Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s spooky classic Beetlejuice, finally hit the big screen this year. Despite legacy sequels typically not living up to the expectations of fans, the Beetlejuice sequel was received quite well critically and commercially. However, while the general consensus is that it’s a fun experience, it’s also that there are perhaps a couple of subplots too many.

(Spoilers for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice are ahead).

Each of the subplots throughout the movie are great in their own ways; there’s just too many going on at once. One in particular felt especially unneeded because it didn’t really add anything to the rest of the story and felt tacked on. That subplot was the one in which Beetlejuice’s undead ex, Delores, was tracking him down to eat his soul.

Throughout the film, it cuts to Delores searching around the ghost world for him and eating some souls along the way. She confronts him during the final act to eventually be defeated. This has nothing to do with the main conflict involving the Deetz family, and just sort of interrupts the rest of the movie. It’s not a bad subplot by any means. It’s interesting, entertaining, and even adds to Beetlejuice’s backstory. It just doesn’t fit in with everything else.

There have been many folks online who have mentioned that certain subplots, especially this one, should have been scrapped completely. However, I’d argue that shouldn’t have been the case. Just about everything else could blend together quite nicely without the soul eater plot line. That being said, I don’t think it should have been scrapped completely. It should have been saved for a third film instead.

Obviously, not everything needs a third installment or a bunch of sequels, but if the second movie is titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, then there’s got to be a Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice eventually, right?

This tacked-on subplot deserved to be the central plot of its own movie. The first movie had the Maitlands summon Beetlejuice to help them kick the Deetz family out of their house. The second had Lydia summon him to help save her daughter. He’s always being summoned to help people in the land of the living (while trying to bamboozle them so that he can stay there instead of returning to the ghost world).

With Delores coming to eat his soul, Beetlejuice now has a reason to seek help himself. Who else would be more perfect than Lydia and Astrid Deetz who can see and communicate with the dead? It turns the formula on its head, shows development for “ghost with the most,” and would allow for Beetlejuice’s backstory to be fully explored.

The character’s arc coming full circle would have been a great way for the series to end. Who knows what a third movie may cover if it were to happen?

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