Review – Ghostbusters 2

I’m not sure there was really a serious need for the world to know whether or not it was in fact physically possible to make a movie even more stupid than Ghostbusters, but the question is nonetheless now resolved for all time. This is the same cast, the same effects, the same juvenile sense of humor, even the same basic plot as the original. But as usual with sequels of this sort, the attempt to recreate past success falls pathetically flat. What was once at least mildly clever now plays like an SNL joke that’s been told over and over and over again until it’s no longer funny. Not that it was all that funny to begin with. See if desperate