After a 36-year hiatus, Beetlejuice Returning to the big screen on September 6, 2024and easily managed to eliminate its competitors at the box office. In the second part, which received critical acclaim, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton has managed to strike the right balance between horror and humor, allowing the original cast members to shine while introducing new characters and pushing the mythical universe forward. However, for all the quirky cartoon fun and horrific horror, fans have noticed a detail about the time crunch in Purgatory from the 1988 original that is strangely absent from the entertaining sequel.
in BeetlejuiceAdam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis) step out of their home for a moment and are suddenly transported to a desert environment in another world where time moves much faster than on Earth. When they return home, they realize that two hours have passed despite only being away for a few minutes. A similar situation occurs in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Without the time constraint, which led to some fans complaining about the lack of continuity. While this omission doesn't make a huge difference, the timing of Lydia's wedding would have to change based on the original storyline.
Beetlejuice movie deletes Time Crunch from original film
Although Adam and Barbara Maitland do not physically appear in Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceCharacters remain a key part of the sequel's narrative. In the opening sequence, the camera hovers over a large model of the town of Winter River (originally owned by Adam) featuring small statues of Adam and Barbara and their car upside down in the river under a covered bridge.
Later in the sequel, Lydia (Winona Ryder) tells her skeptical teenage daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) that Adam and Barbara escaped captivity in their home through an existential loophole. The passing of the deceased couple leaves Lydia grieving after she formed a deep bond with them in the first film. Adam and Barbara accidentally die when their car falls off a bridge when they swerve at the last minute to save a dog. After their deaths, Adam and Barbara visit the Underworld, a hellish realm where they take a number in a waiting room and receive Guide to the Recently Deceased By their social worker.
When Adam and Barbara return home from the Underworld, they learn that they have been gone for months even though it has only been a few minutes. This proves the strange passage of time for the deceased. Beetlejuicewhich is not consistently confirmed in the sequel. Later, when Adam opens a door to her house and steps out, he suddenly finds himself on a moon of Saturn facing giant sandworms. Barbara quickly saves them from being eaten. Although Adam was out for a few seconds, Barbara tells him that he was absent for two hours, further illustrating the time dilation in Beetlejuice..
in Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceSeveral characters wander through the Underworld, where the passage of time occurs quite differently than in the original. For example, Astrid is tricked by Jeremy (Arthur Conte), a ghostly assassin who forces her to swap her life for his, and she goes through the administrative steps inside a horrific purgatory. Later, Delia (Catherine O'Hara) confesses that she is not dead and does not belong in the Underworld. However, when they both return home, no accelerated time jump occurs. The timeline of events remains the same, leading up to Lydia and Rory's (Justin Theroux) wedding on Halloween.
Lydia and Rory's wedding was supposed to take place much later.
At Charles' funeral reception, Rory asks Lydia to marry him two days later on Halloween. Lydia reluctantly agrees, much to the dismay of Astrid and Delia. However, given the time Lydia spends trying to save Astrid from Jeremy in the Underworld, where time is supposed to move much faster, it is impossible for Lydia to return to marry Rory two days after the scheduled date.R. Adam and Barbara spent minutes in the afterlife and returned home months later. Astrid and Lydia spent much longer in the underworld but returned within about 48 hours. Given the rules that were set in BeetlejuiceThe continuity in the sequel does not hold up.
king Beetlejuice 2 Sticking to the time period in the Underworld that was originally established, Lydia and Astrid were supposed to return to Winter River long after Halloween.So, Lydia and Rory's big wedding doesn't happen as originally planned on Lydia's favorite holiday. And while the timeline has no bearing on the level of entertainment of the wedding musical number set to Richard Harris's “MacArthur Park,” it does make one wonder about the confusing continuity between Tim Burton's original film and the sequel.
In the wedding scene, Astrid rushes to get rid of Beetlejuice's evil ex-girlfriend, Delores (Monica Bellucci), by drawing a secret door on the floor according to the instructions in the instruction manual. The door leads to a moon of Saturn, where sandworms pass through the church, fatally swallow Delores and Rory, and return with them to the moon. Since time passes much faster on the moon than on Earth, the continuity in the final sequence is also a bit ambiguous.However, for a sequel released 36 years after the original, the somewhat confusing timeline of Beetlejuice The afterlife does not affect the overall enjoyment of the movie. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice It gets so many things right that the illogical timeline is no longer noticeable.
