Starring: Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, Celeste O’Connor, Logan Kim, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story: Supernatural comedy sequel directed by Gil Kenan and written by Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) continues to follow the Spengler family as they return to where it all started, the iconic New York City firehouse, to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
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Top Nostalgia-Fueled Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Quotes
Gary Grooberson: Hold on to your a**!
Callie Spengler: Phoebe Spengler, you stay inside this car.
Phoebe Spengler: I have a ghost to bust.
Gary Grooberson: Alright. That was cool.
Callie Spengler: Gary, come on.
Gary Grooberson: No, I know. I’m sorry. It’s just, the way she said it, it sounded cool.
Mayor Walter Peck: Three lampposts, two parked Priuses, an entire fleet of rental bikes. That is a lot of damage.
Gary Grooberson: Yeah, but you can’t have a Sewer Dragon flying around SoHo like it’s Middle-earth.
Mayor Walter Peck: We don’t let kids become cops. We don’t let them fight fires. And we certainly don’t let them become Ghostbusters.
Callie Spengler: Maybe you can spend the next few years being an actual teenager.
Phoebe Spengler: Yeah, well, if this was the 18th century, then I’d already be a part of the workforce, and I’d have four kids.
Callie Spengler: Aw. So I’d be a grandmother.
Phoebe Spengler: No, you would be dead.
Callie Spengler: So sweet. A ghost grandma.
Phoebe Spengler: Okay, well, three years is nothing for you guys. It’s a tiny, negligible percentage of your lifespan.
Gary Grooberson: She means we’re old.
Callie Spengler: Yeah, I got that.
Gary Grooberson: I mean, I was studying earthquakes in Oklahoma. Then I went to dinner with your mom, and we turned into dogs.
Callie Spengler: And fulfilled an ancient prophecy that almost brought about the end of the world.
Gary Grooberson: Now, that’s a first date.
Callie Spengler: We both got some action.
Callie Spengler: [to Gary] It’s great you’re their buddy, but sometimes you need to be an a**hole.
Gary Grooberson: I’ll be nice to you. I’ll just be an a**hole to your kids.
Callie Spengler: That’s what I want.
Nadeem: You the weird guy who buys strange old things?
Ray Stantz: Yeah, correct on both counts.
Nadeem: Buddy, you just hit the jackpot.
Ray Stantz: [referring to Nadeem’s grandmother] Was she a believer?
Nadeem: Well, she believed a lot of demented, and superstitious stuff, if that’s what you mean.
Ray Stantz: My kind of gal.
Ray Stantz: I’ve learned it’s always best to knock every piece of wood and throw a coin into every fountain. You just never know.
Nadeem: Well, I think you lose a lot of coins that way.
Ray Stantz: I’m going to take a PKE reading. Psychokinetic energy meter. May I do that?
Nadeem: Thank you for asking. So many places do that without asking.
Ray Stantz: Off-the-chart telekinetic energy! Full-bore convective spatter!
Nadeem: You took the words right out of my mouth.
Melody: You know I’m a ghost, right?
Phoebe Spengler: Kind of figured when the chess pieces started moving on their own.
Melody: I burned alive in a horrifying tenement fire.
Phoebe Spengler: Guess you’re lucky that you’re not all crispy.
Melody: I died before my face melted off.
Phoebe Spengler: That’s a bonus.
Janine Melnitz: It was the ’80s. Nobody was too worried about the future.
Lars: [referring to the portable CD player] Mind your fingers. It’s possessed by an evil Spin Doctors CD.
Lars: This grandfather clock is inhabited by the spirit of an actual grandfather.
Nadeem: But, really, who’s the brave one, huh? The brother who goes to engineering school, or the one who forges ahead with no education or future prospects?
Trevor Spengler: The second one.
Nadeem: Right?
Lucky: Nice sex dungeon. Okay, dadi.
Nadeem: Not a sex dungeon. Would a sex dungeon have these chains?
Trevor Spengler: Yeah, definitely.
Nadeem: As soon as I said it, I realized it would.
Ray Stantz: I think that somebody left a rotting carrot on one of your shelves.
Phoebe Spengler: Oh, that’s a human pinkie.
Peter Venkman: It’s just a garden-variety test. Are you a human? You should be able to pass it easily, unless you are possessed by a cross-dimensional beast.
Nadeem: Right, just a couple human beings having a conversation. One of them has a pasta pot strapped to his head.
Dr. Hubert Wartzki: Upstairs is just for show. Gilded research rooms where struggling actors can Twitch-stream and buy crypto.
Ray Stantz: The Death Chill. The power to kill by fear itself. A cold shiver runs down your spine. Your veins turn to rivers of ice. Your bones crack. Your lungs cave. And the last thing you see is your own tear ducts freezing up.
Dr. Hubert Wartzki: It’s so cool.
Mayor Walter Peck: For forty years, I’ve been waiting to say these words. The Ghostbusters are finished. Your firehouse has been condemned. Your packs are in a police lockup. They’ll be melted down for scrap by morning. And just wait until I get a hold of your car.
Phoebe Spengler: [to Callie] Honestly, if you weren’t a Spengler, you’d be answering our phones.
Gary Grooberson: Being a Spengler doesn’t make you a genius. It just makes you part of this family.
Ray Stantz: This is the way I want to spend my golden years. This is what I love.
Winston Zeddemore: [to Ray] You need to find a new way to do the things you love before it kills you.
Nadeem: Oh, I’m Nadeem. I’m a potential deep well of psychokinetic energy and quite possibly possessed.
Gary Grooberson: We can’t leave. I mean, if there’s something strange in the neighborhood, who are they going to call? If there’s something weird and it don’t look good, who you going to call?
Callie Spengler: Ghostbusters.
Gary Grooberson: Busting makes me feel good.
Nadeem: That’s impossible.
Ray Stantz: Son, I stopped believing in that word a long time ago.
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Nadeem: Dude, I’ve never been anyone’s only hope. I went to senior prom as a backup for someone’s brother.
Gary Grooberson: Life is rough. Life is unpredictable, and crazy. And doors close. Friends change. But family is the one thing that’s there no matter what. You know, sometimes they’re not even your actual blood relatives. They’re just, they’re the people that remind you you have a home.
Phoebe Spengler: Just sucks that the only person who gets me is a ghost.
Melody: Yeah. It’s too bad we exist on different dimensional planes.
Phoebe Spengler: Separated by quantum physics.
Melody: It’s always something.
Gary Grooberson: It’s okay to feel stupid. Some of the smartest people I know are morons.
Callie Spengler: I told you to make mistakes.
Phoebe Spengler: Yeah, not release a monstrous deity.
Callie Spengler: Maybe next time, get a tattoo.
Gary Grooberson: Or try shoplifting. Hey, that’d be fun.
Janine Melnitz: Who’s coming right for us?
Gary Grooberson: Typical manifestation of evil. Ender of worlds. That kind of thing.
Peter Venkman: Heads up. Tall, dark and horny at twelve o’clock.
Nadeem: [to Garraka] I don’t want to hurt you. Okay? So, how about we call this even, we each go our separate ways. I go back to Queens, you go back to Narnia.
Nadeem: Does anyone have a light?
Ray Stantz: I quit smoking in the ’90s.
Peter Venkman: Proud of you then, proud of you now.
Ray Stantz: Garraka’s let all the spirits out. Peter, do you know what this means? You know what we could do?
Peter Venkman: Ray, pretend I don’t.
Janine Melnitz: When the light is green…
Winston Zeddemore: The whole world is clean.
Reporter: Mr. Mayor! What do you have to say to the Ghostbusters?
NYC Bystander: Hey, how about you thank them, d**k less!
Gary Grooberson: We’re the Spenglers. Well, you don’t want to be a Grooberson. Trust me.