This week, I bring you the wholly inferior and yet just likable enough sequel to my all-time favorite movie. This week, it's "Ghostbusters 2!" Ugh. Let's save some prime slime time. I'll post the link, some pros, cons and trivia! Woot!
Ch-ch-check it out. I I I I ain't 'fraid o' no ghost:
Among its pleasures:
- It's a sequel, to MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME. And that's a fact.
- Lewis gets to become a Ghostbuster!
- Man, little Oscar sorta looks like my nephew.
- I mean, Bill Murray's done shit, but he himself will never be lousy. Not even in that movie with the elephant and a crackhead Matthew McConaughey. You know the one I'm talking about! Viggy, Viggy, Viggy!
- Vigo's still a damn scary villain. Admittedly, obviously, a bit creepier than the Russian super model incarnation of Gozer in "Ghostbusters."
- Peter MacNicol is detestable enough as Janosz.
- More slime!
- Bobby Brown. Umm, and Jackie Wilson!
- "Kitten, I think what I saying, is that shit happens, someone has to deal with it, and who ya gonna call?" The court cheers!
Among its problems:
- Bobby Brown and that whole Columbia sponsored, vanilla-flavored hip soundtrack.
- Not to mention, those assholes dumped Elmer Bernstein and his now notable original score for some synthesizer asshole from Jersey, Randy Edelman.
- The Statue of Liberty, though a fair shot, is not Mr. Stay Puft.
- It suffers from "more" sequel-syndrome.
- Oh, and this thing suffers from an awful case of the '80s: "We're Back!" Ray screams. "We're the best. We're the beautiful. We're the only Ghostbusters." Cut to NYC montage!
Notes from Vigo and Ivan Reitman:
- Jason Reitman cameos as the kid who calls the Ghostbusters crap. Maybe that's at the core of my general dislike for that prick. You DO NOT fuck with the Ghostbusters.
- The shot of Venkman going wide-eyed in fear as he sits in the back of a full speed Ecto-mobile?
Part of a filmed, but unused scene where Ray was possessed by Vigo and decides to burn rubber in the Ecto, was cut. But, shots from the possession were of course montaged, as it was the '80s, and it was the style at the time. Also, that's probably why there's no foreshadowing of his possession in the end?
- Bill Murray does not like this movie. Sounds about right.
- This got Lewis into the cartoon!
- When released on VHS, the original prints were all Letterbox, preserving the original aspect ratio of the movie. Naturally, this being the early '90s, late '80s, dummies complained about the black lines. You want Letterbox or Widescreen or whatever folks. You want to preserve the complete movie!
- Egon's hair is awesome, and his brother is Elon Spengler. I shit you not. Look up "Wastebusters" on this blog.
BONUS!
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