Once again back is the incredible

It would be so horribly ironic if Schwarzenegger ever got cancer.

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I will defend Ghostbusters 2 even as my undying soul rots away in an ectoplasmic containment unit of Egon Spengler’s design.

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ok Chris defend your precious movie.

10 reasons Why Ghostbusters II Sucked:

1. At the beginning of the movie, we actually had to wait for the Ghostbusters team to reunite after breaking up. This nonsense just wastes valuable story time.

2. Ray and Winston were seen singing and dancing to the original Ghostbusters song at the birthday party.

3. The judge and other city officials STILL don’t believe in ghosts and monsters regardless of the fact that a 50ft marshmallow man waddled its fat ass along central park west with tv crews filming it during the last film.

3b. In what cave did these doctors live in during the events of the entire first movie such that they didn’t recognize the Ghostbusters? Hasn’t the whole “completely ignorant psychiatrist” thing been overdone?

4. The rewrites of Louis Tully’s and Janine Melnitz’s characters were ridiculous as was their forced and awkward love affair.

5. The whole objectified good energy vs evil energy plot was childish, horribly cliché and stupid.

6. Oh my god, they put fucking Slimer in the movie!!! The ghost from the first film that the animated series “cutified” to sell toys. How was this at any time considered a good idea?

7. The ghost train was far too comical an event to use after the “growling voice” and the severed heads on pikes. Not to mention, it really devalued Winston’s character.

8. I didn’t mind Sigourney Weaver being in the film, but did she have to be the victim AGAIN? No, I don’t care that it was technically her kid. The baby could only play “cry” and “not cry”; Sigourney Weaver played the victim.

9. Cheech Marin looking out a window with a stupid look on his face (without mentioning drugs) does not constitute a running gag.

9b. Not that it wasn’t a decent effect, but why would the hate filled slime of New York raise the Titanic?

10. With all that slime at his command, and supposedly the ghosts that came with it, Vigo’s choice of minions was really quite pathetic. Why not raise some of the Redcoats or Union soldiers? Why not some native American spirits to fight for him? Vigo’s most menacing fighters were a cross-dressing ghost nanny and a killer bathtub.

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Fonzie is actually the prime example of “supporting character who steals show away from original stars”- like Dr. Smith on LOST IN SPACE or Dan Fielding on NIGHT COURT. It’s a crucial difference; these characters EARNED their prominence by becoming the viewer’s favourites.(You may not like Urkel- but why ELSE would anyone watch FAMILY MATTERS?)

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My comparison has always been that GHOSTBUSTERS II is like soda you’ve left in the fridge for a while. It still tastes good, it’s sweet and all, but the fizz is gone.

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Actually, my point was that both Ghostbusters movies are primarily a comedies, absolutely absurd and ridiculous ones at that. These movies are are not super duper serious dramas which are supposed to keep us on the edge of our seats from start to finish.

So, I’m sorry if you didn’t like it because it had the Ghostbusters dancing for 15 seconds, if they spent some time playing with some humorous situations for the characters before they jumped back into the saddle, if they used Slimer for two little gag scenes, or if Winston was afraid because he thought he was about to be murdered by a train. I’m sorry that you decided that it should be one kind of movie, and it wound up being a different sort altogether.

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“Is the atomic weight of cobalt 58.9?” is ample penance for all this movie’s sins.

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“Suck in the guts guys, we’re the Ghostbusters.”

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