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‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Review: The Spooky Reboot Finds Its Groove In A Fun, Scary Sequel
‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ review: the spooky reboot finds its groove in a fun, scary sequel
As opposed to The Dial of Destiny, which leaned way too hard into the modern-day appeal of an action hero who’s now 80, the new-era Ghostbusters is determined to start from scratch, and it’s telling that this film, like its predecessor, is at its weakest when trying to work in cameos for original stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson. With its core protagonists in place — the Spenglers plus Grooberson and the original Ghostbusters minus Ramis — Frozen Empire makes the strange decision to add three more characters to the mix, even while bringing back two key players from the last film — Podcast (Logan) and Lucky (Celeste O’Connor) — then effectively leaving them on the benches. Burned alive in a horrifying tenement fire, Melody befriends Phoebe, and their cross-dimensional friendship is a deliberate and very sweet distraction from the plot that’s being laid out; an attempt by a monstrous ancient creature called Garraka to infiltrate modern civilisation and destroy mankind using the paralyzing Death Chill (“The power to kill by fear itself”).
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