Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: parents' guide
Best for ages 13 and up. Rated PG-13 for violent content, macabre and bloody images, strong language, some suggestive material and brief drug use.
A gleefully gross, darkly funny Tim Burton sequel best suited to teens who like their horror played for laughs. A death in the family brings Lydia, her stepmother and her estranged teen daughter Astrid back to the old house, Astrid stumbles into the afterlife, and the crude demon Beetlejuice schemes once more to marry Lydia. The gore is cartoonish but frequent, with spraying blood and severed body parts. There is a silly implied sex scene, an f-word plus a bleeped one, about a dozen s-words, and characters taking pills for fun. Age 13 matches the rating; grief over lost fathers runs underneath.
What's in it
Violence
StrongFrequent comic gore: a man missing his head and upper body sprays blood, a woman staples her severed parts back together, a newborn kills a doctor in a burst of blood, and the afterlife is full of corpses with saws, spears and eggbeaters lodged in them.
Language
ModeratePlugged In counted one f-word, one bleeped f-word and one cut off, about a dozen s-words, plus 'ass,' 'asshole,' 'crap,' 'hell,' 'pissed' and several misuses of God's name, some paired with 'damn.'
Sex and nudity
ModerateA flashback wedding night is played for laughs with flying clothes, moving shadows and tossed pillows, but no nudity. A reassembled woman shows cleavage, Beetlejuice leers at women, teens kiss, and his long-running wish to marry Lydia, which began when she was 16, drives the plot.
Drinking, drugs and smoking
ModerateLydia leans on prescription pills to cope, and she and her boyfriend are shown swallowing them recreationally. Adults drink wine, the town priest seems to have a drinking problem, and a teen boy stashes beer in his treehouse.
Scary or intense scenes
ModerateMore gross than truly scary, but it includes a giant sandworm attacking people, a villain who sucks out souls and leaves victims deflated, a creepy demon baby, and a teen lured toward the afterlife. A funeral and fresh grief open the story.
Sensitive topics
- Death of a parent
Worth talking about
Lydia and Astrid barely know how to talk to each other until a crisis forces it. Ask your teen what gets in the way when parents and kids try to really hear each other.
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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Plugged In, the MPA, movieguide.org. The age is our judgment, not an official rating, and every family draws its lines differently: read the notes, not just the number. Spotted something we missed? Tell us. How we rate.