Watched it in a matinee yesterday with my wife and our younger son. It was enjoyable enough. The experience of seeing it in a movie theater helped-- I think it was actually my first movie in a theater since the start of the lockdown.
Yeah, I agree that the plot had a bit of a ‘been there done that’ feel to it, what with Zuul the gatekeeper and the keymaster and Gozar all over again. At least the Oklahoma setting, with the wide open plains, offered a much different backdrop from New York City that had some nice cinematic appeal.
And yeah, if you really wanted to, there are plotholes you could drive a vintage Cadillac converted ambulance through. Like, Aykroyd’s character tells Phoebe on the phone that Egon ran off with ALL their equipment, but at the end the 3 remaining ghostbusters show up with backup jumpsuits (ok, maybe they all had backups for when their other suits were at the dry cleaner) and backups of those energy beam ghost-corralling weapons. Where’d those come from?
All in all, though, a decent enough way to spend a late morning / early afternoon on a rainy Fall Sunday.
It was…okay. A 12 yo self-taught scientist saves the world???
They did miss the greatest promotion ever, though. How awesome would it have been to have a 60’ StayPuft marshmallow man balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, going down CPW, right past Dana Barrett’s apt from the original one?
I finally saw it. I agree with everyone. It was alright. Had some plot holes, but fun. Idk how the guys even knew to show up. Man, they really shoe-horned in Scorny Weaver.
Anyone see the after credit scene? With Winston and Janine?
I do sort of hope they make a second one. I’d see it.
I just saw it. Yes, there were plenty of plot holes, but IMHO they’re easily overlooked. This was a fun movie. The OGs had just the right amount of screen time. Phoebe was excellent. It just felt like Ghostbusters. And it was awesome .
I saw it last night. I went in with no expectations, other than a vague notion that it was maybe a sequel to the first two movies.
I was pleasantly surprised. It was a completely different type of movie than the first two, but still roused nostalgia in just the right amounts. It’s a Just Plain Fun adventure movie.
The little girl is adorable. The characters all seemed to work well together, although it seemed like they forgot to develop the character of the sidekick, Podcast. They could have milked some humor out of him.
I don’t know. I like the line at the end, when they’ve defeated Goser and everyone is tired, hurt, and covered in marshmallow, and Egon says “I feel like the floor of a taxi cab.”
Saw it this afternoon. It was honestly kind of what I was expecting from the trailers. “What if Ghostbusters, but Spielberg?”
I liked Phoebe and her mom. I found Finn Wolfhard’s character, who’s name I can’t rember an hour later, annoying. He really didn’t seem to add anything to the plot, and seemed to be there because the formula demands an older brother trying to score with the cute townie (c.f. The Lost Boys). There seemed to be a whole subplot there with the cute girl and her friends which got left on the cutting room floor. At least we avoided the Our Hero being the Shy Nice Guy and winning over the Cute Girl from her Hot But Jerk Boyfriend storyline, which really seemed like it was in a draft of the script but wound up on the cutting room floor with basically everything else about that whole subplot.
Anyway, like I said, I liked Phoebe and her mom. I think the story would have been a lot tighter if it were just the two of them. I thought the actor who played Phoebe was phenomenal, and was amazing casting - she really looked like Egon’s kid (I guess the looks skipped a generation). I’d totally watch a Netflix series about her and a ghostbusting club at her summer school. I thought Podcast was an annoying sidekick, but he had some amusing interactions with Phoebe, and I loved her interactions with Paul Rudd as the slumming/slacker science teacher.
And then, yeah, in the third act, they just blow up the Death Star again, and there are a ton of plot holes. And the editing was just bad. Like, the ghosts escape the pit, then the kids go to town but find the police station abandoned with ectoplasm everywhere, then the ghosts escape the pit and invade the town. It really seems like there was a whole sequence there with the town being overrun that…just didn’t get shown, with terrible editing resulting in the ghosts escaping twice and the kids going back to town in the wrong section of the sequence. And Evo Shandor just kind of pops up and then dies. It seemed like there was a whole missing scene there with his resurrection and building him up as one of the two Big Bads. Instead, he’s just…kind of there all of a suddeon, and then gets ganked, and the scene has no impact whatsoever.
There also seemed like there was some kind of subplot about Evo Shandor planning the entire town as a sacrifice for Gozer that was kind of lurking around the edges of the screenplay, but never actually happens. I think it may well have been in an earlier draft, and then got cut, but poorly, so the remnants of that plot were left to haunt the muddled third act like misplaced bits of ectoplasm.
I saw it again, and still like it. There was only one small part that annoyed me, and it wasn’t any of the plot holes, which IMHO are easily overlooked.
The half powered Gozer, when Zuul was stuck in a trap and also at the beginning when they were chasing Egon, looked like an adult version of Groot.
I wonder if that draft also had some of the townspeople still practicing Gozerism. Also why was Shandor entombed here instead of the building in NYC? Did he expect Gozer to make a detour to Oklahoma after they crossed into our dimension?
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