Review: Ghostbusters Afterlife
Carrie Coon plays the estranged daughter of former ghostbuster Egon Spengler, who has recently died. Coon, struggling financially, takes her two kids (Finn Wolfhard and McKenna Grace) and moves into the old man’s crumbling farmhouse in Ohio (which she has inherited) where he spent his last years as a supposed crackpot recluse. Wolfhard and Grace start to investigate their late grandfather, and while fooling around with an old ghost trap they inadvertently let one loose. And somehow this causes the sleeping Gozer to awaken. Paul Rudd plays a local teacher who gets caught up in the craziness, whilst there are cameos by stars of the original “Ghostbusters” . I figured if this 2021 film from director Jason Reitman ( “Up in the Air” ) and his co-writer Gil Kenan (director of the underrated “Poltergeist” remake) could at least be better than the ill-received reboot, I’d take it as a win. Well, that’s about where we end up with this very modestly entertaining film that is quite heavy on