felt more like it was setting up for another movie

I don't think there were too many characters. The movie was CLEARLY shortened to meet an arbitrary runtime mandate. Whole segments were removed. It feels like 20 minutes are MISSING.

End of the day, its a ghostbusters movie. Its not hamlet. It has flaws…however i think this is a really successful ghostbusters sequel. It also dives into the RGB cartoon vibe. If youre a GB fan, i cant see you not having an overall positive take on this film.

Boring movie

@@Poe-007 It can't decide what it should be. It was this weird mixture of GBTAS's kid friendly approach and GB1's more adult humor, but most of that adult humor was coming from the children. The OG cast ranged from "over it" to "if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say." I dare say this "iteration" would have worked better without the parents or the kids. Kumail Ali Nanjiani was, imo, the best part of the film and the only character that felt reminiscent of "classic" GB. They probably should have rebooted this thing 20 years ago as a PG-13 adult oriented comedy much like the first one. The first film was unique in that it blended a blue collar everyman comedic approach with horror that was played straighter than you'd guess for a comedy film, and it also is probably one of the most libertarian leaning piece of mass media to come out of the 80s, and most people completely miss that. The first film's primary antagonist wasn't Gozer or Stay Puft. It was Walter Peck. It's a film firmly rooted in the Reganomics of the time. "Small business owners save the world from the EPA." What it's become since then is really just an amalgamation of flavor of the hour Hollywood trends and nostalgic scrapings of the first two films + the animated series, and it doesn't execute that direction well. Afterlife imo was a cynical ploy. I enjoyed bits of it, but I was also aware that I was being intentionally manipulated. They just can't recapture the zeitgeist of the first film. It's a product of an age long since past. Same as any other 80s/90s powerhouse franchise. Look at Terminator. A killer cyborg is only terrifying until reality surpasses science fiction. What AGI could potentially do to orgranized society is much more terrifying than metal androids with austrian accents that eventually become curtain salesmen. It just doesn't work anymore. Look at capeshit movies. They got popular in the early 00s with TDK, Marvel and Xmen. All have devolved into formularic, paint by number affairs. Coloring books for adult children. This GB film felt a bit like a Marvel movie. Thanked my buddy afterwards for taking me to my last ever GB film, because while it and the previous film weren't the worst films I've seen, I got nothing out of them. Cashin' in my chips. I think at the end, people are tired of having the same empty tropes recycled, ad nauseum.

@@dapperstache7747 the hint of a lesbian relationship with a ghost destroyed the movie for me. It was absolutely ridiculous

W line

I love busting

speak for yourself because that's not me. sorry

Hold up☠️💀

Nothing about this stupid franchise makes anybody feel good 😕😕

I'll take it!!😅

This was a terrible movie. The movie starts out in the early 1900s and it shows firemen leave the fire house to go to an adventurers club which is completely frozen where they find the orb and a 5 foot four girl wearing armor is able to run past entire squad a fireman without being picked up like a football. When we finally get our explanation from the sack of garbage known as Patton Oswalt of all people, they say that there are fire masters, that imprisoned the demon because he was working for a king, but they also refer to the demon as a god, so is he a demon or a god. Why was he working for the king what compelled him? So the fire masters, entrap him in the orb. They never said where they were or came from, how the orb was made, by who Such stupid writing with dialogue like Sumerian? No it’s older than Sumerian. No it’s not Sumerian is the first form of writing in the cuneiform way to sound uneducated Most of the movie is about a tacked on lesbian romance between Phoebe in a ghost teenager that’s trying to seduce her to double cross her. This character didn’t even need to be in the movie, because the whole point was for her to be holding a match at the end for the Firemaster to have fire. Meanwhile, if a Ghostbusters fan was writing this movie, they would’ve just had Ray tap his shirt pocket and pull out a cigarette and a lighter and light it while the other guys look at him disappointed and he shrugs. That’s what the Ghostbusters are about. The very first scene with a Ghostbusters, which is the second scene in the movie is a family camping trip. Meanwhile, there’s a giant ghost flying around the city while they’re shooting at buildings with people in them. Smiling and laughing the whole time because you know there’s no threat in this movie it’s a Disney film. Every time there’s danger, Paul Rudd can’t stop smiling, and the only time he approached being an actor was one scene near the containment unit besides that he’s just Tony Danza playing Tony Danza again. The mother was an anchor on this movie. She is just depressing to be around. The son wolf was more entertaining than anyone in this movie and he’s only in two scenes. The blonde lab guy was enjoyable. Winston looks completely incompetent because he builds a research lab with normal glass instead of bulletproof glass or anything for viewing windows, and he puts objects inside that could break the prison he made, and has no generator back up system for the main power Even the cartoon did that. They also made Winston not believe Ray, which is just laughable to anyone who knows how close they are. The chess playing scene was obviously written by a millennial because both of them are moving chess pieces faster than a grandmaster, but neither of them have to look at the board. They just have their millennial conversation because girl power I guess. If they wanted to tack on a love interest They should’ve made the fire master a teenager, because he was the character that just lost his grandmother, who raised him giving his character some vulnerability, instead of just being an unfunny putz. But you know Hollywood is garbage and then Aykroyd will do anything if they say you can make a movie. I was looking forward to this movie for a year and it turned out to be complete trash. Now let’s get to the final fight. Which was the dumbest part of the movie because everybody worships phoebe instead of relying on Ray, who invented all of this gear. her idea is because the ball was made out of brass. She should coat all of the components of her proton pack in brass. First off that’s not how you plate metal. Second off that would make the proton pack not work. Also, the proton pack is like the fire. it controls, but does not capture. The orb was made of brass shouldn’t she have coded a ghost trap? now let’s move on to how all of the characters are pointless because they have nothing to do everybody in the fire house shoots the guy and when it doesn’t work (which they already knew before that point) so they spend the entire end of the movie pinned up against the wall while Phoebe tries to save the day with her broken proton pack that weighs more than she could lift in real life. So now at this point, the containment unit has already blown and the ghost have escaped so they turn the containment unit into a ghost trap by turning a screwdriver and now it’s a big ghost trap, even though it’s full of cracks and holes. And of course it takes half of the cast to pull a lever because they just can’t find anything for these characters to be doing in this movie. The only saving grace of this movie was Bill Murray’s performance. But if you want to watch a good movie, you might wanna just go check out bill in the razors edge. Because this movie was just made for stupid people. Also, the plot point of her coding, the proton pack with brass showed them cutting the fire pole and then in a later seen the Firemaster slides down it. Where did the cut go?

@@Millers-Mausoleum I ain't reading all that

@@alanscartoonz5781 something tells me you don’t read much

@@Millers-Mausoleum nah i just haven't seen the movie yet

Its bad.

True audience is stand out now, critics just want to hate

@@LHollan im no critic and love Ghostbusters but this was just a dull movie

@TheJasonVoorhees your entitled to your own opinion, every fan is different 👍

It is bad!!!! Very very bad!

This was a terrible movie. The movie starts out in the early 1900s and it shows firemen leave the fire house to go to an adventurers club which is completely frozen where they find the orb and a 5 foot four girl wearing armor is able to run past entire squad a fireman without being picked up like a football. When we finally get our explanation from the sack of garbage known as Patton Oswalt of all people, they say that there are fire masters, that imprisoned the demon because he was working for a king, but they also refer to the demon as a god, so is he a demon or a god. Why was he working for the king what compelled him? So the fire masters, entrap him in the orb. They never said where they were or came from, how the orb was made, by who Such stupid writing with dialogue like Sumerian? No it’s older than Sumerian. No it’s not Sumerian is the first form of writing in the cuneiform way to sound uneducated Most of the movie is about a tacked on lesbian romance between Phoebe in a ghost teenager that’s trying to seduce her to double cross her. This character didn’t even need to be in the movie, because the whole point was for her to be holding a match at the end for the Firemaster to have fire. Meanwhile, if a Ghostbusters fan was writing this movie, they would’ve just had Ray tap his shirt pocket and pull out a cigarette and a lighter and light it while the other guys look at him disappointed and he shrugs. That’s what the Ghostbusters are about. The very first scene with a Ghostbusters, which is the second scene in the movie is a family camping trip. Meanwhile, there’s a giant ghost flying around the city while they’re shooting at buildings with people in them. Smiling and laughing the whole time because you know there’s no threat in this movie it’s a Disney film. Every time there’s danger, Paul Rudd can’t stop smiling, and the only time he approached being an actor was one scene near the containment unit besides that he’s just Tony Danza playing Tony Danza again. The mother was an anchor on this movie. She is just depressing to be around. The son wolf was more entertaining than anyone in this movie and he’s only in two scenes. The blonde lab guy was enjoyable. Winston looks completely incompetent because he builds a research lab with normal glass instead of bulletproof glass or anything for viewing windows, and he puts objects inside that could break the prison he made, and has no generator back up system for the main power Even the cartoon did that. They also made Winston not believe Ray, which is just laughable to anyone who knows how close they are. The chess playing scene was obviously written by a millennial because both of them are moving chess pieces faster than a grandmaster, but neither of them have to look at the board. They just have their millennial conversation because girl power I guess. If they wanted to tack on a love interest They should’ve made the fire master a teenager, because he was the character that just lost his grandmother, who raised him giving his character some vulnerability, instead of just being an unfunny putz. But you know Hollywood is garbage and then Aykroyd will do anything if they say you can make a movie. I was looking forward to this movie for a year and it turned out to be complete trash. Now let’s get to the final fight. Which was the dumbest part of the movie because everybody worships phoebe instead of relying on Ray, who invented all of this gear. her idea is because the ball was made out of brass. She should coat all of the components of her proton pack in brass. First off that’s not how you plate metal. Second off that would make the proton pack not work. Also, the proton pack is like the fire. it controls, but does not capture. The orb was made of brass shouldn’t she have coded a ghost trap? now let’s move on to how all of the characters are pointless because they have nothing to do everybody in the fire house shoots the guy and when it doesn’t work (which they already knew before that point) so they spend the entire end of the movie pinned up against the wall while Phoebe tries to save the day with her broken proton pack that weighs more than she could lift in real life. So now at this point, the containment unit has already blown and the ghost have escaped so they turn the containment unit into a ghost trap by turning a screwdriver and now it’s a big ghost trap, even though it’s full of cracks and holes. And of course it takes half of the cast to pull a lever because they just can’t find anything for these characters to be doing in this movie. The only saving grace of this movie was Bill Murray’s performance. But if you want to watch a good movie, you might wanna just go check out bill in the razors edge. Because this movie was just made for stupid people. Also, the plot point of her coding, the proton pack with brass showed them cutting the fire pole and then in a later seen the Firemaster slides down it. Where did the cut go?

@@Millers-MausoleumI don’t think you had you type a whole essay to make a point lol

@@Grantylol apparently I did because everybody on here is eating up this dog poo with a spoon

@@Millers-Mausoleum I mean at least it’s better than madame web

@@Grantylol so this woke garbage is better than other woke garbage? It’s all garbage. How about something that’s not garbage

Same here, saw one teaser. It may be be my second favorite after the original

It’s bad

@@Poe-007 i still want to see it for myself because I do love ghostbusters and I happy they brought slimer back in the movie

Everybody should. it's not terrible to me...but definitely disappointing. it gives me the 2016 feeling, very exciting, the first 10 nminutes good then it declines throughout....Not even close to as bad as 2016 GB movie,

@@miragexl007 true

@@raishonstanley1313 - cool

This was a terrible movie. The movie starts out in the early 1900s and it shows firemen leave the fire house to go to an adventurers club which is completely frozen where they find the orb and a 5 foot four girl wearing armor is able to run past entire squad a fireman without being picked up like a football. When we finally get our explanation from the sack of garbage known as Patton Oswalt of all people, they say that there are fire masters, that imprisoned the demon because he was working for a king, but they also refer to the demon as a god, so is he a demon or a god. Why was he working for the king what compelled him? So the fire masters, entrap him in the orb. They never said where they were or came from, how the orb was made, by who Such stupid writing with dialogue like Sumerian? No it’s older than Sumerian. No it’s not Sumerian is the first form of writing in the cuneiform way to sound uneducated Most of the movie is about a tacked on lesbian romance between Phoebe in a ghost teenager that’s trying to seduce her to double cross her. This character didn’t even need to be in the movie, because the whole point was for her to be holding a match at the end for the Firemaster to have fire. Meanwhile, if a Ghostbusters fan was writing this movie, they would’ve just had Ray tap his shirt pocket and pull out a cigarette and a lighter and light it while the other guys look at him disappointed and he shrugs. That’s what the Ghostbusters are about. The very first scene with a Ghostbusters, which is the second scene in the movie is a family camping trip. Meanwhile, there’s a giant ghost flying around the city while they’re shooting at buildings with people in them. Smiling and laughing the whole time because you know there’s no threat in this movie it’s a Disney film. Every time there’s danger, Paul Rudd can’t stop smiling, and the only time he approached being an actor was one scene near the containment unit besides that he’s just Tony Danza playing Tony Danza again. The mother was an anchor on this movie. She is just depressing to be around. The son wolf was more entertaining than anyone in this movie and he’s only in two scenes. The blonde lab guy was enjoyable. Winston looks completely incompetent because he builds a research lab with normal glass instead of bulletproof glass or anything for viewing windows, and he puts objects inside that could break the prison he made, and has no generator back up system for the main power Even the cartoon did that. They also made Winston not believe Ray, which is just laughable to anyone who knows how close they are. The chess playing scene was obviously written by a millennial because both of them are moving chess pieces faster than a grandmaster, but neither of them have to look at the board. They just have their millennial conversation because girl power I guess. If they wanted to tack on a love interest They should’ve made the fire master a teenager, because he was the character that just lost his grandmother, who raised him giving his character some vulnerability, instead of just being an unfunny putz. But you know Hollywood is garbage and then Aykroyd will do anything if they say you can make a movie. I was looking forward to this movie for a year and it turned out to be complete trash. Now let’s get to the final fight. Which was the dumbest part of the movie because everybody worships phoebe instead of relying on Ray, who invented all of this gear. her idea is because the ball was made out of brass. She should coat all of the components of her proton pack in brass. First off that’s not how you plate metal. Second off that would make the proton pack not work. Also, the proton pack is like the fire. it controls, but does not capture. The orb was made of brass shouldn’t she have coded a ghost trap? now let’s move on to how all of the characters are pointless because they have nothing to do everybody in the fire house shoots the guy and when it doesn’t work (which they already knew before that point) so they spend the entire end of the movie pinned up against the wall while Phoebe tries to save the day with her broken proton pack that weighs more than she could lift in real life. So now at this point, the containment unit has already blown and the ghost have escaped so they turn the containment unit into a ghost trap by turning a screwdriver and now it’s a big ghost trap, even though it’s full of cracks and holes. And of course it takes half of the cast to pull a lever because they just can’t find anything for these characters to be doing in this movie. The only saving grace of this movie was Bill Murray’s performance. But if you want to watch a good movie, you might wanna just go check out bill in the razors edge. Because this movie was just made for stupid people. Also, the plot point of her coding, the proton pack with brass showed them cutting the fire pole and then in a later seen the Firemaster slides down it. Where did the cut go?

hmm. to many characters, stupid fire dude, the weird stupid Girl ghost short story that didn't really make sense etc. but too each their own

@@Millers-Mausoleum we got a hater over here

@@danielmendiola if that’s how a stupid person refers to an intelligent person. Yeah, you got a hater over here.

Sticky chick in it and make her lame and gay

I swear they were about to kiss before Phoebe gets possessed.

@@edwardjohnson6744 yeah, the gay lesbian love story that made her commit suicide. That’s so great to have in a Ghostbusters movie right? Whoever wrote this thing should have their head examined.

@@edwardjohnson6744dear god that didn’t happened

Thank god that didn’t happen

I mean for me it's still impressive for the proton pack. Like the fire magic belongs to these ancient races that a presumably blessed or granted powers by super natural means. Yet these races and groups died out due to time. Meanwhile the modern day group with no external knowledge came up with there own modern alternatives which are arguably just as effective if not more so being able to handle multiple world ending threats. Like the fire magic guy is like a last in a generation of some super ancient race but the Paks are literally made to ensure that humanity can outlass them.

exactly what I’m sayin!! I was hoping it would be Spangler playing chess and we got this awkward lgbtq friendship

@@MsM_EtherealAce you're joking right...why does it need to have romance. They already had enough family drama and esteem issues. Adding romance just makes it more cluttered

@@rushalias8511 that’s what it felt like

i personally love the melody stuff

Yeah, it was really heartfelt when the teenage girl tried to commit suicide to be lesbians with a ghost

Movie is so horrible

⁠@@Millers-Mausoleumwow not gonna lie that actually sounds pretty ridiculous when you put it that way 😂 like how the heck was she gonna make that work?

@@ArmaTomicx thank you

For sure, it moves along well, and the "Q Branch" ghost lab was great. And Kumail was great. Lots of triggered basement dwellers having a hard time about it, though 😂

Just because they were in Ghostbusters, doesn't mean they should be a Ghostbuster.

Fr

But the ghost was actually manipulating her and then felt guilty about it. She never really cared about Phoebe.

Right it was really odd to me, since they were both supposed to be 15/16. Like weird *exual tension

To me, it felt like friendship at first. But when they did certain things, it felt romantic

It’s crap

​TO YOU, stop cramming your shitty opinion down everyone's throat

We didn’t see the same movie. Cause this was bad

Many people are wanting the villain from Ghostbusters 2 to return

I feel like the family drama actually was a really good part and that demon lord was a bit tacky

It depends on how you view it. Like it's a hard thing to balance. Do you want a film that's got a lot of action to look very visually appealing or do you want a film that really tries to explore the characters further. You can have both of course but it requires a good balance. Perhaps they had a few more busting scenes of the family handling ghosts with phoebe...it would have helped a lot like showing them confident without her to really sell how depressed she's getting with being benched. Eh...still fun with what we got 😊

@@rushalias8511 Ghostbusters Frozen Empire wasn't that hard to balance, The family Drama didn't need to take up half the film, and a lot of those scenes Could've been to bringing Grakaha in Early in the film giving him more scene Presence. The biggest mistake this film made was only giving Grakaha 10 minutes of scene time at the end of the movie. which came off as anti-climatic, it was a Waste of a Great Powerful villian. Dont get me wrong the film was okay, but it was unbalanced, should have been longer to give more scene time for Grakaha causing havoc in the city, instead of just showing up late min of the Film. This film could have done better. I think this director dropped the ball on this film. Because it needs $300 to break even, it only made $100 million, which mean this could end up being a flop because of those mistake

we could get a Mini Puft film

I loved him but he should've showed up more

Too many ominous build-up cliffhanger scenes. I swear the street froze over about twelve times and there was a close up of a frozen object or the orb or whatever.

I mean other than vigo that’s kinda all the villains

I think possessing the ball is probably the dumbest thing it could. Like the ball is made specifically to the contain the ghost. I feel like given the nature the ball itself would just absorb and store the ghost inside as a self defense mechanism. It would be too easy to free it otherwise. That aside...yeah that whole becoming a ghost thing was stupid. Ngl if they wanted to go the route they could have built up as something much darker. I mean the whole idea of becoming a ghost is quite literally wanting to taste death. Phoebe gets depressed by being benched feels isolated....gets manipulated into thinking death is an answer...you can see how dark this could go and how it could have easily made the villain even more sadistic and cruel if they insighted this beyond just employing a henchman. Over all I agree it's still a fun movie

What is the real ghostbusters

@@logansolo7549 it's a 90's tv show

Did they? How?

@@DB-lr6kl they showed a real ghostbusters toys add on the tv near the start

it's a kinda bad show but it does have that classic 90s "so bad it's... still bad but kinda good"

Since 2 years ago really you don’t have any idea what a good ghostbusters movie should be like if all you’ve seen is last movie

@@jessepike3565 two years old, 14 years ago, not since 2 years ago

@@bruhboi333 okay well you should have put that people can decipher your messages

@@jessepike3565 the original comment literally says "since 2 years old" its as clear as i can make that

@@bruhboi333 okay there’s another discrepancy there when you’re 2 years old you’re not watching Saturday morning cartoons

I just rewatched the episode "Moaning stones" and I'm really sure that's where Frozen Empire got the idea for Nadeem from.

Is that higher or lower?

@@thetanishman in ghostbustin standards it was good, felt like a live action episode of the Real Ghostbusters

It was alluding to her being a liar. It was pretty obvious from the get-go with her reaching towards the lever for the grid.

To make it simple it’s a 8/10 for me this had interesting things they did that I like although there are some that I would have changed but I am happy with what we got.

when Winston said "if it wasn't for her, this whole city would be under 3 feet of ice" I thought, 'yeah... but she also released Garraka'

At the end of the movie she was in the basement for an _extraordinary_ amount of time. She couldn't hear literally everyone else upstairs almost being frozen to death? She's the _only_ one with the brass-plated proton pack, get up there girl, stop chatting! And really... did Bill Murray have to be in this? Don't get me wrong, he was alright, not like he was just there for the money or anything, but he (and Janine) honestly could've gone. And the Finn Wolfhard's friend too (dunno who she was, I didn't see Afterlife)

@@Xeorboomas if she was supposed to know that

Not sure why the movie was great

It was so good. But we know it's not the type of movie he reviews. Even if he watches it

@@tonycooper4437 I figured he would since he’s done A24 movies in the past either way I can’t wait to watch it

It feels good 😂

There was way more nostalgia in the last one

Afterlife was Ghostbusters 3, Frozen Empire is the 4th film

🤨🤨🤨🤨

My mom caught herself on fire when she was a baby. So when they showed the ghost on fire it made me think of her and all the suffering she experienced recovering from the tregedy. She could have been a ghost but shes a fighter. Baptized by fire

To me, I liked it, it was a pretty cool movie to watch, but it’s just my opinion, I just rlly love ghostbusters (except 2016)

no. it’s a solid installment despite critics. it doesn’t reinvent the wheel or anything but it’s fun and does what it needs to respectively.

NO. IT WAS AWESOME.

No it just was good not amazing as the original of course.

I give it a nine because bill murray wasn't in the whole movie