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Ghostbusters: Afterlife is simply the things you already knew and liked, but repeated with unearned gravitas. With rounded glasses, stilted mannerisms and a hyper-fixation on science, she is but a pint-sized clone of her grandfather – has that given away who I’m talking about yet?Ĭeleste O’Connor (Lucky), Finn Wolfhard (Trevor), Mckenna Grace (Phoebe) and Logan Kim (Podcast) in ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ (Sony Pictures) But Phoebe, despite the enthusiasm Grace brings to the role, isn’t really her own person. The argument, of course, will be that the Ghostbusters fandom couldn’t possibly have an issue with women in their movies because the lead in Afterlife is a young girl. At least his female-fronted Ghostbusters had enough sense of clarity to treat itself as an SNL-adjacent comedy. And by presenting one of the most popular films of all time as a cultural underdog, Afterlife helps prop up the bizarre sense of franchise ownership that fuelled the worst of the misogyny directed at Paul Feig’s 2016 reboot. Despite the team having conclusively proven the existence of ghosts some 40-odd years ago, everyone but the most dedicated of nerds ( Paul Rudd’s seismologist-turned-teacher, Chad Grooberson) seems to have wiped the memory from their brain. There’s something slickly manipulative about appealing to the latter – especially the ways in which Reitman and his screenwriting partner for the film, Gil Kenan, seem to present the internal Ghostbusters mythology as niche and unappreciated. To that, I say: which fans? The fans, like me, who simply enjoy Ghostbusters for what it is? Or the fans who’ve entirely subsumed Ghostbusters into some wider mourning for lost childhoods and a time when they felt the most important and powerful of all? He’s also remarked that his sequel “hands back” the franchise to its fans. Jason Reitman has positioned his film as a tribute to the work of his father, Ivan, on the 1984 film. And just as the title of “ghostbuster” is passed between the generations, so has the job of Ghostbusters director.
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The Ghostbusters can’t just be dorks anymore – Hollywood has made them superheroes. And when something strange starts lurking in the neighbourhood, every new discovery suddenly becomes imbued with lore and mysticism. When they find the proton packs hiding in the basement, the energy beams they shoot out have enough juice to wreck a small city. When they switch on Ecto-1 – really just a pimped-up hearse hidden away in one of the barns – it rumbles like a sports car. Soon enough, they start to stumble across old bits of Ghostbusters tech. The two of them play Phoebe and Trevor, the children of Callie ( Carrie Coon), who’s uprooted the family and moved them into the Oklahoman farmhouse of her late father – whose identity is kept secret for no reason at all, since it’s screamingly obvious from the get-go. And, for them, the busting of ghosts is a sacred task passed on by their wise and saintly forebears. The new film, which largely ignores the existence of the 1989 sequel, focuses on the next generation, played by Mckenna Grace and Finn Wolfhard. It was the film that opened the door to the likes of The Jerk, Trading Places, and Caddyshack.īut from watching this latest instalment, the fourth in the franchise, you’d think Ghostbusters opened with the title card: “Sing, O muse!”. It had the loose, anarchic humour of early Saturday Night Live, was only ever serious about the lingo of parapsychology, and was just about family-friendly enough to serve as an entry point for comedy fans. Growing up, I understood the 1984 film to be a scrappy though wildly successful comedy about a pack of down-on-their-luck dorks incidentally proving the existence of the astral plane and getting blow jobs from ghosts. Ghostbusters: Afterlife has made me question what people even liked about the original. Starring: Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd.