Beetlejuice is back and with the same crude humor that would get you rolling in your grave in the afterlife. Tim Burton’s classic film gets the sequel treatment with a new generation of characters, but will there be another film to follow?
The film follows Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) who has become a very popular psychic medium since the last movie. She navigates her relationship with her daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) after the death of her father. When Lydia’s father dies, the family arrives back at their old haunted Connecticut house where Lydia’s stepmother Delia (Catherine O’Hara) lives. Astrid and Lydia’s relationship becomes more strained after Lydia’s fiancé Rory (Justin Theroux proposes. Astrid finds solace in the boy-next-door character Jeremy, who isn’t what he seems.
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He’s a ghost of course! And an evil one, at that. He tricks Astrid into exchanging her life for him to live in the real world again. Lydia summons Betelgeuse to save her daughter from going into the afterlife. But like before, the demon pulls his hijinks to trick Lydia into marrying him again. With the help of all three generations of the Deetzes they banish him away after saying his name three times. But everything isn’t as happily ever after when the deal is done.
What happened at the end of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?
After expelling Beetlejuice when Lydia repeats his name three times, Lydia looks forward to spending the rest of her life with her daughter. Astrid finds true love and a suitable husband (who is not a ghost, of course), and the scene pans over to Lydia watching Astrid give birth in an operating room. After much struggle, Astrid gives birth to Baby Beetlejuice who kills all the doctors and nurses in the room. The baby climbs up the walls and drops to Astrid’s hospital bed.
At the last possible second, Lydia wakes up from the dream to find Betelgeuse sleeping right next to her. They both scream and it turns out to be another dream. This might be an homage to the horror film Carrie but it also leaves room for the future of Beetlejuice— hinting that the mischievous demon could return and that he’s not really gone.
Will there be a Beetlejuice 3?
A Beetlejuice 3 isn’t totally out of the picture since the sequel opens up the opportunity. It would also be super applicable since you need to say his name three times to summon and expel him, but Tim Burton, who directed both Beetlejuice movies, won’t return to film it. “Well, if [the same] time frame goes on, I’ll be about 100. So maybe. I doubt it,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.
