I love it (I LOVE the ghostbusters, any iteration. I even own 2016 on bluray–don’t crucify me), but it’s not a good movie.
No one seemingly remembers a giant marshmallow man attacking the city and ghosts running wild? The ghostbusters have disbanded and two of them now do kids parties, instead of hailed as heroes ushering in a new era of proof of life after death? Venkman and Dana split, negating all their chemistry from the first (and making him seem like an even bigger asshole), but then end up back together anyways? It’s a giant reset and redo, with Stay Puft replaced by… Oy, the statue of liberty. Even as a kid, I was like “the statue of liberty isn’t an action figure. It doesn’t have joints and can’t walk.”
Rumor has it the creative team tanked it on purpose to get out of more sequels and whether true or not, it definitely worked.
Even though it’s obviously a completely shallow copy of the original, it’s still a fun watch for the following reasons:
All of Egon’s lines.
All of Venkman’s lines.
Peter MacNicol’s character.
The whole “World of the Psychic” scene
The whole courtroom scene (as you mentioned).
The overall concept of the haunted painting is pretty fun, but I think in combination with the mood slime idea it overcomplicates things. However, there are some fun moments with the slime.
Louis and Jeanine’s romance has some funny dialogue, though that storyline kind of wastes time that could’ve been spent on more fun supernatural stuff.
No one seemingly remembers a giant marshmallow man attacking the city and ghosts running wild?
We had COVID running while and a large number of people were pretending it wasn’t happening. We have a f’n war going on in Europe and it’s treated like little more than some minor annoyance. And that’s while they it is happening. People going back to normal after a big event is over and cleaned up is pretty believable, especially when there are no more ghosts floating around.
Also it’s not like everybody forgot forever, the people of the city come together at the end for a song.
“the statue of liberty isn’t an action figure. It doesn’t have joints and can’t walk.”
They sprayed it up with slime real well. That’s actually a part I really like about Ghostbuster2, all the tools and slime have pretty well established functions. Vigor is also a way more impressive villain than Gozer, which I always found rather unimpressive to say the least.
I love it (I LOVE the ghostbusters, any iteration. I even own 2016 on bluray–don’t crucify me), but it’s not a good movie.
No one seemingly remembers a giant marshmallow man attacking the city and ghosts running wild? The ghostbusters have disbanded and two of them now do kids parties, instead of hailed as heroes ushering in a new era of proof of life after death? Venkman and Dana split, negating all their chemistry from the first (and making him seem like an even bigger asshole), but then end up back together anyways? It’s a giant reset and redo, with Stay Puft replaced by… Oy, the statue of liberty. Even as a kid, I was like “the statue of liberty isn’t an action figure. It doesn’t have joints and can’t walk.”
Rumor has it the creative team tanked it on purpose to get out of more sequels and whether true or not, it definitely worked.
But the courtroom scene is amazing!
Even though it’s obviously a completely shallow copy of the original, it’s still a fun watch for the following reasons:
We had COVID running while and a large number of people were pretending it wasn’t happening. We have a f’n war going on in Europe and it’s treated like little more than some minor annoyance. And that’s while they it is happening. People going back to normal after a big event is over and cleaned up is pretty believable, especially when there are no more ghosts floating around.
Also it’s not like everybody forgot forever, the people of the city come together at the end for a song.
They sprayed it up with slime real well. That’s actually a part I really like about Ghostbuster2, all the tools and slime have pretty well established functions. Vigor is also a way more impressive villain than Gozer, which I always found rather unimpressive to say the least.