Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Completely Ruined Lydia As A Character

Tim Burton’s long-awaited horror-comedy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice brought back both of the principal characters from his 1988 cult classic. Michael Keaton’s titular bio-exorcist Betelgeuse was summoned from the afterlife once more, as Winona Ryder’s central hero Lydia Deetz needed his help again. Now in middle-age and herself a mother to a teenage daughter, Lydia’s character inevitably changed 36 years on from the original Beetlejuice. Yet she hadn’t necessarily changed for the better, as the very qualities that made her so iconic in the first movie were distinctly lacking in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.