Ghostbusters II (1989)

GHOSTBUSTERS II  (1989)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Ivan Reitman
    Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver,
    Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis,
    Annie Potts, Janet Margolin, Harris Yulin,
    Peter MacNicol, Ben Stein, Philip Baker Hall
Five years after their epic encounter with the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, the Ghostbusters have more or less disbanded. Egon (Harold Ramis) is working in a research lab. Ray and Winston (Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson) are performing at children's parties for snotty kids who couldn't care less. Venkman (Bill Murray) is hosting a transparently fraudulent psychic television show. But evil is afoot, big evil, and when the River of Slime that runs beneath the city breaks to the surface, who ya gonna call? A lot of this is a rehash of the first "Ghostbusters" movie, which means that some of it's pretty funny, and some of it's just big and loud and silly. Murray's as smug as ever, and Sigourney Weaver does not turn into a slobbering dog monster this time around. Also, the Marshmallow Man has been replaced by a tall, green, New York City landmark with a torch and a crown. Maybe you can guess who that is.