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I Think I Figured Out Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’s Weirdly Confusing Ending
It all ties back to one assuming line in Tim Burton’s first Beetlejuice.
Lydia — a teen who possesses the ability to see ghosts, a power that the movie downplays like no YA Netflix series in 2024 would dare — has just met the Maitlins and is trying to wrap her mind around the fact that they’re actually dead specters of their former selves. The wedding could represent the elation she hopes she’ll get to experience with Astrid someday, and the horrific birth of baby Beetlejuice could symbolize Lydia’s fears about having cursed her daughter to a life filled with ghoulish creatures, including, potentially, the ghost with the most. What if Beetlejuice isn’t real, and neither are the Matlins, and the stories told in both movies, as well as the Broadway musical, were just the journal musings of a depressed teen with the combined fashion sense of Robert Smith and Bob Mackie?
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