Rating: 
Summary: Pretty Good Sequal A Rather Disappointing DVD
Review: The sequal finds the Ghostbusters in new job's, after saving New York City from the big and bad they had to go into hawk and pay for all the damages. So now they are left as a laughing stalk of the city. That is till a new big and bad is back. This time it's red slime with mood swings, and a cute little baby named Oscar. The big bad in the painting is an evil Lord so to speak of way back when. He takes control of a man who works in an art atmosphere, and he tries to take the baby Oscar from the mom of Sigourney Weaver who returns as Dana Barrett. As the case unfolds the Ghostbusters get back to busting ghosts :) And Dana rekindles the romance between her and Dr. Peter Venkman played again by Bill Murray. The whole movie was a bit more corney and a less spooky then the first but nevertheless funny and adventurous. The old movie theme is back, but with a less hype this time around. The ending was sweet and fun. It was really nice to see the original cast including the favorite Slimer make a comeback. That shows what fun they all had together making this movie :).
The thing about the DVD is that with the classic keepsake one it had a 3D menu, behind the scenes, commentary, and many more exciting goodies. If they come out later with a special DVD of Ghostbusters II as they did the first one I would buy it. So in general if that's what your looking for like the first one then just wait I'm sure it'll come out because this DVD just had the basic stuff, widescreen (No choice in Widescreen or full screen), just a simple cast list and a few other things. Not as fun as the original but if your using it to add to your movie collection then go ahead and buy it or just wait and see if they come out with one like they did with the first DVD set of the original Ghostbusters :)But I would give the movie a B and the DVD C.
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Summary: Evil seeps though New York City......who ya gonna call?
Review: A great follower of the original movie. It was almost guranteed a sucess because the original cast remained...and that meant more humour and more savin the day in style.
An evil painting of a carpathian sits in the Art Museum, while down below in the deepest tunnels evil slime runs through the heart of New York and radiates evil on the city. The Ghostbusters are once again fighting against the evil spirits that haunt the city. We have a killer cast again including:
Bill Murray as the great Peter Venkman - who can't help but make humor out of situations, though he remains the most confrontational when it comes to battling ghosts.
Harold Ramis as the ever so intellegent Egon - his smooth, in the know character creates constant humour throughout, while his intellegence makes him the Brains of Ghostbusters.
Dan Aykroyd as the Ray. He is often either challenged by spooks or brings across child like characteristics (remember how he reacted when they first looked at the ghostbusters headquarters).
I could go on but I think you get the drift. Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 is pure genius - from the script to the the casting. We have a great cast of comedic actors - Murray, Ramis and Aykroyd and the script written by Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd contains the right level of humour and scares.
Ghostbusters 1/2 will remain 2 of my favourite movies forever.
Rating:
Summary: MUCH better than the first one!
Review: I personally find the first Ghostbusters movie to be quite cheesy in my opinion but I think the 1989 sequel is far superior in every way. The first one looks incredibly gritty to where it's almost unwatchable. The second one has muhc clearer picture quality and much more drama, something that I love in movies as opposed to comedy that the first one is more of. The ghostbusters are now up against the rising of an evil spirit of a 16th century mass-murderer named Vigo who aims to inhabit the body of a newborn infant to be 'reborn' again and it happens to be the child of Dana Barrett. This movie is so much darker than the first one but I like it that way. The DVD offers little in the way of new stuff.
Rating: 
Summary: Underrated Sequel
Review: "Ghostbusters II" recieved a fair amount of bad press when it was first released, but it is a charming, well produced and yes, funny sequel to the first blockbuster. The film picks up five years after the original. We find the Ghostbusters out of business and broke, Bill Murray is hosting a bizarre cable access show called "World of the Psychic" and Ackroyd and Ernie Hudson are performing at children's parties. Aren't the parents nervous about the GB's wielding their proton packs around thier youngsters?? The story speeds up when the Ghostbusters reunite and discover the soul of an ancient tyrant resides in a portrait in a museum. The tyrant, named Vigo has decided to take possession of Sigourney Weaver's child so he can live again to rule the world. This plot seems more disturbing than the plot in the first film, but director Ivan Reitman gives us plenty of humor to counter balance. While not as funny as the first film, "Ghostbusters II" proves to be an entertaining follow up to the first classic film. After years of viewing, "Ghostbusters II" reveals itself to be a classic in it's own right.
Rating:
Summary: Superior To The Original
Review: I'm really shocked that so many people have bashed Ghostbusters 2. The sequel to one of the best movies ever. I just don't understand why. Ghostbusters 2 is far better than it's predesscessor. There are many different kinds of sub-plots that are great and work very well together. We have the plot of Vigo The Carpathian trying to dominate the Earth and trying to be re-born in the World by possessing little Baby Oscar, we have the sub-plot of Peter Venkman being Dana Barrett's Girlfriend, the sub-plot of the guys trying to get a good reputation, the sub-plot of the Slime River flowing underneath New York City feeding off the negative energy of the City. All those sub-plots and their mixed together flawlessly. Although the main plot is basically just a rehash of Ghostbusters 1, it's still great and original. An incredibly evil Tyrant named Vigo lives inside a Museum Painting and tries to dominate the Earth using a River of Slime flowing beneath New York City that absorbs all the negative energy of the City. He also tries to be re-born by possessing Baby Oscar. It's up to the Ghostbusters to stop him and once again save the world. The performances are also worthy of an Oscar. Murray once again steals the show as Peter Venkman, the other Busters are very well developed, and the rest of the actors are great. Peter MacNichol gives a superb performance as Janosz Poha and Wilhelm Von Homburg makes his Vigo character a million-dimensional villain. The music is also fantastic, and you better believe me when I say that it's some of the best music ever created. It changes from being Romantic (Peter dating Dana), frightening (the Slime River flowing beneath NYC generating evil Monsters) and being incredibly heroic (the 4 Ghostbusters saving the day from the Scoleri Brothers in the Court Room battle scene). So much great music and it works quite well with the movie. The special F/X are also some of the best ever put on film. Vigo's transformation into a nasty Demon towards the ending, the battle in the Court Room between the Ghostbusters and the Scoleri Brothers, and the Statue Of Liberity walking through NYC. Wow! How come the F/X didn't win any awards? And the Ghostbusting scenes are great. As I said earlier, the battle in the Court Room is a special F/X cyclone and is really incredible. The confrontation between Vigo and the 4 GBs at the end is superb. And Lady Liberity strolling through NYC is awesome! Reitman's direction is still good and gives GB 2 a very special and hard-worked feel to it. All in all, Ghostbusters 2 is an excellent film that shouldn't be missed by anyone. Give it a chance and don't listen to those lame-brained Critics and Reviewers who panned this film years ago and still do it Today. Their all clearly insane (then again, who listens to critics, anyway?). The DVD is also decent. The menus look very cool, the picture is very clear, the sound excellent, and it's cool to view GB 2 in both Widescreen and Fullscreen formats. The extras could've been much better though. All there is are a few Theatrical Trailers, Scene Selection, Production Notes, Biographies of the Cast and Crew, and that's pretty much it. Still, buy it anyway. Ghostbusters rule!
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Summary: Good...
Review: Being such a huge fan of this film's predecessor, I was bound to be somewhat overtly critical of the sequel. Ghostbusters 2 is by far not a bad movie, but it could've been a lot better. On a creative level, the script/plot is basically the same as the first movie... It's kinda like watching the first one, just throw a baby into the mix. A rehash, you could say. Anyway, it isn't all that bad. The jokes are funny, performances are strong... More could've been done with the script and plot basically to make it more unique and original.
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Summary: The Funniest Movie Ever!
Review: The funniest part of this movie was when a lady's mink coat came alive. I liked the way the ghostbusters sucked up ghosts.
If you liked the Gremlins, you'll enjoy this movie.
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Summary: The Slime now has feelings, OH BABY!
Review: Ghostbusters 2 is not the best of sequels. Sure the money was there, but it didn't seem all that funny. Sometimes this movie down right took on a dark tone. The Painting was truely a scary ghost, and in some ways may have been one of the biggest problems with this movie. As for the actor's, it seemed like the jokes just didn't work. Probably if your looking for a true movie comedy, go with the first Ghostbusters. This movie wasn't very funny, and was semi-scary drama. Let me now review this dvd in detail: Movie charctors: I could see that Bill didn't really have a feel for this movie. Most actor's in this movie do decently, but not as well as the first movie. The support cast also wasn't very good this time round. One of the biggest problems with the movie charctors was the lack of humor. . . . . .80% Movie Plot: The plot basicly was put around the Slime and the painting. Basicly The slime now has feelings and is effected by how people in New York feel, and theres a ton of it in the sewers. The Painting is a self-portrait of a known Murder that died in a very bad way. Anyways The painting's ghost needs a host to walking again in human form. And of coarse Dana and Peter's baby he wants. Go figure. You think this ghost would have known better. lol anyway. . . .85% Movie effects: The effects where very interesting. The Art department sure gave the movie some very interesting ghosts. However Some things didn't quite work. The Statue of Liberty was way off the size of the real one. One more thing about the movie was how it seemed like from one screen to the next, the suits changed from Brown to Purple so quickly. . . . .90%Dvd features: This Movie didn't really get any at all.. . . . .50%If you like this movie I suggest: Ghostbusters, Candyshack, Evolution, SNL in the 70's - early 80's.
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Summary: Ghostly classic of screaming brilliance!
Review: I have no idea why they think that 1989's "Ghostbusters II" failed to live up to the first one. The first one from 1984 was excellent in it's own way but parts of it showed signs of being dated. From my perspective though, the second Ghostbusters movie takes what was great about the first one and built upon the greatness of that one and took on a far less comedic tone in favor of a much darker and more dramatic twist to the story line. To me, this was a wise movie in my part as it showed the growth of the movie series and showcased the producers taking new risks with new creativity. It all begins years after the spectacular events that brought the first Ghostbusters movie to an epic yet humorous ending. The Ghostbusters team have gone bankrupt due to numerous lawsuits brought against them by bureaucrats after the property damage done during the Marshmallow Man incident years back (According to the movie timeline) and have gone their own separate ways. However, New York City is now in a state of danger when a mysterious painting of a 16th century Carpathian who lived during the 14th Century named Vigo begins resides at the Art Museum. Vigo, residing in the painting, causes weird things to happen. Also a massive river of ectoplasm (Red Slimy substance coursing through the city's sewer system) materializes from the negative emotions/bad vibes in the cities' citizens and feeds evil and hate into its citizens it comes into contact with. During an incident that occurs with a sample of the red slime, they discover that the ectoplasm if allowed too much negative emotions will explode with a cataclysmic amount of explosive force and wipe civilization off the face of the earth. Now the Ghostbusters have to team up again and lift the spirits of the New York population to fight the rising evil of Vigo's spirit and prevent disaster. However, the Ghostbusters team is viewed as psychologically disturbed by authorities and is in danger of being imprisoned at mental institutions. Not even Dana Barrett is out of the woods either. Worse yet, Vigo in his spirit form, is after Dana Barrett's infant son Oscar so he can transfer his spirit and life force into the body of Oscar so he can live again. With all of these massive obstacles, it's a dark yet fun adventure for the Ghostbusters team as they duke it out to save the future of NYC and possibly the world from total annihilation. Bill Murray steals the spotlight as the loveable yet eccentric Peter Venkman whose highly humorous personality has nonetheless been in conflict with the various spirits and ghosts that have haunted the city and his life following the events of the first movie years before then. Rick Moranis' character Lewis Talbot is just funny, seeing him going from just a mere babysitter and job assistant to actually becoming an actual Ghostbuster towards the ending. Sigourney Weaver brings on an excellent and more dramatic role playing Dana Barrett. The rest bring on solid roles as well. The movie also is benefited from an excellent script and great and original plot. The special effects and the ghosts and such in the first movie while have scared the daylights me back when I was just a toddler when it was relatively new, look quite dated today but on here, they are a lot more improved and still are pretty scary, in an entertaining way. I gotta admit, I still love watching the ectoplasm and what it does. The seemingly opposite tone of the second Ghostbuster movie perfectly compliments the previous one so well. This movie in a way sends out a great message too of how the negativity of society has gotten out of hand recently (both around GB 2's release and today) and what the fallout could turn out to be. It's something to really think about. I still to this day am baffled at the significantly lower amount of box office revenue that this movie generated when released back in 1989. While it may have in part due to the surprisingly darker tones that might have driven away those who were looking for more humorous story, it still is unbelievable that they considered this movie to be a 'flop'. This is far from a flop, in any stretch of the imagination. It mustered up 100 Million at the box office, far from a flop even though it wasn't as financially successful as the first one. Perhaps I might be sounding a bit over reactive due to the fact that I've been a fan of this incredible movie since I was around 7 years old when this came out but I think that the so called 'failure' of this film is one of the greatest injustices in the history of movies. It's a pity that they decided to not continue after this one. Then again, it's probably a good idea that they didn't, not because they would wreck the franchise with a third sequel that would've been weaker than the previous two but that at least they ended the movie series on a high note. "Ghostbusters II" in many ways avoids the so-called sequel slump that ruins many movies over time. It was a wise move to give the short-lived franchise a much more dramatic undertone and giving the "Ghostbusters" movie a new and original twist in storyline. It's a sign that they were branching out into new territory and it's a pity that the audience seemingly was not embracing this new change in tone. In fact, by simply making this one almost like a rehash of the first one would've turned out disastrous. Instead, "Ghostbusters II" Turned out to be a masterpiece and one of the greatest movie sequels of all time and I highly recommend that you buy this DVD today! Buy both of them. They are both worth owning!
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Summary: My 2nd favorite movie, 1st being Ghostbusters
Review: People don't give Ghostbusters II the credit it deserves, but I will. I give it 4 stars only because nothing can measure up to the original. But nonetheless, GBII is funny, has great special effects, and has a feel-good vibe to it. I hope that Ghostbusters 3 gets made.
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