ThoughBeetlejuice Beetlejuicecontinues to delve intothe history of the bio-exorcist, it doesn’t address his relationship with a character from the first movie. The sequel establishes the ghost with the most has been dead for longer than six centuries, heightening the mystery behind his Neitherworld career.Reviews forBeetlejuice 2demonstrate a renewed interest in delving into the infamous character, even if the sequel chooses to explore only a snippet of his living storyinstead of his already confirmed more interesting past as a rogue ghost.
JoiningBeetlejuice 2’s new cast of characters, Delores solves the enigma of Betelgeuse’s first wife, however, his key experience as an assistant in the Neitherworld remains untold. As theBeetlejuice 2endingleaves the door open for a third movie, hopes are that this will finally explore that side of Michael Keaton’s popular role. Chances seem small, considering that, even if Tim Burton brought Beetlejuice back for the sequel, hedecided not to portray his alluring first Afterlife profession, which the first film sets up but doesn’t explore.
Beetlejuice 2 Doesn’t Reveal How & Why Betelgeuse Began Working With Juno The Caseworker
Beetlejuice’s Afterlife Past Before The Maitlands Remains A Mystery
When warning Adam and Barbara about the cheating ghost, their case worker reveals that, sometime after his death, Betelgeuse worked as Juno’s assistant before cutting loose to become a freelance bio-exorcist. The 1988 moviedoesn’t explain how and why he got that first position, and the sequel overlooks it as well. Instead of answering the character’s intriguing afterlife past,Beetlejuice 2’s flashbackexposes his life and death, presenting him as a grave robber who falls victim to Delores’ devilish plans to achieve immortality.
A future sequel… would allow a glimpse into his, no doubt, funny frictions with co-workers as well as his victims before the Maitlands.
Notably, the iconiccaseworker is missing fromBeetlejuice 2— responding to Silvia Sidney’s death in 1999 — leaving her relationship with her temporary subordinate a mystery. It would certainlybe interesting if a future sequel depicted the ghost’s origins as a troublemaker in the afterlife. This angle would allow a glimpse into his, no doubt, funny frictions with co-workers as well as his victims before the Maitlands, being that he supposedly acquired a bad reputation by claiming “he could get rid of the living.”
The Afterlife’s Punishments Hint At Why Betelgeuse Was Assigned To Be Juno’s Assistant
The Handbook For The Recently Deceased Stipulates Code Breakers Must Perform Clerical Work
What came to tie Juno and Betelgeuse together is up to interpretation, althoughsome clues hint their partnership was arranged by Neitherworld rules. In the original movie,Beetlejuice’s waiting room ghostsestablish that the afterlife follows certain guidelines that correspond to death and behavior. Miss Argentina, for example, confirms that those who die by suicide are forced to function as civil servants. It is also known that Betelgeuse has been cursed with not being able to leave the afterlife, and marrying Lydia would free him to wander into the mortal world as he pleases.
Beetlejuice 2 Replacing An Original Ending Character Left A Weird Mystery Unsolved
Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice 2 opted to leave most of the original characters from the 1988 movie in the past, meaning a strange mystery went unaddressed.
Accordingly, when Astrid reads somerules of the Handbook for the Recently Deceasedin the sequel, a page on code violations delineates that law infringers will be confined to the Neitherworld; prohibited from visiting the living world; and forced to “take part in compulsory community clerical work.” This rule explains Betelgeuse’s limited status in the first movie, and why he is forced to work in the Afterlife Call Center in the sequel. Considering his unruly nature, and despiteBeetlejuice Beetlejuiceignoring the fact,Betelgeuse was likely punished in the past by being made to work as Juno’s assistant.
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Cast
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the sequel to the original Tim Burton classic that starred Michael Keaton and Wynona Rider in a horror-comedy that involved ghosts trying to scare off new homebuyers from taking their house. The sequel brings back Michael Keaton as the hilarious and sleazy ghost with selfish intentions, now joined by Jenna Ortega in a new role.
