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Directed By
Ivan Reitman
Written By:
Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis
Cast:
Mary Ellen Trainor, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Peter MacNicol, David Margulies, Wilhelm von Homburg, Harris Yulin, Annie Potts, Ben Stein, Brian Doyle-Murray, Janet Margolin, Cheech Marin
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Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
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Movie Review by Jarrod
February 29th, 2008
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'Ghostbusters 2' does not quite have the magic or wit of its predecessor, but it is a far better sequel than most, though it was entirely unnecessary, the product of director Ivan Reitman and the main cast members deciding to milk this cash cow for further profit. The original 'Ghostbusters' finished with the guys stopping the return of an ancient Sumerian god and being celebrated and cheered by throngs of enthusiastic and grateful spectators. In this movie, they have apparently fallen on hard times, with practically no clients. They have been reduced to appearing at birthday parties. They show up in court and are denounced as charlatans and frauds. More egregious than that is the fact that Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) never hooked up with Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), but went and had a baby with some other yahoo. That baby is named Oscar, and the identity of his father is never revealed. And she went from being a musician to working in a museum, alongside the devious Janusz Poha (Peter MacNicol in a great comic performance), who becomes a loyal servant of Vigo, some old evil entity trapped in a painting. For him to get out of the painting and enter the human world, he needs Oscar, and ectoplasmic energy starts to build up under the city, which is where the Ghostbusters come in, invited by the mayor to sort out the mess as spectral creatures begin appearing everywhere.
The special effects have improved, in quantity if not quality, and play a much more decisive role, with the dialogue being neglected. This movie just is not as funny as the first one. I do have to say that the Statue of Liberty sequence is impressive. Ernie Hudson's character gets a lot more screen time, and so does Rick Moranis, as the nerdy accountant Lewis, who becomes Janine's love interest. At least the franchise stopped here, before it turned into a complete debacle. But marketing of the Ghostbusters name continued, with cartoons and all sorts of action figures (many of which I collected as a kid), not to mention a few video games here and there.
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 | Lark
Feb 29, 2008 7:23 AM
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Jarrod, I love this movie!!....but not as much as the first. Actually I'd say you're pretty much right about everything you've said.
One of my favorite parts of being a mom has been showing my boys movies I watched as a kid, as they get a little older, and they loved the Ghostbusters flicks.
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