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4. The Visual Style is Dead On

*badum-tish*

All the visual style on this movie feels like a perfectly logical extension of the original. The ghosts all look straight out of the original two movies, most at least cleverly designed if not plot necessary. The subway ghost in particular riffs on designs from Ghostbusters 2, of all things, and brings them together in a new and inventive way.

All the new ghosts strike that correct balance between a bit scary and kinda funny that a movie like this needs. My audience legitimately jumped at a couple of the scares in this movie, which is a really good thing.

And while Ghostbusters 1984 was one hundred percent made as a comedy, and anyone who thinks different is actually too stupid for me to comprehend their existence, a few scares are much appreciated.

The tech used by our cast of heroes is fun and new, building off that original premise of unlicensed nuclear reactors forced together in unsafe combinations. But of course, this flick isn’t past those proton packs. It knows where it came from, but it won’t resist going somewhere new with it.