GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE
27 OCT – 19 NOV
BIG
SCREEN.
SMALL
SCREEN.
YOUR
REVIEWS
BIBLE
STARTS
HERE
★★★★★ EXCELLENT ★★★★ GOOD ★★★ OKAY ★★ POOR ★ AWFUL
★★★★
OUT 18 NOVEMBER CERT TBC / 124 MINS
DIRECTOR Jason Reitman
CAST Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd
PLOT When penniless Callie’s (Coon) estranged father dies, leaving her a dilapidated house in the middle of nowhere, she has no choice but to move there with her kids, Trevor (Wolfhard) and Phoebe (Grace). Phoebe very soon discovers her grandfather was Ghostbuster Egon Spengler and that there are many ghosts still unbusted.
Busting
out:
Phoebe
(Mckenna
Grace,
right)
and
Podcast
(Logan
Kim)
REBOOTING OR REVAMPING a film like Ghostbusters is tough. It’s not like trying to redo a horror, musical or thriller, where you have a sturdy framework you can simply decorate with new ideas. With Ghostbusters, you’re trying to recreate a feeling. The joy of the original movie was far less in the busting of ghosts than in the chemistry between the ’busters. You can’t simply imitate that with a new cast, as the enjoyable but too slick and self-aware 2016 reboot showed.