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.
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08/05/05
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:18
Rotten:16
Average Rating:5.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The band of ghost busters are back to save the universe. Having been put out of commission due to a judicial court order, the fearless four pull out all psychic stops to put an end to a demonic... [More]
Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis
Director: Ivan Reitman
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Reviews for Ghostbusters 2
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.
05/20/03
Top CriticThere's plenty to enjoy here and fans of the group won't care about the shortcomings.
01/01/00
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.
01/01/00
Top CriticFrankly, Murray, Sigourney Weaver and even Aykroyd deserve much better.
05/06/08
No one has ever accused Ghostbusters II of being a great film, or even a good one, for that matter
08/02/05
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.
08/26/09
There's very little energy in the follow-through, and this time Murray's listlessness seems more anemic than comic.
05/30/07
Top CriticEffectively slimed everyone's fond memories of the original.
04/07/09
A little of a rehash but still good.
03/02/08
You want more.
01/01/00
Top CriticFeels like a blueprint concocted by the bean-counters at Columbia Pictures.
04/03/06
Kids will find the oozing slime and ghastly, ghostly apparitions to their liking and adults will enjoy the preposterously clever dialog.
05/30/07
Top CriticAlmost as sharp as the first film and only suffering slightly from the inevitable repetitions.
05/30/07
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.
06/24/06
Top CriticA terrible disappointment, a shockingly self-satisfied and unforgivably slapdash sequel.
05/30/07
Top CriticBest forgotten sequel.
07/16/04
A loose, assured sequel that has the breezy ambition of simply being fun and likable. And it is.
12/15/03
A few bright moments thanks to the cast.
10/01/03
About equal to the original. Neither of them were classics.
03/15/03
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