Ghostbusters II
June 16, 1989 in theaters
Five years after saving New York, the Ghostbusters are disbanded and discredited — until a surge of psychokinetic slime beneath the city signals a new supernatural threat tied to a museum curator and a malevolent 16th-century tyrant. The sequel continues the team's dynamic with a lighter register than the original.
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"He's just a big pile of slime."
DID YOU KNOW?
Director Ivan Reitman has said he regrets making the sequel, feeling the original needed no follow-up.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
A sequel that recaptures enough of the original's energy to be entertaining without recovering what made it essential. The Vigo painting and the mood slime are inventive additions, and the courtroom sequence is a genuine high point. The film retreads the original's structure more faithfully than it should, and the climax -- using the Statue of Liberty as a plot device -- is more spectacle than wit. A satisfying continuation for fans of the first film that confirmed the original was the more complete achievement.
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