April 9, 2024
Callie Spengler (Carrie Coon), her boyfriend Gary Grooberson (Paul Rudd), her children Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and Phoebe (McKenna Grace) were now running the Ghostbusters operations in New York City. Their missions were so destructive such that their nemesis, now NYC Mayor Walter Peck (William Atherton) wanted to close them down. Peck also found out that Phoebe was only 15, so they were forced to sideline her.
Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Podcast (Logan Kim) now run a business dealing with cursed objects. One day, a guy named Nadeem Razmaadi (Kumail Nanjiani) brought them a brass ball that he found among his late grandmother's things. Their messing with the item set off paranormal energies that damaged of the Ghostbusters' 40-year old ecto-containment unit and released the giant ice monster Garraka confined within it.
This new film is a sequel of the reboot film "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" (2022) which introduced us to the family left behind by original Ghostbuster Egon Spengler. In this one, the Spenglers, together with Gary, have moved to NYC to be the new Ghostbusters. I admit I felt Callie Coon was very boring, Finn Wolfhard was quite annoying, Mckenna Grace was so angry -- these new Spenglers were not really that fun here than in "Afterlife."
Of course, it was always great to see the original Ghostbusters -- Stantz, Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) and Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts) -- back together on the big screen, even if it felt like they were only playing for laughs. However, their parts were longer than the cameos they had in "Afterlife," but they were still basically there to make fans happy. They did not even factor in significantly in defeating the enemy at the end.
Kumail Nanjiani was funny as Nadeem, but it felt so random and contrived how he could have a hidden superpower which of course would be instrumental against Garraka. Emily Alyn Lind had an interesting role as Melody, the teenage ghost Phoebe "met" while playing chess at the park. As for those classic all-time fan-favorite ghosts, Slimer and the cute little Stay Puft Marshmallow Men, they still got a lot of scenes to delight their fans. 6/10.
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