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Ghostbusters: Afterlife Review: A Game For Nostalgia And Merch

 


If it seems like the only movie Big Hollywood knows how to make is the one they made last year and the year before, there’s a reason. The industry’s franchise fever is real, although it depends a lot on timing. My colleague Kyle Buchanan once determined that while successful sequels tend to roll out every few years, those that wait six years are often doomed to fail. This may be good news for the final Ghostbusters, a careful, painless, child-centric adventure that opens precisely five years, four months, and four days after the previous episode’s failure.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife was directed by Jason Reitman, whose father, Ivan Reitman, directed the first two films in the 1980s, and was set to take the third. For many years and after many other studio notes, a new director, Paul Feig, was recruited and the third film became a female-led reboot. Even before it opened, the reboot became the target of viciously sexist and racist trolling and rage, a victim of cultural wars. But just like the awkward appearances that haunt this series, profitable (and even barely profitable) franchises rarely really die in Hollywood. And Ghostbusters is just too goofy, too smart to have fun, and too potentially lucrative to stay buried for long.

And so: Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which is as cuddly and toothless as one would expect from a revived studio in which the main characters are children and Paul Rudd plays a sweetheart. They are all adorable as you would expect and have large, easy-to-read eyes, only to widen in mock surprise or mock fear when various ghosts call. For their part, the cartoonish appearances range from cutie to PG-13 and include a roly-poly metal muncher, a pair of hellhounds, and puffy, gurgling creatures whose wide open arms and gleeful demonic smiles have been designed for toy shelves and maximum nostalgia.

There is a story, of course, even if you don’t care and neither do I. What matters are the jokes, the energy, the boos, and the characters, which are appealing mainly because the performers who play them are too. The main children are a brother, Trevor (Finn Wolfhard from Stranger Things) and his younger sister, Phoebe (the very good Mckenna Grace). With their mother (the reliable Carrie Coon), they move to a desolate farmhouse in the middle of Oklahoma (played by Alberta, Canada), near one of those un-depressed little towns straight out of classic Hollywood. There, the kids collect two charming second bananas (Logan Kim, Celeste OConnor), make jokes, fight demons, solve mysteries.

Jason Reitman makes easy-to-watch, frictionless mainstream adult comedies and dramas (Up in the Air, The Front Runner) that deliver their laughter softly and their morals seriously. Like his father, he’s sentimental, but his father’s comedies are brash, lower-end, and high-concept: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins, etc. The Reitmans shared the duties on Afterlife, with Ivan serving as producer and Jason sharing screenplay credit with Gil Kenan. Regardless of the influence the father has on the son, one of the most enjoyable aspects of this joint venture is that while the adults in the story tell the youngsters what to do, the focus remains on action, not life lessons.

Franchise suites are all about reliability and give audiences exactly what they expect. Ghostbusters: Afterlife certainly keeps that contractual promise: there are ghosts, and they are broken. By design, there isn’t a single real surprise in the movie. Instead, the movie builds heavily on previous installments in an effort to create the kind of self-generated franchise mythology that can support other sequels (and so on). He trots familiar gadgets, ghosts and goo along with beloved faces and Ray Parker Jr.’s indestructible earworm from a theme song. Like young Reitman, Phoebe and her Scooby Gang battle ghosts on all fronts.

Ghostbusters: the afterlife
Rated PG-13 for Ghostly Peril. Duration: 2 hours 4 minutes. In theaters.

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