Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Friday, September 6 until Thursday, September 26, 2024Yukon Theatre

After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.

Beetlejuice is back! Oscar-nominated, singular creative visionary Tim Burton and Oscar nominee and star Michael Keaton reunite for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to Burton’s award-winning Beetlejuice.

Keaton returns to his iconic role alongside Oscar nominee Winona Ryder (Stranger Things, Little Women) as Lydia Deetz and two-time Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (Schitt's Creek, The Nightmare Before Christmas) as Delia Deetz, with new cast members Justin Theroux (Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, The Leftovers), Monica Bellucci (Spectre, The Matrix films), Arthur Conti (House of the Dragon) in his feature film debut, with Emmy nominee Jenna Ortega (Wednesday, Scream VI) as Lydia’s daughter, Astrid, and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe (Poor Things, At Eternity’s Gate).

Recommended for ages 13+ for frightening and creepy scenes, mild gore and language.

From Common Sense Media

Many of the original beats and creepy characters are resurrected, in a slightly tamer way. Those with an appetite for gross-out guffaws will enjoy the details of how the recently deceased characters died, like a woman who staples her severed body back together, or a magician's assistant who has a knife through her head. There are functioning skeletons, exposed brains, characters with green skin and glowing eyes, and shrunken-headed office workers. Worms pour out of a demon's body, and people bite the heads off of birds. Dead bodies are stacked up, slime oozes out of mouths, a creepy fake baby attacks and draws blood, a gun is shown/drawn (but not used), and a villain sucks the life out of the dead, leaving them deflated like balloons. It's all comically gruesome, but likely not truly scary for teens and up—even the sandworm is less alarming this time. Beetlejuice has chilled with age, too: He does leer at a woman one time, but he's far less pervy overall. There's a flashback to a couple having sex on their wedding night that involves passionate kissing, pillows being tossed, and shadows of bodies rolling around in an over-the-top way. Lydia and her boyfriend take pills, and language includes "a--wipe," "s--t," "Jesus," and one "f--k." There's some talk of loss/grief.