Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Ivan Reitman, 2021) Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Sigourney Weaver
That the target audience for this rubbish is a 12-year-old girl is shown by the fact that the main character is a 12-year-old girl. Of course, a preternaturally bright one, but still a child. In a childish ghost story. For a childish audience.
Being a sequel, the main actors are a new generation, two on from the original characters. They (Ackroyd etc.) turn up near the end, but only in order to disappoint, by reminding that they were once young and energetic. Bill Murray looks like his wheelchair is only one pace behind him. I think he has a couple of lines, but I wasn't amused, just dismayed. He was born 1950, but looks 99. Must be a hard life being a celeb.
There's an odd coda after most of the titles, with Sigourney Weaver and Murray. Apparently it's a reference to the earlier films that fans would be aware of. Wasted on me (tho I thought Weaver was one of only two good things about the first film of the series).
IMDb page.
Wikipedia page. Excerpt:
Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a 2021 American supernatural comedy film directed by Jason Reitman, written by Reitman and Gil Kenan. It stars Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Bokeem Woodbine, Paul Rudd, Logan Kim and Celeste O'Connor. It is the sequel to Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and the fourth film in the Ghostbusters franchise. Set 32 years after the events of Ghostbusters II, it follows a single mother and her children who move to an Oklahoma farm they inherited from her estranged father. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts and Sigourney Weaver appear in supporting roles, reprising their characters from the earlier films.
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