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- Five years after the battle against Gozer, a restraining order has forbidden Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, and Egon Spengler from working as Ghostbusters, so they've found other jobs. Ray owns a bookstore, "Ray's Occult," and performs at children's birthday parties with Winston. Egon conducts experiments at the Institute For Advanced Theoretical Research. Dana broke up with Peter and married another man, and Peter Peter now hosts a local TV show, "The World of the Psychic". Dana, now the divorced mother of an 8-month-old baby named Oscar, works in the restoration department at the Manhattan Museum of Art. Strange things start happening when Oscar's baby carriage takes off by itself with him in it and it stops in the middle of 1st Avenue. While Dana's boss, Janosz Poha, is restoring a painting of a 16th-century tyrant named Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf, the painting comes to life. Vigo wants to live again by taking over Oscar's body. Vigo takes complete control of Janosz and orders Janosz to get Dana to cooperate. Janosz has his own agenda: he's in love with Dana. When Peter, Ray, and Egon try to help Dana, they are arrested and put on trial for violating the restraining order. When the ghosts of the killer Scoleri Brothers invade the courtroom, the judge is forced to remove the restraining order against the guys so they can put the Scoleri Brothers in a ghost trap. After this, Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston re-open Ghostbusters, and mayor's assistant Jack Hardemeyer tries to slow them down however he can, because he believes that the Ghostbusters are frauds who will hurt the mayor's chances of becoming the governor of New York. The Ghostbusters and their lawyer, Louis Tully, refuse to be stopped by Jack. When Jack has the Ghostbusters put in the Parkview Mental Hospital, there is an eclipse and Janosz kidnaps Oscar for Vigo. The mayor wants the Ghostbusters on the job, and when the mayor hears that Jack had the Ghostbusters committed, he fires Jack and has the Ghostbusters released to try to rescue Oscar from Vigo, which Vigo intends to make as difficult as possible.
- The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.
- this film was more creppy than the original in so many elements: the slime was growing when people were p*ssed off. the scoleri brothers were scarier than slimer the song monologue when the ghostbusters were in the nuthouse Vigo the painting shows up more than Gozer in part one.<br/><br/>Though there are punchlines that people might repeat such as the "sometimes s**t happens", it could've work better as a comedy like the original. Anyway, this is the only sequel i watch during my senior year because there were somethings that made me freaked out. I have the entire soundtrack and I get crazed on the sequel whenever I'm scared or in a jolly mode. This if the first movie you should see on Halloween then the original and so forth.<br/><br/>10/10
- Five Years Earlier...<br/><br/>When Ghost Busters arrived on the scene in 1984, it was a phenomenal success. It was a roller coaster of charm, thrills and wit for all ages. Following the film there were plans to make it a TV series, but the funding simply wasn't there. Instead it was made into a series of animated series aimed for the kiddie audience that about half of the movie was intended for. Mind you the animated series was respectively dark for its time and in order to bring more humor into the series, the producers brought in a comical sidekick in the form of one of the Ghost Buster's first spectral nemeses. A ghost referred to behind the scenes as Onionhead, but would come to be known as the gluttonous Slimer.<br/><br/>In many ways Slimer represents the nature of favoring marketing over substance. he was R2D2 without the subtlety and about half as useful. Fortunately the writers of the sequel foresaw this issue and he only makes two useless cameos in the film and never completely embarrasses the film by making it interact with the main characters.<br/><br/>Unfortunately the taint of marketing over substance didn't end with Slimer. The majority of the film is seasoned with similar laziness. The main characters are reduced in the very beginning to underdogs again instead of the heroes they were at the end of the first film. This eventually leads to a redemption scene in which the antagonist is a despotic judge who for some bizarre reason chooses not believe in ghosts, despite the fact that a 50 ft giant ghost was captured on live television during the climactic battle of the first film only five years ago.<br/><br/>Also returning is Dana Barret who plays the mother of the impending victim, Oscar. In the original film, Dana was a victim because she simply lived in the wrong apartment complex. Now her baby is the impending victim because... he's cute? I have my own personal issues with the use of babies or young children as plot devices because it eliminates any real drama. Nothing ever happens to these kids (Hollywood wouldn't dare risk it) and so no legitimate dramatic tension can be established by placing them "in harm's way". I'll get into the laziness of Oscar's character a little later. Dana portrays Peter's love interest again, because it would have made too much sense for them to simply still be together after the events of the first film and her character is just a little too well-adjusted for someone whose baby daddy just left her with a newborn for a job in Europe.<br/><br/>Slightly less lazy is the return of Louis Tully and his new love interest, Janine Melnitz, whose character is disappointingly reduced to a sexually aggressive caricature. While the chemistry between the two isn't entirely absent, Annie Potts' character was better in the first film as a snarkier assistant at odds with her employers and a thing for intellectuals. Louis Tully is Louis Tully, but unfortunately for Rick Moranis, his character role this time around is downgraded by the two aforementioned cameos with Slimer.<br/><br/>The meat and potatoes of the plot is established with the introduction of Vigo the Carpathian. A despotic sorcerer and tyrant whose spirit exists in a painting bearing his likeness. His main weapons of choice are a Renfield-like servant who is given vague supernatural abilities and is only slightly less annoying than Andy Dick and a powerful, spiritually charged sludge that manifests and feeds on negative emotions. The latter would have had a better execution if they had come up with a better solution to dealing with it other than happy, cheerful slime and serving the oldest possible cliché of objectified good versus objectified evil. Vigo's plan is to take over the world (Of Course!) and in order to do so he needs to possess a human body and that someone is baby Oscar.<br/><br/>This leads us to the true laziness of using a baby for a plot device. Oscar's character is entirely unnecessary except to serve as a springboard to bring Dana and Peter back together because we need to revisit this relationship from the first film. Also, it is obvious that Vigo intends to begin his reign from very beginning and yet he favors a host that would be relatively defenseless and lacking in basic communication abilities. It is also seen through his actions that he could possess practically any other human so the question begs why not choose any older child in New York City from ages 8-13 instead of learning how to walk, talk, feed yourself and use a toilet all over again.<br/><br/>Plot and general character laziness aside, the effects are decent but the music lacks the pop of the 'original' score from Ray Parker Jr (with my own respects to Huey Lewis and the News). Perhaps hip hop was not the way to go with this film.<br/><br/>Despite its flaws, its still a very watchable and moderately enjoyable film. It still manages to produce some genuinely creepy and funny moments which is what a Ghostbusters movie should have and it was nice to see Ernie Hudson's Winston Zeddemore do more in the film than be a stand-in fourth and the main four characters are still true to form. Its definitely worth a watch or two.
- The film gets by on the sheer good-naturedness Reitman is able to place in all of his efforts, though it doesn't seem likely to inspire the same level of affection as the original. Innocence is one quality that can never quite be recaptured. [16 Jun 1989, p.28]
- Five years after their near destruction of New York City after which they were sued until bankrupt and a restaining order placed on them that prevents them from working as Ghostbusters, Doctors Peter Venkman (<a href="/name/nm0000195/">Bill Murray</a>), Ray Stantz (<a href="/name/nm0000101/">Dan Aykroyd</a>), Egon Spengler (<a href="/name/nm0000601/">Harold Ramis</a>), and Winston Zeddemore (<a href="/name/nm0001368/">Ernie Hudson</a>), aided by their attorney Louis Tully (<a href="/name/nm0001548/">Rick Moranis</a>), finally convince a judge to lift the restraining order. Voila! The Ghostbusters are back in business and just in the nick of time as a massive river of "mood slime" is flowing through the abandoned Pneumatic Transit tunnels under Manhattan, and it appears that an ancient Carpathian sorcerer, Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf, (<a href="/name/nm0902455/">Wilhelm von Homburg</a>) wants to possess Dana Barrett's (<a href="/name/nm0000244/">Sigourney Weaver</a>) 8-month-old baby Oscar (<a href="/name/nm0222111/">William T. Deutschendorf</a> and <a href="/name/nm0222110/">Henry J. Deutschendorf II</a>). Ghostbusters II is the sequel to <a href="/title/tt0087332/">Ghost Busters (1984)</a> (1984), both of which were written by co-stars Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. Ghostbusters II was subsequently novelized in 1989 by American scifi/mystery writer Ed Naha. "Mood slime" is pictured as pink ectoplasm and described as a psychoreactive substance that responds to human emotional states. In short, it feeds on bad vibes. It was not explicitly mentioned what the slime was made of. They do, however, imply the slime was "brought to life" by Vigo and powered by the general bad vibes of the New Yorkers. You could take from this that the slime was either created by "ghost-power" or that the slime started from something very small and absorbed various elements from its environment. It was eventually established in the 2009 video game <a href="/title/tt1142978/">Ghostbusters (2009)</a> that the slime was manufactured by a contraption created by Ivo Shandor, the Gozer worshiper. Dana only mentions that Oscar's father left her to play with orchestras in Europe. Fans have speculated that the father is Timothy Carhart's character from the original movie, the violinist that Venkman calls "the stiff." This isn't made clear in the movie. It may be that, through his father, Oscar is a member of some family or bloodline that makes him a distant relative of Vigo. Or perhaps Dana's experience being possessed in the original film may have somehow made her son ripe for possession himself. Of course, it is actually Janosz who selects Oscar, no doubt due to his feelings for Dana. Vigo simply requests "a child" and it is likely that he would have been just as satisfied with any other baby. With just four minutes to go until midnight, Dana watches helplessly as Vigo begins his transfer into Oscar's body. Suddenly, the torch-bearing arm of the Statue of Liberty crashes through the skylight, Dana grabs Oscar, interrupting the transfer, and the Ghostbusters rappel down. They shoot positively-charged slime all over Janosz (<a href="/name/nm0001493/">Peter MacNicol</a>) (who'll wake up feeling like "a million bucks"). Vigo immobilizes Dana and the Ghostbusters and materializes out of the painting. He picks up Oscar and prepares to possess his body. Meanwhile outside, Louis arrives in full ghostbusters attire, and the crowd begins singing "Auld Lang Syne" as he zaps the slime barrier with a proton stream. The positive energy causes the barrier to disintegrate and forces Vigo back into the painting. In desperation, Vigo takes over Ray's body, but the others cover him with positive slime, destroying Vigo. As they revel in all the positive energy, Winston notices that the painting of Vigo has been replaced with a scene showing the four Ghostbusters standing protectively around Oscar. "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" written by Jackie Wilson. In the movie it is performed by Howard Huntsberry, though the Jackie Wilson original is heard during the dancing toaster scene. a5c7b9f00b
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