Ghostbusters I was released in 1984 to great success it has become a cult classic since then and I'm sure everyone is aware of the franchise. It is no-longer possible to innocently say 'Who you gonna call?' without someone instantly shouting 'GHOSTBUSTERS!'
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us our heroes fromGhostbustershave been on the skids for five years and Bill Murray's lead character never did hook up with Sigourney Weaver's lovely symphony-mu...
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Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis take up their proton packs once more to battle ... more
the forces of evil in Manhattan! After waging a war on slime that cost New York City millions, the Ghostbusters find themselves out of business-until an ancient ty...
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featuring a completely new story, is coming to PS2 in 2009. Coinciding with the 25th anniversary celebration of the film's original theatrical release, the game reunites original cast members to recapture the unique blend of humour and fright that established Ghostbusters as a pop culture sensation.Penned by original Ghostbusters writers Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd, Ghostbusters: The Video Game brings members of the original cast together for the first time in 20 years. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson lend their voices and in-game likenesses to the original story set two years after Ghostbusters II, with Manhattan once again overrun by ghosts and supernatural forces. Players will have the chance to chase, attack, and catch ghosts in a funny and frightening battle to save New York from its latest supernatural plague.
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Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Comedy - Director: Richard Boden, Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson
Advantages: Classic film. Funny. Bill Murray Disadvantages: Not as funny as 1. There's no Ghostbusters 3
Ghostbusters I was released in 1984 to great success it has become a cult classic since then and I'm sure everyone is aware of the franchise. It is no-longer possible to innocently say 'Who you gonna call?' without someone instantly shouting 'GHOSTBUSTERS!'
Ghostbusters II was an equally succesful sequel released 5 years later with the same cast.
It is 5 years on in the story and the Ghostbusters are now defunct. The ... ...the new craze has left Ghostbusters behind. Egon (Harold Ramis) has gone back to being a simple scientist and the cocky and hilarious Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) hosts his own unsuccesful TV show.
However, all changes as Dana Barret (Sigourney Weavet) is back on the scene as the character's main damsel in distress. Her love affair with Peter is revealed tohave failed in the past 5 years and she has had an unsuccesful marriage since ... more
Ghostbusters I was released in 1984 to great success it has become a cult classic since then and I'm sure everyone is aware of the franchise. It is no-longer possible to innocently say 'Who you gonna call?' without someone instantly shouting 'GHOSTBUSTERS!'
Ghostbusters II was an equally succesful sequel released 5 years later with the same cast.
It is 5 years on in the story and the Ghostbusters are now defunct. The destruction wrought at the end of their last adventure lead to massive law suits against them and they went broke. Ray and Winston (Dan Akroyd and Ernie Hudson) now go around entertaining children at birthday parties but even the kids are no-longer interested as the new craze has left Ghostbusters behind. Egon (Harold Ramis) has gone back to being a simple scientist and the cocky and hilarious Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) hosts his own unsuccesful TV show.
However, all changes as Dana Barret (Sigourney Weavet) is back on the scene as the character's main damsel in distress. Her love affair with Peter is revealed tohave failed in the past 5 years and she has had an unsuccesful marriage since then which has given her a child. She is worried about the baby as weird phenomena has surrounded it. She goes to the Ghostbusters for help and during their investigations they discover a river of slime underneath New York city. Coupled with this she also believes a painting in the museum is watching her.
The Ghostbusters regroup and relaunch. The geeky Louis (Rick Moranis) is back on the scene as their lawyer and Janine has also returned as their secretary. Things go better for Peter has he gets back together with Dana whilst the other guys discover that the slime under the city is pure evil fueled by negative energy given off by New York citizens and whats more it is all channeling towards the museum to Danas painting whihc is the painting of an evil medieval warlord Vigo the Carpathian who wants to return to the world through Dana's baby.
Of course the sh*t eventually hits the fan and it is up for the Ghostbusters to save the day.
MY OPINION
I love this movie. I think Bill Murray is a comic genius and his Peter Venkman character is hilarious. Admittedly he doesn't provide as many laughs as Ghostbuster I but I think he still sustains. Harold Ramis as Egon also gets alot more funny lines in this film
Raymond Stantz: "Do you think there is a connection between this Vigo and the ... slime?" Egon Spengler: "Is the atomic weight of cobalt 58.9?"
It is fantastic that they got so much of the old cast together. Even the mayor is back. I really think this helped it not fall into the category of a crappy sequel. Louis Tully and Janine get hooked with hilarious consequences. Peter MacNicol (Ally MacBeal, Bean) also stars as the museum curator and minion of Vigo the Carpathian. He is a foreigner of nondescript nationality and portrays a hilarious character with a thick, stupid accent and an obssesion for Dana.
The special effects are also fantastic for the time. The Ghostbusters manage to animate the Statue of Liberty and the scenes were it walks through the streets are very impressive.
It is directed by Ivan Reitman who also made such terrible films as Twins and Junior and some not so terrible films as Evolution and Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters is definately his best work. Though to be fair I don't think Ghostbusters' merits come from its directing
All in all it is a fantastic sequel. Hilarious and very entertaining. I would strongly recommend it to anyone. Along with the first Ghostbusters it is definately one of those films you have to see.
It is rated as PG as it may be abit scary for younger children but let them watch it. It's good for them, wrapping them up from the world only turns them into serial killers. There is also some use of bad language.
The DVD also has a trailer and filmography. Exciting eh? It cost me £2.50 but I see Amazon are selling it for £0.32 + p&p
Advantages: Good funny bits Disadvantages: Not a patch on the first, ending was so bad!
I suppose that after watching Ghostbusters is was inevitable that Ghostbusters 2 was going to come next. I had no expectations about this film before seeing it so was not sure what to expect. This sequel is set 5 years after the first and we meet the Ghostbusters who have hit hard times. Their business is going down the pan and they are being sued for all the damage they have caused by catching these ghosts. Some of the gang are making some money ... ...she goes to see the Ghostbusters to try and find out what or who took the pram. Dana is a bit wary of seeing the team again as she did have a brief relationship with Peter but that ended and she went on to get married and have a baby. Dana is now working at the museum where a massive paining of an old warrior has been bought up from the basement for cleaning. We soon find that this painting is not normal and the ghost inside it wants Dana’s baby ...
sewbizzie 22.07.2009
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Advantages: great comical entertainment Disadvantages: none
...a fantastic first movie….
Ghostbusters 2 is just as good, if not better, than its predecessor.. Full of action and comedy…
Venkman, Stantz, Zeddermore and Spengler have the same characteristic as they did in the first movie… Venkmen the 'wanna-be stud with a big ego… Stantz the calm thinker with a no nonsense approach…Spengler, the strange scientist whose passion for his job is his life…. And finally there's Zeddermore, the once non-believer who ... ...from www.amazon.co.uk for between £3.00 and £10.00 or from www.play.com for less than £4.00
You can get both Ghostbusters 1 & 2 for £ 9.00 from play.com or £ less than a fiver from amazon.co.uk…( the prices on these sites may vary and are totally confusing at times????) ...
blissman70 28.08.2008
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Advantages: See Review Disadvantages: A bit scary!!
...out five years later) is Ghostbusters 2. When this film was released in 1989 it quickly became the biggest 3 day opening weekend in history. Set five years after the first film, the Ghostbusters are now running very low on business and are close to bankruptcy. That combined with the fact that they are being sued by the city means that its time to close up shop and go their separate ways. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) decides to become a chat show host, ... ...and Raymond Stantz (Dan Ayroyd) and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) are now shockingly bad kids entertainers. Sigourney Weaver also returns as Dana Barrett but she has now got a young son, Oscar, and works at the local museum. Due to her extremely unfortunate luck, she is once again chosen to be the centre of all evil in the city. This time however, it all starts from a painting that her boss, Dr. Janosz Poha (Peter MacNicol), is restoring. The ...
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Advantages: Good special effects for it's time, great cast and film music Disadvantages: Not as witty as the original film and storyline is a little too similar
...the cast, from the 4 Ghostbusters (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis & Ernie Hudson), but you also appreciate Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett, Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz, and of course the nerdy underdog that is Louis Tully, played by Rick Moranis. Why i say the storyline is somewhat similar, is because once again the main villain is portrayed as some immortal being trapped, and waiting to be summoned, and then he/she/it possesses a single ... ...5 years later, where the Ghostbusters have been taken out of business, after being sued for property damage after their final battle in the previous "Ghostbusters" film against Gozer. Ray and Winston now perform as children's performers, with some not very good results, while Ray also owns an Occult bookstore in New York. Egon Spengler works in a lab, investigating experiments that analyse human emotion. They reunite with Dana, Peter Venkman's (Bill ...
Putley 30.11.2009
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...different ghost movie wasn't it. Ghostbusters 2 is, surprisingly, the sequel to the smash hit Ghostbusters. Here we have the same crew back for to save a whole new generation from manifestation infestation...in the station...for your information...ahem. Some years after the original ghost infestation, the ghostbuststers team has been disbanded, banned from continuing in the ungrateful city after the mess caused in the first encounter. Dr Venkman ... ...children's entertainers and Ramis is back in research. However, when it becomes clear that a river of slime is growing beneath the streets of New York, fuelled by people's anger and hatred(plenty of fuel in the big city and that an evil villain is trying to sacrifice Barrett's baby to open up the spirit world (again) the team spring back into action. Panned by some critics as being nowhere near as good as the original movie I personally think that ...
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Advantages: Really funny, cheap, special features, PG, everything in one Disadvantages: Apart from the 80's effects (which isn't really a disadvantage) I can't actually think of anything
Ramis (Egon Spengler) and Murray (Peter Venkman), along with Ernie Hudson (Winston Zeddemore) Sigourney Weaver (Dana), Rick Moranis (Louis - the little guy) and Annie Pots (Janine) give an incredable performance playing some of the most likeable characters in a film I've seen - I can't say that I dislike any of them. Plus, what more do you need in a film than a green ghost that eats everything, a giant marshmallow man, stone dogs that come to life, librarians, demons, slime and general deomolition?
Well, how about a river of slime, a painting which comes to life, a walking Statue of Liberty, more ghosts, destruction, flashing lights and a strange little man tries to steal Dana's baby. Because that's what you get in Ghostbusters2, also in the boxset. The second film is as funny as the first, and contains more great one liners, proton packs ...
Advantages: Digitially remastered classics, funny, special effects still believable now Disadvantages: Special Features for Ghostbusters not as good as the individual release
to the film is the coming of Gozor The Destructor, who takes an insteresting form that I won't spoil for those who haven't seen the film.
This film is funny throughout, Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis perform well together to a script written by Dan and Harold themselves. Sigourney Weaver plays the damsel in distress, Dana Barrett.
GhostbustersII
After saving the world in the first adventure, the guys are back with a fourth member, Winston Zedmore, employed at the end of the first film when times were good. Now that all is quiet, the Ghostbusters are having to make guest appearances at kids parties to make ends meet, and things aren't going well. Dana from the first film, has another spooky experience, when the baby carriage carrying her son, Oscar, takes off on it's own down a busy high street. The Ghostbusters ...
Advantages: 2 great films good family fun great cast Disadvantages: none
around the apartment of Dana and Louis with neon signs for you to select from the options available, while the theme tune plays in the background and marshmallow man walks through the city.
The special features available are:
• film makers commentary with Director Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis & Producer Joe Medjuck
• 1984 featurette
• conceptual drawings - this feature shows original ideas for the ghosts, ecto-mobile and locations
• production photos - this is very insightful and worth checking out showing picture of the following:
Ghoulish Librarian
Loving floating ghost
Production team
Slimer
Spook Central
Stay Puft Man
Terror Dogs
• ghostly gallery
GHOSTBUSTERSII
The much anticipated sequel finally arrived 5 years after the original and starts with the Ghostbusters no longer being in ...
The band of ghost entrappers is back. Having been put out of commission by a judicial court, the fearless four pull out all the psychic stops to put an end to the demonic river of slime and rescue Dana Barrett's child.
Video Category
Feature Film
Country Of Origin
United States of America
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
UCA; UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS, SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date
06/03/2006, 07/03/2005
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
C 823 327 3
Barcode
5050582332735
Languages
Main Language
English
Dubbed Language
French, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Spanish, German, Italian
Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 English Dolby Digital 2.0 French German Italian Spanish, Dolby Surround English French German Italian Spanish
Professional reviews
Review
...A remarkably cheerful film....The members of the cast are also good... (New York Times, )
DVD Description
The band of ghost busters are back to save the universe. Having been put out of commission due to a judicial court order, the fearless four pull out all psychic stops to put an end to a demonic river of slime and rescue Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) and her child. In order to achieve this, they must convince New York that all the city's negative energy is feeding the evil spirits in the river, so the city's residents need to resist all negativity.
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