Ghostbusters: Afterlife

I have mixed feelings about this film. It does a very good job of world building right up until the climax of the film.  The setting is much different than any of the previous films in the franchise because it happens in a small town. The movie has the feeling of those movies from the '80s that are all about small towns, like for example the Goonies. But whereas those movies are usually centered on comedy, this movie isn't particularly funny. The actors do a great job creating believable characters. Paul Rudd has a role, and after watching him in the debacle that was the last Ant-Man movie, it's a relief to realize that he can actually act. The kids in the movie feel like kids. I think it's one of the first movies in quite some time that I can remember having watched where that is the case. And then it's all ruined by the ending. It's not a particularly bad ending in terms of Storytelling, in fact it makes a lot of sense. However, what happens is that the three original Ghostbusters who are still alive make it to this small town in the middle of nowhere to fight the big bad. Okay, having written that, I realize that actually it doesn't make any sense at all, but when you're watching the movie it feels normal. The problem is that Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd in my opinion are some of the greatest comedic actors of all time. And in their few lines of dialogue they have great charisma, it immediately makes you realize that the rest of the movie that you have just watched is by no means at the level of the original Ghostbuster movies. It's a rare case of when you add something good to something, it actually spoils the rest of it. It's like putting a bunch of sugar into soup. But as I said before there are some really good things about the movie so if you're avoiding it because it was a flop, I think you should give it a watch. 

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