Movie Number 10 of 2024
The Movie: Ghostbusters - Frozen Empire
The Cinema: Hoyts Victoria Gardens
Stars: 3
File this one under should have stopped while the going was good.
Not even Paul Rudd can save this one.
And sure, the nostalgia factor is there, and the effects are good, but it's stuck between the eighties and now, and this doesn't make for great viewing.
As a Friday night film, there to wash off the week, it's fine. But there is nothing to get excited about.
The family drama, which started in the reboot of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) carries on. Spengler's daughter (Carrie Coon) and her kids (Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace) are now shacked up in the original Ghostbusters fire station. There are some big supernatural events. Dickless, is now the mayor (IYKYK). He tries to shut them down. Things go strange. New York is under attack. Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a far better film.
Sound familiar? It's starting to labour the point.
Gil Kenan's screen writing and direction are hackneyed. Thankfully the cast try to make the best of the bad lines and get on with it. The family saga is predictable, but sort of cute. New York looks great, as always. It was sweet seeing Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Annie Potts and Ernie Hudson together again.
But don't pay for this film. Wait for it to come onto a streaming service.
It's okay, but that's about it. Fine for Friday night movie fodder and nostalgia buffs, but that is about it. There are better things in the cinema.
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