Juiciest Callbacks In 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice'

Mr. Juice ends the first movie in the Neitherworld waiting room after his head shrinks while trying to steal a number. The sequel puts Beetlejuice back in this spot, forcing him to handle afterlife paperwork when he meets Wolf Jackson.

The first movie credits show Beetlejuice joining his waiting room ghost to have his head shrunk. After 37 years, Beetlejuice's head grows big again. His staff now only includes men with shrunken heads and yellow suits, led by his right hand, Bob.

The first real scene ofBeetlejuice BeetlejuiceThe opening credits do not show the Deetz/Maitland house above Winter River, Connecticut. Instead, the opening redoes the first movie's start, flying over a small town before shifting to Adam's town model and their home. In the second film, this becomes the set for Lydia'sThis is a paranormal TV show..

The "Day-O" scene features the Deetzes and their dinner guest singing Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat" without meaning to. This remains the most famous sequence in the original. The sequel avoids recreating this scene directly.Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceInstead, the film features a children's choir singing a sad version of the famous upbeat song at Charles's funeral. Charles enjoyed the dinner table time in Beetlejuice. Charles likely spent decades thinking about it, perhaps even recreating the sing-along.

Delia, an artist who always creates, fills her home with her sculptures. Those sculptures come to life during the climax ofBeetlejuice, but Delia does not seem to mind them years later. Several distinct sculptures appear at the house and on the driveway to Northanger Prep School.

The sequel does not repeat the "Banana Boat" sequence.Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequel shows normal people being drawn to sing old songs against their will. The second time, a soon-to-be-wed Juice plays "Macarthur Park" by Richard Harris (also known as the actor who played the first Dumbledore). This makes Lydia, Delia, and Father Damien accidental parts in a swooning musical number.

Beetlejuice knows the movie is nearing its end. He makes a big reappearance when Lydia summons him in the final act of both films. In the first, he rises through Adam's town model as it shakes like an earthquake, announcing himself by yelling, "Attention, K-Mart shoppers!" In the second, the model shakes harder, cracking along fault lines while Beetlejuice rises to make a timely reference: "The Juice is loose!"

When Beetlejuice controls things and nears marrying Lydia, a woman cleverly grabs a sandworm from Saturn's moons. She unleashes it to stop the villain and save the day. In the first film, Barbara rides the worm into the house and it eats the Juice in one move. In the sequel, Astrid studies the Handbook of the Dead and makes a portal on the church floor. Rory and Delores fail; they meet the same end Beetlejuice met decades prior.

Adam first draws a door to the afterlife using the guidance in the Handbook for the Recently Deceased.The Handbook for the Recently Deceased.Barbara could not raise her eyebrow higher. She doubted access to the underworld could be that simple, that childish. Astrid's quasi-boyfriend Jeremy draws his door, which works perfectly. The only mistake the second time is Jeremy forgets to add a doorknob first.

Until their deaths, the Maitlands face a local Realtor, Jane Butterfield. She obsesses over selling the house on the hill, riding with her daughter Little Jane in the back. In the sequel, Little Jane reappears grown up, eager to remove the house's funeral covering. She has her own next generation Little Jane. Anne McEnroe and Rachel Middleman played the first pair. Amy Nuttall and Skylar Park play Jane and Little Jane.

Astrid rides a bicycle through town in the second film. She narrowly avoids death on the small-town streets. This begins when she crosses the bridge where the Matilands died. Until she hits a Burton-like tree through a fence, the sequence recalls the couple's folksy death in the first movie.

The Deetz clan's head has traits in the original: he is a stressed real estate developer seeking quiet. He also watches birds, which leads to his death in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.Lydia and Rory mention the specific item in Charle's old study, filled with stuffed birds, just as it was in 1988.