Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Spoiler-Free Review 

I like hearing your thoughts. I’ll probably wait until disc or streaming, but I’m not sure. I saw Afterlife with my mother on our Christmas shopping day and we both afterwards were like “okay.”

I agree with your points. I very much enjoyed Ghostbusters Afterlife. The way I feel about this one is it’s Fine.

Ghostbusters 2 is great

Yes Heath I love your short reviews. And about this new Ghostbusters, I love having the original cast back. I agree if they want to pass the torch on to a newer generation, that’s fine but just not kids. Have some new adult actors that will be trained for the job. The original crew could be the captains or more of mentors? They are too old and kids are too young go in the middle. Even Tom Cruise trained the new pilots. Anyway you can have both the nostalgia but with new stories. IF there was such thing as Ghostbusters, kids would not be qualified because they are kids.

I really liked Afterlife. And I Enjoyed Frozen Empire. We are all going to have different opinions about movies. But that’s what makes watching movies so great 👻👻👍🍿🎞️🎥

The second movie is underrated. I like it almost as much as the first one. I will watch Frozen Empire at some point but with low expectations. There was really no need for a sequel to the first two films.

Sounds about what I expected.

Short reviews are great...some of these reviewers tell me more than I need or want to know.

This video is a month old, but I finally watched it as I was curious about your thoughts since I finally saw Frozen Empire last night (and to connect with the nostalgia aspect of the film, I watched it at an old drive-in movie theater). I would agree that Frozen Empire is "fine." That said, I had a hard time getting into it and found the first half incredibly boring. Perhaps that's because leading up to it I went back and watched the other films (including the 2016 reboot) over the past week so maybe I was just a bit burned out on the franchise going into this; but at the same time, I just felt there were a lot of flaws with the movie. I felt like perhaps Afterlife at least had a reason to exist (to tell the story of what became of the Ghostbusters) although I sort of disliked the depressing notion of it -- that they split up and Egon went on to a solitary existence in the middle of nowhere. Frozen Empire seemed like it wanted to build upon the origin of the "new" Ghostbusters team (Egon's family) and put them back in NYC. But the story didn't really build much on the events of Afterlife -- we get new characters (such as Nadeem, who I didn't care for); no real development between previously existing characters (what happened to the love interest between Lucky and Trevor or the friendship between Phoebe and Podcast? Instead we focus on some odd connection between Phoebe and a ghost girl.); very little humor (that seemed to mostly be relegated to silliness from the mini marshmallow men); and something of an undercutting of the previously established aspects of the Ghostbusters universe (Ray and Egon were scientists and the team used their scientific knowledge to create gadgets to fight, capture and contain ghosts and demons such as Gozer, yet that didn't work on Garraka and instead they needed a guy with special flame powers?). Of the five movies, it easily ranks last for me, but perhaps again, I was simply disengaged with the franchise by the time I watched this fifth one in a short period of time. That said, I could easily go and watch the original one now and still be entertained.

Heath you are bang on in this vid and the replies to comments.

Good review and cool video Heath!👉🙂👈

Plus they did some nods 2 The Real GhostBusters in this movie.

I wonder why none of these ancient "gods" that come back from ancient times ever notice or care about the technology that we have. Like, I get that they're "gods"... but any ancient person would see our level of technology today and probably think we were gods. Some civilizations did do that. These supposed "gods", even being "gods" would be entirely ignorant of our technology and all the things that are possible in the world today... and they would probably be amazed by that... or at least very surprised.

I've made a reservation and cancelled it a couple of times for this movie. Your review was a little more positive than what I've previously heard and seen. As a fan of the first movie, I wan to see another Ghostbusters movie I would really like. On the other hand, I remember when Jason Reitman was making substantial, original films like JUNO, UP IN THE AIR, and YOUNG ADULT.

It's a fun🤩GhostBusters Movie!

I liked it and I loved the slimed model

I like it out of theatre but after thinking about it way to many plot holes , and just silly ways things happen…like how the bad guy gets out that’s just silly

'Fine' isn't good enough when they gouge you for a $12. matine.

It was ok. I feel I would have been more willing to suspend my disbelief if it were animated

Loved afterlife and I found frozen empire to be okay. Got a couple of laughs out of me but some jokes didn’t land. What I loved was seeing Ray team up with just Phoebe and podcast. That’s what the film needed more of. I think it’s time to just retire the original cast except for Ray. He should be the experienced mentor and leader. Have Winston show up briefly. It’s fine for him to just be funding the ghostbusters. Bill Murray and Annie Potts had absolutely no reason to be there. The villain unfortunately just ended up not getting that much to do. I think we need to do away with the whole villain being a God/entity. We need a proper ghost as the villain like Viggo. The best new idea for this film was the possessor ghost. That was a proper threat and when he fought Trevor that was a proper how are we getting out of this situation. Biggest gripe is the third act being rushed and anticlimactic and being somewhat of a repeat of afterlife’s showdown with gozer. It seems editing and reshoots heavily affected it. Overall just an okay movie. I had fun. I think the next film will probably be better.

Agree with the review. There were enough things in the movie that I can say I did enjoy it mostly But just too many things that didn't work that brought it down. Too many characters in it for me. Movie had no time to breathe and was just doing all the same stuff over again. I didn't buy all the new Ghostbusters either. Paul Rudd was a great summer school teacher, but I don't get him as the lead Ghostbuster.. and the Mom doesn't really seem to want to be there. Just alot that doesn't make sense to me. Could have been much better.

What is your attitude towards franchises in general? In your video "Super-Served With Mediocrity: How To Stop Hollywood's Reboot, Remake, and Recycling Trends" you said that we should vote with our wallets and that where the only way we would see a change in the type of movies we see in theaters. For me Ghostbusters 1984 is 1 movie, you couldn't pay me to see Frozen Empire in theaters, my time is limited on this earth. These Studios have lost the benefit of the doubt, it's their job to entice me through the door to watch.

It was just okay. I think if I went into it with lower expectations, I would’ve enjoyed it more. I saw the trailer and I was so hyped up… then I walked out, kind of disappointed.

Took the family to see it last week and they love it. My two girls came out wanting more and my wife wants to see it again. The movie has great special effects, liked the fact that we can see more of the old cast on this movie. Lots of fan service with locations and characters from the very first movie. I think I preferred Afterlife in terms of story but maybe because of the subject, which was the past of Egon Spengler, but I think Frozen Empire is fun, very enjoyable and feels very Ghost busters!

Ghostbusters- A lightning in a bottle. Ghostbusters 2- Not great as the first, but it's enjoyable. The 2016 reboot- The actors are having a fun time, but the screenplay wasn't good. Afterlife- I liked it, it has old school Steven Spielberg vibes. Frozen Empire- I prefer Afterlife more, but it's fine.

Last post I'll make here (besides replies): I think Ghostbusters II should've seen Dana become a Ghostbuster. It'd have made perfect sense for her to want to study ghosts/the paranormal and pick up a proton pack. I think doing so could've led to a stronger, more substantial sequel. Then, if Bill Murray or any certain ones had been dead set on leaving, they could've introduced another character or two (e.g. John Candy, Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, etc) and teased them for a third film. But they didn't. Now, it's just a lifeless money vehicle like most everything else, like The Exorcist Believer, The First Omen, the next Alien, and so many others. I'm relieved that most new things coming out at the theater don't interest me much because I've been able to discover so many good/great films from different eras, countries, and genres that I'd have probably mostly missed. I'm looking much more forward to getting in my recent Kino, Vin Syn, and Arrow orders than I am any new film coming out soon.

Thanks for the warning. Between another Ghostbusters and the new Netflix rehash of THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, I've had my fill of unoriginality for this spring.

It's a hard pass for me. The first two are all I need. The last one was terrible. They retconned Egon into a deadbeat dad, all the kids are weird avatars of the original GBs, they immediately learn how to use everything, and scrawny kids can lug around established as HEAVY proton packs like nothing. I'm also not particularly crazy about them using Harold Ramis's CG corpse or whatever to make buckets of money off of his creation, especially since they bastardized it and made his character a deadbeat dad. Very tacky. It's a shame to me that Bill Murray or the others have anything to do with it. I get that I'm not the target audience though. It's made for the lowest common denominator consumers who don't really appreciate the first movie.

I did not see this film.

Didn't like Frozen Empire, ditch the kids they don't belong especially when there's no growth for each character in one movie to the next. Bring back an all male ghostbuster cast using Dan Aykrond's original script but of course without Gozer. And you got instant gold.

Why? Just why all the nostalgia sequels lately...Ghostbusters, The Omen, Exorcist...if you want to do it right then look at Prey and hopefully new Aliens movie.

I'm fine with these movies! Its just one more thing separating me from that 2016 travesty! To each his own imho as always!

I never saw GB 2016 or Afterlife and I probably won't see Frozen Empire. I'm so burned out on these empty franchise extensions - "reheated leftovers" as Heath puts it - that I'm just not interested. If some younger viewers watch them and get interested in these franchises, that's great, but they're primarily making these sequels to sell stuff to us 70s/80s/early 90s kids for as long as we live.

So tired of unwanted sequels and reboots.

If they were smart they would stop making movies and make an animated series or cartoon.

As a fan it pains me to say this but I have to be honest - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a bad movie. The film is total a mess. It's boring, poorly paced, confusing, convoluted and overly complicated. There are far too many characters, some of which have been needlessly shoehorned into the story. It's overstuffed with unnecessary dialogue, dull subplots, pointless characters and scenes which go on for far too long. It's not funny either. I didn't laugh once during the movie, and neither did the audience I was watching it with. Neither is it frightening. Laughs and scares are the two things you expect from a Ghostbusters film but this film is completely devoid of any. Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan may be talented directors, but they're the wrong people to be writing Ghostbusters films. Afterlife was mediocre at best, but Frozen Empire is just plain bad. With a heavy heart, I rate this film 3 out of 10. I feel a lot of fans are in denial about just how bad this film is.

I liked the 2016 reboot more than Afterlife. I still think the marketing killed 2016 because audiences couldn't tell if it was a sequel or reboot and went in with skewed expectations. I agree the first was the best, the cartoon was great, and the rest of the franchise has been echoes. Kids used to play with toys of adults and not need kid characters to play along.