Ghostbusters 2 (1989)

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 | Comment

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

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 | Comment

Variety

Top Critic

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 | Comment

Vincent Canby

New York Times

Top Critic

You want more.

January 1, 2000 Full Review | Comment (1)

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

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 | Comment

Hal Hinson

Washington Post

Top Critic

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 | 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 | Comment

Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

Effectively slimed everyone's fond memories of the original.

April 7, 2009 Full Review | Comments (4)

Nick Schager

The Screengrab

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

May 6, 2008 Full Review | 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 | Comment

Empire Magazine

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

May 30, 2007 Full Review | 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 | Comment

Time Out

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

April 3, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Scott Weinberg

DVD Clinic

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

August 10, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Brent Simon

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 | Comments (3)

Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

• 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 (43 days 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 (45 days ago)
• 1. Janine Melnitz: You're very good with children.
  2. Louis Tully: Thanks, I practice on my Hamster.
  3. Janine Melnitz: So do you live alone?
  4. Louis Tully: Well I had a roommate, but then my mom moved to Florida.
  – Submitted by Daniel R (2 months ago)
• 1. Peter Venkman: Dana the guys are going down in the sewer to check for slime stuff. And Egon thinks there may even be a huge serge in cockroach breeding. Do you wanna blow off this dinner thing and go with them?
  2. Dana Barrett: Taxi!
  – Submitted by Daniel R (2 months ago)
• 1. Louis Tully: Your honor ladies and gentlemen of the audience. I don't think it's fair to call my clients frauds. Okay so the blackout was a big problem for everybody okay, I was stuck in an elevator for two hours and I had to make the time, but i don't blame them cause one time I turned into a dog and they helped me. Thank you.
  2. Egon Spengler: Very good louis, short but pointless.
  – Submitted by Daniel R (2 months ago)