re: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Tomatometer - 45% Critics / 87% Audience (SPOILERS)

Just watched.

So, Ghostbusters is my all-time favorite movie.

It is always great to see Ecro-1, the Firehouse, the old cast and the uniforms. Loved hearing the original score throughout.

But I think it’s time they hang it up. The original cast doesn’t have the same charm anymore and despite how much I love Paul Rudd, the new cast can’t carry this franchise any longer.

Here are some nitpicks:

Ray sees the power of the orb in his Occult Store and just hands it off to Winston’s team without being present for its testing? No chance in hell.

Winston has set up this new team as the Ghostbusters and in the first scene of the movie Phoebe is shooting proton streams from the gunner seat of Ecto-1, but he has the audacity to scold Ray for her using a positron collider to save his life by destroying the Fortitude Lion statue? GTFO of there with this. Totally out of character.

Phoebe is able to take molten brass and cast parts to retrofit her proton pack within minutes? Hmm , ok.

Garraka’s design was lazy. Vecna’s fingers, frame of Slenderman, horned-head ala Steppenwolf and so many other bad guys over the years. Rang hollow for me. Also, guy is powerful enough to freeze all of NY but doesn’t freeze these humans that can stop him instantly? Just kind of puts them in ice prison? I mean, I get the movie would be over if he did this, but it makes him seem pretty weak for such a demi-god.

I’m glad Bill Murray agreed to be in this, but I wish his writing had been a bit better. His jokes really seemed lazy and didn’t do his character justice.

The ending. All movie they explain how the original containment unit is busting at the seems and can barely hold the ghosts still in it. So it gets totally compromised to the point all the ghosts are released, but all they have to do is turn it back on and it instantly sucks them all back in along with the main villain from the movie and it’s…fine? Come the frick on. I’ll give you that crossing the streams in the first GB was a bit of a cop out, but at least it was set up earlier in the movie as a possibility.

I did enjoy Kumail’s character. He had a whimsical gollygeewiz charm that worked for me. As did Podcast in the first movie, though he may have aged out of that in this one.


All in all, it’s totally watchable, albeit totally forgettable.