Ghostbusters 2

As the cover suggests, "They're Back". Well, not exactly. From the outset we see our heroes have gone their separate ways. Could it be that the director was hinting on the fact that the movie itself was a fad and expressed that in the movie as the ghostbusting business itself was a fad? It sure looks like it.

Something has to bring the crew back together and this happens with the use of Dana Barrett's (Sigourney Weaver) son. She is taking him for a stroll when the pram begins to roll into the middle of a busy New York street. This seems a little too weird so she enlists the help of her ghostbusting friends who end up finding a river of slime under the streets of New York, leading towards the museum where Dana herself works.

Being restored in this museum is a painting of Vigo the Carpathian, a ghoul from way back when who is after the body of a young child to bring him back to life in this time. It is up to the Ghostbusters to get their act together and jump back into action to save the world once again.

Made 5 years after the original and obviously residing on a decade old film reel, the imagery comes up better than the original. The colors are rich an vibrant throughout the movie, particularly in the river of slime scene where the river glows an eerie pinkish purple and the walls are glowing with the same hue.

Black levels are good and detail in night/dark scenes come up very well lending to great shadow detail. Image detail as a whole is up their with the best of them which is further helped by the anamorphic transfer.

One word to describe this soundtrack is "conglomeration". You get your dialogue scenes, your musical soundtrack scenes, your deep bass rumble scenes and your surround scenes. Sure all movies have all these but this soundtrack could be sectioned off into the aformentioned sections.

Dialogue is always clear and in synch. Not that there is inherent audio synch issues with the Columbia Tristar range but I thought I should mention it. The soundtrack features music from an era on the wrong side of the 90's but let's not make this a detriment to my audio rating.

The one thing you'll notice about this soundtrack is the bass. Is it an exaggerated rumble? No, it's just fairly consistent throughout many scenes - something I wasn't really expecting from a 10 year old movie.

Your very basic extras here:

• Theatrical Trailer
  Your typical "we're back" promo for a sequel.
• Cast Crew Biographies
  Ho Hum, a few pages of reading material.

I enjoyed seeing this movie again. My one favorite attraction of seeing this series again is the comedic talents of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. Dan just goes about his character with such gusto that I don't even think he knows he's being enjoyably funny.

It's a pity the extras do not live up to those found on the original yet this disc is a welcome partner for your collection.