Review: 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' clears a low bar
Forty years after “Ghostbusters” and following a string of sequels that never measured up to the 1984 original — beginning all the way back with 1989’s “Ghostbusters II” — it’s fair to wonder, well, who else ought we to call? It may be time to, if not give up the ghost entirely, at least give a flip through the ol’ rolodex.
But as the lackluster 2021 installment, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” showed, the half life of most film franchises today is an ever-lengthening long tail of diminishing returns. Though the options are many, sucking “Ghostbusters” dry would make a prime exhibit in Hollywood’s nostalgia fix.
Still, it’s not quite as simple as that. I’m glad for the female-led 2016 “Ghostbusters.” Aside from prompting a minor culture war, it assembled the best comic ensemble since the original with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and, yes, Chris Hemsworth.
Related articles
Mel Gibson sports an arm sling following shoulder injury as he attends a coffee meeting in Malibu
Mel Gibson has been nursing a shoulder injury of late and was out and about on Sunday wearing a slin2024-04-30China axes hundreds of TV dramas depicting family tensions — Radio Free Asia
China's internet censors have deleted hundreds of online TV dramas for portraying the negative aspec2024-04-30Voting technology company settles lawsuit against far
WASHINGTON (AP) — A voting technology company targeted by bogus fraud claims related to the 2020 pre2024-04-30Jiri Smejkal gets 1st goal, Senators beat Bruins 3
BOSTON (AP) — Jiri Smejkal scored his first career goal midway through the second period and Jakob C2024-04-30Algeria hosts 23rd 'Chinese Bridge' language competition for university students
The final round of the 23rd "Chinese Bridge" language competition for university students2024-04-30Pirates 3B Ke'Bryan Hayes scratched with lower back tightness. Grandal starts rehab assignment
NEW YORK (AP) — Gold Glove third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes was scratched from the Pittsburgh Pirates’ l2024-04-30
atest comment