hopes and while I wasn’t exactly disappointed I think I would’ve rather seen _Speak No Evil_ and waited for BB to come out on PPV and just watched it at home. ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecccb3/32.png) [@Old\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Wench)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/66 "2024-09-17T02:06:39Z")
Question – Did anyone get a look at the item that Jeremy used to kill his father? A friend and I saw it and thought it might be a circular saw but it was so fast that we couldn’t really see it. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/67 "2024-09-17T02:20:45Z")
I have no idea. It is something thin and possibly has a power cord dangling from it, but it doesn’t look like anything I recognize. [![](https://i.postimg.cc/PxGhqXzb/Screenshot-20240916-221241.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/PxGhqXzb/Screenshot-20240916-221241.jpg) ---
**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:** [November 3, 2024, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985/68 "2024-11-03T05:51:04Z")
Pitch meeting. Touches on the aforementioned over-abundance of story threads. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/w-dYMcb-XfI/maxresdefault.jpg "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Pitch Meeting") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-dYMcb-XfI) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beetlejuice-beetlejuice/1001985.md?page=3)