Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 17
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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3
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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 379,242
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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
Jun 16, 1989 Wide
Jun 29, 1999
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Bill Murray
Peter Venkman -
Dan Aykroyd
Raymond Stantz -
Sigourney Weaver
Dana Barrett -
Harold Ramis
Egon Spengler -
Rick Moranis
Louis Tully -
Peter MacNicol
Janosz Poha -
Ernie Hudson
Winston Zeddmore -
David Margulies
Mayor of New York -
Wilhelm von Homburg
Vigo -
Harris Yulin
Judge -
Kurt Fuller
Hardemeyer -
Janet Margolin
Prosecutor -
Christopher Neame
Maitre d' -
Cheech Marin
Dock Supervisor -
Judy Ovitz
Slimed Restaurant Patro... -
Robert Alan Beuth
Store Manager -
Ron Cummins
Police Lieutenant -
Henry J. Deutschendorf II
Baby Oscar -
William T. Deutschendorf
Baby Oscar -
Robert DiTillio
Spectator -
Kevin Dunn
Venkman's Talk Show Gue... -
Walter Flanagan
Rudy the Museum Guard -
Dave Florek
1st Cop -
Richard Foronjy
Con Ed Supervisor -
Ray Glanzmann
Detective -
Philip Baker Hall
Police Commissioner -
John Hammil
Detective -
Erik Holland
Fire Commissioner -
Mordecai Lawner
Man with a Ticket -
Aaron Lustig
Norman the Producer -
Ralph Monaco
Police Sergeant -
Michael P. Moran
Frank the Doorman -
Peter Papageorgiou
Spectator -
Annie Potts
Janine Melnitz -
Catherine Reitman
Girl with Puppy -
Jason Reitman
Brownstone Boy -
Douglas Seale
Plaza Hotel Man -
Ben Stein
Public Works Official -
Mary Ellen Trainor
Brownstone Mother -
Louise Troy
Woman with Fur Coat -
Chloe Webb
Venkman's Talk Show Gue... -
George P. Wilbur
Bailiff -
Alex Zimmerman
Detective -
Brian Doyle-Murray
Psychiatrist -
Page Leong
Spengler's Assistant -
Mark Schneider
Arguing Couple -
Tom Dugan
Restaurant Cop -
Susan Boehm
Young Woman on Crutches -
Yvette Cruise
Maria Dana's Maid -
Angelo di Mascio
Restaurant Cop -
Sharon Kramer
Stenographer -
Valery Pappas
Arguing Couple -
Christopher Villasenor
Brownstone Boy -
Olivia Ward
Meter Maid -
Bobby Brown
Mayor's Doorman
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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (6) | 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.
Kids will find the oozing slime and ghastly, ghostly apparitions to their liking and adults will enjoy the preposterously clever dialog.
Top CriticThe 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.
Top CriticEven 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.
You want more.
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.
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.
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.
Effectively slimed everyone's fond memories of the original.
Frankly, Murray, Sigourney Weaver and even Aykroyd deserve much better.
A little of a rehash but still good.
Almost as sharp as the first film and only suffering slightly from the inevitable repetitions.
A terrible disappointment, a shockingly self-satisfied and unforgivably slapdash sequel.
Feels like a blueprint concocted by the bean-counters at Columbia Pictures.
Takes a bit of the sheen off the series, but still scores solid laughs.
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.
No one has ever accused Ghostbusters II of being a great film, or even a good one, for that matter
Audience Reviews for Ghostbusters 2
Super Reviewer
Reitman's direction is without passion or visual innovation. Instead we get dated soundtrack full of corny songs, bad dialogue and too much Bill Murray being over the top. Where the first one at least had couple of effective moments, this sequel has none. Here is a completely pointless film without ambition or that much energy either. Don't bother to watch this waste of time.
Super Reviewer
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- Louis Tully: So, you wanna play 'Boggle' or 'Super Mario Brothers'?
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- Dana Barrett: (about Oscar)What do you think?
- Peter Venkman: Well, he's ugly.
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- Peter Venkman: Oh did you ever fall for that, the old hand eating toaster trick.
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- Peter Venkman: There's so many holes in 5th avenue, we really didn't think anyone would notice.
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- Mayor of New York: Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right.
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- Raymond Stantz: Looks like a giant Jell-O mold.....
- Winston Zeddmore: I hate Jell-O.
- Peter Venkman: Oh come on, there's always room for Jell-O!
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Sure, the plot isn't as exciting and the main villain is kind of lame, but the wonderful wit and interplay is still very much intact, which is what counts in my book. I suppose Bill Murray is chiefly to thank for that though. You can't help but love his sarcastic, cynical and hopelessly womanizing character. His lines are so perfectly timed that you're wondering if he's not making it all up on the spot.
At any rate, we can only hope that the intended third film (which now, perhaps for the best, looks doomed to become a non-event) won't ruin any of that. I mean, Hollywood has already managed to defile other 80's gems like Star Wars and Indiana Jones. If the same thing happens to the Ghostbusters franchise, I don't know what I'll do, but it ain't gonna be pretty. And by "not pretty" I mean something along the lines of Vigo's morning face.