The biggest mistake this movie makes is missing opportunities to trade nostalgia for solid world-building. I've been replaying the video game, and pretty much every callback to the original film results in a deeper piece of lore, or furthering the cosmology and world-building surrounding Gozer, Ivo Shandor, the library ghost, etc. When doing a sequel, it's impossible not to call back to things established in the original film, but how you do it makes all the difference. The ancient Gozer temple in the Shandor mines in Afterlife is a good example of how to do this right, at least visually. Unfortunately, the fanservice in Frozen Empire and the lackluster character arcs make the film fall flat on its face. It's really just "okay," and I really don't see myself giving half a shit about rewatching it.
Mayor peak is right to shut down Ghostbusters, this movie shows that Ghostbusters is worst for new York than ever before, in the original movie, gozer was rising in power and new York needed the Ghostbusters since they were the only ones who had tools that could stop gozer, but now you give dangerous proton packs to immature teenagers. I hated pheby in this movie, she should have been thrown in juvenile detention for the destruction she did, and the echo one destroyed in compound for all the traffic laws The was broken, the original Ghostbusters had the mayors help with poliçe escort and the army keeping the people of new york safe, but it would really suck living in new york with all that going on on top of regular horrible conditions of living in New York.
The biggest mistake this movie makes is missing opportunities to trade nostalgia for solid world-building. I've been replaying the video game, and pretty much every callback to the original film results in a deeper piece of lore, or furthering the cosmology and world-building surrounding Gozer, Ivo Shandor, the library ghost, etc. When doing a sequel, it's impossible not to call back to things established in the original film, but how you do it makes all the difference. The ancient Gozer temple in the Shandor mines in Afterlife is a good example of how to do this right, at least visually. Unfortunately, the fanservice in Frozen Empire and the lackluster character arcs make the film fall flat on its face. It's really just "okay," and I really don't see myself giving half a shit about rewatching it.
Mayor peak is right to shut down Ghostbusters, this movie shows that Ghostbusters is worst for new York than ever before, in the original movie, gozer was rising in power and new York needed the Ghostbusters since they were the only ones who had tools that could stop gozer, but now you give dangerous proton packs to immature teenagers. I hated pheby in this movie, she should have been thrown in juvenile detention for the destruction she did, and the echo one destroyed in compound for all the traffic laws The was broken, the original Ghostbusters had the mayors help with poliçe escort and the army keeping the people of new york safe, but it would really suck living in new york with all that going on on top of regular horrible conditions of living in New York.