Ghostbusters II
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2014
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
When Chris and Carlos discovered that Donna thought Ghostbusters II was better than the original, they knew it was time to revisit the film and investigate this controversial stance. They learn that she saw this one before its predecessor and Chris suspects that may have gone a long way in covering up some of the movie's more glaring issues. Donna stands firm though and a spirited discussion about which entry is superior ensues.
Topics include: the problematic conceit of the opening scenes, Vigo the Carpathian vs Gozer the Destructor, why it took half a decade for this follow-up to come together, how the success of The Real Ghostbusters cartoon influenced the tone of this film, what exactly Egon did with that slime, our love of Winston and our frustration with how this series treats him, why "disappointing" isn't the same thing as "bad", and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Ghostbusters 2? |
| 0:06.9 | Hello and welcome, Hey, do you remember, Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.3 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.3 | And today we're revisiting Ghostbusters 2. |
| 0:52.7 | Music And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Ghostbusters 2. It's been five years since the Ghostbusters saved New York from utter annihilation, and somehow |
| 0:57.6 | most of the city seems to have forgotten all about that pesky apocalypse. |
| 1:02.0 | As a result, Ray Egon, Peter, and Winston are now regarded as conmen, and the lawsuits that stemmed |
| 1:07.3 | from the destruction they caused have all but buried their business. But a strange river of ooze is flowing beneath the city, |
| 1:13.4 | ooze that seems to feed off of the negative energy produced by the notoriously angry citizens. |
| 1:18.3 | Where did it come from? |
| 1:19.5 | And how is it connected to the strange and haunting portrait of Vigo the Carpathian |
| 1:23.5 | now hanging in the Manhattan Museum of Art? |
| 1:26.7 | As it becomes undeniable that there is no rational |
| 1:29.0 | explanation for the escalating series of unusual events plaguing the city, the mayor is left |
| 1:33.8 | with one important question. Who you're going to call? Despite the success of the original film, |
| 1:38.9 | a sequel was not all but guaranteed. The cast and director Ivan Reitman had no intentions |
| 1:43.9 | of returning for a follow-up, |
| 1:45.5 | but the first Ghostbusters and the subsequent Real Ghostbusters cartoon series were so unbelievably |
| 1:50.7 | successful that there was no way the studio wasn't going to force that golden goose to lay another |
| 1:55.3 | egg. It took half a decade, but the Powers That Bee finally convinced everyone to seriously |
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