GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE Reviews Hail The Movie As "One Of The Best Sequels In Recent Memory"

GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE Reviews Hail The Movie As "One Of The Best Sequels In Recent Memory"

The embargo is now up, and critics who were lucky enough to get an early look at Jason Reitman's Ghostbusters: Afterlife have shared their reviews online. Find out what they had to say right here...

By MarkCassidy - Oct 09, 2021 01:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Ghostbusters

The highly positive first social media reactions to Ghostbusters: Afterlife landed last month, and with the review embargo now lifted, critics lucky enough to have caught a screening (we weren't among them) have shared their more in-depth verdicts of Jason Reitman's highly-anticipated sequel.

For the most part, the full reviews are just as positive, with many hailing Afterlife as a fitting follow-up to the iconic original and its slightly less beloved sequel. However, not everyone was won over, with some criticizing the movie for relying a little too much on nostalgia.

Most of the reviews avoid spoilers and don't discuss the returning cast members in any great detail, but it sounds like fans will be very happy with how the legendary spook-hunters are handled!

Bleeding Cool says the film has "plenty of reverence for the previous movies, but it's the new stories told with a lot of heart and good characters that really cements it as an excellent movie." Empire echoes this sentiment, concluding their 4-star review with: "While full of love for the originals, Jason Reitman’s film firmly establishes its own new generation. On the potential here, Ghostbusters still has plenty of life in it."

The trades were also impressed, with THR praising the young cast while noting that "as franchise update, origin story, coming-of-age movie, comedy and indulgent f/x extravaganza, the feature, written by the director and Gil Kenan (Monster House), hits all its marks." Deadline, meanwhile, states that director Jason Reitman "delivers the smart and fun reinvention this beloved franchise has been waiting for."

Currently sitting 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, there are a couple of splats! EW reckons Afterlife "is a stark reminder of how much of modern American culture consists of excavating the ruins of past glories," while iO9 says the film "comes so close so many times to being that perfect sequel fans have wanted for years. But when it becomes too obsessed with its past instead of its future, it loses much of that power."

There are many more reviews to come, of course, but this is certainly an encouraging start.

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Se4M4NSt4ine
Se4M4NSt4ine - 10/9/2021, 1:07 PM
“ But when it becomes too obsessed with its past instead of its future, it loses much of that power.”


Well, yes? The film was always meant to be a love letter to his Father.
Origame
Origame - 10/9/2021, 2:03 PM
@Se4M4NSt4ine - I mean I could see how this can still be a problem. Like if they have a long sequence about twinkies to reference the twinkie scene in the original and nothing else, then that could be a problem worth addressing.
Tasmaniac
Tasmaniac - 10/9/2021, 2:48 PM
@Se4M4NSt4ine - Better that than taking a dump on the previous movies like most sequels/reboots do these days.
Carnage1991
Carnage1991 - 10/9/2021, 1:09 PM
This is good to hear, though having heard Jason Reitman's dedicated and respectful remarks in interviews previously then I'm not completely surprised. 😊
dracula
dracula - 10/9/2021, 1:14 PM
Finally a good ghost buster movie again
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 10/9/2021, 1:14 PM
I loved the first 2 Movies growing up and The Real Ghostbusters Cartoon.

Looking forward to this as a nostalgia fest.

I was an adult when I realised the world/internet didn't like the second movie

dracula
dracula - 10/9/2021, 1:27 PM
@SimplyAz - I enjoy the second film, although Bill Murray did not. According to him, they filmed a very different script than what was presented to him when he signed on. Part of why he kept turning down a 3rd movie
dragon316
dragon316 - 10/9/2021, 1:44 PM
@dracula - bill sounds like an ass for any news I read about third movie that he turned down do
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 10/9/2021, 2:55 PM
@SimplyAz - Ghostbusters 2, TMNT2 Secrets of the Ooze and Spiderman 2 I like more than their first, personally.
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 10/9/2021, 3:32 PM
@dracula -

That's interesting and could understand it for Bill.
Shame we never got a 3rd at the time
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 10/9/2021, 3:33 PM
@ElricReturns -

Those are all solid choices.

Been decades since I saw the TMNT movie, might be time to watch them again
TheOtherOn
TheOtherOn - 10/10/2021, 3:53 AM
@ElricReturns - Spiderman 2 in the same sentence with TMNT2 and Ghostbusters 2? 😲



Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 10/10/2021, 4:42 AM
@SimplyAz - It wasn’t until like 6 months ago I realized people didn’t like 2. As someone who only ever got to watch them on TV I’ve seen 2 way more and thought everyone liked it lol
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 10/10/2021, 5:15 AM
@Ha1frican -

Yeah at first I was really confused by it, almost shocked.

Same as you, whenever both movies were on TV, we would watch them and love them.
BassMan
BassMan - 10/10/2021, 10:20 AM
@ElricReturns - Recently rewatched the 90s TMNT movies. The first is still as amazing as when I watched as a child. The second… not so much. Definitely for the kids
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 10/10/2021, 5:44 PM
@BassMan - I think I loved TMNT 2 more as a kid for 2 reasons, to me the first film was very dark and gritty, but I knew the Turtles from the cartoon first, so the light hearted nature of the second seemed to me to be more fun. Second reason is I grew up in Sunnyvale California and my family was friends with the Reyes family in the 90s and I knew Earnie Reyes Jr. Even played Frisbee with him at Washington Park one time. So it was a trip seeing him in a movie, then I saw Surf ninjas and watched his career grow. All his fight and stunt cameos.
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 10/10/2021, 5:47 PM
@TheOtherOn - like the guy above said, wasn't till the internet that I found out people didn't like those sequels (Spidey 2 being the exception).
dracula
dracula - 10/9/2021, 1:15 PM
Have a feeling the younger girl is the central character
CaptainScotland
CaptainScotland - 10/9/2021, 1:29 PM
Sounds great to me. I was already sold after that last trailer
Menks123
Menks123 - 10/9/2021, 1:30 PM
I have been really low key excited for this for a bit now. Awesome it's getting some good early praise!
dragon316
dragon316 - 10/9/2021, 1:46 PM
@Menks123 - good reviews mean shit.,
Eat dog shit taste like shit put whip cream ice cream chocolate on dog shit still taste like shit it will look pretty but still taste like shit
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 10/9/2021, 1:34 PM
Just glad Rudd is in this.
Saga
Saga - 10/9/2021, 1:35 PM
The Ghostbusters died with Ramis this and the previous one are just shameless rehashes
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