Ghostbusters 2 [Region 2] | ![Ghostbusters 2 [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31CSFCNG54L._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Ivan Reitman
Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis
Category: DVD
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Rating:  96 reviews
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), French (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Swiss German (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), Hebrew (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 0211754
EAN: 4030521117549
ASIN: B00004RYUO
Theatrical Release Date: June 16, 1989
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See a Spirit and Fear It? Who Ya Gonna Call? February 16, 2010
Scotman (Sausalito, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Ghostbusters crew is back and broke! Seems their last escapade got them into a lot of lawsuits and restraining orders. Broken up and a bit dejected, they still try to make a living: go to kid's parties, host loser psychic TV shows and so on.
But, when an evil pink slime tries to take over New York City, the call goes out for the Ghostbusters!
This sequel was really a lot of fun. Lots more music in this one. Rap style, pop style, -- Bridge! Hit IT!
Sigourney Weaver reprises her role as Dana, but she has a baby and Peter still tries to pick up on her. The love story even extends to our little guy who was a dog in the last film -- he gets a piece too, but I digress.
Bill Murray, not as witty & quick with the jokes as he was the first film; still, a funny guy. Baby Oscar stole the show.
The film moved a bit slow in parts, but parodied itself which is where most of the fun came from.
Also it was predictable, following the exact same pattern as the first film.
Best scenes: Making the Statute of Liberty come to life and walk down the street with people cheering. The sixteenth century evil ghost from Carpathia doing his thing. And the quotes were silly, too:
"Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God given right!"
Slime covered museums and toddlers stir the mix. The baby of the piece, Oscar (what, named after a hot dog?) was actually two babies in this picture, twins I think.
So if something's weird, and doesn't look good, we know who to call -- Ghostbusters!
A good cast is worth repeating:
Cast
* Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman
* Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Raymond Stantz
* Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett
* Harold Ramis as Dr. Egon Spengler
* Rick Moranis as Louis Tully
* Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddemore
* Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz
* Peter MacNicol as Dr. Janosz Poha
There's word of a Ghostbusters III, currently in the scriptwriting stage. Sigh.
Good Family Story - January 2, 2010
Loyd E. Eskildson (Phoenix, AZ.)
The team has been out of business for five years - off doing other things. Then Vigo, hidden in a museum portrait, comes into the action, and the Ghostbusters get back together and save the day.
 An inferior sequel to one of the eighties memorable comedies November 14, 2009
Robert Moore (Chicago, IL USA)
My daughter and I just did a GHOST BUSTERS double bill in honor of her upcoming move to New York, where she will be working at Columbia University, which is where Bill Murray and his paranomal colleague are studying at the beginning of the first film. We both really enjoyed the original and felt that it had more than held up over time, but we we were tremendously disappointed with the sequel. This is a joint review of both films. We watched the original film on Blu-ray and the second one on regular DVD. I won't say much more about the format except to say that the quality of the Blu-ray was somewhat disappointing. In fact, the quality of the DVD was very nearly as good as the Blu-ray.
Rewatching the first film, it was fascinating to see what a simple story it told, and how short it was. There really is very little to the film apart from the simple story and a string of scenes the become a framework for a series of jokes. The one thing that surprised me was that I don't find Bill Murray's jokes, many of which feel ad libbed, as funny as I did when I saw it when it first came out. This is balanced by Harold Ramis and Dan Ackroyd being funnier than I remembered. The special effects all look pretty good by today's standards, except for Slimer, who didn't much appeal to me when the film came out and still doesn't. But the highpoint of the movie, then as now, is the Stay-Puft marshmallow man, which is definitely one of the greatest movie monsters ever.
I saw the sequel when it came out, but over the years found it odd that I couldn't remember anything about it. I remembered that Sigourney Weaver's character had a baby, but that was the extent of it. Rewatching the film it is easy to see why I couldn't remember anything about it: it is simply not a very memorable film. The pace and the rhythm are erratic and many of the jokes are simply unfunny. The plot isn't very interesting and seems pretty formulaic, the formula being the first movie. It was, in fact, almost a remake of the original with some names changed and situations altered. Both my daughter and I were very unhappy with it and did not think it a very worthy sequel to the first film.
The original 1984 GHOSTBUSTERS still plays like a film that was the product of some imaginations in the grip of a real vision, while the sequel feels like a film made to cash in on the success of the former. It isn't like they weren't trying, they simply weren't inspired. GHOSTBUSTERS 2 just is not a worthy sequel of one of the more memorable light comedies of the eighties. Speaking for the two of us, we definitely enjoyed the first movie, but wish we had passed on the second one. I just hope that I remember the latter as poorly as I did the first time.
 Love the Movie November 14, 2009
Sasha (Phoenix, AZ)
If you like the Ghostbusters movies then you should get this DVD. It is a good quality in sound and picture. My only disappointment was the cases that are being used. Unlike the older cases that are entirely plastic, these new ones have a number of cutouts in the front and back plastic and the only thing protecting the DVD is the paper inserts. Otherwise the movie was just what I expected.
Worthy sequal June 26, 2009
Robert Moore (Granbury, TX)
As the second, in what appears to be a trilogy, this sequal is worthy although not as relaxed as the original.
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