Frank Longo Member since Nov 18th 2003 86672 posts
Fri Nov-19-21 01:45 AM
11. "Okay first half, but second half was bad to awful." In response to Reply # 0
Basically free of laughs start to finish. Some of that's an intentional tonal shift by this movie, but some of it is just... bad writing. Reitman does fine with some of the character-y stuff in the first half-- even if the characters aren't memorable, they're charming enough-- but he can't do a big finale like he's trying to do here. Just an ugly mess of a finale with terrible CGI.
12. "Yeah, the ending was very predictable." In response to Reply # 11
>Basically free of laughs start to finish. Some of that's an >intentional tonal shift by this movie, but some of it is >just... bad writing. Reitman does fine with some of the >character-y stuff in the first half-- even if the characters >aren't memorable, they're charming enough-- but he can't do a >big finale like he's trying to do here. Just an ugly mess of a >finale with terrible CGI.
For the most part I thought they were able to reference the first movie while letting the new story/characters do their own thing, but then the ending went way too far into nostalgia territory. The cameos were very shoehorned in. And like, let Bill Murray riff some stuff rather than scripting bad “This demon is my ex” jokes. I enjoyed it overall, but the lack of jokes will probably make this pretty forgettable tbh.
13. "Thought it was a lot of fun as a epilogue/tribute to the first two" In response to Reply # 0
but not really great as a standalone movie. don't think I'd ever really want to watch it again
SPOILERS: the mini stay-pufts were easily my favorite part. I thought since it leaned so heavily on the first two they should have just used Slimer instead of Metal Muncher...I would have enjoyed it more if opening the trap unleashed a new ghost/villain we weren't already aware was trapped, rather than just bringing back the Zuul/keymaster/gatekeeper. I felt kind of disappointed that they went with that