'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' overloads on nostalgia, to the point that this 'Force Awakens'-style legacy sequel almost falls into the 'Rise of Skywalker' sandbox.
over the summer, are going to mostly enjoy it. As the film becomes more and more of a glorifiedremake, they may take it as it comes without realizing they should be cheering or rolling their eyes at a given callback. However, the film’s critical flaw, if not quite fatal one, is that it commits itself to not just being a new adventure with new protagonists in the world where the Ghostbusters saved New York from Gozer and the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man in 1984 .
But before the film dives headfirst into unapologetic nostalgia, it works pretty well as a quirky and charming coming-of-age flick. The summer school teacher hits it off both with young Phoebe and the hot new single mom in town. Digression, but not only is Carrie Coon better than this movie deserves, but the film is refreshingly non-judgmental about her romantic interests while subtly hinting at a potential drinking problem.
The picture devolves into a saga of our new protagonists encountering essentially the same adventure that befuddled our original protagonists in the summer of 1984. Heck, I would be spoiling things just by telling you which elements do or don’t make a reprise. As much as I sighed or rolled my eyes at the callbacks, Easter eggs and rehashes, that’s frankly why this movie got made.
That the film centers a pre-teen girl will likely be seen as progress or a preemptive defense, but that’s neutered by the grotesque reaction toin summer 2016. It also plays into the notion that getting sloppy seconds of a white male-centric franchise, but only with the explicit family connection to the original heroes, is the ultimate aspirational goal for actresses. Now Hollywood didn’t tell audiences to rally for a female James Bond or a female Indiana Jones while ignoring.
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