Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 4030521117549
Format: PAL
Region Code: 2
Theatrical Release Date: June 16, 1989
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Rating:  - One of the best sequels ever
this film was more creppy than the original in so many elements: the slime was growing when people were p*ssed off. the scoleri brothers were scarier than slimer the song monologue when the ghostbusters were in the nuthouse Vigo the painting shows up more than Gozer in part one. Though there are punchlines that people might repeat such as the "sometimes s**t happens", it could've work better as a comedy like the original. Anyway, this is the only sequel i watch during my senior year because there were somethings that made me freaked out. I have the entire soundtrack and I get crazed on the sequel whenever I'm scared or in a jolly mode. This if the first movie you should see on Halloween then the original and so forth.
Rating:  - THE PROTON PACK IS NOT A TOY.
I was just a little kid when this came out in the theater. I was too young to see the original in theaters, but by the time of the sequel (five years later) I, with millions of other kids, was a complete fanatic. I waited with bated breath for this thing to come out back in the summer of 1989... I watched my taped-off-TV copy of the original ten times a day in preperation... etc.
I could never not like this second offering, but even at the age of six, I was somewhat confused at some of the elements in Ghostbusters 2. (I deep analyzed every detail then, even more than I'm about to do now..) Stylistically, the movie falls way short of the first. This is odd, because all the same people were involved, who made the first movie so unique. From director Ivan Reitman, all the way down to that guy who played the mayor. Even the concept for the second script had a great idea, that just seems somewhat mishandled in the production. This could have easily been on par with the original, but a few things make it lack. The music for instance is pretty cheesy. Theres this goopy generic piano stuff thats all over the place, like Reitman just picked up some rights for it on the cheap. The quirky score for the first is nowhere to be found.
The first twenty minutes of the movie waste way too much time trying to show how all the characters went their own seperate ways after the battle with Gozer in the first. These sideplots date the movie (mention of the world ending on new years 1989...feh..)and are pretty ... Read More
Rating:  - Not as original as the first, but that would be hard to do.
However, they did get the same cast which is 1/2 the battle as far as a sequel goes. I think that terminator 3 suffered severely for lack of original cast. Too, bad because I really liked that storyline. Ghostbusters should have made a third movie, but not now because it's too late, Unless it's a really good script.
Rating: - Cartoon
Ghostbusters II is both an insult to the original and to the audience sitting through it. The film has none of the charm that made the original work and the effects are ATROCIOUS. The music is absolutely lousy and the plot makes the original look like The Merchant of Venice. First off, the characters are less serious in their intentions and more drawn from a comic strip. The success of the original and the cartoons series must have had a push in this. Rick Moranis is wasted from being a real person in the original (that might be a stretching description) to a poor sap delivering some of the worst one-liners in history. Harold Ramis is a parody of himself in the original, remember how humorless he was? Even Sigourney Weaver doesn't carry any sort of context with her character this time around. A movie like this must mix the elements of comedy and horror effectively, Ghostbusters II doesn't. It tries too hard to be funny without letting situations build themselves up as in the first. Even Venkman's delivery is totally off. Overall, a total waste. Just watch Ghostbusters again and don't even both with this one. The message in particular is both too pacifist like that year's The Abyss (a far superior film) and too simple for any audience outside of fourth grade.
Rating: - Underrated follow-up!
Five years after the events of the amazing four battling the forces of Gozar, The foursome Peter (Bill Murray), Ray (Dan Ackroyd), Egon (Harold Ramis) and Winston (Ernie Hudson) are out of business, doing kids parties and other jobs on their hands. Dana Barron (Sigourney Weaver) has a child now and works at a museum now, but unfortunately a new painting has arrived featuring legendary renissance warrior/sorcerer Viggo (Wilhem Von Hemburg) and it's cursed especially a river of slime underneath the city of New York that causes evil spirits. One day the four fellows are arrested for violating their restraining order as they must prove themselves in court that they are not frauds but when two evil spirits intterupt the trail, they now convience the judge that their restraining order to be off and back to business of being Ghostbusters. Reunited with Louis Tully (Rick Moranis) and Janine (Annie Potts), the incredible four must stop the forces of evil on New Year's eve before Vigo can possess Dana's child and take over the world.
Very entertaining and underrated sequel! Sure it doesn't have any of the sheer brilliance or excellence that made the first movie a classic but this is still an exciting sequel with good laughs. The creature effects and special effects are done by Industrial Light and Magic, i think they are well done effects including on the Scareli Brothers sequence in the court. The acting is good and the storyline isn't too bad, the film offers a couple of appearences by Cheech ... Read More
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