Ghostbusters 2: Critic Reviews

Even the special effects are more to the point of the comedy than they were in the first film. For some reason, this appears to leave more room for the sort of random funny business that Mr. Murray and his friends do best.

You want more.

Hammered together out of the junkiest of elements, the movie rattles along with a pleasing rambunctiousness, tossing off its quips and one-liners and scoring on a remarkably high percentage of them.

There's very little energy in the follow-through, and this time Murray's listlessness seems more anemic than comic.

Kids will find the oozing slime and ghastly, ghostly apparitions to their liking and adults will enjoy the preposterously clever dialog.

Plenty of agreeable nonsense to develop within the larger Ghostbusters universe. It's a sincerely amusing movie, warmly energized to give fans a steamy second helping of the good stuff.

Effectively slimed everyone's fond memories of the original.

Frankly, Murray, Sigourney Weaver and even Aykroyd deserve much better.

A little of a rehash but still good.

A terrible disappointment, a shockingly self-satisfied and unforgivably slapdash sequel.

Almost as sharp as the first film and only suffering slightly from the inevitable repetitions.

The film is largely an excuse for a cast get-together, with the Ghostbusters, under judicial restraining order after the havoc wreaked in part one, suffering lives of semi-obscurity.

Feels like a blueprint concocted by the bean-counters at Columbia Pictures.

Bottom line: with Murray on fire and enough clever dialogue to rival its predecessor, Ghostbusters II is good enough to put post-milennial comedy to shame.

No one has ever accused Ghostbusters II of being a great film, or even a good one, for that matter

Best forgotten sequel.