Fans argue that the change in Lilo's guardianship fundamentally undermines the original film's message of familial bonds and the importance of staying together as a family.
"Beetlejuice" may have been a netherworld burlesque, but it was also a stirring tragicomedy about the conjoined fates of the living and the departed, firm in its belief that death... ultimately offered its sufferers no more relief or resolution than life.