Despite featuring two generations of Ghostbusters, the apart from fan service
hostbusters’ cultural impact has been so gargantuan that one’s pop culture repertoire is not complete without knowing what terms like Ectomobile, Proton pack, PKE Meter, and Ghost traps stand for and if you don’t blurt out the word ‘Ghostbusters’ every time you hear “Who you gonna call?”
But the much-beloved franchise’s reboot in 2016 was such a bomb that its studio decided to continue the original lm canon with Ghostbusters: Afterlife
(2021), which opened to mixed reviews. But if Afterlife didn’t work for you, then you should denitely give the cold shoulder to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,
which is an uninspiring sequel that oers nothing new.
Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife
can be called an origin lm for the new breed of Ghostbusters who happen to be the descendants of the late Egon
Spengler. We were introduced to the nerdy Phoebe (Mckenna Grace), her wannabe-adult brother Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), their mother Callie (Carrie Coon) and former teacher turned Callie’s boyfriend, Gary (Paul Rudd). In the sequel, they have embodied their quirks and the dysfunctional team that’s somehow operational is introduced in the thick of the action as they zip through the Big Apple trying to take down the Hell’s Kitchen Sewage Dragon. Of course, the lm has a bigger baddie, in the form of Garraka, a demonic ice god, and the usual interpersonal bonding tropes and a
GDirector:
Gil Kenan
Cast: Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Kumail Nanjiani
Storyline: An ancient icy monster is out to create havoc and it’s up to the Ghostbusters to turn on the heat barrage of cameos and Easter eggs to target the fans of the original lms.
Speaking of the original lms, they were light-hearted, charming comedy entertainers and one of the pioneers of lacing the supernatural genre with humour; something that proved to be the formula for a slew of franchises over the years. Frozen Empire, for some reason, takes itself a little too seriously. If the fact that it actually starts with a quote from Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice does not drive home the point, the lack of quality humour makes a case for it. Not to mention how the lm throws random