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Ghostbusters II

Ghostbusters 2

1989

Ivan Reitman

Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis ...

5.6

21,021

Comedy. Fantasy Five years after the events of the first film, the Ghostbusters have been plagued by lawsuits and court orders, and their once-lucrative business is bankrupt. However, when Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement only to be promptly arrested. The Ghostbusters discover that New York is once again headed for supernatural doom, with a river of ectoplasmic slime bubbling beneath the city and an ancient ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Mr. Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman, the director, have made a remarkably cheerful film (...) The members of the cast are also good (...) The special effects are more to the point of the comedy than they were in the first film."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"There's very little energy in the follow-through, and this time Murray's listlessness seems more anemic than comic."	NEG
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"The sequel is, on the whole, a fairly mechanical spook show, filled with grinning ghosts that are definitely ghoulish but hardly menacing."	NEU
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"It's a mishmash, like the first film, big and dumb and clunky. But the dumbness has personality and invention, much more so than in the first film."	POS
United States	Variety	"Kids will find the oozing slime and ghastly, ghostly apparitions to their liking and adults will enjoy the preposterously clever dialog."	POS

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