MOVIE COMPANY: Columbia Pictures
CAST: Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson and more.
DIRECTED BY:Â Ivan Reitman
WRITTEN BY:Â Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: N/A
TYPE OF MOVIE: Comedy
Bill murray, Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis take up their proton packs once more to battle 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 tyrant, preparing a return to the Earthly domain through his portrait at the Manhattan Museum of Art, sets his sights on Dana Barrett’s baby as the new home for his wicked soul! With the help of the Museum’s posessed curator, he plans to turn New York into a really scary place to live! Now only the Ghostbusters can save New York City, by turning paranormal pest control into an art forum!
DVD EXTRAS:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen
• Production notes
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats
KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None at this time
DVD REVIEW:
QUICK NOTE: If you want to buy the Ghostbusters movies, I highly recommending buying the Ghostbusters box set (includes both movies) because it’s cheaper than buying them separately.
You know, I was excited about the first movie but for some reason, I don’t know why I didn’t jump at the chance to watch the second movie at the theater. I think it could of been Bobby Brown overkill of the Ghostbusters 2 theme song on MTV, not sure.
The second movie has a good storyline but I felt that the storyline had some loose ends that didn’t make things as fluid. Also, many things are so corny in this film and it didn’t compare to the quality of the first. The storyline had it’s moments of keeping the viewer interested and that’s what is important but fluidity was a problem in this second movie.
The video was nice and crisp as the first with a good remaster. The sound was also pretty good and Columbia did put a lot of extras but nowhere near the first CD which had one heck of a cool menu and was fully loaded. The second movie has many extras but they are more towards the subtitles, the trailers are the same on the first movie’s DVD and the rest are more talent information on the stars. I no longer count menu’s, subtitles and trailers as extras. They should automatically be put on a DVD and thus what you are left with is not much. I could have easily gave the DVD a D rating for extras but the effort to include Asian country subtitles in this DVD is commendable, thus the C- rating.
All in all, the second movie is pretty cool but as for the DVD compared as a whole, I suppose all the effort was put on the first movie’s disk. That’s why I recommend purchasing the two movie box set.
THE MOVIE:Â B
THE DVD EXTRAS:Â C-
THE DVD OVERALL:Â B-