The one friend Phoebe makes is a supernatural-obsessed kid named Podcast ( Logan Kim).
The result is an awkward and unwarranted feeling of reverence.ĭecades later, we’re supposed to believe, people still talk about what happened that summer in Manhattan. This “Ghostbusters” takes the series’ mythology way too seriously, approaching what should be a light, silly comedy as if it were serious science fiction. He tries to establish a feeling of mystery about this place right off the top through low-angle camerawork and misty moonlit nights, with Rob Simonsen’s score working hard to create a sense of wonder. They all schlep to fictional, small-town Summerville to take over Grandpa’s dilapidated farm, but when they get there, they soon realize there’s something strange in the neighborhood.ĭespite his last name and his filmmaking lineage, the director Reitman rips off most here is Steven Spielberg. But 12-year-old daughter Phoebe ( Mckenna Grace) is a misfit science whiz, a gift she apparently inherited from her grandfather, whose identity is revealed to us in the most eye-rolling way. Son Trevor ( Finn Wolfhard) is a sullen teen with a knack for mechanics. The prodigious talents of Carrie Coon, one of the most insightful and exciting actresses working today, go depressingly to waste as Callie, a single mother of two. Reitman, in co-writing the script with Gil Kenan (who directed the 2015 “Poltergeist” re-do), has contrived to send the estranged relatives of one of the original Ghostbusters to middle-of-nowhere Oklahoma. It’s truly bizarre in retrospect to realize that it was a massive radio and MTV hit in 1984.)īut first, we must establish why we are taking this slog down memory lane. (And yes, that catchy theme song is in here, too, playing over the end credits. sang that busting made him feel good, we all knew what he was really talking about. That’s men’s work! Women are allowed to answer the phone at Ghostbusters headquarters, and they can be possessed by an ancient demon from another dimension as long as they still look sexy, but that’s about it. This time, the story is about learning to use time travel responsibly.This is sort of a sequel and sort of a reboot, but it’s definitely an erasure of the 2016 “Ghostbusters” starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, which caused such a stir because it dared to feature women busting ghosts. When Marty traveled back to 1955, one of their first discoveries was that changing events in the past could drastically alter the present, even causing Marty himself never to be born. But in Back to the Future Part II, Doc and Marty have a better understanding of time travel. In Back to the Future, Doc and Marty had just discovered time travel and were figuring out how it actually worked in reality.
Doc Brown and Marty McFly have changed since the events of the first film.
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Movie sequels almost never live up to their predecessors, but Back to the Future Part II came closer than most when it premiered in 1989.
And above all, as far-fetched as the story is, it still touches on themes that all of us can relate to.
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It has a fast-paced script that manages to convey convoluted time travel concepts in a way that everyone can understand while also being full of laughs. Looking back, it's easy to see why it was so successful: It's built on the friendship between its two charismatic stars, Michael J.
Back to the Future is the rare summer blockbuster that's also considered one of the best movies of all time - and maybe even the best sci-fi movie of all time.
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