Saving the world from a new ice age, and particularly New York from becoming the summer capital of Antarctica, is the convoluted mission that is presented to the new generation of ghostbusters led by Paul Rudd, an actor who already has some experience saving the world as Ant-Man in the Marvel universe. After having recovered and renewed the saga of the mythical ectoplasm hunters three years ago with Ghostbusters: Beyond – set in Oklahoma in the purest ghost house style and which achieved good results at the global box office – the family formed by Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard and Grace Mckenna return with a new adventure.
But this time he does it in the place where it all began, in the old Tribeca fire station, in Manhattan, where they will face an army of ghosts, including the terrible Garraka, capable of freezing people with fear, and the entire planet, but they will also have the mayor of the city against them, who has been wanting to clip the Ghostbusters’ wings for years and sees an opportunity with the destruction they cause hunting ghosts from the sewers and who also accuses them of using child labor when He sees teenager Phoebe with a proton pack.
An army of ghosts that cause the containment tank of evil presences in the fire station to be almost overflowing, a new Paranormal Research Center with all kinds of ectoplasms isolated and under study, Dan Aykroyd’s occult shop, now on the task of being an influencer on social networks, and a teenage spirit named Melody who died in a fire in Washington Square decades ago, join Garraka and his icy powers in a film in which the undisputed center of the plot is the protagonist family and their external and internal tensions.
A bet, the latter, that undoubtedly serves the film on a platter to an eminently family audience, but that distances it from the most caustic paths of the original saga, despite the fact that in the end the original Ghostbusters, including Bill Murray, also go to the rescue of the world and the film. A film with many ghosts but somewhat brief in spirit.
