Forty years after “Ghostbusters” and following a string of sequels that never measured up to the original it’s fair to wonder, well, who else ought we to call? But as easy as it might be to label the new one, “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,” another half-hashed retread — which it is, a little bit — it’s also a significant upgrade from “Afterlife,”...
This image released by Columbia Pictures shows, from left, Celeste O’Connor, Kumail Nanjiani, Finn Wolfhard and James Acaster in a scene from “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.” This image released by Columbia Pictures shows, from left, Mckenna Grace, Logan Kim, Dan Aykroyd and Patton Oswalt in a scene from “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.” This image released by Columbia Pictures shows Mckenna Grace in a scene from “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
“Frozen Empire,” though, is organized less around a group of funny people wearing proton packs than it is around a family. The movie more or less opens with the Ectomobile racing down Fifth Avenue with Gary at the wheel, Callie riding shotgun and her kids — Trevor and Phoebe — in the back, all in bickering pursuit of a “sewer dragon” apparition.
More than before, you can feel the growing distance from the original “Ghostbusters.” Harold Ramis died in 2014 and while Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson all return, they no longer feel like the axis to this cinematic universe. But if you accept the low-bar aspirations of “Frozen Empire,” you may get a pleasant-enough experience out of it. It’s a movie that feels almost more like a high production-value TV pilot for an appealing sitcom, with Rudd as the stepfather, than it does a big-screen event on par with the original.
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