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Very accurate review, Adam. There were some good elements in this, such as the new lab, the tech, decent opening ten minutes, Murray's performance, and the look of Garraka when it wasn't CGed, but there wasn't much else that was good here. The Melody plot was awful and too long. The next film needs Aykroyd and another person to write it, and a brand new director who's not a giddy super fan, that way we won't get another family melodrama angsty film. They need to get rid of Trevor, Lucky and Podcast, and Callie, get better cast members, and emulate the look and tone of the first two films again... Practical FX again, and new ghosts, and ones who aren't all blue in color. What was that about? They also need an A list actor as the main baddie, perhaps with prosthetics on a bit so that it feels special.
The entire premise of the movie is off...New York almost gets destroyed back in the original Ghost Busters...so the city leaves it's protection to a family of misfits instead of a special team of trained soldiers??? Then they try to close them down after they just stopped a ghost dragon??? Oh, and the sex jokes made me cringe since this is a kids movie.
If anything, we needed more profanity. It’s not a kid’s movie. The original has the leads say s#it multiple times and they land well! “I have seen **** that’ll turn you white!” This just didn’t have the charm.
The idea of the Ghostbusters having to transfer the old, janky containment unit to the new facility in order to transfer the spirits into the new unit, but shit goes down along the way, would be an interesting movie. Like the movie 16 blocks in the world of Ghostbusters...and Peck's team is in charge of overseeing the transfer as a government representative.
I absolutely love Ghostbusters Afterlife because of the new cast, new characters, change of scenery, and it’s fresh. But this one just sucks, they gotta pump the break with legacy characters, and let the movie to be its own thing. I was so disappointed!
I guess I just assumed she was captured off-camera at some point since the Ghostbusters have nothing to do when the 2nd film fires up. All the ghosts were reportedly captured.
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The big issue that has caused all of these to fail is Ghostbusters, the original, was a specific movie based on three comedic geniuses in their prime. The ghost busting was a vehicle for the comedy. The movie was 100% a comedy, it was not a franchise that you could "replace" the originals and still work. We have seen this with Pink Panther movies, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber (Jim Carrey) and other comedies that are now famous for a person's portrayal. They tried to do the "women's version" with well known comedians and it failed and now these new ones are failing but for a different reason. They have tried to "franchise" it with little "minion" stay pufts and a GB family. But none of the new ones are comedians. It is just 100% nostalgia bait and the fact that, like the new Star Wars, they have to have the original cast so prominent despite all being old is proof they know it.
Guess so. This actually follows the same formula. Little bit of stuff with minor ghosts, character development, main character in some sort of peril, lead up to boss fight, 10 min boss fight. Interject comedy throughout. This one was NO different!
This review captures my feelings 100%. No GB music, way to many characters, only busted 1 ghost, stupid fire starter nonsense, never understand ghost girl, really have to bring homo stuff to a kids movie, the new lab was like one of those African food corner shops that advertise preload phone credit for international calls, the main baddy and the back story was so bad, get rid of mrs Spengler. Breaks my heart to think what this movie could have been. The next GB movie please focus on busting, ecto, proton packs, fire house, new York, OG GB, org music and sound effects more often. A simple plot like some one did oujia board and released a badass ghost or maybe natural disaster releases some ancient force, almost kills the GB but they over come adversity while some dramatic music comes on then they finish the job in true GB team work style with some dramatic comments like switch me on, heatem up, Do ray Spengler, let's send this so and so true back to biblical times. Movie must open with OG music right after the first act
I’ll have to watch this movie again in six months or so to see if there’s something more to it. They defeated Gozer and Vigo within about the same 5-10 minute amount of screen time, but it worked there. It just didn’t work here. There was no comic relief to offset it (firebender just didn’t fit- too contrived; StayPuft and Peter MacNicol were fantastic). So much teen angst. It’s great to want to make everything family friendly, but GB is for adult slapstick SNL humor. It’s a disservice to try something else. Afterlife was awesome- made me feel and get weepy and protected the charm of the original movies. I wish they had kept that idea in mind. It does feel like some of the best moments were left on the cutting room floor.
@@ryanspengler4877 It's not out of the realm of possibility for a random civilian to insult Walter Peck using a similar insult Walter received 40 years ago from someone else.
If they have a third film, (which I hope they don’t) get rid of the kids, including the Spenglers, then I might be interested. A sliver of an interest. 🤷🏻♀️
very underwhelming movie in general. It's watchable if you like campy movies that really have no true storyline. I liked the daughter. I can't remember her name or anyone's really, but it was certainly a deflated version of the original. Still better than that. Three hag one that they tried to push on us. Good review Adam. Always like your take
For me Ghostbuster was one movie thing, I laughed with it and I watch it when once at year maybe. I like to see the spoilers because are fun and normally people is not afraid to say this is shitty in a spoiler.
How about all of a sudden chick is just having a regular ass full blown conversation with ghost chick love interest. Are you serious? She can barely interact with dead ghost grandpa in the previous movie and this chick is trying to get to know each other over avocado toast.
Maybe Walter peck was right. We need Nadeem to not know about his family lineage, sell the orb to ray, who despite being a paranormal research doesn’t recognize what the local librarian would have, have him and lucky keep doing pke experiments on it despite it causing instability, Winston and his team failing to contain the most dangerous ghost entity in his museum and phoebe essentially killing herself so garaka can finally escape. What the hell? In the first one it was peck whose screw up caused the final act to happen but now he’s become the voice of reason since the ghostbusters have all become unwitting foils for the villain. Why couldn’t we see them bust all those ghosts in Winston’s hq? Why introduce a supernatural character to a film whose charm is its ability to stay grounded despite its fantastic premise?
It isn’t the legacy characters it’s EVERY other character they have besides feebee . The boyfriend that was just a school teacher the mother that hates science the almost girlfriend that apparently just leaves her home town and moves to NY . The podcast kid makes sense but that’s all.
I guess we know now why they delayed it for 5 months, just think what we would have gotten if this came out in November like it was originally. I still not sure if I am going to see it. I just not been interested since I heard of this movie for some reason..
I didn't even know this movie was happening, let alone that it was out! I really didn't like the previous one. I thought it was boring and a pitiful attempt to bring back the legacy fans.
I like these new Ghostbusters movies. I thought part of watching Frozen Empire felt more like watching "Men In Black" rather than Jurassic Park.... Nothing is going to beat the originals obviously. But hey, If Spangler's granddaughter is gay then it's 2024 who really cares.... Same as why they are still using old equipment and driving a beat up Ecto-1. Seems to me like they just want to keep the movie fun and nerdy.
So it was basically Ghost Meets Pat from SNL they have a lesbian connection but dont cross the line, and pat is basically the main character. Then the rest was just filler and guest appearances. The movie sucked. Ecen the Dbox seats couldnt make it entertaining
Just saw it Tuesday. It was just meh. Didn't hate it. Didn't love it. It was a big ole pile of nothing to me, which is really annoying. The comedic elements were awful. There were a lot cool ideas that could have been made into their own respective movies where those ideas could have been explored more deeply.
I’m sorry but I’m not having people complain about a sky beam in a Ghostbusters movie, they literally invented it! Ghostbusters 84 was the original sky beam!
The last 25 minutes of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire was a good Episode of The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters. Too bad that it takes 1 hour 25 minutes of boring, stuffed with memberberries filler to get to those 25 minutes.
I agree with almost everything you said, although I kinda liked Kumail’s character a little more than you, even with the fire bender powers and all that shit. I thought he was the funniest character and his scene with Bill Murray was probably the most enjoyable part. Other than that there were too many characters and too little comedy . Sometimes it felt like a sitcom in that a scene tipycally began with one or two characters talking and then a third one walks into the scene, it just happens Ray or Janine are also in the fire house at that moment and they just walk down the stairs or appear in a corner. It’s not awful but it’s not really Ghostbusters, at least not the first two movies. It may have some elements of The Real Ghostbusters cartoon. It’s also probably a bit better than some of the latest Marvel movies in the sense that it is and adventure movie with special effects and some humor…but even most Marvel movies have more comedy than this. Yeah, sometimes the comedy is corny in those ones but it is generally less tame.
I can understand objectively why ghostbusters 2 is not a great movie but it’s one of those movies I still enjoy because it’s so tonally similar to the first. It’s also one of these movies like the karate kid sequels where it’s impossible to remove your nostalgia goggles. If this were a semi remake like the ghostbusters video game, I would have enjoyed it for that reason. The problem with these sequels is that none of them know what they want to be so it’s hard to form any kind of attachment to them.
Well...at least there's four movies in the franchise. I'd rather have something than nothing. The first Ghostbusters was just way too great to end with just one film.
I just saw it. I am not a mega Ghostbusters fan, but this was okay. Entertaining, but you can really watch it at home and like it pretty good. I can get someone not loving this new one, but for me, it was okay. But while I like Patton Oswald, I literally fell asleep during his exposition. But all of your critiques are not wrong. IDK, okay to watch on streaming.
That has to be the longest, most-complicated spoiler review I've seen in years (no fault of your own). 😅 That movie sounds so convoluted, I'd have to watch your review 5x before I'd remember anything. It almost makes me want to see this, to marvel and laugh over how ridiculously overstuffed and bad it must be.
Sorry not sorry! But this movie is just a massive cash grab! I was born in 84 ghostbusters has been with me all my life! But this film is just plain awful let’s just cram all these stories and characters in a short rushed film! And how much was cut from what we seen in the trailers? Ghost girl and a man with magical flame powers more like a shitty marvel film it’s just absolutely terrible
I understand how people wouldn't or didn't lile this new movie but I personally quite enjoyed it honestly. This is probably my second favorite of the series behind the original. I just had a good time
Thought for sure Phoebe and the ghost would kiss. I’m guessing they did by Sony made them cut it. Sony has always been a very, very safe studio. They don’t want any loser/incels complaining online. Stupid either way.
You and I think so much alike. It’s not even crazy. I just love the way you express yourself because it’s a hell of a lot better than the way I would do it. I’m so tired of these shameless cash grabs myself and I just love your contents and you are just a doll. Your wife is very lucky. If you were my husband, I’d be laughing rolling every day, hopefully she appreciates your humor
