Download Ghostbusters II movie

1989, USA

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi

Actors:

Bill Murray		Dr. Peter Venkman
Dan Aykroyd		Dr. Raymond Stantz
Sigourney Weaver		Dana Barrett
Harold Ramis		Dr. Egon Spengler
Rick Moranis		Louis Tully
Ernie Hudson		Winston Zeddemore
Annie Potts		Janine Melnitz
Peter MacNicol		Dr. Janosz Poha
Harris Yulin		Judge Stephen 'The Hammer' Wexler
David Margulies		Mayor Lenny
Kurt Fuller		Jack Hardemeyer
Janet Margolin		The Prosecutor
Wilhelm von Homburg		Vigo
William T. Deutschendorf		Baby Oscar
Henry J. Deutschendorf II		Baby Oscar

Directors:

Ivan Reitman |

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Chile:TE | Finland:K-12/9 | Ireland:PG ... show all

IMDB Rating:

5.70 out of 10 (17223 votes)

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Taglines:	1: Be ready to believe us. 2: Guess who's coming to save the world again? 3: We're back! 4: The Superstars of the Supernatural are back! 5: The Superstars of the Supernatural are back. And this time, it's no marshmallow roast.
Plot Summary:	It's 5 years after the battle against Gozer. A restraining order has forbidden Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, and Egon Spengler from working as Ghostbusters, and as a result, they've had to find other jobs. Ray owns a book store called "Ray's Occult" and performs at children's birthday parties with Winston, Egon conducts experiments at the institute for advanced theoretical research, Dana Barrett broke up with Peter some time ago before marrying another guy, and Peter now hosts a local TV show called "The World of the Psychic". Dana, who is now the divorced mother of an 8-month-old baby named Oscar, works in the restoration department at the Manhattan Museum of Art. Strange things start happening when Oscar's baby carriage takes off by itself with Oscar in it, and it stops in the middle of 1st Avenue. While Dana's boss, Janosz Poha, is restoring a painting of a 16th-century tyrant named Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf, the painting comes to life. Vigo wants to live again by taking over Oscar's body. Vigo takes complete control of Janosz and orders Janosz to get Dana to cooperate. Janosz also has his own agenda. He wants Dana because he's in love with her. When Peter, Ray, and Egon try to help Dana, they are arrested and put on trial for violating the restraining order. When the ghosts of the killer Scoleri Brothers show up at the court room, the judge is forced to remove the restraining order against the guys so they can put the Scoleri Brothers in a ghost trap. After this, Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston re-open Ghostbusters, and mayor's assistant Jack Hardemeyer tries to slow them down any way he can, because he believes the Ghostbusters are frauds who will hurt the mayor's chances of becoming the governor of New York. The Ghostbusters and their lawyer, Louis Tully, refuse to be stopped by Jack. When Jack has the Ghostbusters put in the Parkview mental hospital, there is an eclipse and Janosz kidnaps Oscar for Vigo. The mayor wants the Ghostbusters on the job, and when the mayor hears that Jack had the Ghostbusters put in the Parkview mental hospital, he fires Jack and has the Ghostbusters released to try to rescue Oscar from Vigo, and Vigo intends to make it as hard as possible for the Ghostbusters.
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Ghostbusters II review

posted on 20 December 2007

There are great sequels. There are sequels that expand, deepen and enrich upon the original. Then there are sequels that defecate, piss and vomit upon the original. There are sequels that take everything that is holy about the original and destroy it. And then there are sequels that are a practical re-run of the first and just make you go 'meh'. 'Ghostbusters 2' is just such a sequel.

Despite saving New York form being eaten by the ancient god Zuul, the ghostbusters have fallen on hard times. After being sued for mass destruction of public property, they're broke and business has folded. Egon (Harold Ramis) is working in research again, Ray (Dan Akroyd) and Winston (Ernie Hudson) have resorted to becoming childrens entertainers when the children would much rather have He-Man entertain them, and Pete (Bill Murray) is a two-bit tv show host. Dana Barret (Sigourney Weaver) meanwhile is a single mother and working in an art restoration gallery. But her job is about to be disturbed by the arrival of the Carpathian warlord Viggo imprisoned in a painting.

Isn't that just the way? You just get back on your feet and along comes the ghost of a bloodthirsty barbarian who wants to invade the body of your cute ickle baby to reincarnate himself. Sheesh, talk about bad luck...And just to make the hurry for the ghostbusters to reunite just that little bit quicker, there's a river of slime flowing through the sewers causing an uprise in violence.

Technically, there's no reason why this shouldn't be as good as the first. It's not an over-inflated special effects-fest, everyone has returned and gives comfortable performances, the story makes sense and the villains very snarly. But ultimately that's the problem - it's too similiar to first time around. It's lost the zest and flash that the first one had and everything just feels like a lame retread. There's set-pieces that look effective (the dead prisoners in court and a ghost nanny), but they're nowhere near as effective or atmospheric as the first capture of Slimer or the appearance of the Hell Hounds in the first. There's nothing as scary here as the ghostly librarian in the first, and nothing as funny here as the "Yes it's true. This man has no dick" line.

It's an attempt to recapture the elemental fun of the first, but it's not scary enough, funny enough or plain fun enough. It's noticeable that Murray doesn't seem as interested this time round and seems quite bored in places. And while the walking Statue of Liberty is a great gimmick, it'll have you fondly recalling the StayPuft Marshmallow Man instead of raising your excitement levels. So while there's nothing intrinsically wrong with this sequel, there's none of the danger of the first (Viggo isn't a patch on Zuul as a villain).

'Ghostbusters 2' does avoid the cardinal sin of sequels, by not being a total disgrace or embarassment to the first. It's in no way bad, and is actually quite fun if you're in an undemanding mood. But was 'quite fun' and 'undemanding' how anyone described the first film? No. And that's the problem with this sequel in a nutshell.