Shockingly,Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’s waiting room is evengorier than the one in Tim Burton’s first installment, including its denizens' wacky deaths.Beetlejuice 2’s reviewspraise the legacy sequel’s expansion of the original’s Neitherworld, subverting running gags and offering a greater and more alluring experience of the world of the dead. While the original Neitherworld showed a few offices, the lost soul room, and the waiting room, Burton’s sequel introduces the train to the Great Beyond, a soul airport area, a police department for dead criminals, and even a dry cleaner.
TheBeetlejuice 2endinghas plenty of ghosts playing a part in the main plot, with some even hearkening back to the original’s iconic presences. Bob and his friends are the clearest homage to the 1988 waiting room, resembling the comic shrunken-head guy. However, otherBeetlejuice 2’s Neitherworld charactersfunction as references to the first movie, particularly to ghosts that leave an impression on Barbara and Adam Maitland. Building on what came before,Burton doubles down on deaths caused by magic acts and shark attacks and even poses old and new unsettling accidentsthat warrant a second look.
Beetlejuice 2 Features The Deaths Of A Magician’s Assistant And An Escape Artist
Beetlejuice 2is out on streamingnow, and fans will enjoy finding its ghosts share deaths similar to those in the first movie. For example, Delia is killed by snakes, while a camper is visited by one in his sleeping bag.Burton seems keen on some specific and tragic deaths, including many animal attacks, deaths in the operation room, and those of performers in show business. His intentional repetition of magic show deaths is particularly interesting and fun, knowing the director’s line of work would make him familiar with the scary scenarios these artists go through.
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One of the original movie’s most surprising ghosts is the magician’s assistant cut in half, whose separate body parts continue to move. The character stands out among an already strange group, demonstrating how goodBeetlejuice’s practical effectsare. In the sequel,Burton takes its magic show deaths one step further, including another assistant killed by her boss and an escape artist who couldn’t free himself from an underwater box. The latter seems unsettlingly real, showcasing an advancement in effects. Nadia becomes the third ghost in the franchise shown outside the Neitherworld, as she befriends Lydia in her studio bathroom.
Beetlejuice 2’s Waiting Room Ghosts Take The Deaths From The First Movie Further
Even ifBeetlejuice 2’s Neitherworld didn’t get as many epic ghosts, likeJuno the case worker inBeetlejuice, it still has some fun characters that give nods to those before them. The sequel’s waiting room is evidently more crowded and its Neitherworld is more expansive, which could respond to its ghosts not getting the laser focus that those in the first movie get. However, Burton makes sure that some stand out amidst the rest, andoffers some homages to key original dead characters.
Outside the waiting room,Danny DeVito’s janitor inBeetlejuice 2references the original’s otherworldly janitor. Inside the waiting room, the directorfeatures deaths similar to the original’s, however, with double the gore. The burnt Santa Claus inBeetlejuice Beetlejuiceis even more tragic than the burnt man who offers cigarettes to Adam; then the two marine deaths, a surfer eaten by a shark and a man stung by a giant jellyfish, echo the snorkeler killed by a shark; and, finally, the dead hot dog contest eater is similar to the man who choked on a chicken bone.
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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.
