Having missed it in theaters, I preordered the blu-ray of Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
I'm experiencing some buyers' regret.
It's not a bad movie, certainly heaps better than the 2016 movie. But it feels incomplete, like they sketched out a quirky supernatural thriller without a whole lot of comedy, or even a fully fleshed-out supporting cast, hit send and called it a day.
It's not the cynical cash grab the 2016 movie was, but it's definitely a subset of a Ghostbusters movie. Egon's granddaughter is pretty well fleshed-out, if a bit too precocious, but most of the rest of the characters basically exist to feed her lines. Finn Wolfhard's character exists solely to get Ecto-1 running, and spends the rest of the movie going through the barest outlines of a romantic subplot. And when there's busting to do, they kinda write him out of it. It's like the only reason he's there is that his feet can reach the pedals on Ecto-1.
I really wish they'd done another pass on the script to flesh it out some more.
It's worth a watch if you can get it for free, but don't buy the movie.