Wow, this was one of the most bizarre rewatches I've had in quite some time.

When this first came out I had already practically destroyed my VHS player by playing the first film over and over and over again. So when halfway 1990 the sequel finally reached the cinematic wasteland we call the Netherlands, I was first in line to watch it. And boy did I hate its guts. I'll be honest, I really can't remember what my fifteen year old self disliked about it so much, all I know is that I had never watched it again until now.

And yes, I think my fifteen year old self is an idiot.

This film, while never truly recreating the magical…

66/100

It's fascinating to watch sequels struggle with their previous successes and how to exactly incorporate them into franchise progression, but I would say that Ghostbusters II is acceptable in its own right because of its open, even frustrated view of itself. Having its cake and eating it too, Ivan Reitman's comedy sequel conforms the first act of the film to its struggling (and successful) band of characters after the events in Ghostbusters, settling into a rhythm which is abruptly abandoned for grander spooky elements and effects wizardry. It's as if the entire cast and crew realized that, either way, people weren't going to take the film on its own merits (it was made 5 years later after all, and…

Infamous as the sloppy sequel to the 1984 f/x-comedy hit, yet I’ve always liked it just fine. Declared by many for being poorly written, though with all those stupid yuks I tend to laugh a lot with every viewing. In the opening twenty minutes alone, Bill Murray’s psychic TV show / Harold Ramis’ extreme emotions testing lab / the courtroom scene with yammering attorney Rick Moranis leading his witnesses, gets me all giddy enough to not care that the plot outline is a rehash. The ghostbusters this time have to extinguish a demon come to life from a painting, it’s Lord Vigo and he looks like a dead ringer for Aguirre The Wrath of God. A river of pink slime…

Aufgewachsen mit Teil zwei (ich war im Besitz der VHS), hatte dieser Film bis gestern hin einen Nostalgiebonus der den ersten, und Grund des Kultfaktors, nie das Wasser reichen konnte.

Wie sich mir zeigte, war und ist der zweite Teil zu Anfang ein doch unerwartetes zähes Unterfangen. Der Humor bleibt die verstopfte Strahlenkanone mal vier. Die Action an sich, lässt sich ebenfalls Zeit. Demensprechend wird erst gegen Ende die Geister losgelassen - worauf es schließlich neben der Chemie der Darstellern, ankommt.

Positiv hervorzuheben ist ein zum fürchtender Norbert Grupe alias Wilhelm von Homburg der damals wie heute mir einen Schauer über den Rücken läuft wenn seine grimmige Fratze auf dem Bildschirm erscheint.

Fünf Jahre liegen zwischen dem ersten Teil und…

Ok let me take my nostalgia glasses off for this one!
I admit Ghostbusters 2 is no where near as good as the original, but there are still parts I love about it.

Let's start with the good:
While the score is not as good as the original, I do really like the pop songs they used like 'On Our Own' by Bobby Brown and "Higher and Higher".

It was really great to see Egon and Winston have more to do in this movie.

The whole climax is a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed the slime blasters and how they control the Statue of Library with a Nintendo controller. The battle with the Scalary Brothers was an excellent…

Only a smidgen below the brilliance of the original, the gyrating, amusingly blithe 'Ghostbusters II' retains the elements that catapulted the franchise to legion status. Bill Murray leaves the audience in stitches with his cable-access introduction that debunks alien encounters and psychic premonitions. If Murray was curmudgeonly on set, it doesn't translate to his flippancy on screen.

As a matter of fact, whenever a series is manipulative with the infant child-in-peril factor, it's usually unforgivably saccharine. However, the rebirth via Oscar is enjoyably dastardly and Murray's chemistry with Dana's (Sigourney Weaver) offspring is infectious ("Well, he's ugly. Was his father ugly?").

The courtroom scene simmers with suspense as the pink slime effervesces to a boil during the judge's Draconian verdict.…

I have never been more annoyed or disappointed in a rewatch solely for how underused Ernie Hudson as Winston is. I still love this movie almost more than the first one and the fact that Hudson is at peace and is involved in the upcoming sequel makes me feel a lot better but still no matter who is at blame the blatant and overwhelming cold shoulder of Winston as one of the ghost busters is mind boggling distracting for the whole damn movie. Hudson seems to have reached a good peace with the choice and that makes it easier to watch he thinks it had something to do with selling the guys based off their SNL chemistry so the company…