Beetlejuice Parents Guide (1988) - Lovebugs and Postcards

I wrote this Beetlejuice Parents Guide to help you know what is in the movie. All opinions are my own.

It has been years since I watched Beetlejuice – and even then I didn’t remember all of it. But I watched it with my family before we went to watch the new Beetlejuice Beetlejuice movie and so I wanted to share this parents guide here. The movie is a little gory (but this one is more comical than gross), and little horror (some weird creatures with eyeballs in weird places, creepy monsters, etc), and more than a little crude. There is also a lot of language from Mr. Beetlejuice so be aware of that. I have outlined it all below in the Beetlejuice parents guide.

If you haven’t already, you can read our Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Parents Guide to have an idea of whats in the second one as well.

Beetlejuice is available to watch on MAX or buy on Amazon

Beetlejuice Parents Guide

Beetlejuice is rated PG. It runs for 1hr 32m.

There are no end-credit scenes for Beetlejuice.

Sex & Nudity & Innuendos – 2/5 – A couple kisses a few times and playful behavior. Two people are “oohing and ahing” like ghosts and the daughter thinks it’s her parents “getting busy”. A few uses of sexual behavior, etc.

(at about 45-47 min in) – Beetlejuice does a yanking motion (sexual). He lifts a woman’s skirt with a stick to try and look under it. He kisses a woman (without her consent). He grabs his crotch and pulls. He talks about “not having action in 600 years”, and then he goes into a whore house (shows scantily clad girls beckoning to him). It also says whore house in dialogue. There are several interactions and words that are crude

Violence & Gore – 2/5 – People being dropped, launched, and “held” down. There are some gory scenes. Shows people who are decapitated, or grotesquely shown.

Profanity – 3/5 – There are a couple uses of GD, hell, shit, damn. 7+ more uses of God. 2 F-bombs (at around 50 mins and another at around 1 hr 10 min). 1 use of Jesus.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking – 1/5 – Smoking. Social drinking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes – 2/5 – A couple crashes a car into a river. A couple of jump scares. Some weird-looking creatures and gross-looking people who have died.

Other things to note – Beetlejuice eats insects (could be funny – but gross).

Beetlejuice is a classic Tim Burton movie. There are a few frightening scenes – but it’s more like The Nightmare Before Christmas, not Nightmare on Elm Street.

Beetlejuice Parents Guide

About Beetlejuice:

After Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) die in a car accident, they find themselves stuck haunting their country residence, unable to leave the house. When the unbearable Deetzes (Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones) and teen daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) buy the home, the Maitlands attempt to scare them away without success. Their efforts attract Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), a rambunctious spirit whose “help” quickly becomes dangerous for the Maitlands and innocent Lydia.