{"id":350689,"date":"2021-10-09T22:25:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T19:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ghostbusters-afterlife-review-finally-a-watchable-sequel\/"},"modified":"2021-10-09T22:25:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T19:25:28","slug":"ghostbusters-afterlife-review-finally-a-watchable-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ghostbusters-afterlife-review-finally-a-watchable-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ review: Finally, a watchable sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ review: Finally, a watchable sequel<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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To be known as the second best \u201cGhostbusters\u201d movie was never a badge of honor. Until now.<\/p>\n

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<br>Rated PG-13 (supernatural action and some suggestive references.) In theaters Nov. 19.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

After the fantastic 1984 original, a New York comedy classic, came its dumb follow-up, \u201cGhostbusters II,\u201d in which the city was attacked by angry pink slime and a talking painting. To almost quote Ray Parker Jr, it was something weird, and it didn\u2019t look good.<\/p>\n

Then in 2016 Paul Feig directed a meh all-women reboot starring Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Melissa McCarthy that made no money. Plans for more were quickly scrapp<\/a>ed.<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s taken 36 years and six presidencies, but with \u201cGhostbusters: Afterlife\u201d fans finally have an unembarrassing sequel to love. Director Jason Reitman\u2019s soul-satisfying film, which surprised New York Comic Con on Friday night, harkens back to our favorite summer blockbusters of the \u201880s, even though it\u2019s set in 2021, and pays homage to the original while feeling fresh and new.<\/p>\n

Kind of like the 2018 \u201cHalloween\u201d starring Jamie Lee Curtis, \u201cAfterlife\u201d has selective amnesia and pretends that the movies<\/a> after 1984 never happened. There is no mention of Vigo the Carpathian or any characters from the 2016 movie. Thank Gozer for that.<\/p>\n

Also, perhaps controversially, New York City is in the rearview mirror.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfterlife\u201d instead takes place in fictional Summerville, Oklahoma, where there are no skyscrapers but the corn is as high as an elephant\u2019s eye. After her estranged father dies, Callie (Carrie Coon) and her two teens Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) and Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) move to the town to deal with his creepy old farmhouse. Grandpa \u2014 and this is not a spoiler, as Reitman has discussed this extensively \u2014 was Egon Spengler (the late great Harold Ramis).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mckenna Grace plays inquisitive Phoebe in \u201cGhostbusters: Afterlife.\u201d<\/figcaption>
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The small-town locale, not to mention the casting of Wolfhard, lends the movie an appealingly retro \u201cStranger Things\u201d or \u201cIt\u201d vibe. And leaving Manhattan for Main Street, USA (sounds like all my friends when they have kids) was the right call by Reitman. The original \u201cGhostbusters\u201d firehouse was in Tribeca back when nobody wanted to go to Tribeca. Now the scariest thing about Tribeca is the cost of dinner.<\/p>\n

In Summerville, Phoebe and Trevor learn that gramps abandoned his family and ghostbusting pals and became the town outcast who was working on a project connected to mysterious earthquakes there. When Phoebe, an aspiring scientist, and Trevor discover his proton packs, ghost traps, beige uniforms and famous Ecto-1 car, fans will go loco.<\/p>\n

Together with a funny little sidekick named Podcast (Logan Kim) and their summer school teacher Mr. Grooberstein, they become an accidental new generation of Ghostbusters.<\/p>\n

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The ghouls are angry and green as ever in \u201cGhostbusters: Afterlife.\u201d <\/figcaption>
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Reitman, who just so happens to be the son of famed producer of the 1984 movie Ivan Reitman, is an accomplished director in his own right, having helmed the wonderful \u201cJuno\u201d and \u201cUp in the Air.\u201d He finds the perfect tone here, especially in how he uses composer Elmer Bernstein\u2019s original music while Phoebe and Trevor tinker with Egon\u2019s gadgets. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s also skilled at getting genuine performance out of young actors, as he proved in \u201cJuno,\u201d and balancing humor with stakes \u2014 essential for comedy-horror like \u201cGhostbusters.\u201d The jokes are very funny and Wolfhard and Grace make life-threatening peril look like a ball. <\/p>\n

The ending will be divisive, but I found it tastefully done. And throughout the movie, fans will be thrilled to be reunited with many familiar, hilarious faces. <\/p>\n

I can reveal that as the credits roll, we hear the classic \u201cGhostbusters\u201d theme tune that\u2019s almost more famous than the actual movie at this point. You\u2019ll be grateful that Reitman is a purist and did not end his successful sequel with \u201cWho Ya Gonna Text?\u201d by Billie Eilish.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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