Ghostbusters: Afterlife

In February 2020, I watched Ghostbusters: Afterlife for the first time at Movix Kameari. The comedy action film was released in 2021 and the forth one of the Ghostbusters series. It is the sequel to the second one, Ghostbusters II, not the third one, the boost of Ghostbusters. The first one, Ghostbusters, is a masterpiece that I have watched many times. I liked the third one the best because my favorite actor Melissa McCarthy is in it and the first one's special effects looked to be dated, though the acting of Bill Murray in the original one is entertaining the most. I had not watched the second one because I had assumed it to be a poor work, for a sequel to a quite popular movie tends to be rubbish, though I regretted that I had not when watching the forth one. It stars Mckenna Grace.

It tells the story of the new Ghostbusters formed by the two grandchildren of a Ghostbuster flourishing in New York in the 1980's with their best friends. The new team fight ghosts in the countryside in Oklahoma.

The protagonist is a granddaughter, Phoebe, of the old Ghostbusters' member Spengler played by late Harold Ramis. I thought of her as a boy at the beginning but I realized that she is a girl in the scenes in which she gradually gets lively and lovely as she begins to know about the truth of her grandfather. Mckenna Grace gave a charming and dignified performance as the girl. Her big brother, Trevor, was performed by Finn Wolfhard who did a talkative boy in It. He looks like Timothee Chalamet and one of today's handsome guys. The siblings and each best friend form the new Ghostbusters. Phoebe's pal is an Asian charming boy, Podcast. Trevor's one is an African pretty young woman played by Celeste O'Connor. I felt that the flick is highly conscious of political correctness as well as the Spiderman series starring Tom Holland. The two members were cute as well as the siblings of course.

I smiled in spite of myself watching the scene where Phoebe is jailed with her friends due to the police's ignorance of ghost, asks a police officer to borrow a telephone, is asked by the officer who she is going to call, and she does a former Ghostbuster Stanz played by Dan Aykroyd. I get thrilled quiet well after that. I was also amused by how elderly the old Ghostbusters are when they show up to help the young Ghostbusters, though it could not be helped considering their ages.  

The director is Jason Reitman. He is the son of Ivan Reitman who directed Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II. Jason's father passed away on February twelfth in 2022. I overflew with deep emotion because I heard the sad news some days after I viewed it. The tale of Phoebe, her mother and her grandfather, the Spengler family for three generations, could dramatically be depicted probably thanks to Ivan's advice that Jason should seriously have listened to.

I was really touched by not only the human drama but also the magnificent Computer Graphics Interface pictures, though it was the first time I had watched an installment in the series at a theater. Anyway, it is the best one in the series without doubt.