Review by Paul Salfen
This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters this weekend is Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the sequel to the reboot and it’s DOA. Like many other kids in the ’80s, Ghostbusters was a huge movie in our home and brought a lot of joy with every repeated viewing. It was fun, fresh, quotable, and a joy to watch. This is none of those things. At the half hour mark, I was wondering why I hadn’t smiled yet and then at the hour and a half mark, the original Ghostbusters finally get in costume and get to work. The rest focuses on Paul Rudd and family with a helping of teenage awkwardness and internal strife. The returning characters from the original are great to see and it’s nice to see Ernie Hudson get more to do and get a nostalgia kick with Slimer, the library ghost, and the Stay-Puft marshmellow creatures, but overall it’s bloated, infested with obvious eyeroll-inducing product placement, and has little emotional resonance like the last film did. It needed a lot more Bill Murray, a lot more fun, and something to tether our hearts to it. It’s a shame that busting does not make us feel good this time around. That’s it for this week. Join me next week and every week for another Movie Minute right here on 97.5 KLAK, AMFM Magazine, and RECRD.
