The funeral scene in Beetlejuice Beetlejuiceis a darkly funny moment, but it's also an emotional callback to the first movie. Tim Burton's sequel left a gap of 36 years after Beetlejuice became a beloved horror-comedy, so it had to make a few cast changes. While Willem Dafoe, Jenna Ortega and Monica Bellucci were among the new faces joining the cast of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, there were some conspicuous absences that fans of the original movie would have noticed. Of course, Jeffrey Jones didn't return as Charles Deetz, but his character's funeral had a touching reference to another Beetlejuice actor.