Manager: Gil Kenan
Artists: Mckenna Grace, Paul Ruud, Carrie Coon
Year: 2024
Premiere: 3/22/24
★★★
The last episode of the adventures of the new Ghostbusters, directed by Gil Kenan, written with Jason Reitman, and dedicated to his father and the founding director of the series. Ivan ReitmanIt begins with a pure fantasy scene set in New York City in 1904: Firefighters enter a building engulfed in flames and encounter a group of completely frozen corpses.
It may set a new tone, more fantastical than parodic, but from now on we’ll regain the comic spirit of the other films in the series.. As the action settles into the present, we are reintroduced to the heroes of the previous title, ‘Ghostbusters: Beyond’: teenagers, adults and elderly. But if in the previous film the main role fell on young ghost hunters, here they are more evenly distributed by age. So their existence Bill MurrayDan Aykroyd and Ernie HudsoAlthough they are guest stars that establish a nostalgic connection with the origins, they have a larger presence.
Aykroyd devotes himself to examining the repossessed, Murray shows up at just the right moments with his proton gun at the ready, one of the teens befriends a translucent blue ghost and makes a lot of mistakes, Paul Ruud’s character is more interested in a good adoption The father who caught the ectoplasms , there is no room for the digitized Harold Ramis from the previous film, and Kumail Nanjiani, the Pakistani turned master of fire, appears. And the otherworldly creature to battle could have appeared in a Harry Potter installment. These are new times for ‘ghost hunters’.