As a comedy this worked a lot better. The villain was completely camp, compared to the first one. People over the years have been trying to rate this as a horror comedy and that's where it's come up short, but it's pretty much a straight up comedy.
shareI absolutely agree that this was a very underrated movie and I always enjoyed watching GB2 a lot, I agree this movie was far more lighthearted than the original, the only change I would make is to give Kurt Fuller's character more depth, I didn't think his character was as well written as William Atherton's character in the original
sharethe only change I would make is to give Kurt Fuller's character more depth, I didn't think his character was as well written as William Atherton's character in the original
I know that people experience movies in different ways. But, I just don't think that GB2 came together. Bill Murray commented that they didn't shoot the script he had signed on to. The IMDb Trivia talked about how they were following the "Real Ghostbusters" cartoon show. So, it seemed that they wanted to have a family-friendly movie where the villain is defeated by good vibes. And, things like double entendres and smoking were not allowed.
What you end up with is passable entertainment, but for me that's pretty much it. There are some good lines delivered by Murray, likely ad libbing like he did in the first movie. In both films, we were lucky to have Murray adding his subversive humor to the proceedings.
GB2 comes across to me as a less funny retread of the first one, which benefitted from it being a new idea, the great ad-libbing, and dark humor, like Moranis being attacked by the devil dog and everyone just ignoring what happened. Those things were not allowed here.
I am hoping that "Afterlife" gets the series back on track. Took decades, but what the heck?
I've re-watched this one way more times than the first.
shareI love it. I've always counted it as one of the few sequels that were as good, or even arguably better, than the original.
shareI like Ghostbusters 2, but I wished to see Pete Venkman do more with the Ghostbusters. There's a long separation between him and the team.
Outside of that, I enjoy it a lot.
it's about 10 minutes of him out with dana. one would think that with all dana has been through with ghosts and that she is currently in the movie experiencing ghost attacks, she would be more supportive of skipping the dinner and having venkman go with them and investigate what is going on, instead of just whistling for a taxicab.
sharei agree that it's underrated (i love both gb1+2 equally), but how's this a straight up comedy (compared to the first one)? the tone is more sinister and it has way more scary scenes than the first. in fact, the only actual horror scenes in the first movie were the terror dog fetching dana and maybe the one with the fridge, all other ghost moments were done in a rather tongue-in-cheek way, without an actual threat for characters. in gb2, on the contrary, there are a lot more scenes where characters are actually threatened/scared. especially involving oscar.
I have to admit it's better than I remembered. Not as good as the first film but it does have its moments.
shareI thought both 1 and 2 were great.
I never even realized until recently that people didn't like G2 i always assumed that they were both well loved, It's only since ive noticed Youtube videos of people saying how crap it was and how much of a maserpiece the first one was that i started to view them differently.
Growing up in my unbiased child mind i loved both of them and then when i grew up i never watched them for years, but i have kid now so i am watching them again now with new eyes and i didn't realise just how good the first one is, especially by todays dog shit standards we are being served up it only enhances it more.
G2 is still good as well though but now i can notice little things that seem to annoy other people, like the different score, honestly i never noticed it before and don't mind it.
Vigo is a great baddy my daughter is a little afraid of him and him stealing a baby to sacrifice is about as dark as you can get for a supposedly family friendly sequel,
Also when Oscar is snatched off the ledge by the Yanos dressed as that creepy old nanny with weird wig disturbed me as a child
If this was a lazy thrown together sequel as has been suggested by critics and even Bill Murray it seems then it's a really good one.