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.
Ghostbusters 2
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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 part of a Slinky. But I straightened it.
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