Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | 2024 | PG-13 | – 3.6.5

Why is “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “violent content, macabre and bloody images, strong language, some suggestive material and brief drug use.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes an implied sex scene, a few kissing scenes, discussions of love and marriage, many scenes of dead people in the afterlife with bloody wounds visible, discussions of a double murder, a re-enactment of a plane crash and a shark attack, discussions of the death of a man and not finding his body, several arguments, and at least 1 F-word with two more not fully enunciated. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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When the Deetzes return to their family home for a memorial, Lydia’s (Winona Ryder) teen daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally discovers the existence of Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) and a portal to the afterlife. Also with Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, Nick Kellington, Santiago Cabrera, Burn Gorman and Danny DeVito. Directed by Tim Burton. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in an unidentified language with English subtitles. A couple of lines of dialogue are spoken in French without translation. [Running Time: 1:44]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice SEX/NUDITY 3

 – A man and a woman kiss and roll in bed (sex is implied) on their wedding night; we hear moaning. A man and woman kiss. A man proposes marriage to a woman at her father’s wake and convinces her to accept; they kiss. A teen girl and a young man dance and kiss (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).
► A man embraces a woman and says, “We’ve got the same stupid heart.” A man and a woman dance and levitate off the floor. While exclaiming his love, a man tosses a beating heart to a woman (we see it beating and bloody) and she catches it.
► A re-enactment shows a man and woman falling in love during a plague, when the man scavenges dead bodies and the woman carries bodies and throws them in a pile. A woman talks about finding a connection with a man in a survivor’s support group.
► As a dead woman’s body parts come back together (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details) we see cleavage and her legs to the upper thighs. A woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage. A man is seen shirtless (we see his bare chest and abdomen). A young woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – An animated sequence shows an ocean plane crash where a man clings to a broken wing until a shark attacks him and we are told it bit his head off (blood splatters on the camera and whenever we see the man afterward he is headless with blood spurting from his neck and his eyes on opposite sides of a gaping wound at the neck). A man drinks what he thinks is a glass of wine and he foams at the mouth because it was poison. A man opens his shirt and his intestines and organs pour out and onto the floor; a woman’s abdomen swells and her intestines and an infant pop out and the infant skitters on the floor, a man kicks it (it flatulates) and the infant gnaws on the woman’s leg (we see bloody bite marks). A woman holds two asps during a ceremony and they bite her on the neck (she falls over and we see her later with red marks on her neck). A giant sand worm breaks through a floor and attacks a man and a woman. A man inflates like a balloon and bursts dropping bits of cloth on the floor and one piece bursts into flames.
► A woman picks up a man by the throat and inhales deeply breathing in his “soul” leaving him a sack of flesh that flops on the floor; she does this to another man later. A man yells at a woman in frustration, leaves a building and falls into an open manhole; we see him in the afterlife with a large bump on his forehead. A man and a woman are transported into a miniature model of a town and then fall through a hole in a road. A man uses a floor-waxing machine and a flash of electricity shocks him and he is thrown; the electricity causes crates to be dumped over and we see several severed body parts being reanimated and when the parts reattach themselves they are stapled together with a staple gun, creating a woman. A woman’s mouth is shown with heavy stitches or staples on it keeping her from speaking. A young man falls through a hatch and into a pit of fire as he screams. A young man reveals a scar on the back of his neck from when he fell and broke his neck. A man’s shirt bursts into flames (no harm is done). A teen girl is taken away by two men and they put her on a train; a woman and the teen run away and are chased by men with guns until they fall through a door and land in a sandy setting, where they are attacked by a giant sandworm (a man helps them back through the door and to safety).
► Characters in the afterlife are shown with the injuries that caused their death with some missing limbs and heads and blood and matter are visible; one woman has an exposed leg bone and a cat is nibbling from her flesh, several characters are seen with shrunken heads, a few are skeletons, a headless man snaps his head back in place, a man has part of his head missing with the brain exposed, and people have burn scars on their faces. A person is shown with only a torso and half a surfboard (both splattered with blood). A woman is shown with an eggbeater stuck in her eye and a man is seen with a piece of metal sticking out of his head. A woman has a spear through her throat. A man is shown with several small fish attached to him and they flap their tails. A woman talks to another woman in a restroom and when the other woman turns to face her, we see that she has a knife sticking out of her forehead with blood around the wound (she’s a ghost). Dead people in the afterlife panic and scream when a woman passes by fearing that she will suck out their souls. A man’s eyes swell and turn red as he talks about looking into the sun.
► A man is injected in the neck with a syringe of truth serum. A woman punches a man in the face and he is thrown across the room. Many people looking at themselves in their phones are sucked into the screens and we see their distorted features as they are stretched. A man tosses a beating heart to a woman (we see it beating and bloody) and she catches it. A man’s head turns all the way around (we hear creaking). A woman has a nightmare that her daughter is pregnant and in delivery; we see the younger woman pushing and hear spurting and splattering as an infant resembling a miniature of a man is born accompanied by flies; the infant crawls on the ceiling and it bites a lightbulb zapping it and it falls down on the woman on the delivery bed.
► A teen girl on a bicycle is nearly struck by a car, then nearly runs into a truck, swerves and crashes through a fence and into a tree (we do not see injuries). A man faints when another man’s face grows scary features. A wall explodes and a man and a woman walk through the opening. A woman yells at her teen daughter when she says a name and the woman tells her that she cannot say it three times or something horrible will happen. A woman and her teen daughter argue in many scenes and the woman says, “She hates me.” A woman tells her adult daughter that her father is dead. Dead people laugh at a woman when she insists that she is not dead.
► A re-enactment shows a man and woman falling in love during a plague where the man scavenges dead bodies and the woman carries bodies and throws them in a pile (we see bodies with sores on their faces); during their wedding, they each bite the head off a chicken and we hear that there was also a goat sacrifice.
► A video shows a woman entering a kitchen where cabinet doors open and close, the door slams on her and a dog spins on a ceiling fan blade; the owners of the house describe it as a living nightmare. A woman panics when she thinks she sees someone in a studio audience. A woman practices screaming and others panic when they hear her.
► A woman asks if the living and the dead can co-exist while taping a program about the supernatural called “Ghost House.” A woman talks about a dead couple “moving on.” A character mentions diarrhea. A woman describes a teen boy killing his parents and then dying from a fall that broke his neck. We hear that a man had an accident at a paper mill. A woman is described to be stress baking.
► A teen girl and a young man dance and kiss and the teen girl falls when she realizes that they are levitating off the floor. Haunting music accompanies opening credits with thunderclaps and lightning flashes and a woman is seen in heavy shadow in the upstairs window of a house. A teen girl opens the door to her dorm room and a sheet in the shape of a ghost swoops toward her with a sign reading “Boo” on it. A few trick-or-treaters steal a large bucket of candy and run away. A teen girl burps loudly. A woman licks a picture of a man.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice LANGUAGE 5

 – 1 F-word and 2 not fully enunciated F-words, 12 scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 6 mild obscenities, name-calling (stupid, morbid, [religious profanity deleted] foreigners, toots, flesh bag, awkward, meat bag, horny handyman, big fat clown, cheeseball, Goth girl, obnoxious, free spirit, legend, itty bitty skull, ghoul patrol, supernatural [scatological term deleted], ghost house, murder house, lame, new age, fraud, harsh, sexy nature man, yoga retreating, crazy, whack job, trickster, demon, creepy, soul sucker, sicko, delusional fantasist, tragic, tree hugger, freak, puss, chick, blood sucking, shmo, dead dead, insane), exclamations (I’m dead, ghosts aren’t real, ew), 4 religious profanities (GD), 7 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus, oh my God, God). | profanity glossary |

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice SUBSTANCE USE

 – A woman takes a prescription pill a couple of times (presumably anti-anxiety medication), a man takes a prescription pill, a man pours a vial of pills in the garbage and then retrieves them, a man drinks drain cleaner and we see him with goo on his chin, and a man is injected with a truth serum. People drink wine at a memorial, and a man drinks a can of what could be beer.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Ghosts, the afterlife, confronting your fears, death of loved ones, grief, sorrow, influencers, chaos, science, irony, Marie Curie, James Dean.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice MESSAGE

 – The living and the dead can co-exist but it can get messy.