The Sony movie directed by Jason Reitman and starring Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace is playing exclusively in theaters. With a reverence for nostalgia and a few high-profile cameos in its arsenal, "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" opened above industry expectations with $44 million in ticket sales from 4,315 locations, according to studio estimates Sunday. Heading into Thanksgiving weekend, the latest attempt to revive "Ghostbusters" drew a sizable audience to theaters, while the awards darling "King Richard," like most dramas in the pandemic era, is struggling. Instead the younger Reitman’s film resorts to extreme, and frankly questionable, measures to tug at the pre-existing fanbase’s heartstrings.Original movies are over-performing, despite box office slumpīusting ghosts is still a fairly lucrative business after almost 40 years. It’s worth noting that the film climaxes in a sequence that’s at once wholly underwhelming, repeating scenes from both the original film and the beginning of “Afterlife” itself and failing to escalate the action either to build suspense or dazzle. One could go on, but there are so few surprises once “Afterlife” gets going that ruining anything seems mean-spirited. The scene with the self-frying eggs is now a scene with self-skewering marshmallows, taking place in the world’s least populated Wal-Mart, devoid of a single solitary employee or fellow customer, but open for business just the same. There’s still a Slimer sequence, except this ghost is even fatter and called “Muncher,” and now it’s a car chase.
“Afterlife” is about a group of millennials learning just how cool the 1980s were and deciding to make it live again, in a story that revisits a staggering number of beats from the original. It’s only once the supernatural plot kicks in that we realize that Reitman’s film isn’t about pushing the Ghostbusters in any new directions whatsoever. ‘Ghostbusters’ Writer Katie Dippold to Pen New ‘Haunted Mansion’ Movie
Or at least the incident would be constantly exploited for nostalgia purposes in our 1980s-obsessed western civilization. One might assume that after a group of scientists proved the existence of the afterlife, and New York was overrun by translucent nightmare monsters, and a giant Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man exploded all over the east coast, that the world would have been changed forever. Grooberson (Paul Rudd).Īnd thank goodness for that: Not because Paul Rudd is gift to every comedy he’s in (he is), but also because Grooberson is the only person in this whole movie who seems to remember that the Ghostbusters were actually a thing once. Phoebe is given a choice of asbestos removal or summer school, so she opts for the latter and meets a geeky seismologist and teacher named Mr. Trevor gets a summer job at burger joint so he can try, and repeatedly fail, to make an good impression on his cool co-worker Lucky (Celeste O’Connor, “Selah and the Spades”). They move back into Egon’s old house and discover that it’s a wreck, but with nowhere else to go - they just got evicted - Callie decides to move in. His dilapidated estate has been bequeathed to his hitherto unseen daughter, Callie (Carrie Coon), a single mother raising a teenaged sarcasm dispenser named Trevor (Finn Wolfhard, “Stranger Things”) and a young scientific genius named Phoebe (Mckenna Grace, “Malignant”) who takes after her grandfather. The story kicks in when Egon Spengler (originally played by the late Harold Ramis) dies in the small town of Summerville, alone and under mysterious supernatural circumstances. ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife': See Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man Get Miniaturized and Multiplied (Video)
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