Plot Holes In Tim Burton Movies You Could Drive A Batmobile Through

From Redditor u/archielotsofnumbers:

In Beetlejuice (1988); every time Adam and Barb go to the Netherworld, it takes time. A looong time. The first time took 6 months, and when they came back, they found to their horror that their house has been completely changed. The second time, their absence is noted by Lydia who Beetlejuice tells them they are “dead, dead, deadski, gone, split, afterlife kids…”

But in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, they seem to be hopping in and out of the Netherworld with no time lapse. Anyone else notice this?

From Redditor u/Volfgang91:

Earlier in the movie, Adam and Barbara discover that they are trapped in their home, because every time they try to leave, they enter some barren desert wasteland inhabited only by sandworms. It’s also established that time moves differently here; whilst Adam left the house for just a few seconds, to Barbara he was gone for hours.

Towards the end of the movie, when Barbara tries to disrupt Beetlejuice’s attempt to marry Lydia, he sends her here once more. Knowing what we learnt earlier about how time movies differently in this place, how is it that Barbara was able to crash a sandworm into the house and disrupt the wedding minutes after being sent away, when as far as Beetlejuice and the Deetz’ (who were all still in the house) were concerned, she should have been gone for hours?

From a former Redditor:

In Beetlejuice, given the in-universe rules about looking like how you died in the afterlife, shouldn’t Adam and Barbara perpetually be covered in water?

Given that they drowned and all that? Like you got the burned cigarette guy, the shrunken head guy, the person in the sleeping bag with the rattlesnake, etc. But Adam and Barbara are the only ones with no visible afflictions. I mean, yeah, granted they’re always in those same clothes but I think at the very least they should always be dripping with water.

From Movie Mistakes:

As in the first movie, Bob can’t speak as his mouth is sewn shut, and because of this he barely makes any audible sound. So how is the lower body of Charles Deetz able to speak? And, like the magician’s assistant who died when she was cut in half, shouldn’t the other half of him be in the afterlife with him?

From Movie Mistakes:

At the end of the film, we see Edward carving ice sculptures in his mansion. How did he get the ice up there? First of all, it takes place in a warm climate and I didn’t see a freezer up there in the castle. He couldn’t have gotten ice from town because firstly he had scissors for hands and couldn’t have gripped the ice. And, even if by some miracle he could, he wouldn’t be able to buy any from town because everyone in town but Kim was convinced that Edward was dead, she told everyone that they killed each other. And Kim didn’t bring it to him because she told her granddaughter in the end that she never saw him again after that night. So where did he get that ice?

From Redditor u/Phazlerde:

How about a literal hole? There is the chair that mechanically dumps the bodies of his victims down a shaft into the basement. The trouble is… there is an exterior shot of Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop where you can clearly see that the chair on the second floor is directly above the open room of the bakery. No hole or shaft is possible from this view.

From Redditor u/rayrayraybies:

The chair should be dumping the bodies right through the crowded restaurant… Both stagings I’ve seen of Sweeney Todd have the building arranged differently so that the bodies, you know, wouldn’t go right through the middle of the pie shop.

From Redditor u/Eriacle:

Lydia asks Adam and Barbara to prove that they’re really ghosts and not just doing parlor tricks. They respond that they cannot.

Before this scene, Adam and Barbara blatantly pull off stunts in order to scare Delia and Otho. After the scene, they show Juno the scary faces they can make. For them to tell Lydia they can’t provide proof that they’re ghosts seems to be completely false.

Before Johnny Depp was cast, the studio wanted Tom Cruise to play Edward in Edward Scissorhands. According to screenwriter Caroline Thompson:

[Cruise] wanted to know how Edward went to the bathroom. He was asking the kind of questions about the character that can’t be asked for this character! Part of the delicacy of the story was not answering questions like, ‘How does he go to the bathroom? How did he live without eating all those years?’ Tom Cruise was certainly unwilling to be in the movie without those questions being answered.

From Redditor u/Snowbank_Lake:

So in Batman Returns, Max pushes Selena out the window and assumes she dies from the fall. We know that she doesn’t, but he doesn’t know until she shows up at work during his meeting with Bruce Wayne. I believe he told Bruce that Selena was on vacation or something. But if Selena had actually died, her body would have been found at the bottom of the building where she works, with a broken window in the office. Didn’t Max consider that someone might find that suspicious? Especially if he hadn’t planned to report her missing.

From Redditor u/MovieMike007:

The roof of Wayne Manor is equipped with multiple Bat-Signal reflecting devices, each of which would tip off any guests or passersby that Bruce Wayne is most likely Batman.

From Redditor u/Gavincox7:

How is Goody Addams’ last name also Addams? Traditionally, women do not pass on their last name, therefore Wednesday Addams should not have the same last name 400 years later. Can anyone explain this? Do women pass on their last name in this universe instead of men?

From Redditor u/RhapBohemiSody:

After Joker tells Batman that he created him, Batman responds by telling him that Joker made Batman first by killing his parents.

Joker genuinely has no idea what he is talking about. Seconds later he says he was only young when he did that.

Not only did he just say he has no idea, but he never learns Batman is Bruce Wayne. If anything he believes he killed Bruce Wayne when he shot him earlier.

He also can’t know he was young since he doesn’t know when Batman’s parents were killed, only that it happened before the raid on Axis Chemicals.

From a former Redditor:

A space station orbiting Saturn goes through a warp which lands them on an inhabitable planet and massively increases the apes’ intelligence. So far, so good, I’m willing to suspend my disbelief for that.

What really, really confuses me though, is how did horses end up on that planet? Humans and apes make sense, because we see them on board, but no mention is made of horses, and I struggle to think of any reason to have enough horses on a space station to create a viable breeding population. So where did the horses come from?