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The gang is back for another outing, five years after the enormous success of the first Ghostbusters. But its a mediocre follow-up at best. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, and director Ivan Reitman are all back, joined by Peter MacNicol as a museum manager who gets possessed by the spirit of an ancient painting. The spirit needs a host body to enter our world and conquer it, and darned if Sigourney Weaver’s new baby isn’t just the body he wants. If you can manage to lower your expectations, Ghostbusters II is an okay movie with some decent interactions between its characters, but action set-pieces are few and far between and the central notion of a river of slime that feeds off New York City’s negative energy — well, I just couldn’t suspend my disbelief. In the end, its simply not as funny, exciting, visually spectacular or interesting as the first film.