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almost 2 years ago

Ghostbusters II

a review by CinemaSerf

I can't say that I really loved the first film and this didn't really advance that view much. It was clearly just made to capitalise on that huge success without anyone really bothering to develop the characters or build much of a story. Indeed - all it really does is introduce a baby (aww) and swap the baddies - this time we have the slightly camp Carpathian "Vigo" (the splendidly named Wilhelm von Homburg) - whom our established quartet must defeat to save the world from oblivion (and the poor soundtrack). The visual effects are adequate, but the rest of it is just a rather pale and unremarkable rehash of the 1984 effort with similar humour and scenarios that are predictably slap-stick and dull. Sigourney Weaver pops up now and again but her "Dana" character has little to bring to this and frankly, I was really quite bored by the mundanity of it. Funniest bits are under the credits but sorry, I like my comedy just a shade more sophisticated than this childish stuff. I wouldn't bother.