The Reel Rejects - GHOSTBUSTERS 2 (1989) IS A SPOOKY FUN RIDE!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:58 Like, comment, subscribe when you do. Ring the bell, ring the bell. That we are notified of all the videos that were dropping. Thanks to prep for helping out of these highlights for the ghost. For the dose ghost. The dose busters. I think we have questions. We must have questions.

Starting point is 00:02:22 Let me speed. Oh, yeah. We'll make sure. We don't have any. You know, you never know in their 80s and 90s, you know, when you're going to run into some kind of secret special after the credits, watch them a jiggy. But, yeah, Ghostbusters, too. We did it. We did it.

Starting point is 00:02:41 I can't believe it. Look at that. Who, 1989, we are in. Love it. Yeah, for a second, I was like, wait, wait, wait, what year are we in? But, yeah, from the 80s to the 80s. Columbia Pictures. All right.

Starting point is 00:02:58 We've done it. We did it. Well, that was a fun one. We're going to get to your guys' questions because maybe you have a lot for us. I don't know. This is, you know, obviously the superior and most beloved Ghostbusters. So I'm going to assume we will get the lion's share of questions for this installment. Of course.

Starting point is 00:03:16 Obviously, this is the Ghostbusters that is worth watching. Okay. Oh, all right. Okay. Let's go to our first one. Awesome. Joe, despite the recent legacy films, was your

Starting point is 00:03:31 entertained experience with this movie enough to have wanted a third one? If not, what were the reasons why this one wasn't as successful and rememberable as the first movie? Well, I feel like it's tricky.

Starting point is 00:03:48 It's fun enough to see them all together and when there is ghost mayhem in this movie, that you know, is exciting. And again, the stop motion combined with the visual comping effects and stuff is like really cool still but it is like kind of less of

Starting point is 00:04:03 it's less at the forefront of this movie it's weird like I can definitely see why this one is considered to be a considerable step down from the original one yeah it's like because it's still fun to see everyone together and because the world is so charming I think I still would have wanted a Ghostbusters 3 but I can see why

Starting point is 00:04:27 there was a big gap you know because it just doesn't have like this the the first movie has like such a rhythm and it's always kind of bubbling with personality and ideas and it's this unlikely concoction of things all blended together yeah and this one it's weird like the genre elements feel a little more detached from each other in a way yeah you technically still have everyone together and what they choose to have them doing when you come back isn't like

Starting point is 00:04:57 outlandish or weird but at the same time there's something about there's like a lot of air in the movie like it's weird there are a lot of times I catch myself drifting and noticing like there's no music in the scene it's like letting the room tone and the dialogue lead which is like cool

Starting point is 00:05:12 but also it's probably not what I should be like a movie like this should feel like it's got a bubbly kind of fun pace about it and this felt like it wanted to have fun but it wasn't moving the way like a fun movie would be yeah didn't have the pacing like the first one yeah yeah and it's weird like i like the slime and i like uh the idea of what's happening

Starting point is 00:05:34 but weirdly i feel like the fun in games of ghostbusters was kind of slim here yeah compared to the first movie and not that they have to do the same stuff you know and they do to some degree it's like okay we got a huge character walking through the city except this time the ghostbusters are riding the character instead of fighting the character and stuff like that but uh it's weird it's fun to have everybody back but yeah it's just like the spark of inspiration and didn't feel quite as sharp and it just didn't feel like it had as many fresh ideas

Starting point is 00:06:00 and I like the idea of like oh New York because of all this negative energy is it causing something to do with the slime or is the slime bringing us the negative energy yeah the slime with positive energy like all that good ideas but yeah this was way more kind of I don't think if this was the first one

Starting point is 00:06:15 it would have like spawned the beloved franchise that it is now no way man I feel like this film was a lot of like it's Vigo's world he is like a slime master that's in a painting and there was a lot less of us being actual ghostbusters. It's like we really, when we got down into the subway and we saw the pink slime,

Starting point is 00:06:39 I thought that was like the beginning of us really getting after it. Except it wasn't. It wasn't. Yeah. It was still Vigo, Vigo, Vigo. And then Cigourney and the kid, and we know that he's going to take the kid. Yeah. You know, it didn't feel as ghostbustery.

Starting point is 00:06:56 yeah and it's like i get that we have this looming thread and in the first one we had like gozer and zool and all these yeah but here i was like okay i like this painting and the guy looks freaky and stuff but we're just kind of trying not to get him to inhabit this baby and and it's like it could have worked but it's just yeah it's not as like grabby and and fun it's weird like the balance of horror and comedy is like intrinsic to the first one and there is a bit of like spookiness and like the filmmaking is a little reminiscent of a horror movie at times and this didn't do that quite so much no and i feel like too just the kind of i don't know the the pacing of the scene work just like less i don't know crackly energy off of this yeah first one you kind of get like okay i see how

Starting point is 00:07:44 bill murray might have been improvising everything but just like the the pace and the energy was different yeah it definitely was a lot slower i noticed the time a little bit more just in my body as time passes a lot more with this one. They took, I think they took their time in the first one on the right things, meaning when they first are exposing us to a ghost and we see it. And then their lines of dialogue are sort of, it's, it's fun. It was funnier to me in the first one. There's still very, very funny parts in the second one.

Starting point is 00:08:16 But I get it. When we see the ghost, it's just sort of like, here we go. We're off. We're running, except we don't really run as quick as. Yeah, we never start running. No. There are good scenes and moments, but yeah, the film itself never gets to that place. Yeah, which is too bad, because I think that also the slime thing of, like, bad energy, good energy is a lot of fun, especially, I mean, it feeds into a lot of jokes that you can write about New York and New Yorkers and all of that stuff.

Starting point is 00:08:45 I get it. But then there's, it was mainly really just like, Vigo, he needs this baby. We know it's going to be her baby. I mean, I liked it that we were kind of fun. focusing on on them getting back together, her getting back together with Peter and we got to see Peter sort of being in dad mode. That was cute.

Starting point is 00:09:03 But we got more of that than we did like ghostbustery stuff. Yeah. Which is what I think, well, I mean, my assumption is people would be going here. They want to see that, but then the rest of it should really be filled with blessing some ghosts. Weirdly Lewis was my favorite character this time. He's the best.

Starting point is 00:09:22 His journey, if you could call it, like the arc of Lewis is like the strongest thing in the movie to me because that has the most encapsulation of like the fun and whimsy and the quirkiness but also the yeah spooky stuff and it's weird because like this movie does that thing that some sequels do where it's like okay we got to kind of reset the dynamics and so like after all the triumph of the last movie now they're washed up and they're broken up and now these guys are doing birthday parties as the Ghostbusters right his own show and egon's doing research and we got to get them all back together and back to ghost busting and then we got to break up

Starting point is 00:09:56 Peter and Dana so that they can redo the dynamic of trying to get together but in a slightly different way yeah and it's weird like as incorrigible as he is and as much as he won't take over an answer in the first movie like there's still like you get it you're like I get the chemistry and here they're nice together they're pleasant to watch together and you are like rooting for them but it's not like

Starting point is 00:10:18 God like I can't believe they broke up we got to get them back together it's like a thing that could happen and we'll find either way. Which it would have been, it would have been better for the story and the plot if they did make the audience feel that way. Like they have to be together. We see him maybe, you know, he's babysitting the baby. He does great things the baby likes him, but she doesn't see it maybe until the very end,

Starting point is 00:10:43 right? That we're not like going on dates, yada, yada, yada. But I agree with you with the, with the Louie thing. I thought it's cute that he finds like love finally and gets to like, uh, juice it who knows how long they'll last but i hope it's forever i love him and janine there's they're great and the fact that um he's you know an honorary ghostbuster now if not well i mean he did he did bust a ghost was just great well i just love that he's just kind of around he just kind of works for them he's always around he's just always kind of there yeah inexplicably other than

Starting point is 00:11:16 we just know that they have the connection left over from the first movie yeah yeah was that stuff that felt like the most unified. It's like I liked watching everybody else again, but everybody else felt like they were in a kind of collection of scenes of a movie, whereas Lewis felt like he was in an actual movie. He was in like the main alleyway of the plot that had some good story, some good follow through to it, a good climax, especially when he puts a suit on,

Starting point is 00:11:43 she's like, that looks great. And then he's like, I did it, I did it. A lot of fun. Yeah, and you have Winston sort of in and out and these similar beats of like, oh, no, you got this guy. who's like a less defined i love kurt fuller but like a less defined version of the this man has no dick from last time you know who's like ah right do use the power of the government to shut you guys down i'm going to commit you to an asylum yeah opportunity to get brian dole murray but it's like okay

Starting point is 00:12:09 so this is the same beat as last time and then they're going to get another giant thing to walk through the city right you know like they're which you can recycle beats and call back to beats But when everything is working, it certainly reads better. For sure. It would read a lot better if it was working. All right, Jaden Rhodes. This is nowhere near as good as the first movie, but it's still a fun movie. I'm curious if you all like the villain of the movie.

Starting point is 00:12:32 I always felt like it was the weak as part of the movie for me. Reject Nation, you know those nights when you're starving. The fridge is empty. And you absolutely don't want to cook or leave the house. Or heck, you might even be at an office. and you got a limited lunch hour, and you don't want to spend any of that time driving on the road because time is precious.

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Starting point is 00:14:25 scene is really cool yeah to me i almost wish this had come out in as in a post uh bram stoker's dracula world so that we could go like riff on that with vigo i think would have made this stronger if we had some kind of prologue where it's like him in his time yeah doing some like the opening of uh bram stoker's regular reason the crazy red armor and he's like massacring these people and his beloved like falls to her death and then he like you know swears one day to return like i feel like you could have leaned into the horror stuff and the pomp and the bombast of that yeah you know yeah the guy himself has presence but as it stands like vigo the carpathian is one of those villains that like there's a lot of pomp and circumstance around him but like

Starting point is 00:15:13 you know he's pretty much just trying to get inside this baby and we don't let him and that's that and then there are ghosts I guess just kind of adjacent to this and uh some cool visual effects yeah yeah it's just it's funny because you could have found I think that there is a way to tie vigo to the pink sludge in a more dramatic way and have us fighting more ghosts and have the foundation of vigo be something that we're like oh my god Vigo could not get a whole of this kid because now we have like his foundation rather than like he's just a spooky painting. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:48 Or like a moving head. Like the effects were cool. They were good. And I get that you know he controls the pink sludge. It runs after him. Whatever. He's like head god or whatever. But yeah, I don't know. I assume that most of you guys are kind of feeling the same

Starting point is 00:16:05 thing. Like there's some, this one's a lot weaker than the first, but it is still fun. We do still get go so we get slime and the same actors thank goodness because they're great but then the rest of it you know the plot the story isn't as strong as it could have been i would have just done more like oh there's crazy more ghost activity yeah it still feels like ghost busters yeah of the movie driving around busting up ghosts because there would be times where i'd forget and just feel like i'm watching some

Starting point is 00:16:34 kind of slackers comedy yeah and then be reminded like oh yeah but we're in ghost busters aren't we right you know and so yeah if they had just, I feel like if they just tied the other ghosts that appear into the movie and maybe put a few more ghosts in the movie to Vigo in a meaningful way that could have felt that could have added to his character without having to change like the nuts and bolts much, but there's a lot else they could have done to make it off. I agree. I'm with you. All right, Michelle R. I saw this movie when I was way too young and the villain Vigo, the Carpathian used to give me nightmares, truly the first movie character I was ever scared of. Did you guys watch any movie way too

Starting point is 00:17:12 young that scared you and gave you nightmares. That's a good question. We know that I don't remember things. So let me think. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:17:29 I mean, I remember getting very scared of House on Haunted Hill when they have, there's like a head in a box or something like that. And like a spooky old caretaker lady. I remember that. The thing that scared me hugely, and I don't even think I was too young to see it. It was something about the image.

Starting point is 00:17:47 There's a Twilight Zone episode called I of the Beholder where it's this woman and she's got her face wrapped because she's just undergone some kind of cosmetic surgery. And the whole episode is like about she's so concerned about, you know, whether the surgery was a success and you get the sense that some horrible thing happened to her face or she was like repulsive before. And then the reveal of the episode is like the norm for people in this. universes they all have these like weird pig faces oh no and she looks normal and she's you know horrific by these standards like she's nightmarish but the the pig face people as a kid like terrified me

Starting point is 00:18:24 and it took me a long time to be able to watch that episode oh my god the flying monkeys in wizard of Oz that used to scare the that used to scare me when I was like little the flying monkeys freak me out freak me out for sure and the Beatles in the mummy with brenn Fraser. Oh, yeah, yeah. Beatles that go on your skin. That was definitely like a mind over matter. Like I was so obsessed with that movie, but I was freaked out by those and then I had to like force myself to look at them.

Starting point is 00:18:52 Oh, you would have had extra nightmares if you had, if they have taken you to Universal Studios because then they do the bugs on your back. On your ankles. Ew. It's the worst. He would have lost his freaking mind. Not about it. Resident Z.

Starting point is 00:19:08 Hello, Tara and John. Hope you enjoyed the ghost. Sting, series question, incoming. Who in the right mind would hang that painting of ego anywhere, let alone in a museum, unironically? The painting just stares through your soul and not in a good way. I agree. I agree.

Starting point is 00:19:24 I must say it's hard to do good in movie, like art and stuff. And quite a striking painting, you must say. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if the actor got to take that home because it looked great. That should be hanging above that dude's bed. For sure. Because, yeah, quality painting in terms of getting the spooky. job done uh yeah i mean uh that's the thing though this good art is supposed to leap off the canvas

Starting point is 00:19:47 you know it's supposed to kind of you know rifle around in your soul jelly so yeah that sense i mean you know him staring through your soul is kind of the the desired uh effect but i guess i would only display it in like you know if we were doing sort of like classic art of the carpathians or right that you know like if he like what you were saying earlier that if they'd given us a foundation for Vigo and showed him like he's slaying a bunch of people and this is how mean or hardcore he is then maybe if you if you have that background then you're like yeah this is Vigo guess what he's done yeah like that kind of a vibe you know then maybe I would hang it up just to be like this dude's a beast you know you can look at him

Starting point is 00:20:30 the beast the beastly man he is a beast you know and that does shoulder pads yep oh and when he's all like icky and tumored up i mean i guess that's it's good they didn't paint him with demon face they just painted it with normal face oh i hated that demon face of the red eyes i did not no thanks but also i hated the very first ghost which was not a ghost that we saw which looked like a zombie that was in the very beginning right the road i didn't like that either that was yeah i was pretty i want more of that's i i i will take me great price No, I will too, but I was like, that head and really, really good

Starting point is 00:21:09 practical heads in the subway as well. That I was surprised by. That was great. That actually got me. That was a good scare. Well, and that was a real moment of horror in that, like, the idea of it is like freaky and the image is freaky. And again, even though these are definitely comedies.

Starting point is 00:21:29 That's what we want more of, though. I feel like, yeah, part of the magic of the first movie was that there was just a little bit more. horror aesthetic in the filmmaking itself as well as you know most of the ghosts are somewhat whimsical but then you do have the ones that are a little more monstrous and yeah like the severed heads you know definitely levels up the spookiness in a way and I was like yeah lean further into that because there's so it's like they got so many of the right ingredients back together and it's kind of confounding how this movie doesn't quite yeah make it yeah how it doesn't quite make it

Starting point is 00:22:04 And it seems like a lot of you guys are kind of thinking the same thing. But, all right. Jay Rushden, Rushden, question, which Ghostbuster are you the most like in this film? Oh, boy. Lewis. Louis. He's great. He's great.

Starting point is 00:22:23 I mean, I don't know. I guess either. Just pick one of them. I don't think I'd be Peter. I'd be one of the other two. More, more like. Three. Well, four now.

Starting point is 00:22:33 but three well yeah four because you have louis so i can't pick louis not gonna pick peter Winston wasn't in this one as much oh yeah there's three more that's right Winston was very in and out of this plot he was there some of the time yeah and then it was literally after they got to that restaurant they got sludged and then the cops took them we didn't see him weird yeah i almost forgot about it like completely yeah you were like three more and i'm like no john's wrong and then i was like no he's right there was three more it is weird because yeah, like there are times where he's very much included and there are other times where you're like, where do he go?

Starting point is 00:23:08 Why isn't he here? I wonder if that's like maybe they cut stuff out. They couldn't use it or if that's like a production thing. I doubt it because they wrote and they're working with the same director who probably likes them, lets him do what they want. But still at the same time, sometimes when you look at that and you think about Winston, you're thinking like, was this tied together and they didn't have an end plot for him? like an end storyline like maybe they did but somebody was like take it out this felt like

Starting point is 00:23:38 everybody on the main ensemble like had different schedules that they really had to work around or something and like everyone was like a little preoccupied with some other stuff right like that is how I feel everyone's here and everyone's like doing the thing but they're not like I got to go film family ties after this so can we just get it done yeah I didn't feel like everyone was solely focused on this somehow except for like Rick Moranas and and the actress who plays jean i agree with you i actually agree which is probably why we thought that was the strongest plot point and story yeah yeah like and they had great great chemistry and they really kept you like on screen the rest of like the dialogue with the other character seemed a little

Starting point is 00:24:18 more fluffy um i feel like yeah it's like picking a ghostbuster i'm thinking back to the first like i pick lewis in this one because i'm like he's the one who gave me the strongest ghostbuster vibe and story overall and then i'm like i guess the last one i was like yeah I would definitely probably be a Ray or maybe an Egon. Yeah, Egon or Ray. Maybe Ray. I'll go with Ray. Big love for Winston, too.

Starting point is 00:24:43 They took Louie. None of us are cool enough to be Bill Murray, unfortunately. No, not at all. Not at all. Also, I wouldn't hit on people that much. You know when to stop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do.

Starting point is 00:24:55 Okay, let me look up a few trivia for Ghostbusters, too. If I can find it real quick, I'll give that to you guys. And then we will get out of here. Triv Busters. Let's see here. All right. I'm Zeeb. Okay.

Starting point is 00:25:14 Find me the trivia and do it quick. Find it. Get me that trivia. I need the trivia. I need it quick. There's got to be some illuminating facts about what Ivan Reitman and the gang we're up to. Okay. In the years between Ghostbusters and this film, the real real.

Starting point is 00:25:32 Ghostbusters introduced the idea that Slimer was living at the firehouse as the Ghostbusters pet because the original film in the cartoon series were so popular children they put Slimer in the film Okay, I was wondering. Okay. Oh my God.

Starting point is 00:25:48 While the role of Vigo was played by Wilhelm von Hamburg, all of his lines were dubbed by Max von Seidout. Willem left the premiere in anger when he found out. Oh my God. You didn't tell him that you... That's bonk.

Starting point is 00:26:02 he's a right you didn't i would have not told him about the premiere and said we didn't make the movie we cut you out we're not making ghostbusters too holy to molly if you see one it's unrelated that is insane that they would not tell him before and i mean max von sidout like you know obviously legendary actor good pick distinct voice but also yeah without the knowledge that's going to happen i would feel taking it back totally it's like that lady who recorded all the lines for her before finding out that they were going to cast Scarlet Johanson. Oh, yeah. Like, oh. Yeah. Sorry. That would suck.

Starting point is 00:26:39 All right. I got one more for you guys. The yellow gadgets on the Ghostbusters belts are past devices. Real safety devices used by firefighters all over the world at the time of this production. The device emits a loud alarm if it doesn't detect movement after a predetermined time. For example, if a firefighter is knocked unconscious or trapped. They have since been incorporated into self-contained. breathing apparatus worn by firefighters

Starting point is 00:27:04 and may include thermal sensors with shot an alarm when temperatures rise rapidly. Hell yeah. Wow. Sounds like fun. That's pretty freaking cool. Good attention to detail.

Starting point is 00:27:14 Good production design. Yeah. Oh, the kid who says the Ghostbusters are full of crap is the son of the director. I said Jason Reimann, I bet. Yeah, I was sitting there going to be somebody. And he goes on to direct a couple of the later

Starting point is 00:27:29 sequels. Oh, he does? Oh, okay. so he took over for his dad took over for pops that's why in the original ghostbuster's reaction i felt so dumb because i was like well i haven jason wrightman takes over and there's the whole story out in the real world about like oh he's picking up the torch for his dad and all that stuff and i was like oh of course duh yeah yeah love it well i still thought this movie was fun even though obviously the first one was a lot better is iconic still this is fine this is fine i would have

Starting point is 00:28:00 preferred to have some popcorn, some red vines to get me through it. But that's okay. Okay. We still love you guys. Do you have any last words for the people? You know, just stay busting out there. Stay busting. You know, I'm afraid no sleep.

Starting point is 00:28:14 I ain't afraid of no bed. Tell them. Tell them. Also go check out my podcast, RagePod. Please love you bunches. We will see you on the next one. Like the ghost, like the ghost, like the two, the dose busters. Doze, musters!

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The Reel Rejects - GHOSTBUSTERS 2 (1989) IS A SPOOKY FUN RIDE!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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