1989 Directed by Ivan Reitman
Five years after they defeated Gozer, the Ghostbusters are out of business. When Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement to aid her and hopefully save New York City from a new paranormal threat.
Bill Murray Dan Aykroyd Sigourney Weaver Harold Ramis Rick Moranis Ernie Hudson Annie Potts Peter MacNicol Harris Yulin David Margulies Kurt Fuller Janet Margolin Wilhelm von Homburg William T. Deutschendorf Henry J. Deutschendorf II Michael P. Moran Olivia Ward Mordecai Lawner Susanna Boehm Mary Ellen Trainor Christopher Villaseñor Jason Reitman Aaron Lustig Page Leong Mark Schneider Valery Pappas Catherine Reitman Dave Florek Richard Foronjy Show All…
Burton Weinstein Fred Judkins William Hartman Mark Gordon Solange S. Schwalbe David M. Ice Don S. Walden Bruce Foster Richard Friedman Tom C. McCarthy
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me: mom, can we have a ghostbusters (1984)?
mom: no, we have a ghostbusters (1984) at home
ghostbusters at home: ghostbusters II (1989)
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…
The courtroom scene in Ghostbusters 2 > The Trial of the Chicago 7
No but I actually really liked this film. Definitely not as good as the first one but it's still a lot of fun! I don't get why some people hate it :/
This got me really excited for Ghostbusters: Afterlife
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…
Bobby Brown was right. If you want something bad, yo, you gotta wanna give your all. If it's up to us, we've got to take it home. Ghostbusters II is full of important life lessons like that.
Covers and B-sides, but it's fun. The courtroom setpiece is a mini-masterwork.
"What do you want me to do, go on television and tell 3 million people they have to be nice to each other? Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right!"
A classic case of sequelitis where the skit is stretched too thin and the film seems to openly distrust its characters and its audience. The acidic daft magic of the first is gone and in its place is something far more commercial, plain jane with pockets and far less well written despite building on its characters, having a handful of decent gags/set pieces and some damn good VFX.
🚫👻 Hot Take 👻🚫
It makes no sense that the comic genius of Rick Moranis is vastly underutilized in the sequel compared to the original.
