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Ghostbusters 2

Ghostbusters 2 (1989)

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Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2

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Ivan Reitman's sequel to the phenomenally successful Ghostbusters is looser and more self-assured than the original. The film opens with a title reading "Five Years Later" and finds the ghostbusters living in hard times. A restraining order has forbidden the boys to partake in paranormal warfare, and as a result they have had to seek other lines of work. Ray (Dan Aykroyd) and Winston (Ernie Hudson) spend their time performing at children's' birthday parties, and Egon (Harold Ramis) is busy

PG, 1 hr. 42 min.

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Jun 29, 1999

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Critic Reviews for Ghostbusters 2

All Critics (35) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (17) | DVD (14)

There's very little energy in the follow-through, and this time Murray's listlessness seems more anemic than comic.

May 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Kids will find the oozing slime and ghastly, ghostly apparitions to their liking and adults will enjoy the preposterously clever dialog.

May 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment (1)
Variety
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Even the special effects are more to the point of the comedy than they were in the first film. For some reason, this appears to leave more room for the sort of random funny business that Mr. Murray and his friends do best.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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You want more.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comments (2)
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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Hammered together out of the junkiest of elements, the movie rattles along with a pleasing rambunctiousness, tossing off its quips and one-liners and scoring on a remarkably high percentage of them.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Hal Hinson
Washington Post
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An almost uniformly substandard follow-up that, since the original film remains so beloved by so many people, still gets to be disappointing even two decades and change later.

May 30, 2011 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

Plenty of agreeable nonsense to develop within the larger Ghostbusters universe. It's a sincerely amusing movie, warmly energized to give fans a steamy second helping of the good stuff.

August 26, 2009 Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | Comment
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com

Effectively slimed everyone's fond memories of the original.

April 7, 2009 Full Review Source: The Screengrab | Comments (4)
Nick Schager
The Screengrab

Frankly, Murray, Sigourney Weaver and even Aykroyd deserve much better.

May 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
Richard Luck
Film4

A little of a rehash but still good.

March 2, 2008 Comment
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
sbs.is

Almost as sharp as the first film and only suffering slightly from the inevitable repetitions.

May 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

A terrible disappointment, a shockingly self-satisfied and unforgivably slapdash sequel.

May 30, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The film is largely an excuse for a cast get-together, with the Ghostbusters, under judicial restraining order after the havoc wreaked in part one, suffering lives of semi-obscurity.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
Time Out Source: Time Out

Feels like a blueprint concocted by the bean-counters at Columbia Pictures.

April 3, 2006 Full Review Source: DVD Clinic | Comment
Scott Weinberg
DVD Clinic

Takes a bit of the sheen off the series, but still scores solid laughs.

August 10, 2005 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | Comment
Brent Simon
Now Playing Magazine Source: Now Playing Magazine

Bottom line: with Murray on fire and enough clever dialogue to rival its predecessor, Ghostbusters II is good enough to put post-milennial comedy to shame.

August 5, 2005 Comment
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

No one has ever accused Ghostbusters II of being a great film, or even a good one, for that matter

August 2, 2005 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comments (3)
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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The Original Ghostbusters set a new standard for comedy, horror and Sci Fi. The first was a big hit, and is one of the best comedies with Sci Fi and horror elements. It's only naturally that they would make a sequel to the first one. The question that one who's never seen the sequel will probably ask the age old

June 9, 2010
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

Though not at all on par with the first, this sequel is still entertaining and satisfying.

November 20, 2011
Graham Jones
Graham Jones

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    1. Dana Barrett: (about Oscar)What do you think?
    2. Peter Venkman: Well, he's ugly.
    – Submitted by bob j (55 days ago)
    1. Peter Venkman: Oh did you ever fall for that, the old hand eating toaster trick.
    – Submitted by topher h (3 months ago)
    1. Peter Venkman: There's so many holes in 5th avenue, we really didn't think anyone would notice.
    – Submitted by topher h (3 months ago)
    1. Mayor of New York: Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right.
    – Submitted by Dann M (5 months ago)
    1. Raymond Stantz: Looks like a giant Jell-O mold.....
    2. Winston Zeddmore: I hate Jell-O.
    3. Peter Venkman: Oh come on, there's always room for Jell-O!
    – Submitted by Nick S (5 months ago)

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