A heavy dose of nostalgia spoils Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Paul Rudd and Bill Murray sequel

About The Frozen Empire in GGhostbusters
In order to save New York City from a demonic ghost, the new group of ghostbusters—which includes single mother Callie (Carrie Coon), her boyfriend Gary (Paul Rudd), Callie’s teenage daughter Phoebe (Mckenna Grace), and her son Trevor (Finn Wolfhard)—shift base to the former firehouse owned by the original ghostbusters.

Garraka, the alien entity, once attempted to control the whole globe with his army of ghosts. Will he be able to revive himself and get back what was taken from him in the current situation? Bravo to the movie for taking a creative turn. But a good portion of it was WIP.
Even though it plays with a novel concept, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire mostly depends on nostalgia and its strong recall value to carry the weight for the performers of today. Although Bill Murray and Annie Hampton Potts’s comeback to the series was much-needed, the creators ought to have understood when to draw the line between the classic and the modern. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is stuck in a bygone era—and no, that’s not a good thing.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Review
For just fifty dollars, a clueless Nadeem (Kumail Nanjiani) pawns his grandmother’s strange-looking brass orb from her collection of antiques. Little did he know that this seemingly innocuous transaction would unleash Garraka, a 19th-century demonic god, onto New York City and threaten to send the entire world back to the Ice Age!

We know that this new group of Ghostbusters is up to something more than simply tracking ghosts down as the movie starts with a verse from Robert Frost’s Fire and Ice poem. In fact, experimenting is the central topic of this installment of the once-popular series. In keeping with the previously mentioned theme of “Fire versus Ice,” which explores how both these natural elements are equally capable of eradicating human existence from the face of the Earth, writer Jason Reitman and director Gil Kenan (co-writer) explore this idea throughout the film, highlighting it periodically with excellent visual effects.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is very stunning to see. But if science wasn’t your favorite subject in school, you might find it difficult to understand the subtexts in this movie because the creators have gone to great pains to incorporate and then clarify concepts like quantum physics and multi-dimensional reality, among other difficult subjects. It would have worked better if the Firemaster-beats-Ice Demon story had been condensed. Was it really necessary to make the movie this serious about a group of geeks who are obsessed with ghostbusting? Not in a realistic sense.
For the most part of its running length, the movie meanders around, with any meaningful action occurring only in the last fifteen minutes. For the audience to remain engaged, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire need fewer didactic science and historical lessons and more action-packed scenes. Chance. Not met.

Not to mention, this episode is infamously unfunny for a brand that prides itself on being legendary funny. The majority of the jokes, particularly the ones created for the four main characters, are usually not funny. Nadeem, played by Kumail Nanjiani, is the only humorous character in the film. With such expressive eyes and fluid body language, his quips really hit home. Alright, for the most part.
It’s unfortunate that Paul Rudd had to meet in such appalling conditions with former franchise members Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, and Annie Hampton Potts. While nostalgia and the old are undoubtedly valuable, the creators of 2024 really needed to move on from their prior successes and quit living off of their nostalgia, particularly since they had a compelling idea to develop further.
Ghostbusters: The Frozen Empire is just a shadow of what it was. Or, maybe more accurately, a “ghost” of its magnificent past?