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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

 

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is the fourth installment of the Ghostbusters franchise excluding the attempted reboot.

After Jason Reitman's reboot with Ghostbusters: Afterlife the studio gave the reigns to writer Gil Kenan to try and keep the flame alive from a directorial aspect. The film suffers from having a too-packed cast and the director didn't cut out unnecessary scenes and because of that, the film feels like a wait to see the big bad teased in the poster, trailer, and premise of the film. Kenan hasn't had a successful live-action film with the Poltergeist failure and his only good film being Monster House, but that success is partly attributed to writer Dan Harmon.

Paul Rudd has a minor character arc into a more fatherly figure in the family who has to take on a more authoritative role for a child who treats her mother horribly. It makes me wonder who this was written for as it seems the message is for teenage girls who have issues, the odd thing is that there isn't a single female writer to really draw realism from. Ghostbusters isn't known for teen angst which goes against what is expected from the film.

Kumail Nanjiani is funny but his character was totally unnecessary and just added more to the already packed cast. There could have been a script that excluded his character and backstory and it would still have been a fine movie.

There are too many other actors to cover them all in detail with my style of review but here are some tidbits. Mckenna Grace needs to tone it down, Finn Wolfhard is putting in the work but needs to fill out his frame, Emily Alyn Lind did great, and Celeste O'Connor was underused for her talent. Result: C+

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