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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review - The original was a classic, but this reboot is as shapeless as a ghost... at least Bill Murray's still a hoot, writes BRIAN VINER

Almost 40 years have passed since the original Ghostbusters arrived in the UK, which for those of us who vividly remember seeing it back in December 1984 is slightly disconcerting.

Phoebe now lives in the Manhattan firehouse made famous by the original film, with her older brother Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), mother Callie (Carrie Coon) and her mum's partner, formerly her own science teacher, Mr Grooberson ( Paul Rudd). Meanwhile, very randomly playing solo chess in Washington Square Park one night, Phoebe meets a ghost of about her age, Melody (Emily Alyn Lind), who died 'in a terrifying tenement fire'. On the whole, The Persian Version is a comedy, and a notably lively one, full of self-aware quirks in which Leila breaks the so-called 'fourth wall' and speaks direct to camera, or characters become immobile as the action develops around them.

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