Ghostbusters II

1989 "Guess who's coming to save the world again?"
6.6| 1h48m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 16 June 1989 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.ghostbusters.com
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Having lost their status and credibility five years after covering New York City with gooey roasted marshmallows in Ghostbusters (1984), the city's former heroes and once-popular spirit-hunters struggle to keep afloat, forced to work odd jobs. However, when Dana and her baby have yet another terrifying encounter with the paranormal, it is up to Peter Venkman and his fearless team of supernatural crime fighters to step up and save the day. Once more, humankind is in danger, as rivers of slimy psycho-reactive ectoplasm, paired with the dreadful manifestation of evil sixteenth-century tyrant Vigo the Carpathian, threaten to plunge the entire city into darkness. Is the world ready to believe? Can the Ghostbusters save us for the second time?

Genre

Fantasy, Comedy

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Director

Ivan Reitman

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Ghostbusters II Audience Reviews

Diagonaldi Very well executed
Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
revahakurtul So what happens in the first one was marvelous. However this movie is a new kind of lazy writing. On the other hand, there is an advantage. This is not the worst ghostbusters movie.
Jithin K Mohan A sequel is usually something that builds on what's good in the original but this just highlighted everything that was bad in the original and unlike the original, there are not many positives about it either. There were a few funny moments but mostly it was kind of an irritating watch that almost ruined the original classic.
morganstephens512 I thought that this movie was going to be terrible from the things that I have heard about it, but this turned out to be a decent movie. The only really bad thing about it was the fact that honestly it did not really need to exist at all. But that aside, the movie did decently at everything. It had decent effects, a interesting enough story for a sequel and the characters were still perfectly likable and that is what I am most judging on, if the characters are good since if they are not, I don't really care too much over what happens.
leplatypus Don't make me say what I don't have said: GB2 is not a bad movie nor a so-so one. It's a good movie but truly not reaching the classic fun of GB1. For me, there is 3 huge defects in doing this sequel: 1) the soundtrack! Here there is no more inspired score, only songs: some are good (if my memory is correct, it's how I discovered Oingo-Boingo) but the rap ones are really puffing… 2) the already seen scenes: the mayor office, their arrest, the big walking thing in the streets,….I just wanted to see something else! 3) The too much auto-centered events: In GB1, the supernatural was believable and serious! Here, a bit like in gremlins 2, it's fun for fun and whatever the credibility: the opening scene with the cradle have no explanation, Slimer is iconic but inappropriate, Vigo is not really frightening and the slime not really convincing…. If you can forget all this, the movie is indeed enjoyable: the cast is really excellent and this team is among the best for comedy! Whatever the scene is about, they always find a funny line for that! The movie is also a good depiction to the way of life in a big megalopolis and the beginning when they have new jobs is original. In a way, this movie illustrates the limits of sequels: it's always the same ideas that are played and replayed!