GhostbustersAfterlife offers a fresh jolt of energy from director Jason Reitman, who offers fan service alongside a new entry point for younger audiences.
) and science prodigy Phoebe can adjust. Turns out, the kids take it better, adjusting almost instantly. Trevor gets a job at the local burger joint — a ploy to get closer to crush Lucky — while Phoebe enrolls in summer school, taught by amateur seismologist Gary Grooberson . There, she makes friends with a kid who calls himself Podcast for obvious reasons .
After the movie’s leisurely, kid-centric buildup, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” eventually reveals itself to be a rural, 21st-century rematch of what has come before: what remains of the Ghostbusters — both old and new members — reassembled to thwart Gozer’s return. The movie essentially disowns the gender-swapped reboot, though that movie gives a pretty good idea of who’s available and willing to reenlist.
In place of Slimer, we get a corpulent computer-animated ghost named Muncher, who gobbles metal and then sprays shrapnel on anyone who tries to wrangle him. And the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man returns in a slightly different form. Watching one of these gremlins cozy up between a chocolate-bar blanket and a graham-cracker bed has gotta be one of the year’s best sight gags.
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