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7. Ghostbusters (2016) Isn’t Even the Worst Ghostbusters Movie

Ghostbusters 2 isn’t good. It’s reeeeeeeeeeally, reeeeeeeeeeeally not good. Now, I’M not happy it isn’t good, I would love to have 2 awesome and 1 pretty good Ghostbusters movies, but we don’t.

Ghostbusters 1984 was lightning in the bottle success. Something that can never be replicated in exactly the same way. That’s why Ghostbusters 2016 works: it isn’t trying to be exactly the same movie, it takes the core conceit of a sci-fi-“horror”-comedy and goes in its own direction with it.

Ghostbusters 2 tries to recapture the magic of the original in what is a giant lost cause. It’s substantially less funny, it loses most of its charm, and while it has funny scenes and moments (I legitimately love the road work scene), it simply falls flat overall. It’s a retread that has the major comedy sequel problem of resetting everybody to where they were at the beginning of the first movie. And saying this doesn’t give me any joy.

Ghostbusters 2 isn’t a terrible movie I enjoy ripping into like Batman v Superman, it’s just a not-very-good movie that we need to talk about when praising the Ghostbusters “franchise”. It isn’t a franchise. It’s not Star Wars, you guys. It’s a great movie, a not good movie, a pretty good cartoon series and a fun video game. A pretty decent reboot isn’t gonna “destroy” that “legacy”.