- Starring
- Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Logan Kim
- Director
- Gil Kenan
- Rated
- Not Yet Rated
- Genre
- Comedy, Horror
- Release date
- March 29, 2024
Overall Score
Rating Overview
Rating Summary
Comedic ghost movies have a rich history dating back to the early 20th century with classics like “Topper” (1937) and “The Ghost Breakers” (1940), which blended humor with supernatural elements. However, it was the iconic 1984 film “Ghostbusters” that truly cemented the genre’s popularity, combining comedy with paranormal-busting adventures. Its success spawned sequels, animated series, and a cultural phenomenon, inspiring a wave of humorous supernatural-centric films like “Beetlejuice” (1988) and “Shaun of The Dead” (2004). These movies often intertwine slapstick humor with supernatural occurrences, captivating audiences with their blend of laughs and spooks.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Two years after the events of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the Spenglers and Paul Rudd’s Gary are bustin’ ghosts full-time in New York City.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a narrative disaster. It forgets character and plot setups in the same scene that it introduces them, and its only likable characters are the remaining original cast, whose otherwise pointless roles exist solely to put Gen-X butts in seats.
The original Ghostbusters was a comedic masterpiece of creativity that was full of colorful, well-defined characters, fun set pieces, and clever dialogue, all brought together with a simple but well-thought-out and structured story. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire takes a hammer to a nuclear accelerator (no, really—this happens in the movie), substitutes witt for vermouthless irony, nipple-play, and sex dungeons (again—this is really in the movie), and sacrifices character and plot development to the pantheon of soulless sequel gods.
Gone is Afterlife’s pint-sized, lovably quirky nerd with a big heart and bigger brain. In Frozen Empire, McKenna Grace’s Phoebe Spengler has been transformed into a disrespectful and insufferably arrogant ass with a chip on her shoulder the size of her manufactured loaner and superiority complexes.
In the previous installment, Finn Wolfhard’s Trevor felt like a tacked-on and unneeded accessory whose only purpose was to draw in Stranger Things fans. Now that audiences no longer care about what happens in The Upside Down, what little screen time Trevor gets is completely irrelevant and only serves to paint him as little more than a defacto high-functioning, mentally challenged nuisance… for comedy.
Like Wolfard, Carrie Coon’s painfully underdeveloped Callie Spengler receives little more than perfunctory screen time. Still, at least the time she does get serves to move the contrived Molly McButter-like B-plot along.
Paul Rudd‘s Gary is the straw that broke the lovable beta cucks back. He’s gotten nearly 20 years out of it, and it’s time to retire. We get it; you’re charmingly quirky yet also dry. Actually, his character arc of wanting to figure out his place in this new family dynamic is one of the few things in the film that had the potential to be interesting.
Unfortunately, Gary wasn’t the only thing sacrificed in the film. In order to give time to a new bloated cast of purposeless black holes of charisma, caustic pricks, and shoehorned in forgettable characters from Afterlife, plot cohesion was fed to Zuul and crapped out as Carpathian mood slime.
Because everything must now be a cinematic universe, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire spends three-quarters of its runtime inexpertly world-building with the grace and subtlety of a 100-foot-tall marshmallow man stomping through the streets of Manhattan.
What little plot there is doesn’t start gaining any narrative traction until an hour and fifteen minutes into the movie. Until then, like a San Franciscan bum dipped in whiskey-soaked molasses, it drunkenly and slowly meanders from one half-finished and synthetic character arc to another, looking for a fix that never satisfies. When the story finally does get going, it’s over before it starts, and its lifeless king-of-the-generic villains is defeated with an unsatisfying combination of convenience and contrivance (if you see the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, just remember that the melting point of brass is about 1000º higher than an average home gas range can reach).
Yet all of these faults could have been forgiven if a single joke would have been worth more than a half-hearted smile. Instead, each lazily conceived gag lands with a thud, only serving to remind you of how far the franchise has fallen.
WOKE ELEMENTS
The More Than Friendly Ghost
- Although it is never expressly stated, it is strongly implied via the music, cinematography, staging, costumes, dialogue, and some suggestive and longing looks that 14-year-old Phoebe Spengler is romantically interested in a teenage girl ghost.
- Because it’s left up to interpretation, and this is modern Hollywood, I assumed that I was right and scored it accordingly.
- Once you’ve seen it for yourself, please leave some comments. I’d love to see what you thought.
- Because it’s left up to interpretation, and this is modern Hollywood, I assumed that I was right and scored it accordingly.
Cuckmen, Party of Rudd
- Paul Rudd’s Gary, while a nice and loving man, is completely without balls, and not because he struggles as a disciplinarian. He desperately wants to have a well-defined position in the family (i.e., he wants to be a dad and husband) but can’t quite figure out how to get there. If only there were a way. It’s too bad that no one has ever figured out the steps to becoming a husband and father. Maybe one day.
- The concept of marriage never pops up (you know, the perfect solution to his dilemma), and the one time that Rudd and Coon’s character’s relationship is brought up, the “uncomfortable” nature of relationship labels is played off as one of the movie’s many unfunny jokes.
- In the end, Gary (without even getting married) takes his girlfriend’s last name.
Men Need Not Apply
- Except for the legacy characters, all men in the film are either d!@<s, bumbling idiots, or Paul Rudd’s character.
Why Have A Personality, When You Can Be A Girlboss d1@<?
- McKenna Grace’s Phoebe is no longer the lovable and socially awkward nerd from Afterlife. Now she’s a full-on nigh-infallible McGuffin-Machine and girl boss with an attitude in lieu of a personality.
Anti-Colonialism
- Patton Oswalt’s useless time-filler of a character force-feeds the audience some non-sequitur BS about the evils of colonialism.
James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
53 comments
Derek
March 21, 2024 at 10:42 pm
This looks…. just awful. You could see the quick snips of “diversity”. They tried to flip the images as fast as they could but you could see the strong female characters *vomit*
Nick C
March 21, 2024 at 10:42 pm
Uhg. I’m going to hold judgement for now.
Here’s the problem with Ghostbuster sequels. Ghostbusters was a perfect film by any standard. I challenge you to take *any* random line from the ’84 movie and not find humor in it. (Go ahead, just take a moment and try) The problem with following up a perfect movie is that, unless you make a perfect movie, it’s going to fall short. That’s not to say you can’t make a great movie. But that also means the standard by which your sequel is going to be judge will be nearly unattainable. Ghostbusters was comedy first, Sci-Fi/horror/action second.
Also, this trailer gives me big MCU vibes – which is not a good thing.
Nick C
March 21, 2024 at 10:42 pm
Not to mention – this is supposed to have taken inspiration from RGB, but it looks like none of the folks who had a hand in RBG were so much as given a tap on the shoulder.
That never bodes well.
Richard Mayer
March 21, 2024 at 10:42 pm
Full woke! They try to deceive us with a picture of the ofriginal cast. But they should have only have some minutes. The woke lame teaser tells fast what is really up: Mostly children and woke girls run around without even the original soundtrack.
Nah! That is woke!!
Such a Douche
March 21, 2024 at 10:42 pm
Racist things, ignorant commenrs
bigZ
March 22, 2024 at 3:23 am
Name says it all. Commie
David
July 24, 2024 at 10:08 pm
Hey go somewhere else with your gay friends and take your woke nonsense to hell with you and they/them.
John
March 25, 2024 at 2:41 am
Aweful and insulting
Get ratiod
April 2, 2024 at 2:53 am
I’m so proud of this glorious ratio. Too bad it makes no difference. They will keep making movies for this one gay guy with the worst ratio here, the one who calls you all racist and ignorant in such obvious haste. This one idiot’s sentiment is what keeps it going. As long as there is even one of them there will be an infection in Hollywood.
Shmuel Weisenheimer
April 7, 2024 at 9:42 pm
Quote the racist things in the article.
No, you can’t because there are none.
Comments are also well informed.
Dan
April 13, 2024 at 10:20 am
It’s just the go-to answer for all the leftists. Since we don’t like woke movies and being indoctrinated at ho awful white people are and how perfect and unsoiled gay people are, we are considered racist. Afterlife was a decent movie, but when I looked at how Grace’s character was, how she never carried herself as feminine, I said to myself “If they make another Ghostbusters movie, I’ll be willing to bet they make her lesbian.” Sure enough, after reading reviews from people and reading the review here, I was right. People say that it is up to interpretation, but the author states it perfectly. That Hollywood pushes this agenda and thus that is what the scene means. Plus, they couldn’t really push it in Afterlife as she was still underage. Now that she is 20 they can go with it and push the envelope. I will be skipping this movie and it will not get my money at all. I bought the two originals and Afterlife and that is all the Ghostbusters I will ever own. Not even that all female cast travesty will grace my movie shelf. That was horrid.
Ricardo
April 19, 2024 at 5:30 pm
Is clear that she is a lesbian. Proofs: 1. She and the ghost girls were looking at each others lips (no friend would do that) and then she moves closer to the ghost girl but she dissapeared. 2. The boy who was closer to phoebe now is just a friend and they don’t interact much, at the end he is approached by other girl and he enjoys that implying they are only friends now. 3. This is Hollywood, we should be thankful they took it slow and at least were not so clear about it but if they will explore this idea more and then ruin the franchise.
Mist people kike this because it connects them to their childhood and the innocence of those times so putting lesbo trash there is totally uncalled for
Con
March 21, 2024 at 10:42 pm
I will not watch woke or dei directors or cast.
Must have sane, great director, great actors, fantastic effects.
If not, my money will not pay for a ticket.
I’m done with hollyweird, and more than half of u.s.a. population is too.
Jared
March 23, 2024 at 9:57 pm
This review bares out my worst fears about this movie. An over bloated cast. And I’m so glad I decided to skip this one (also I thought the one before it was just ok ) as it sounds even worse than I imagined.
Bunny With A Keyboard
March 23, 2024 at 11:06 pm
The overbloated cast definitely shows and can be felt, and it doesn’t help that they throw in even more characters than there were in Afterlife. It’s not even that the new characters are all that bad – the only two characters I got sick of were the new Phoebe and the girl who decided to say “sex dungeon” over and over with various nuances to make sure this couldn’t be a kid’s movie – but way too many and not enough for all of them to do.
You don’t want to have to explain to children why a sex dungeon needs chains, but rest assured they’ll ask because the movie makes it very clear that sex dungeons do have chains.
Bunny With A Keyboard
March 22, 2024 at 1:47 pm
There’s a saying about “if you want to see if something is racist, flip the races around. How would you feel if X was doing it to Y instead of Y doing it to X?”
I would like to add another suggestion of the straight white male hero. Ask yourself if you’d be okay with a straight white male doing various stuff.
If a straight white male told his own mother that if she didn’t share his last name, “you’d be answering the phones”? Absolutely not.
Now, you can have the character make mistakes, but they should be sorry for it and pay an appropriate price. Stories are replete with teenage boys doing exactly that. Those are well done. You can’t just have the parents praising her that things are okay and she’s a good girl when she’s been doing rotten stuff.
Show when the same respect and personal accountability you show men, with full faith and belief that they’ll grow in the same way.
Me
March 22, 2024 at 2:19 pm
Of course they ruined Phoebe and made her gay. Because God forbid a tomboy character ever be straight. Funny how the left takes one look at a character like her, and immediately stereotypes that “yep, she’s gay”
Bunny With A Keyboard
March 22, 2024 at 3:01 pm
And the woke aren’t going to be happy that they didn’t actually have the two girls kiss because they left it at the stage the woke call “queerbaiting.”
You can never be woke enough to satisfy the woke.
Me
March 24, 2024 at 11:05 am
Update: I wrote my original comment prior to watching the movie, but, unfortunately after watching the movie my point still stands. Their is one slight slimmer of hope as it seems is in some interviews with the actress playing Phoebe, she says that it’s simply because “Phoebe feels alone and vulnerable after being kicked off the Ghostbusters team, and simply needs someone to connect with.” However, what the actress thinks and what the writers/directors intended are two very different things, and unfortunately I think the writers/directors very much intended it to be a South Park “put a chick in it and make her gay” situation.
Sweet Deals
March 24, 2024 at 2:23 pm
I’ve seen woke narratives where “lonely, emotionally vulnerable girl starved for friendship” quickly escalates to “girl develops a clingy lesbian crush on the first person who shows her the smallest bit of positive attention”. Rather than making me sympathetic to lesbianism, it just makes me feel sorry for the girl who is so abused and immature that she confuses common courtesy or youthful admiration for romantic love.
It’s a lot like how quickly Princess Anna fell in love with Prince Hans in Disney’s Frozen, except if Hans was a woman, the narrative wouldn’t complain so hard that Anna was being reckless for getting engaging to a man she hardly knows and who intends to take advantage of her to take her kingdom’s throne. If Prince Hans was Princess Hannah and tried to pull the exact same stunt in a woke narrative, she probably would have gotten away with it.
Bunny With A Keyboard
March 24, 2024 at 4:08 pm
We see a lot of boys get written in similar ways, taken advantage of with the honey pot, and they make for much better stories because boys are allowed to learn and grow. By contrast, no girl can truly do bad or even have people upset with her for her actions by the time the story is over.
I would say that the original Frozen wasn’t woke in that respect, and their idea of having one sister too quickly jump into socializing while the other isolates herself worked well.
Granted, don’t let your kids read a Frozen book unless you want to explain how a woman can have a wife.
Will U Am
April 29, 2024 at 1:07 am
Eh. If the girls in the stories you’re talking about are teenagers – young love is always at least a little bit stupid, and teenagers ARE immature. Literally, brains haven’t finished developing. It’s not even a gay vs straight thing. Romeo and Juliet is a literary masterpiece starring two complete idiots.
Sweet Deals
May 6, 2024 at 3:12 pm
I do agree with this statement. I’ve been around the block long enough to recognize it. Many people tend to fall in love with an idealized image of a person, but not the actual person. They also can think they’ve fallen in love with someone when all they really like is the warm and fuzzy feeling they get when standing next to them. It’s not only teenagers who are affected, but grown-ups, too. I’ve seen the story end when the broken-hearted teenage girl discovers her schoolgirl crush wasn’t the dreamboat she thought he was, and many tragic romances where the helplessly lovesick woman uproots herself to marry an abusive grunt of a man who doesn’t deserve her. Love is a crazy and confusing thing.
The thing is, one of the oft-repeated woke mantras is “love is love”, which means if someone thinks he or she loves another, there shouldn’t be any barriers to it, and wokeness loves to celebrate queerness. I’ve had the misfortune of standing in the same room with woke shows where a queer character is celebrated for doing immature and disrespectful things toward a love interest, partner or family member that might get an ordinary person reprimanded, smacked on the mouth or possibly even arrested. Queerness in general tends to be related more to poor impulse control than true love, so queer characters aren’t really expected to follow the rules that makes a healthy relationship work.
Truth Seeker 1982
March 22, 2024 at 2:39 pm
After taking a step in the right direction with “Ghostbusters: Afterlife”, it seems Sony Pictures is again moving in the same wrong direction as their sexist 2016 Ghostbusters movie:
Intentionally portraying men as inferior to women.
This is very disappointing. It seemed like Sony had learned their lesson when Afterlife was released. Apparently they now think they can get away with again treating male characters as garbage just because they are now using the original male characters (instead of replacing them as they did in the 2016 Ghostbusters).
As a fan of the first two Ghostbusters movies and the “The Real Ghostbusters” animated series, I want there to be GOOD Ghostbusters movies that again treat BOTH men and women with respect.
Sweet Deals
March 22, 2024 at 6:18 pm
I never saw any of the modern Ghostbusters films, only the original two and the Real and Extreme cartoons.
When, exactly, did mainstream movie making stop being about selling entertaining stories and started being about selling “the next installment”? Is it easier to churn out a film full of pandering and bereft of logic than it is to create a simple storyline that actually makes sense?
When I watch films originally made in the 1980s, even the really cheesy ones, I’m genuinely impressed at how filmmakers back then were able to do so much more with a movie despite having smaller budgets and fewer production tools available. Did going woke cause people to forget how to be human beings, or were other cultural factors involved? (Which came first, the woke chicken or the lack-of-reality egg)?
Bunny With A Keyboard
March 22, 2024 at 6:50 pm
We’ve seen talented artists go woke and putting out complete trash thereafter, so I’d say that it’s the woke mind virus destroying talent.
James Carrick
March 22, 2024 at 7:09 pm
The relative ease and homogeny of life aren’t helping anything.
Marty
March 23, 2024 at 5:27 pm
That’s too bad. I was looking forward to seeing this one.
Bunny With A Keyboard
March 23, 2024 at 6:10 pm
There’s a decent amount of good but the bad is BAD. I recommend waiting until it’s on TV or streaming. That way you won’t have your hopes up and won’t feel cheated out of money.
Bunny With A Keyboard
March 23, 2024 at 10:11 pm
I also want to point out to Hollywood:
You want to get more girls in the theater? You want more female attention? Show a man that can actually care for a child. Paul Rudd’s absolute failure to show anything even remotely considered masculinity isn’t going to cut it.
“I will not only accept this child as my daughter but actually do a decent job of raising her” is up there for notice. Afterlife had the potential for that but Frozen Empire flubbed it. Part of the reason Phoebe is so awful is because she has awful parents, and that excuse is OLD now.
Oppman39
March 24, 2024 at 3:34 am
They Def hinted gay …but they left it at the imagination because they know they would go broke if they included a kissing scene. … this is woke hiding in plain sight .
Bunny With A Keyboard
March 24, 2024 at 3:53 pm
That’s what the woke call “queerbaiting” and they hate it.
Jay
March 24, 2024 at 1:53 pm
My wife dragged me to see this yesterday and I have to admit it wasn’t tooooo bad. But it quickly became obvious that all the White males were , as you said, Wimps, weenies and aholes. The original cast members were barely there ( except for Akroyd, who did a good job) and the entire movie seemed to center around Phoebe and her psudo-lesbian relationship with her girlfriend ghost, And as usual, all of the Original White Male cast members were losers- only the Black original cast member is a rich genius now.
Hollywood is on a rampage to kill off and replace ALL iconic White Male characyers and replace them with POC or females, or both and it shows here. Look at what they did to Indiana Jones, Hans Solo, Captain America, James Bond, Dr Who, Hawk, Ironman, etc… I am puzzled why they haven’t killed off Wonder Woman yet and replaced her with a Trans male
Bunny With A Keyboard
March 24, 2024 at 4:15 pm
Remember, the 2016 Ghostbusters trailer said four scientists. The people writing this one probably don’t even realize Winston wasn’t a scientist, especially with all the aquarium stuff.
One of the huge plot holes is that Phoebe could have just interned at the aquarium and the whole issue of “too young to be a Ghostbuster” could have been solved. But then, she was allowed full use of the equipment anyway, so maybe she just wasn’t happy with that.
As another suggestion for a possible change, without being too overt to give spoilers, imagine if she got “stuck” after one of the really dangerous things she did while she was doing the ogling, and had to spend a decent chunk of the movie that way in order to give her character development.
Matt with one t
April 29, 2024 at 1:42 am
My Brother in Christ, Steve Rogers got to be a hero, kick ass, save the world, then go back to be with the woman he loved. Lived a long life AND a good life, then handed the torch to a friend. Perfect, satisfying arc, no notes. I get irked when writers change a character’s defining qualities, for sure, but they didn’t change anyone’s character, just the person who wields the shield. Besides, the Captain isn’t defined by his race, he’s defined by his strength and his values. Knowing how Steve Rogers felt about nazis, he would have NO time for anyone who’s offended by the next Captain being black lmao.
Bunny With A Keyboard
April 29, 2024 at 12:04 pm
Sam Wilson is a terrorist sympathizer who refused to fight the woman blowing up buildings with people inside and shows more outrage to the senator who wanted people to give back the stuff they took from the now Unsnapped. Thats just obvious that you don’t get to keep things from the presumed dead.
Cameron
March 25, 2024 at 10:23 am
Phoebe and Melody are clearly meant to be gay, imo. Along with the reasons outlined here, Melody also refers to Podcast as a “third wheel” when he shows up at the diner with Phoebe. And as others have said, why go to such measures to touch if Phoebe only intended to be friends?
I’m fine with LGBTQ characters, btw. At the moment, however, they are so awkwardly forced into every movie’s plot it tends to take me out of the story.
Bunny With A Keyboard
March 25, 2024 at 12:14 pm
The show Invincible (never read the comic) does a gay character well. First, the show is for adults, so it’s not like ramming stuff into children’s programming. Second, they don’t go out of their way to show stuff you don’t see hetero couples doing. Third, it’s not so much a celebration of sexuality as it is that people in worlds with superheroes and supervillains have some really crazy stuff they have to deal with, so it’s far less a generic romance and more dealing with a horrific experience by turning to loved ones.
Make it organic to the plot and follow the genre that you’re in. And then, as I said before, if it’s insane stuff because the character is being a wild rebel, there should be consequences.
Dylan Pickle
April 29, 2024 at 12:47 am
Hard agree that romances should feel organic to the story. Gay or straight, “And then they kissed because we forgot other ways to end a movie” is the worst. Ditto when actors don’t have chemistry. I don’t think gay characters are automatically adult content though. Obviously, graphic content of any orientation doesn’t belong in a kids’ movie, but there’s nothing lewd about a gay couple holding hands or having a picnic, or a guy having a picture of his husband on his desk at work. A percentage of the population is gay irl, it’s more weird and unrealistic imo if filmmakers go out of their way to make everyone appear straight lol
Bunny With A Keyboard
April 29, 2024 at 12:14 pm
Children know heterosexuality is a thing because having parents is such an inherent part of society, and it’d be impossible to keep it from them, but trying to teach children about the wide range of sexuality is a very bad idea and causes all sorts of problems. If it’s not for kids, and if it’s for anyone, it’s for adults.
Ricardo
April 29, 2024 at 4:48 pm
well, if the reasonning is because there is some people that do something then it has to be portrayed then we have to show people into dead people or into dogs or into children because they stadistically exist. Of course, also the percentage of people who practice any conduct will grow if you push the conduct down children´s throat because a percentage of children will see the people who are portrayed as role models and when the movie gets to a wide spectrum of the population then it will certainly have a strong impact on the conduct of the population. Think of it, there is a reason why companies pay millions for product placement and why some hero cars become icons just because they appeared in a movie next to the protagonist.
Cameron
March 25, 2024 at 8:14 pm
I’ve never caught that one, sorry. Love Lies Bleeding is a fine example of a terrific genre film with gay characters in the lead. Their inclusion doesn’t feel like pandering, or promotion, as is the case with most movies.
Woke is broke
March 25, 2024 at 11:21 pm
Thank you for saving me the money. I’m so tired of this racist sexist culture.
Francois Ste-Marie
March 26, 2024 at 10:27 am
What I get from this article is that if you have problems, just get married. According to this article, getting married fixes problems. So there you go. Don’t know how to be a dad? Just get married. Problem fixed!
Al
March 26, 2024 at 8:26 pm
As a Ghostbusters fan, this movie reminds me of what they did with Star Wars and Jurassic World. The first installment was fine, but then both franchises lost control and completely went off the rails. I own Afterlife, the original two movies, and the 80’s cartoon collection, but I won’t own this one. Disappointed but it’s expected current year.
Jeff
March 29, 2024 at 11:59 pm
I think it passed.
The girl ghost was not explicitly lesbian. They were both isolated and lonely and smart. Phoebe is basically autistic and the ghost was using her vulnerability.
Sex dungeon joke was cringe but sex jokes in Ghostbusters movies are standard.
Paul Rudd was Paul Rudd. His arc was “how to be a Dad” and he learned as he went. Movie ended with a positive nuclear family and Phoebe calling him Dad.
Ray and Phoebe save the day. The fire master guy was comic relief. The scientist Ghostbuster guy who freezes his hand was basically Q from the Bond films. The cast is multicultural but it’s pretty much ignored. No anti-White sentiment from what I could see.
Driving over e-bikes in the beginning was a nice flex.
This movie was pretty solid. Not particularly based, but definitely not Woke.
kevin fears
April 1, 2024 at 1:01 am
I’m a fan, this one isn’t even worth keeping for free.
No history, No story, No script, Just random stuff pulled from a hat. With cameos.
Bunny With A Keyboard
April 2, 2024 at 12:06 am
Oh. James, I don’t see the library bit where that one guy started giving exposition and then rambled off into an anti-colonial rant. That knocked me out of the movie for a good ten minutes.
James Carrick
April 2, 2024 at 12:24 am
Oh, yeah. Oswald. I was so bored by that time, it was hard to pay attention.
Nick C
April 15, 2024 at 11:28 am
They broke it. That’s my tl;dr.
There’s so much to go through and I’ll not get into the spoilers, but they broke one of the greatest comedic/science fiction/horror franchises of all time by woking it up and going full marvel. Even 2016 didn’t commit the sin of adding a comic book superhero to the universe. Sure, in the 80’s, you have some characters that temporarily gain comicbook powers while they’re possessed, but that is always resolved by the end of the show.
Now you’ve got someone that could easily jump right into the cast of X-men just wandering around New York, who, as far as I could tell, still had those powers at the end of the movie. Great writing, guys.
It’s no longer about comedy and science verse the paranormal. It’s literally the Avengers with really big phasers.
UHG. Whoever wrote this movie didn’t understand what made the first 2 great: COMEDY FIRST. Ghostbusters has always been a fully quotable movie from beginning to end. Can anyone even remember more than a handful of funny lines from this one? I sure can’t.
Jakobthesnakob
April 29, 2024 at 12:09 am
*CONTAINS SPOILERS*. Phoebe is DEFINITELY either lesbian or bisexual. It’s the unspoken but obvious reason she wanted to become a ghost for two minutes – to touch the ghost-girl. Also, meeting your “friend” at night, just the two of you, for a secret out of body experience? That’s gay. I’d honestly respect the filmmakers more if they had the balls to just call a gay spade a gay spade and not beat around the bush. Half-assing things and hiding behind implication is the way of the coward. The plot isn’t that woke IMO but agree with criticisms of the villain – too overpowered to be interesting, or for his defeat by a noob to be believable. People being literally frozen with fear COULD have been interesting, but it wasn’t. Jokes fell flat, overall quality of writing below par.
Bart
May 12, 2024 at 7:03 pm
Made the mistake of watching the movie before reading the review. Wasted so much time.
Ol
May 28, 2024 at 7:32 pm
As long as agenda pushing groups keep funding these kind of films even if they bomb they keep rolling out like roaches.