If you enjoy remembering Ghostbusters, then Ghostbusters: Afterlife offers a nonstop thrill ride of recognizing stuff.Īnother, more exhausting way to think about the film is as a corrective to Paul Feig’s 2016 Ghostbusters reimagining, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, which became such an unlikely flashpoint in the culture wars, even Donald Trump was compelled to weigh in. It’s a Lucite-encased collectible of a movie, one that treats every last bit of Ghostbusters arcana with worshipful awe, then carefully arranges them inside a tightly guarded, climate-controlled case to be purred over by other dewy-eyed collectors. Reitman’s sequel is indeed filled with references to things that most Ghostbusters fans will fondly recall: props, characters, entire scenes and lines of dialogue, et cetera. In a video introduction appended to preview screenings of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which opens November 19, director Jason Reitman promised Ghostbusters fans that they were about to embark on “the Easter egg hunt of their lives.” That’s definitely one way to look at it.
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