Ghostbusters:
Answer The Call:
What Dreams May Come (2017)
Previously with this franchise...
- My original Ghostbusters series review.
- Happy 1st anniversary, Ghostbusters: Answer The Call!
- Ghostbusters 101: Everyone Answers The Call.
- Ghostbusters: Answer The Call spinoff comic!!
Same as last time, issue reviews will be down in comments, then I'll do a full series review when it's all done.
Next time, Thor Ragnarok for sure!!
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All right, so, we pick right up after "Ghostbusters 101", and the girls are busting a haunted house.
A creepy ghost kid shows up, and Patty, having seen many a horror movie, knows the kid is creepy, and probably secretly dangerous. They shoot at it, and sure enough, it turns into a monster.
They zap and trap it with little incident, and go back to the firehouse.
Everyone's being their usual selves.
Patty is doing research.
Holtzmann is flirting with Erin.
Erin is oblivious to Holtzmann's flirting.
Kevin is being stupid.
Holtzmann tries without success to hook Erin and Patty to what looks like some sort of mind reading machine.
Abby suddenly reveals herself to be possessed again by the real ghost of the haunted house they just left, and starts barfing slime (again!).
Holtzmann reveals a new gadget, a proton laser whip (called the de-possesseser) that can pull ghosts out of possessed people.
They get the ghost out of Abby, but he busts loose into the city.
During this, Holtzmann tries and fails to use a new prototype, a "ghost zamboni", a giant sized ride-on version of the ghost shredder.
The ghost, Schreckgespenst, takes over the top floors of the Empire State Building.
So, we cliff-hang with the girls on the roof of the firehouse facing a new adversary (literally), Holtzmann with new gear, and the mission for the next 4 issues set up.
All right so far, digging the new art style, and the handle the new writer has on the characters.
We're in good hands for this threequel to "Answer The Call".
Holy shit, after three fuckng months, here we go!!
So, we pick right up after the cliffhanger of issue 1.
Schreckgespenst is inhabiting the top floor of the Empire State Building, and the girls have to go do something about it.
The girls wait to be called by somebody, but it turns out Kevin unplugged the phone, because he just doesn't like answering it.
So much for "answer the call", huh?
Hmm...maybe that was the joke of the title all along, now that I think about it....
Anyhoo, they finally just hop in the car, and race to the ESB, enter the lobby, and immediately get their asses kicked by Shrecky.
He envelops them in a smear of living smoke, and they go into coma trances where they're living out their worst nightmares.
Erin is getting heckled by skeptics, and giant bees show up.
Patty gets left behind by the group, and creepy dolls show up.
Abby gets her funding rejected, and a copyright safe ripoff of Pennywise shows up.
Holtzmann has a cubicle job, and the "obey, consume, reproduce", signs from "They Live", hang everywhere. She races to the bathroom to hide away, and tinker with gadgets, but her fingers go all melty and floppy, so her tech abilities are taken from her.
And, we cliffhang with them in comas, and Shrecky giving a standard villain speech.
No one is gonna save them, so they're gonna have to defeat the nightmares by themselves somehow.
I'm banking on Patty or Holtz starting the resistance.
Anyway, so far so good, but that was a fast read for three fucking months.
I think everything got delayed by Florida hurricanes, or something.
That's why I'm not gonna shake my "first world white people problems", fist about it.
They get here when they get here.
Hopefully, everything will be back on schedule from here on out.
Finally, issue #3!
Issue #4 drops in just a couple weeks.
To make up for the delay of #2, I guess.
So, we pick up where we left of with the girls in their individual Hells, and then we cut to them together at a diner.
Apparently, Shrecky didn't see them as a threat, and let them go out of contempt.
This wounds Holtzmann in the ego, and she storms off in defeat.
Erin has some girl talk with her in the nearby alleyway, and Erin tells Holtz her fear she saw, that being bees, and Holtz busts out in laughter, and becomes herself again.
That gives Holtz an idea, and they rush back to the firehouse so she can start gadget building.
Erin, Patty, and Abby decide to go back to the ghost mansion from issue #1 to get intel, and see if they can find a weakness in their nemesis.
Holtzmann seems to be building a dream sharing device so each girl's fears won't work on the others, and they can back each other up.
She's testing it on Kevin.
Patty comes back with a big thick book containing Shrecky's scientific journals of his mad experiments.
We cliffhang with them reacting in horror to his evil plan, but we won't see what it is until #4.
Note to myself, these episode/issue reviews are a pain, and no one seems to care about them, so after this one is done, I'll just review whole series once they're concluded.
GB101 was special, because it was the first sequel to GBATC, and the big generational crossover, and ASH season 1 was special, because it was the first ED sequel in 24 years.
Then I did Ash season 2 out of habit, and this one both out of habit, and because it's the first standalone sequel to ATC.
I mean, if someone out there is enjoying these comments reviews of the issues, speak the fuck up.
Otherwise....*shrug*
I'll do 4 and 5 of this series, because we're in the home stretch, but...y'know.
Issue #4!!
Yeah, wow, that wasn't two weeks later at all.
The schedule on the Ghostbusters wiki is all sorts of fucked up.
We start with Erin and Abby having a shared nightmare of being eaten by the giant clown from Abby's dream, and then his stomach is a beehive full of the giant bees from Erin's dream.
They wake up wearing Holtzmann's dream helmets, and Holztmann calls it a partial success.
Partial, because even though they lost control of the dream, they did share the dream.
Holtzmann suggests that to be able to beat the fear in the nightmare, they need shared memories to lock onto to hide in, and the easiest way to do that, would be to implant memories.
Erin is not about that idea, and puts the kybosh on it.
Abby says Holtzmann implanted memories into her before, and that's why she likes soup so much.
At last!! After two goddamned years, the wonton soup joke finally has a fucking punchline!!!
The one thing I found cringe-y about the flick is finally fixed!!
While trying to find joint memories to use, they stumble onto that they all met each other as kids, and didn't know it.
Young Holzmann tested a gadget that blew up a church, and the other girls thought it was ghosts or something, and got scared away.
With that memory to use, they suit up, slap on their gear, and get ready to head back to The Empire State Building to fight Shrecky for round 2.
1 more issue to go!!!!
Issue #5!!
It's finally fucking done!!
Goddamn this thing came out slow!!
So, they do the plan, and it works.
No real twist surprises, save one, and you could've seen that coming too.
They go into the dream world, find each other, lure Shrecky into their safe space, zap him, and cause him enough pain that they're all knocked back into the real world, but they're weakened, and he gloats, then Kevin shows up, and zaps and traps him.
So, Kevin finally gets to be a Buster.
And, that's pretty much then end.
Meh.
Full series review coming.
Full series review.
http://dickynoo.blogspot.com/2018/05/big-2018-movies-part-5.html
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