Clare W

A beautiful movie with an even more beautiful message! It’s a shame that this movie tanked when it first came out back in 1946; guess people just were not ready for such uplifting stories so close after the war. James Stewart and Donna Reed have such a great chemistry and you almost forget that they are actors. I saw this movie on the 76th Anniversary with my grandmother and I had the time of my life! Henry Tavers role as an angel hoping to gain his wings was so wholesome and perfectly casted. I could watch this movie again and again and still fall in love with it. I highly recommend it. It’s even better when you watch it on the big screen, so if you have a chance to watch it on a big screen; I highly suggest you do!

Let me get the negative stuff out of the way first; it rides off nostalgia FAR TOO MUCH! But I don’t care! As a kid who had a Ghostbusters phase and would tape a pillow to her back and use a broom handle and pretend it was a proton pack, I loved this movie! It was the long awaited sequel to the first two movies we needed (especially after how disappointed I was with the all female reboot. I still give the director of that one A for effort.) It was great to see Bill, Ernie, and Dan back to reprise their roles, and whoever they got to place as Egon in this one did wonderful, I thought it was CGI at first but NO! That’s an actual person! When watching this for the first time in theaters, I could barley contain my excitement when I first heard the old Ecto-1 siren start up, I used to run around my house imitating it because it made me happy! Ivan Reitman and his son James have made a movie that fans young and old can enjoy; a movie that ties up all loose ends; a movie about how change can lead to big adventures; a movie for everyone who has ever wanted to be a ghostbuster. Thank you And to the people who gave this a one star review and said, “The directors obviously didn’t know what they were doing,” you are aware that Ivan Reitman was a big contributor to the first two movies, right? Pretty sure he and his son James know what they are doing. Sure we don’t get to see the original guys until the climax but that is what made the movie worth sitting through; because you get excited for it and it helps you better enjoy the movie. It’s called patience and it is helpful when you watch a movie.

The movie was great! 9/10. Would give it 10/10 but the ending was rather…vague. Other than that it was amazing!