Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review – funny, silly, and a little scary, the franchise finally returns to fun

In 2021, the frightfully cynical reduced one the greatest comedies ever made to a solemn parade of nostalgic artefacts, with moody shots of the famous proton packs and decked-out hearse. It also committed a particularly egregious act of digital necromancy, forcing the CGI-assisted return of the late Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler. Thankfully, there’s a limited resource of reverential nostalgia to be squeezed out of the’s sequel, , has – potentially against its will – been forced to actually put the Ghostbusters to work.