GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE
FILM
Manhattan mayhem as Ecto-1 races to the rescue.
IS THIS A BETTER GHOSTBUSTERS 2 THAN THE LAST GHOSTBUSTERS 2?
★★
OUT 22 MARCH / CERT 12A / 115 MINS
DIRECTOR Gil Kenan
CAST Mckenna Grace, Dan Aykroyd, Paul Rudd, Ernie Hudson, Carrie Coon, Bill Murray
PLOT After an ancient icy monster is unearthed, the Spenglers and the original Ghostbusters team up to thwart its dastardly deep-freeze plans.
GHOSTBUSTERS ISN’T IN the afterlife just yet, but it might be in purgatory. Has there ever been a franchise with as much of an identity crisis? We’ve had 1984’s comedy-horror and its follow-up; years later a zany gender-flipping reboot that had its charms but floundered; and then, pretending that one never happened, came 2021’s Afterlife, a surprisingly moving sequel to the originals that introduced a likeable new breed of ’busters. Now, Frozen Empire throws everything against the wall to see if any of the slime sticks. Bits of it do; much of it just gloops off. There are some entertaining ghouls, but the real fear this time seems to be off screen. Trying to play it safe, buckling under the weight of its own heritage, Ghostbusters itself is running scared.