8 Plot Holes & Headscratchers

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Continued the stories of the title Bio-Exorcist and the Deets, and as fun as it is, it left a couple of plot holes. Back in 1988, Tim Burton introduced the audience to Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), a chaotic ghost and self-proclaimed bio-exorcist who was summoned by Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) to get rid of the Deetzes. However, the Maitlands have bonded with Deetz’s teenage daughter, Lydia (Winona Ryder), and Beetlejuice takes advantage of that. at the end of BeetlejuiceHe was sent back to the nether world, and the Maitlands and Dietz agreed to exist in the same house.

Now, over thirty years later, Betelgeuse is back with more chaos Beetlejuice Beetlejuice How the Deces return to Winter River after the death of Charles Deces. Lydia’s daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), is tricked by a new friend into crossing into the netherworld, literally risking her life. With no other choice left, Lydia summons Beetlejuice, who agrees to help her rescue Astrid on the condition that Lydia marry him. Their marriage will not only break Beetlejuice’s curse, but also keep him far away from his vengeful ex-wife Delores (Monica Bellucci).

Thanks to all that, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Takes the audience to the netherworld and back to the world of the living, revisiting some of the rules and more that the first movie established. However, this back-and-forth between worlds also created a couple of plot holes and left some headscratchers that may or may not be resolved at some point.

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Time dilation does not exist in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Time works in much easier ways in Beetlejuice

After they died, the Maitlands experienced some truly strange things before it became clear to them that they were dead. When they returned home, Adam tried to leave the house and he ended up on Saturn’s moon to be eaten by a sandworm before Barbara pulled him back into the house. Adam was gone for a few seconds, but for Barbara he was gone for hours. When the Maitlands traveled to the New World for the first time, and spent a few hours in the waiting room, when they returned home, they Months passed and their house was sold.

As mentioned above, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Taking the audience into the netherworld and spending a lot of time there following Beetlejuice, Lydia, Astrid, Jeremy and Delia, all of them in different situations. After the time dilation effect of the first movie, Months should have passed between them entering the Netherworld and returning To the land of the living, but in fact, only a couple of hours passed and they didn’t like it much.

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The rules of afterlife for the recently deceased are even more unclear in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

The Maitlands, Jeremy and Delia went through different processes

Beetlejuice Also established some of ​​the Netherworld’s rules that seemed quite simple, but the sequel either changed them or ignored them, thus creating plot holes. in BeetlejuiceBy the Maitlands, it was revealed that Those who had traumatic deaths were confined to the place where they died. For many, many years… except that they died in a river, but were destined to spend 125 years in their house, for some reason. However, in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Jeremy was confined to his house and the tree house in his backyard How he killed his parents at home but died in the tree house.

There are also cases of Delia, Charles and Richard. Charles died in the ocean after being eaten by a shark, but he made it to the netherworld, and Delia shall be buried in her house (or the house, like the Maitlands) as she died there, after she was immediately sent to the waiting room. Richard died in the Amazon but was also sent to the afterlife and got a job there (more on that later), so the rules for the recently deceased are much more confusing in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

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The “loophole” that freed the Maitlands

The Maitlands conveniently found a loophole

As mentioned above, according to the Handbook of the recently deceased And the rules of the netherworld stated that the Maitlands had to spend the next 125 years in their house as ghosts. Because of this, they wanted to scare away the dead, but instead they found a way to exist in the house. Because of this, the Maitlands should have appeared in Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceBut that would have been tricky because they weren’t supposed to age, so the sequel would have had to use the controversial de-aging tech on Davis and Baldwin.

Fortunately, Burton found a way to justify the Maitlands’ departure Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – The problem is that it left more questions. Lydia explained that the Maitlands had found a loophole in the clause That stated that they had to stay in their house for 125 years and finally moved on. Even Astrid pointed out “how convenient” it was and the movie never explained what exactly the loop was or how long it had been since the Maitlands left the house.

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Charles and Delia went to the big next straight away (but not the Maitlands)

The next big thing may have its own rules

One of the biggest surprises in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was the death of Delia. Delia participated in mourning in her own unique way, and part of her process was a ritual at Charles’ grave that involved snakes that she paid to be defanged. Unfortunately, they are not, and they bite her in the neck, killing her on the spot. Delia woke up in the waiting room and called Beetlejuice in the hope that he would be able to help her return to Earth, because, according to her, she should not have died. Meanwhile, Charles wandered the netherworld as he did not know where to go.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Introduced the soul train that takes the deceased to the Great Beyond – the thing is that the sequel did not really explain the rules or requirements for riding the train and going to the Great Beyond. According to the rules set out in Beetlejuice, Delia and Charles should have also spent some time in the land of the livingBut for unexplained reasons, they went straight to the soul train, and the great one, after the waiting room. It may be possible that those with unfinished business are the ones who can move on to the big next, but it remains unclear.

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The afterlife rules about civil servants change in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Astrid’s father shouldn’t have been working there, right?

Another “rule” established in Beetlejuice was that Those who die by suicide become civil servants in the afterlife. This even made a joke, in which the receptionist of the waiting room, Miss Argentina, said that if she knew what she had now, If she didn’t make her “small accident”, as she proved, she would split. However, this rule seemed to have changed at some point in between Beetlejuice And the sequel, vi Astrid’s father was revealed to be working in immigration in the netherworld.

Richard did not die by suicide – Astrid explained that he was on a trip to fight for climate justice and had a shooting accident in the Amazon, but the authorities never found his body. Richard even has a pair of fish attached to different parts of his body, because the dead keep the appearance they had when they died. Richard, therefore, should not be a public servantUnless now the deceased can get any job they can in the netherworld, which would also explain Beetlejuice’s job in a call center.

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Why did Beetlejuice wait so long to reach Lydia

Over 30 years later, Beetlejuice fired his shot again

Lydia ends up capitalizing on her gift of seeing the dead and becoming a psychic medium and the host of her own supernatural talk show, Ghost house. Suddenly, Lydia started hallucinating Beetlejuice in random placesSuch as among the crowd while filming her show and among the students at Astrid’s school. Not long after, Beetlejuice revealed to Bob and his other employees that he was reaching out to Lydia, and he was successful in it – the question is why he waited so long to contact her.

There is nothing in it Beetlejuice Beetlejuice That suggests Lydia was tormented by Beetlejuice between movies, only when he appeared in the crowd and after that. It could be that Beetlejuice has been trying to make up with Lydia for years but has only succeeded so far, but if that is not the case, it is not known why it took him so long, as it was before Delores came back.

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Delores Sachs The Souls of Dead Men in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

How did she do it if they were already dead?

One of the biggest reveals in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was the backstory of Beetlejuice. As it turns out, Beetlejuice was Italian and a gravedigger who survived the Black Death. One day, he meets Delores, and is instantly bewitched by her. Unaware of Beetlejuice, Delores was a soul-sucking witchAnd on their wedding night, Delores poisons him, but Beetlejuice kills her with an ax before he falls. Delores was kept in pieces in different boxes in the afterlife, and it was due to the mistake of a janitor that she was released.

While searching for Beetlejuice across the netherworld, Delores continued to suck the souls of anyone who crossed her path – but those people were already dead. This raised the question of How Delores can suck the souls of dead peopleAs well as what happened to them after their souls were taken by Delores (was there a second life after WWII?). Delores’ powers should not be useful in the afterlife anymoreAfter they still were, somehow.

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Where did Betelgeuse go after exploding at the end of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice did not return to the waiting room again

Even after two movies and a couple of trips into the netherworld, Beetlejuice continues to be a mystery, and the end of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Just added to it. at the end of BeetlejuiceThe Bia Oitzer was fed by a sandworm and sent back to the Netherworld waiting room, where the head was shrunk, after He tried to steal someone else’s ticket. This made it easy for Beetlejuice to return in the sequel, but his fate was left a mystery at the end of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

After Astrid reveals that Beetlejuice and Lydia’s deal is invalid and so she doesn’t have to marry him, Lydia proceeds to say his name three times to send him back to where he belongs. Beetlejuice exploded after Lydia said his name a third time and disappearedAnd he did not appear back in the netherworld again. Beetlejuice appears one last time in Lydia’s lucid dream, but it is unclear if he is reaching out to her again or if it was simply a nightmare that Lydia had from trauma.