Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Mar. 1st, 2025 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaI really enjoyed it.
+ I loved Nadeem. He was absolutely delightful from start to finish.
+ I enjoyed all the Spengler family drama. I liked Gary navigating the uncertainty of his place in the family. The Gary and Phoebe relationship was great. I even really liked Trevor this time!
+ Callie and Gary were wonderful. I loved them.
+ I honestly didn't have a problem with Phoebe's plotline. She is a teenager. The not listening, the thinking she know better, her makinng rash and/or dumb choices are all understandable enough.
+ I liked how the family worked as a team at the beginning. Yes, with bickering but also everyone doing their part and trusting each other.
+ I love that it took everyone working as a team to defeat Garraka and that everyone had their part to play. I liked Phoebe's family surrounding her and them working as a group to keep the proton beam on Garraka.
+ Garraka was a very cool design. That shot when he first entered the firehouse was great.
+ I'm glad that the mini-Stay Puft guys returned.
+ I liked Phoebe and Melody. Their initial meeting and chess game was great. I feel like Melody awakened something in Phoebe that I wouldn't mind seeing explored in the next movie. (aka give Phoebe a girlfriend!) Though the way Phoebe glomped so hard on Melody so quickly tells me that she also really just needs a close friend that she feels like she can talk to, and apparently Podcast isn't doing it.
+ I'm glad Podcast was back.
+ I liked that little scene of Dr. Pinfield chatting with the Possessor. It felt like they had a relationship and when the Possessor kept knocking on the glass of it's prison to me it came off as it trying to warn Pinfield not to do what he was doing.
+ I liked Trevor's little side mini-plot with Slimer.
+ I liked that Gary was willing to die to save Trevor by pushing him out of the of the poton stream.
+ It was great that Janine got her own uniform and joined the end fight.
+ So did Melody move on because she saved someone she cared about/the world (evening out her family's deaths) or did Phoebe pointing out that only she could free herself cause her to forgive herself and let her move on?
+ I mean the Mayor isn't entirely wrong. They do cause a lot of damage. Having a 15 year old using a weapon and fighting potentially dangerous ghosts is something that does deserve a side-eye. But on the other hand, the job they are doing is necessary and they should already have a 'ghost clean-up' provision in their budget. And like what did they expect Phoebe to do about the possessed lion? Leave it to the cops? I'm sure their guns would be very useful! Also it was tying to kill her so it was absolutely self-defence.
+ Ray asking Dr. Wartzki if he believed in spirits annoyed me. At this point in this world where ghostly sewer dragons fly through the streets it's not really a matter of belief anymore! This should be accepted fact that everyone just knows about, you know?
+ I can roll with Phoebe deciding to ghostify herself temporarily at the instigation of a new friend she feels a connection to but her doing it when the process hadn't been tested on humans yet and being so certain it would work? No. That's a line too far!
+ There is a vein of genuine disdain that Phoebe has for her mother that doesn't actually get addressed, and I get why but it bothers me. Her questioning why her mom is even a ghostbuster when she isn't a scientist and stating she would be the receptionist were her lashing out but there was a vein of truth (in that she believes it) too. She clearly feels that being a ghostbuster is HER heritage and right not her mother's, and resents Callie for being so happily involved and even more so for being in charge over her.
+ I loved Nadeem. He was absolutely delightful from start to finish.
+ I enjoyed all the Spengler family drama. I liked Gary navigating the uncertainty of his place in the family. The Gary and Phoebe relationship was great. I even really liked Trevor this time!
+ Callie and Gary were wonderful. I loved them.
+ I honestly didn't have a problem with Phoebe's plotline. She is a teenager. The not listening, the thinking she know better, her makinng rash and/or dumb choices are all understandable enough.
+ I liked how the family worked as a team at the beginning. Yes, with bickering but also everyone doing their part and trusting each other.
+ I love that it took everyone working as a team to defeat Garraka and that everyone had their part to play. I liked Phoebe's family surrounding her and them working as a group to keep the proton beam on Garraka.
+ Garraka was a very cool design. That shot when he first entered the firehouse was great.
+ I'm glad that the mini-Stay Puft guys returned.
+ I liked Phoebe and Melody. Their initial meeting and chess game was great. I feel like Melody awakened something in Phoebe that I wouldn't mind seeing explored in the next movie. (aka give Phoebe a girlfriend!) Though the way Phoebe glomped so hard on Melody so quickly tells me that she also really just needs a close friend that she feels like she can talk to, and apparently Podcast isn't doing it.
+ I'm glad Podcast was back.
+ I liked that little scene of Dr. Pinfield chatting with the Possessor. It felt like they had a relationship and when the Possessor kept knocking on the glass of it's prison to me it came off as it trying to warn Pinfield not to do what he was doing.
+ I liked Trevor's little side mini-plot with Slimer.
+ I liked that Gary was willing to die to save Trevor by pushing him out of the of the poton stream.
+ It was great that Janine got her own uniform and joined the end fight.
+ So did Melody move on because she saved someone she cared about/the world (evening out her family's deaths) or did Phoebe pointing out that only she could free herself cause her to forgive herself and let her move on?
+ I mean the Mayor isn't entirely wrong. They do cause a lot of damage. Having a 15 year old using a weapon and fighting potentially dangerous ghosts is something that does deserve a side-eye. But on the other hand, the job they are doing is necessary and they should already have a 'ghost clean-up' provision in their budget. And like what did they expect Phoebe to do about the possessed lion? Leave it to the cops? I'm sure their guns would be very useful! Also it was tying to kill her so it was absolutely self-defence.
+ Ray asking Dr. Wartzki if he believed in spirits annoyed me. At this point in this world where ghostly sewer dragons fly through the streets it's not really a matter of belief anymore! This should be accepted fact that everyone just knows about, you know?
+ I can roll with Phoebe deciding to ghostify herself temporarily at the instigation of a new friend she feels a connection to but her doing it when the process hadn't been tested on humans yet and being so certain it would work? No. That's a line too far!
+ There is a vein of genuine disdain that Phoebe has for her mother that doesn't actually get addressed, and I get why but it bothers me. Her questioning why her mom is even a ghostbuster when she isn't a scientist and stating she would be the receptionist were her lashing out but there was a vein of truth (in that she believes it) too. She clearly feels that being a ghostbuster is HER heritage and right not her mother's, and resents Callie for being so happily involved and even more so for being in charge over her.
