![]() ![]() When exasperated and broke single mom Callie (Carrie Coon) gets evicted, she moves her teen son Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and 12-year-old daughter Phoebe (Grace) to fictional small-town Summerville, Oklahoma. Holiday movie preview: 10 new films you can’t miss, from 'West Side Story' to new 'Spider-Man' ![]() To wit: There’s a kid named Podcast who has a podcast, and the little dude’s not even close to being the most unimaginative aspect of this frustrating retread. While teenage star Mckenna Grace infuses the aging property with a needed burst of youthful energy, co-writer/director Jason Reitman (son of original filmmaker Ivan Reitman) is more interested in looking backward with the sequel, leaning way too hard on old characters, story beats, plot points and zingers. The new “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” (★★ out of four rated PG-13 in theaters Friday) comes dangerously close to reaching that bottom. The first 1984 film is an all-time classic, the female-fronted 2016 reboot is pretty good, but 1989’s “Ghostbusters II” is just a failure that even Bill Murray disowned. Watch Video: 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' mixes old guys and the next generationįor a while now, the lowest point of the “Ghostbusters” franchise has been fairly clear. ![]()
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