The lines I ignored most as a kid, which I now love as an adult: Egon: "I'd like to run some gynecological tests on the mother." Peter: "Who wouldn't?"
I believe that Aykroyd's serious belief in the paranormal and the desire of the filmmakers to make something fun and spectacular were both a huge benefit to the first movie and a huge detriment to the second, with Aykroyd believing that people would continue to aggressively deny the existence of the paranormal even after collectively witnessing a full scale ghost invasion, thus enabling the filmmakers to make an unapologetic repeat of the first movie.
@@Takeshi357 Yep, I no longer can watch a zombie movie and go 'Oh this would never happen. There wouldn't be people denying it when the evidence is right there,' when over the last year or two we've seen how people react to a literal pandemic.
My first experience with cinematic disappointment. Still remember walking out of the theater into the hot Summer sun that afternoon with my head down. Decades later I've grown used to that feeling.
There's a deleted scene for GB2 that takes place right after Egon, Ray and Peter are taken to the spot where her carriage stops in which Dana asks the GB's why this keeps happening to her and Egon suggests it might be due to her previous experience in the first movie that makes her a high priority target for supernatural events. The deleted scene is called "Dana's Curse" and can be found on the GB2 blu-ray. It's a shame the scene was removed because it doesn't make Dana's part in the movie seem so coincidental.
Does the fact that she had an incident in the first movie explain why there's been a river of goo beneath that exact street for years before that happened, and that she just happened to go there? Was it the Force?
@@gladspooky9455 Does the river of goo really need an explanation though? that’s like asking how did Evo shandor exactly craft the apartment building to be an a giant lightning rod for supernatural forces. it doesn’t really need an explanation
@@mckenzie.latham91 Ivo Shandor* btw The video game also explains the questions asked, for one the devs couldn't get ahold of Sigourney in time, so replace the generic girl Venkman chases with Dana (who turns out to be a descendant) and 2. The river of slime comes from Shandor Island.
No, that is the greatest song lyric of all time, after they made the Ghostbuster theme everyone should have just quit with writing music, there's no way anyone will ever top that masterpiece
I thought it was a conduit from which ghosts can return to our dimension when it’s charged with enough negative energy, but the ghosts that come through are the ones that have significant connections to the locations that they appear in, so the Scoleri brothers come through at the courthouse, and the subway train appears in the tunnels beneath the city.
@@diazdelosmuertos1503 Good point, I think it also would have been interesting if they had made it so that the ghosts which appear are connected to the person whose strong emotions set off the slime; could have shown Cheech reading a book about the Titanic before it appears etc.
@@diablojones Yeah that’s one of the things that bugs me about red letter media, they often address “show don’t tell” and the importance of films not explaining everything and or leading the audience by the hand, but then with films like this they act like if they’re not spoon-fed every single detail that the film is bad I always assumed that the scoleri brothers got reanimated by the goo due to the fact the judge and courtroom was where they were sentenced and thus their lasting presence was there and was combined with the negative charged slime from the judge’s anger. it wasn’t that hard to connect the dots. I think the issue is that the only sequel red letter media likes is empire strikes back, every other sequel to most films, they collectively hate on with some exceptions.
He-Man had just been in heavy syndication when this movie came out, so to kids like me in ‘89, it was a perfectly timed reference. We didn’t know the show had been canceled-we didn’t know how any of it worked. We just knew he was one of our favorite cartoons, we watched it any time it came on despite reruns, and we had just gotten the live-action movie two years prior. He was still a big deal to us.
@@EveryDooDarnDiddlyDay I do trust you. I was _there,_ as a five-year-old, in ‘89. That’s why I agree that they could’ve used them as well, because I fucking loved them as a kid too, but they were newer, and adults hadn’t caught onto their popularity yet-they were slower to catch onto what kids liked back then. All they knew was, they had been asked for He-Man toys every Christmas since ‘83 for the past several consecutive years. The character had been at the height of his popularity.
Jay was saying they wouldn't hire such an older woman as the love interest in the movie, not as one of the Ghostbusters, they were always older anyway.
I think the Ghostbusters game made me retroactively like Vigo more. In it, he's in his painting form just off to the side, presumably something clients who walk in to hire the Ghostbusters could look at before they're seen. In the game, you can interact with it and he talks cosmic level shit at you and the rest of the Ghostbusters despite just being a helpless painting now.
I do too but I think its only because of the nostalgia, their points about it being very lazily structured the exact same way as the first film are absolutely spot on, and if I saw it today for the first time I doubt I'd think as highly of it. But I'm still gonna re-watch it and I'm still gonna enjoy it too.
@@johnallen3033 it’s not nostalgia if you can see its flaws and still appreciate it. I think it’s more bandwagon mentality from people that haven’t actually seen in.
I saw this movie more than the first one as a kid, and I unapologetically love it. I still quote the "You are like the buzzing of flies to him!" line all the time. And I defy anyone to try and claim that the Statue of Liberty parts weren't awesome.
As a kid I saw Ghostbusters 2 long before the original. I didn't actually watch the original until I was a teen, so I never understood why the sequel was hated so much as I saw it as a fun silly 80s movie. Nothing crazy good but not a piece of shit. After seeing the first one I began to understand the hate a bit more. I still enjoy it
Because he's not really a main character. He wasn't a founding member of the GB but more of an employee. "If there's a steady pay check in it, I'll believe anything you say."
The third movie should’ve been based on one line: “The franchise rights alone” Can totally see one of the surviving trio of characters trying to MLM this and some idiot roommates (starring current comedians) buy into it, thinking they’ll make money on it, but don’t realize just how many ghosts exist where they live (say like New Orleans, which does have a film funding system).
I had drunk female hooligans at The Green Mile, each having brought a full bottle of hard liquor. Every time Michael Clarke Duncan appeared they pretty much said the same things. It took 3/4 of the movie and numerous other people storming out before the teenagers in charge finally tossed them out.
I always felt like the changing of the logo on the firehouse to 2..was symbolic of having to rebuild the place after Peck released all hell in the first film
He was good but there should’ve been a higher Vigo to Peter MacNicol ratio. The threat of Vigo manifesting as a possessed little twerp guy for like 90% of the movie didn’t work.
11:47 Trivia: Sigourney Weaver removing her shirt in the scene which Dana and baby Oscar are attacked by the pink slime in the bathtub was unscripted and it is not known if it was Sigourney Weaver or Ivan Reitman's idea.
Honestly, I’ve heard at least three commentaries for Sigourney movies where the directors talk about her wanting to do scenes naked or at least wearing less clothing (the one that comes to mind is the conclusion of Alien which she wanted to play completely starkers), I absolutely would believe it was her idea to get that shirt off.
I’m just trying to add veracity to my guess that it was Sigourney’s idea to get the shirt off. As for GBII commentaries, there is one on the recent Blu-ray release and it’s really not worth the bother unless you want to hear Dan Aykroyd eating sandwiches.
@@CJJC I'll bet that Dan Aykroyd mentions Crystal Head Vodka at least 47 times in that commentary. And that somewhere there's a first take of said commentary where he talks about his Vodka the entire time and neglects to mention the movie at all
I loved Ghostbusters 2, however, not more than the original. I had the VHS with 1 and 2 and an episode of the old Batman in between films. There was trailers for The Bear and Karate Kid Part 3.
It wasn’t as good as the first….. but it was STILL GOOD! Just like Alien 3. Didn’t touch the first (or second in Aliens) but it was still fun. Too many people hating on this gem
I always thought that the slime was acting like a medium or doorway for any kind of angry or annoyed Spirit to manifest. And that by using the whole positive energy they just neutralized it by the end of the movie. That could literally just be me pulling shit out of my ass but that was always my expectation
It’s a perfectly natural conclusion to draw. I have, and I’m sure thousands of others have too. It’s like they just wanted to hate the movie so they had to play dumb about it.
I gotta disagree with them on this one wholeheartedly. Of course Ghostbusters 2 isn’t as good the original, but still a redeemable film. Is a giant marshmallow man attacking the city less ridiculous than the Statue of Liberty walking around Times Square?
The Marshmallow Man was a demon who took that form as a sort of joke, and was only at the climax movie for a limited time. The Statue of Liberty is built up a bit more and is the actual statue. This opens the door for the audience to start thinking a bit harder on why they are doing this, how a bronze statue is moving like a cartoon, what the goo actually does, how they're controlling it with a joystick, and why is there a literal flame coming from the torch. The concepts are similar, but the executions are not. One's quick pointless gag, the other's a distracting pointless gag.
I always felt like they changed the logo to a happy ghost with the peace sign because when there wasnt any ghosts left to bust they became a kids party company so they made their logo more friendly. Not that it was literally a number two sign in the world of the movie. So that using that same logo as the logo for the movie it fit outside of the worod of the movie as serving as a number two as well.
@@ThreadBomb That and also the unfortunate sin of the film doing great, only to see others try and replicate the success and worsen overall film industry.
It's mediocre. That's the problem. For me, it's a very mediocre movie. They should've created a story based on the government taking over busting ghosts after the first movie, but instead, we got a mediocre rehash of the first movie.
I think part of it is that from what I gather from the video, this was made in 2014 or so, during which the RLM crew were much more "hotheaded" and prone to insulting anything including each other. I'm not entirely sure if the reason that part of their channel's thing has toned down if because they thought it got old, or possibly watching their favorite franchises going down in flames have made them more exhausted or something.
11:45 listening to Mike talk about his experience as a kid watching this movie reminded me of how I felt as a kid watching Transformers 2. I was 10 years old when the first Transformers came out, and I remember sitting in the theatre watching the 2nd one thinking “wow, this is fucking terrible”. I think we all have “that” movie.
theres a handful of scenes i really like in g2. the kids birthday scene, when bill murray is taking photos of the viggo painting and just going overboard, and when they impersonate the construction crew, and the cops come and they have to pretend to be real "new yawwwk" construction workers. plus the river of slime is really cool looking the 1st time you see it. i think thats about it lol. the 2 ghosts in the courtroom is alright too, mainly bc of the judge's performance.
This is the first movie I recall being "hyped" for and the first time I really realized that sequels were just remixes of the originals. It's pretty crappy, but it holds a special place in my heart.
I actually loved this movie as a kid. Maybe more than the original. I think it’s because I got to see this one in the theaters, but the first came out the year I was born.
That's more or less my experience with it. I remember being so excited for it as a kid, and I fondly remember anticipating it and enjoying it once it came out, even thought it doesn't really do it for me the way the first one does, as an adult.
This is the second time today TH-cam recommended me videos based on a passing thought in my head. In this case "Do - Ray - Egon" came to mind in the bathroom... And 10 minutes later this video.
@@kennybeans6115 The first was a perfect storm of talent, passion and new/original ideas. The sequel, as stated in this video, really is a beat for beat rip off of the original.
@@AlbertaTrailCams I know. I’m just saying that I wasn’t that amazed with the original. I didn’t find it hilarious or intriguing as many others do. I just don’t understand the overwhelming praise and admiration that it receives. That’s why I said I had to be there, to see it in the context for when it came out and it’s impact for that time. Nostalgia can go a long way. Idk. It’s just ok, imo. To each their own.
Holy crap!! Jason Reitman being in the second completely breaks the universe of GB, given that he's now directing the current one coming out. *MIND BLOWN*
I don’t know every time someone talks shit about 2, I defend it. I find 2 so much more fun to watch. Just the courtroom scene and the 5 seconds of the Titanic “well better late then never” is worth it. Oh and the tunnel scene when the ghost train runs through. Love it!
It's not Ghost Busters 2 it is as Jay said then immediately forgot: a peace sign they have made peace with the city council. 9:04 Zomg is that a potrait of the Star Whacker himself, Randy Quaid?
Why aren’t these available in they’re entirety? I’ve exhausted the supply of RLM content.... need more stuff to WATCH!!! I’ve seen all the videos multiple times...
to Jays point, Sigourney Weavers character was the love interest not one of the Ghostbusters. he specified the equivalent character so putting up how old Kristen Wiig is was kind of irrelevant
I actually think I like GB2 better as an adult than I did when I was a kid. It isn't my favorite movie, and absolutely the worst of the two, but it has its moments.
What does the show have to do with anything? It was a toy. That's like asking "how did the GI Joe movie get made when the cartoon was canceled ages ago?" The animated spinoffs aren't the franchise, they're the expanded universe.
The lines I ignored most as a kid, which I now love as an adult:
Egon: "I'd like to run some gynecological tests on the mother."
Peter: "Who wouldn't?"
In the beginning Mike is just pissed that the baby carriage wasnt plowed by a car.
I believe that Aykroyd's serious belief in the paranormal and the desire of the filmmakers to make something fun and spectacular were both a huge benefit to the first movie and a huge detriment to the second, with Aykroyd believing that people would continue to aggressively deny the existence of the paranormal even after collectively witnessing a full scale ghost invasion, thus enabling the filmmakers to make an unapologetic repeat of the first movie.
After everything that's happened in the past 20 years, I no longer find this implausible.
@@Takeshi357 Yep, I no longer can watch a zombie movie and go 'Oh this would never happen. There wouldn't be people denying it when the evidence is right there,' when over the last year or two we've seen how people react to a literal pandemic.
@@BioYuGi a flu pandemic LMFAO. 97 percent survival rate. Seethe.
@@bigboysdotcom745 Thanks for proving his point, mayor from Jaws.
@@bigboysdotcom745 still counts as a pandemic. remember swine flu?
Finally, the Redlettermedia commentary tracks are getting the videos they deserve. VERY cool.
Just needs to be full length 🥲
There are a lot of people making good ones already if you're looking for some, I'd recommend RedLetterMedia Highlights and Sondre
I clapped when I saw it!
Me personally, I really like there commentary tracks.
Me personally, VERY cool!
"No one likes the logo"
In the movie randomly? No
On the poster?? I love it
My first experience with cinematic disappointment. Still remember walking out of the theater into the hot Summer sun that afternoon with my head down. Decades later I've grown used to that feeling.
From 2014, even RLM makes me feel old now.
You're closer to 40 than to 20.
@@armin6427 stupid statement
There's a deleted scene for GB2 that takes place right after Egon, Ray and Peter are taken to the spot where her carriage stops in which Dana asks the GB's why this keeps happening to her and Egon suggests it might be due to her previous experience in the first movie that makes her a high priority target for supernatural events. The deleted scene is called "Dana's Curse" and can be found on the GB2 blu-ray. It's a shame the scene was removed because it doesn't make Dana's part in the movie seem so coincidental.
I always assumed being possessed by Zuul made her a magnet for the supernatural. Damn shame Mike and the crew couldn’t be as imaginative.
@@diablojones It's not the job of the audience to compensate for bad writing.
Does the fact that she had an incident in the first movie explain why there's been a river of goo beneath that exact street for years before that happened, and that she just happened to go there? Was it the Force?
@@gladspooky9455 Does the river of goo really need an explanation though?
that’s like asking how did Evo shandor exactly craft the apartment building to be an a giant lightning rod for supernatural forces.
it doesn’t really need an explanation
@@mckenzie.latham91 Ivo Shandor* btw The video game also explains the questions asked, for one the devs couldn't get ahold of Sigourney in time, so replace the generic girl Venkman chases with Dana (who turns out to be a descendant) and 2. The river of slime comes from Shandor Island.
Is there any lyric better than "busting makes me feel good?"
No, that is the greatest song lyric of all time, after they made the Ghostbuster theme everyone should have just quit with writing music, there's no way anyone will ever top that masterpiece
@@chadalpha7983 Dylan should give Ray Parker Jr. his Nobel Prize.
lemmetellyasumthin
@@evilthecat13 go on
@@evilthecat13 I'm listening
I always assumed the ghosts that come out of the slime are just random. Like there is so much dead angry souls that it made the goo.
I thought it was a conduit from which ghosts can return to our dimension when it’s charged with enough negative energy, but the ghosts that come through are the ones that have significant connections to the locations that they appear in, so the Scoleri brothers come through at the courthouse, and the subway train appears in the tunnels beneath the city.
@@diazdelosmuertos1503 Good point, I think it also would have been interesting if they had made it so that the ghosts which appear are connected to the person whose strong emotions set off the slime; could have shown Cheech reading a book about the Titanic before it appears etc.
@@johnallen3033 That would have been cool, yeah.
Their commentary makes it seem like they have no imagination.
@@diablojones Yeah that’s one of the things that bugs me about red letter media, they often address “show don’t tell” and the importance of films not explaining everything and or leading the audience by the hand, but then with films like this they act like if they’re not spoon-fed every single detail that the film is bad
I always assumed that the scoleri brothers got reanimated by the goo due to the fact the judge and courtroom was where they were sentenced and thus their lasting presence was there and was combined with the negative charged slime from the judge’s anger.
it wasn’t that hard to connect the dots.
I think the issue is that the only sequel red letter media likes is empire strikes back, every other sequel to most films, they collectively hate on with some exceptions.
He-Man had just been in heavy syndication when this movie came out, so to kids like me in ‘89, it was a perfectly timed reference. We didn’t know the show had been canceled-we didn’t know how any of it worked. We just knew he was one of our favorite cartoons, we watched it any time it came on despite reruns, and we had just gotten the live-action movie two years prior. He was still a big deal to us.
I dunno I remember at the time I felt it was a late reference. I mean at th time I was watching... The Real Ghostbusters, okay that would be awkward.
TMNT was the "hot property" at the time.
@@EveryDooDarnDiddlyDay They could have used TMNT yeah, but it had just started. Their popularity really skyrocketed in the early nineties.
@@diazdelosmuertos1503 TMNT debuted on TV in the fall of '87. Trust me.
@@EveryDooDarnDiddlyDay I do trust you. I was _there,_ as a five-year-old, in ‘89. That’s why I agree that they could’ve used them as well, because I fucking loved them as a kid too, but they were newer, and adults hadn’t caught onto their popularity yet-they were slower to catch onto what kids liked back then. All they knew was, they had been asked for He-Man toys every Christmas since ‘83 for the past several consecutive years. The character had been at the height of his popularity.
Jay was saying they wouldn't hire such an older woman as the love interest in the movie, not as one of the Ghostbusters, they were always older anyway.
Is that an old DOS icon
I think the Ghostbusters game made me retroactively like Vigo more. In it, he's in his painting form just off to the side, presumably something clients who walk in to hire the Ghostbusters could look at before they're seen. In the game, you can interact with it and he talks cosmic level shit at you and the rest of the Ghostbusters despite just being a helpless painting now.
Not to mention they got Max Von Sydow back to voice the character again.
@@gatsbygoodwood2575 I enjoyed the IDW comics until they had to shoehorn the 2016 cast into it.
@@diablojones It was a multiverse story, dummy.
I swear, I must be the only person on the planet who loves this movie. It was the first VHS I owned as a kid.
You’re not alone, son. Still to this day, one of my favorite moments is when Winston saves Ray and Egon in the darkroom.
I do too but I think its only because of the nostalgia, their points about it being very lazily structured the exact same way as the first film are absolutely spot on, and if I saw it today for the first time I doubt I'd think as highly of it. But I'm still gonna re-watch it and I'm still gonna enjoy it too.
I love Ghostbusters 2 and it has nothing to do with nostalgia!
@@johnallen3033 it’s not nostalgia if you can see its flaws and still appreciate it. I think it’s more bandwagon mentality from people that haven’t actually seen in.
I saw this movie more than the first one as a kid, and I unapologetically love it. I still quote the "You are like the buzzing of flies to him!" line all the time.
And I defy anyone to try and claim that the Statue of Liberty parts weren't awesome.
As a kid I saw Ghostbusters 2 long before the original. I didn't actually watch the original until I was a teen, so I never understood why the sequel was hated so much as I saw it as a fun silly 80s movie. Nothing crazy good but not a piece of shit. After seeing the first one I began to understand the hate a bit more. I still enjoy it
Ernie Hudson is the unsung hero of both GB movies. I love Winston
It almost feels like the movies sideline him, which never sat right with me.
@@benniepieters they absolutely do. im not gonna say why, but i can imagine you can guess it.
Because he's not really a main character. He wasn't a founding member of the GB but more of an employee.
"If there's a steady pay check in it, I'll believe anything you say."
@@benniepieters It's especially obvious during the trial in 2. Where was Winston? Even if he was not on trial himself, you would think he'd be there.
Which is a bullshit explanation. Wolverine isn't less an X-Men because he wasn't a founding member.
Neil fans approve of Bustin being the opener. thank you for your internet meme service.
I remember seeing GB2 in theaters as a little kid and being disappointed.
Jay seemed ready to reminisce about this film being ok & then the other 2 said they hated it so he gradually did a 180
The third movie should’ve been based on one line: “The franchise rights alone”
Can totally see one of the surviving trio of characters trying to MLM this and some idiot roommates (starring current comedians) buy into it, thinking they’ll make money on it, but don’t realize just how many ghosts exist where they live (say like New Orleans, which does have a film funding system).
I had drunk female hooligans at The Green Mile, each having brought a full bottle of hard liquor. Every time Michael Clarke Duncan appeared they pretty much said the same things. It took 3/4 of the movie and numerous other people storming out before the teenagers in charge finally tossed them out.
That doctor at 12:27 looks like an old Bill Murray, it's like he's seated at the table with his older self.
That’s Bill’s older brother, Brian Doyle Murray. Also the caddy boss in Caddyshack.
@@SouthCaroliniana Wow
I really appreciated the drunk Mr. Lahey
16:57 Jay articulating our worst fears that came true with the Star Wars sequels
I don't think they realized until the 2016 Ghostbusters came out how much they appreciated Ghostbusters 2.
Nah it wasn’t very good.
I always felt like the changing of the logo on the firehouse to 2..was symbolic of having to rebuild the place after Peck released all hell in the first film
Warwick Davis was in the first film?
@@ConnieLynchitzWhoElse I wish more people remembered Willow
It could be a multitude of reasons, they just wanted to hate on it.
Love the editing. Great job and you really nailed their humor with the clips.
Peter MacNicol was the best part of this movie. Weird to not have him in the video.
YES! COMMAND ME, LORD!
"Everything you're doing is bad. I want you to know this"
He was good but there should’ve been a higher Vigo to Peter MacNicol ratio. The threat of Vigo manifesting as a possessed little twerp guy for like 90% of the movie didn’t work.
I never thought that they should have brought back Dana and Louis. They were "customers" in the first Ghostbusters, not Ghostbusters themselves.
If Dana was going to be in it again, it should've been under the pretext of still being with Venkman and not broken up with him like in GBII.
11:47 Trivia: Sigourney Weaver removing her shirt in the scene which Dana and baby Oscar are attacked by the pink slime in the bathtub was unscripted and it is not known if it was Sigourney Weaver or Ivan Reitman's idea.
Honestly, I’ve heard at least three commentaries for Sigourney movies where the directors talk about her wanting to do scenes naked or at least wearing less clothing (the one that comes to mind is the conclusion of Alien which she wanted to play completely starkers), I absolutely would believe it was her idea to get that shirt off.
@@CJJC I've got the movie on DVD. No audio commentary. I read the script.
I’m just trying to add veracity to my guess that it was Sigourney’s idea to get the shirt off. As for GBII commentaries, there is one on the recent Blu-ray release and it’s really not worth the bother unless you want to hear Dan Aykroyd eating sandwiches.
@@CJJC I'll bet that Dan Aykroyd mentions Crystal Head Vodka at least 47 times in that commentary. And that somewhere there's a first take of said commentary where he talks about his Vodka the entire time and neglects to mention the movie at all
Don't make more Ghostbusters movies, make more The Real Ghostbusters cartoons.
We don’t know what made the first film popular so we’re just gonna do the same thing
The bathtub scene used to scared the shit out of me as a kid.
When the cartoon had better plots and writing than the (2nd) movie.
"Shlubby guys trying to start a business."
My downstairs neighbor rented this film on vhs and we watched it all day Saturday and Sunday non stop. I was 7 and I thought it was amazing.
I love that you used Neil Cicierega's "Bustin'" for the intro
I loved Ghostbusters 2, however, not more than the original. I had the VHS with 1 and 2 and an episode of the old Batman in between films. There was trailers for The Bear and Karate Kid Part 3.
Ghostbusters 2 was phenomenal! I literally just got done watching it and I love it!
It's not
Ghostbusters 2 is a perfectly decent movie.
It wasn’t as good as the first….. but it was STILL GOOD! Just like Alien 3. Didn’t touch the first (or second in Aliens) but it was still fun. Too many people hating on this gem
The wireless NES control is attached to computer chips, Jay
Am I the only one who likes both 1 and 2 equally?
yes
It's pretty close for me too, there are things I like better about 1, and things I like better in 2.
I like them both, too
Nope. You’re not.
I like them both but equally? not even close 1 is so much better
I always thought that the slime was acting like a medium or doorway for any kind of angry or annoyed Spirit to manifest. And that by using the whole positive energy they just neutralized it by the end of the movie. That could literally just be me pulling shit out of my ass but that was always my expectation
It’s a perfectly natural conclusion to draw. I have, and I’m sure thousands of others have too. It’s like they just wanted to hate the movie so they had to play dumb about it.
It’s a decent enough movie, only problem is it tries too much to be the first ghostbusters.
Jim Lahey is always a classic.
Thanks sooo much for making these !!!!
I gotta disagree with them on this one wholeheartedly. Of course Ghostbusters 2 isn’t as good the original, but still a redeemable film. Is a giant marshmallow man attacking the city less ridiculous than the Statue of Liberty walking around Times Square?
The marshmallow man would also fall through the floor too.
It's not so much about whether it's worse; but it's the same damn concept being reused
It’s the problem of the film being Ghostbusters 1.5
You clearly have bad taste.
The Marshmallow Man was a demon who took that form as a sort of joke, and was only at the climax movie for a limited time. The Statue of Liberty is built up a bit more and is the actual statue. This opens the door for the audience to start thinking a bit harder on why they are doing this, how a bronze statue is moving like a cartoon, what the goo actually does, how they're controlling it with a joystick, and why is there a literal flame coming from the torch. The concepts are similar, but the executions are not. One's quick pointless gag, the other's a distracting pointless gag.
I always felt like they changed the logo to a happy ghost with the peace sign because when there wasnt any ghosts left to bust they became a kids party company so they made their logo more friendly. Not that it was literally a number two sign in the world of the movie. So that using that same logo as the logo for the movie it fit outside of the worod of the movie as serving as a number two as well.
they only put up that logo after they get back into business though
GB2 commits the worst sin you can commit as a film: it's toothless and safe.
There are worse sins, e.g. overlong and boring.
@@ThreadBomb That and also the unfortunate sin of the film doing great, only to see others try and replicate the success and worsen overall film industry.
@homebrews: thank you for editing/uploading! BTW: typo in the title of this video (GhosTbusters)
C’mon, it really isn’t that bad.
Agreed, complaining about how "cartoony" is a movie is retarded, as long makes sense in the healm of the movie it's ok.
It's the 2nd worst ghostbusters remake
It's mediocre. That's the problem. For me, it's a very mediocre movie. They should've created a story based on the government taking over busting ghosts after the first movie, but instead, we got a mediocre rehash of the first movie.
I quote ghostbusters 2 almost more than 1. I think it's great
I liked it better as a kid. Don't hate it, but the first Ghostbusters is still the superior movie.
I don't hate 2, but I don't get people who say it's just as good as the first one because its not even close, obviously the second one is far dumber.
"Bustin make me feeeeel goooood"
it does to all of us man ... it does to all of us ... giggity
"Bustin makes me feel gooood". Yes indeed..
Was it just me who got confused whether it was the Pilsbury dough boy or the Stay Puft marshmallow man? Yeah? Okay.
This commentary was also 7 years ago so their opinions might've changed over time especially since the release of the new Ghostbusters reboot
Bonus points for using Bustin. i LOVE that song and listen to it way too much. bustin makes me feel good, what can i say
The amount of time since this commentary track came out to now is longer than the amount of time between Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2
I love RLM but this is the most Comic Book Guy nitpicking commentary they've ever done.
I think part of it is that from what I gather from the video, this was made in 2014 or so, during which the RLM crew were much more "hotheaded" and prone to insulting anything including each other. I'm not entirely sure if the reason that part of their channel's thing has toned down if because they thought it got old, or possibly watching their favorite franchises going down in flames have made them more exhausted or something.
11:45 listening to Mike talk about his experience as a kid watching this movie reminded me of how I felt as a kid watching Transformers 2. I was 10 years old when the first Transformers came out, and I remember sitting in the theatre watching the 2nd one thinking “wow, this is fucking terrible”. I think we all have “that” movie.
Did RedLetterMedia record a commentary track for Space Cop?
Coz...if so, you know what to do.
Yep! It’s great!
theres a handful of scenes i really like in g2. the kids birthday scene, when bill murray is taking photos of the viggo painting and just going overboard, and when they impersonate the construction crew, and the cops come and they have to pretend to be real "new yawwwk" construction workers. plus the river of slime is really cool looking the 1st time you see it. i think thats about it lol. the 2 ghosts in the courtroom is alright too, mainly bc of the judge's performance.
I like that the 2 ghosts in the courtroom are 2 ghosts from the judge's past rather than 2 randos.
@@WildBluntHickok yeah the electric chair ghosts are stupid but fun. the judge yelling out "gave them the chair!!" makes it worthwhile
I think Venkman "leading" Luis is during the his examination is legitimately great.
Why did everyone want a Ghostbusters 3 so bad if nobody liked 2?
This is the first movie I recall being "hyped" for and the first time I really realized that sequels were just remixes of the originals. It's pretty crappy, but it holds a special place in my heart.
I love "Ghostbusters" & "Ghostbusters II" equally. That being said, Red Letter Media is still good stuff.
Me too
"I don't like movies. Therefore, they're all equal."
@@gladspooky9455 "That's nice."
Props for sticking Lahey in there 👊
Ghostbusters 2 was awesome. I honestly enjoy it just as much as the first one.
Jay's last line ... so would he consider Highlander 2 a better sequel than Ghostbusters 2? 🤣
lol
I loved this so much growing up
Little did they know that just 2 years later another Ghostbusters movie would happen that makes GB2 look like a masterpiece in comparison.
It’s kind of like what happened with the Star Wars prequels. Everyone thought they were terrible until Disney made something worse.
Good edit bro. Enjoyed it.
I actually loved this movie as a kid. Maybe more than the original. I think it’s because I got to see this one in the theaters, but the first came out the year I was born.
That's more or less my experience with it. I remember being so excited for it as a kid, and I fondly remember anticipating it and enjoying it once it came out, even thought it doesn't really do it for me the way the first one does, as an adult.
Me, personally. I LOVE this commentary
The bootleg Ray Parker theme in the beginning makes my brain break, and I need to share my pain with others.
th-cam.com/video/0tdyU_gW6WE/w-d-xo.html
It’s more like a Huey Lewis song bootlegged by Ray Parker then bootlegged by Neil Cicierega
I feel like the bathtub scene holds up better than they give it credit for.
There was a Star Trek reference with the name of the Ecto-1A, but it flew over the Trekkies heads. :)
It's not actually a reference, just a coincidence.
@@ThreadBomb I was still surprised they didn't mention it, especially Mike.
@@ThreadBomb And the fact that Harold Ramis interpretating Egon as a human Spock. coincidence? Could be that Ramis and Aykroyd loved Star Trek.
best abridged series of all time
It definitely has issues if you wanna be critical. But I remember seeing this when I was young and i loved it. I had a lot of fun watching it.
Yeah because you were a kid
This is the second time today TH-cam recommended me videos based on a passing thought in my head. In this case "Do - Ray - Egon" came to mind in the bathroom... And 10 minutes later this video.
I never understood the hate for the second film. I get it now.
And I never understood the admiration for the first film. Kinda overrated, imo. I guess I had to be there.
@@kennybeans6115 Nope. Born way after the original film came out. You just have a minority opinion.
@@kennybeans6115 The first was a perfect storm of talent, passion and new/original ideas. The sequel, as stated in this video, really is a beat for beat rip off of the original.
@@AlbertaTrailCams
I know. I’m just saying that I wasn’t that amazed with the original. I didn’t find it hilarious or intriguing as many others do. I just don’t understand the overwhelming praise and admiration that it receives. That’s why I said I had to be there, to see it in the context for when it came out and it’s impact for that time. Nostalgia can go a long way. Idk. It’s just ok, imo. To each their own.
@@kennybeans6115 I feel that way about most things.
9:05 Why is there a drawing of Rick Rubin on the wall?
i like your use of 'bustin'
Holy crap!! Jason Reitman being in the second completely breaks the universe of GB, given that he's now directing the current one coming out. *MIND BLOWN*
How is your mind blown? He was the director's son. It's not that hard to believe he had a small part in the movie.
I noticed you used Neil Cicieregas version of the ghostbusters song
yeah i saw UHF in the theater in 89 5 times. it was awesome.
'Bustin' opening was perfect.
It feels so good knowing 2016 isn't canon and the original director's kid is doing the real third one
which qualifies him to direct a ghostbusters because...
Did you guys know, that the ghost logo is based on, John Belushi.
I love Ghostbusters 2 lol
I don’t know every time someone talks shit about 2, I defend it. I find 2 so much more fun to watch. Just the courtroom scene and the 5 seconds of the Titanic “well better late then never” is worth it. Oh and the tunnel scene when the ghost train runs through. Love it!
It's not Ghost Busters 2 it is as Jay said then immediately forgot: a peace sign they have made peace with the city council.
9:04 Zomg is that a potrait of the Star Whacker himself, Randy Quaid?
Why aren’t these available in they’re entirety?
I’ve exhausted the supply of RLM content.... need more stuff to WATCH!!! I’ve seen all the videos multiple times...
you want the whole thing you better pony up the dough
redlettermedia.bandcamp.com/audio
to Jays point, Sigourney Weavers character was the love interest not one of the Ghostbusters. he specified the equivalent character so putting up how old Kristen Wiig is was kind of irrelevant
I guess chris hemsworth would be the equivalent. But he is also rick moranis and annie potts. Terrible film, will be long forgotten.
@@davidhill3595 hope so
Great job, sir.
Neil Cicierega, nice
Unpopular opinion: I like GB 2 despite all its flaws (of which there are many)
I actually think I like GB2 better as an adult than I did when I was a kid. It isn't my favorite movie, and absolutely the worst of the two, but it has its moments.
This one hurt my inner child
Why does Bill Murray have the brand of sacrifice on his forehead at 4:57?
I still don't know why is He-Man a thing till this day. The og show ended more than 35 years ago.
Because 80s kids are currently running the narrative. You’re welcome.
People who can't acknowledge that the stuff they liked as kids was junk.
What does the show have to do with anything? It was a toy. That's like asking "how did the GI Joe movie get made when the cartoon was canceled ages ago?" The animated spinoffs aren't the franchise, they're the expanded universe.