Ghostbusters II

So, this is my first time watching this, so I knew very little going in. Although I definitely preferred the first one more, I still had fun with this all the same.

The film brings back Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson as our favorite ghost hunters, and this time, they have to stop a plot by an evil Carpathian ghost named Vigo to possess a baby and take over the world, and the baby's mother happens to be Dana Barrett, played once again by Sigourney Weaver. While there were definitely some fun and scary sequences, and some interesting ideas with a strange slime moving underneath the city, a lot of it felt derivative of the first movie, especially the climactic scenes at the end.

The acting was good, and I still found a couple funny moments here and there, but the story just didn't feel as fresh, and a lot of the plot points, especially the fact that the Ghostbusters went out of business because nobody believed they were the real despite the fact that a giant marshmallow had rampaged through the city only five years prior. That just felt like conflict for conflict's sake and I was more happy once they got back in business.

Overall, this movie was fine. It wasn't amazing, and I don't feel it had the same winning formula the first one had. Sequels are always hard, and although I don't mind this movie, there was a lot that could have been better.

Next time, we go to one of the most controversial films out there...for some reason. This film took the Ghostbusters concept and slapped a new coat of paint on it. Will the film still manage to be a bit with me? That's what we'll find out when I review the 2016 version of Ghostbusters.

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