Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
dir. Gil Kenan (2024)
An entertaining romp that gives its adult cast more screen time while still structuring the plot around Mckenna Grace. (Finn Wolfhard is underused but no more so than Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon in Afterlife.) A far better sequel than Ghostbusters II.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
dir. Jason Reitman (2021)
Afterlife claims to be ‘based on’ the script for the original Ghostbusters film. It does indeed reprise many elements, but succeeds on the strength of its newness—in particular the decision to base everything around Spengler’s granddaughter (played superbly by Mckenna Grace).