Ghostbusters: Afterlife
{4/5} “This isn’t a farm, it’s a trap.”
Ghostbusters: Afterlife, released in 2021
Callie and her two kids get evicted, but at the same time her estranged father dies and leaves her his house in the country. Trevor gets a job at a restaurant because there’s a cute girl there. Phoebe makes a friend at school who calls himself Podcast. Phoebe also talks to a teacher who happens to be a seismologist, who explains that the town has unexplained earthquake activity. Eventually they discover that Callie’s father was a Ghostbuster — and that there are ghosts.
This is a sequel to Ghostbusters II, ignoring the not-so-great 2016 reboot. Of course, it takes place 30 years later.
If you’re a fan of the original, you’ll want to watch this one. It’s a tiny bit repetitive but the kids make it a worthwhile movie.
Like the original, it’s a mixture of creepy and funny. With a fun story, this is the long-awaited sequel you were looking for.
Stars Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, and Mckenna Grace. It also features many of the actors from the original movies: Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Sigourney Weaver, and even the ghost of Harold Ramis.
Directed by Jason Reitman (Juno). The music by Rob Simonsen borrows liberally and gloriously from Elmer Bernstein’s original score.