Moviephile

Sorry I haven’t posted in a couple days. First day, I didn’t post because I actually hadn’t watched any movies that day. Second day, I didn’t post because our Internet spontaneously decided it wasn’t going to work that day (that seems to happen occasionally when it rains). Third day, I didn’t post because I was busy voting (early voting in Chicago!) and then catching up on movie watching!

Last night another two Hammer Dracula movies came in the mail - so, of course, rather than watch them and get closer to our goal, we watched Ghostbusters II and Ernest: Scared Stupid.

You would think that after Ghostbusters being such a superb film that the sequel would be great too, right? WRONG! Ghostbusters II fails on many levels. It failed in both trying to do new things and repeating things from the first movie. It failed in spontaneity, it failed in character development. It even failed musically: where Ghostbusters has a very appealing Elmer Bernstein soundtrack with kicky rock songs throughout, Ghostbusters II has an obnoxious, cartoony score with ultra-obnoxious 90’s rap throughout. Oh, and remember how there were a lot of really good lines in the first one? I can’t remember a single good line from this movie. Oh, and remember how Winston was really cool in the first one? Well, in this one they shaved his mustache off, gave him an Arsenio Hall hairdo and made him scream like a girl on a number of occasions. Shameful! Just shameful.

Oh, I suppose this movie might be okay if you viewed it as an independant, completely-un-associated-with-the-first-one film - but if you compare it in anyway to the first, it falls flat. You know, there are even some moments where I felt like a like could have been funny, but the actor saying it failed to intone it correctly or something and it simply didn’t work. All and all, I would advise you to simply watch the first movie and pretend that this one doesn’t exist. That’s what I do.

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