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…
Jophery C. Brown Joel Kramer Tony Brubaker Danny Aiello III Erik Cord Steven Lambert Bob Minor Kurt Bryant Gary J. Wayton Billy D. Lucas Andy Gill Debbie Evans Lane Leavitt Mary Peters
Burton Weinstein Fred Judkins William Hartman Mark Gordon Solange S. Schwalbe David M. Ice Gene S. Cantamessa 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…
A little detail I never noticed before: When Venkman delivers his classic line “Suck in the guts, guys; we’re the Ghostbusters,” Winston doesn’t suck in his gut like Egon, Ray, and Peter. Because Ernie Hudson did not need to suck anything in; unlike his ghostbusting colleagues, he was in peak physical condition. Kudos to him.
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.
Never understood the hate for Ghostbusters II. This is a movie where the hero calls a baby ugly and smelly and two of the other main characters basically admit to fucking puddles of slime. What’s not to love?!
Watching this one with my daughter for the first time gave me an insight into why kids love the Ghostbusters so much, even though these films can definitely get scary at times. The Ghostbusters are basically overgrown kids: They generally want to do good and be helpful but they don’t like being told what to do and they tend to wreck stuff even when they’re trying their best. They don’t catch ghosts easily or quietly; there’s always a fair amount of screaming, plenty of property damage, and usually at least a little viscous fluid projection. They’re agents of altruistic chaos in a way that kids — or at least my kids — relate to in a really intense way.
