Just watched it


So, what's all the hubbub bub? People seem to really not like this one, but I thought it was fine. Made me laugh several times, and had some interesting new ideas. What's the problem?

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I've always loved this film as well and never got the hate so many have for it. I think like the original it's aged very well and both movies are tremendously entertaining and rewatchable with a lot of creative energy. Definitely doesn't deserve the hate.

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There's still a lot of adult humor ("My best to the coven" and "You're not sleeping with it, are you?", etc.). And it's not like they stuck in some childish nose picking jokes. The tone's just a bit more earnest and childlike (different from childish), and as a result, the stakes feel raised in the story.

"Much will be expected from the one who has been given much."

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Beats me. I think a lot of what's going on in 2 is actually more interesting than the first movie. The river of mood slime running under NYC is bloody brilliant. Lots of fun and funny scenes. The plot with Oscar is a bit of a drag. The concept of the ancient painting with a warlock or whatever he was trying to escape was pretty cool. The Ghostbusters driving around a Statue of Liberty to some feel good music is ridiculously amazeballs. And then.... nothing much comes of it. It cracks open a building and they end up shooting a painting with lasers and goo. It was a totally anti-climatic ending. I think that's why most people are left feeling pretty meh about it all.

"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"

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Beats me, I've always loved 2, far more than the first one really.

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I thought I'd be the only one who liked the second film more than the first! Lol

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You got me, they are my two favorite movies

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What's the problem?


All the complaints against this movie come from fanboys of the original Ghostbuster movie who hold this sequel to impossibly high standards (how can any film repeat the magic, scene-for-scene, of a film like Ghostbusters?).

If they just relax and realize that this movie did its job, as a sequel, of keeping the spirit & tone of the original alive with all the main characters back with a new, imaginative premise. That's all you really needed. This movie was the perfect continuation of what we saw in the original and the only true Ghostbuster sequel we'll ever get.

My name is Hendry William French

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