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20:05 Anyone else want to see him do a new series called "There, I Fixed the Movie" where he does the exact same thing he did in this review for other movies?

My favourite Egon line: Ray Stantz: You mean you never even had a Slinky? Egon Spengler: We had part of a Slinky. But I straightened it.

I gotta admit, the Titanic just showing up was pretty brilliant

"We'd have Ripley as a goddamn Ghostbuster" Shut up and take my money

I would like one ticket for the Critic’s version of Ghostbusters 2 please.

Ripley as a Ghostbuster... Oh dear Lord I wish. Sigourney Weaver is flawless.

Vigo wanting Oscar specifically could be due to his mother having been inhabited by Zuul in the first movie, that kinda thing may make him more powerful

"Combining new elements with old elements and furthering the idea." That's what the Extreme cartoon did.

A sitcom about a couple having to raise the evil reincarnation of their leader actually sounds pretty fun.

Ripley as a GhostBuster? Goddamn, they missed out on a gold mine with that.

Honestly since their movie rights are owned by the same company I'm surprised Men in Black and Ghostbusters haven't made a crossover.

"Wait until the internet..." Oh god Gold. 17:50 Totally spot on about how it should have gone vs what it was. Dana as a Ghostbuster would have been a far better inclusion into the team.

Fun fact, the date that the woman predicted the end of the world is the same date when the teaser trailer for the Ghostbusters reboot was released, good timing!

Oh my god, he actually created a whole new better plot for the movie.

26:03 Since they are pointing mostly towards kids in this movie don’t you think the kids who watch “The Real Ghostbusters” would be confused about Janine and Egon not being a thing since that show pushes that a lot?

"If you can get sued for conjuring ghosts then why doesn't the court acknowledge them?" Hey that's a good point. :)

Dang, I have to admit it. Your idea for the opening is so much better

"Where'd Winston go? Eh, screw him." Best line from the review.

“There, I fixed the movie” Awesome line delivery! 😆👌

I’m sure R rated films need to have a big censor bar whenever people have sex.

"THERE! I *FIXED* the movie!" I want that on a shirt.

How exactly did they get sued over blowing up a giant Marshmallow god from a different dimension, yet are still considered frauds?

I always thought; wouldn’t it have been funnier if the Stay Puft Marshmallow company in the Ghostbusters universe were the ones to sue the Ghostbusters because they essentially would’ve caused a defamation of their mascot?

6:35-6:40 Holy shit, did Doug just predict endgame?

The best Ghostbusters sequel was the game from 2009. It linked both films together nicely, for the fanbase and it explained why all the ghosts came out at that time and never before that.

Sigourney Weaver as a Ghostbuster? The greatest idea EVER

RIP Max von Sydow, one awesome actor.

"Ripley as a Ghostbuster!" HECK YEAH!! I really want to see Critic's version of this movie now. I suppose we can only hope for some similar innovation for the 2020 re-reboot.

Thank you for that Happy little opening, with the Happy little reference to Happy Little Bob Ross.

Dana as a Ghostbuster would have been AWESOME.

So this is where the Russo's got the idea for "5 years later"

"I'm just glad people have moved on to getting upset about real problems again" Hello from April 2020.

The alternate version "pitch" was great. Dana becoming a Ghostbuster? Sold!

Awkward focus group guy may be my favorite Malcom character to date.

18:17 That Harold Ramis impression is spot on

Song Lyrics: "Too hot to handle, too cold to hold." Me: "Poptarts?"

Rip Harold ramis he'll be missed and remembered

Why possess a baby? Have you EVER seen the stories with some ADULT getting possessed? They're always fighting for control. A baby isn't going to have enough of a presence to do that and over time as its personality develops it would just merge with the more powerful entity.

The blue kid who appears is Jason Reitman (Ivan Reitman's son) at 8:17. He (Jason) would later go on to direct Ghostbusters: Afterlife and include his dad Ivan as a producer. Ghostbusters: Afterlife is one of November 2021's greatest films alongside Disney's Encanto.

omg, why did I never think of Dana Barrett as a Ghostbuster before. I'm sad not having this now :O

17:52 - 19:07 How Ghostbusters 2 should have opened!!! Your version was BADASS Doug!! xD

Lowkey, Malcolm's skit as that man-child-fan was kinda terrifying

And who is that little ray of sunshine that said the ghostbusters are full of crap??...?? The son of Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman who is now filming ghostbusters 3, or ghostbusters 2020.

That sketch of Bob Ross painting gets me every time.

I just utterly lost my shit at the Children Of The Corn Flakes box.

"THERE! I fixed the movie!" lmao Damn dying of laughter

9:06 I remember watching every episode of the Real Ghostbusters and I'm still shocked at the fact they took on the supernatural like the Four Horsemen, Boogeyman and the Halloween spirit, heck they even went back in time at one point and mistakenly captured the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future and made a future where everyone hated the holidays. Lol

That scene when they tear up the street and egon goes "yo" gets me dead every time😂😂 but the ghostbusters 2 is like 8.1 in my opinion

I've always really liked this movie. But i gotta admit, i really liked how Doug "fixed" the movie. That definitely would've made for a much more interesting movie.

Holy shit, Ripley as a Ghostbuster literally had me cheering and shouting at my TV! God, if only Doug had been involved...

Initially, the child was the son of Peter Venkman and Dana, who would have maintained their relationship in the intervening years. The child would have become possessed as a focal point of the film; Murray felt this created an imbalance in the story, placing too much emphasis on his and Dana's relationship with the child rather than the Ghostbusters and their character dynamics. Thank you again, Mr. Murray.

The Critics version sounds amazing! And come on Sigourney Weaver as a ghost buster 😍

That Bob Ross sketch was the spinoff we've been waiting for

Ghostbusters 2 isn't as good as the first one but it's not the train wreck of 2016.

I like when Egon goes right up to the corpses head and screams right in its face. 😁

I actually thought the interactions with Oscar were adorable.

I think my favorite part in this movie was when the ghost of the Titanic showed up. Honestly, I'd take that over an animated Titanic anytime. AS LONG AS THERE ARE NO RAPPING DOGS, WHALES AND MOONBEAMS!!

17:51 - 20:08 Critic you're a genius. I'd like to see more of your ideas and how to "Fix the Movie."

when i was younger, this movie horrified me so much more than the first. The baby getting stolen scene is just engraved in my mind, and the painting stuff made me so uncomfortable lol

While this was one of my favorites growing up, He's absolutely right in the ways it could've been better.

I actually enjoyed part 2 but Doug's version would have definitely been better.

Doug, your re-write of the movie is FANTASTIC! If only the filmmakers thought of going that way.

28:48 Janine: how was your date? Dana: it wasn't a date, it was just dinner *Insert Clip Of Kiss* Janosz: everything your doing is bad That had me in tears

27:33 that scene TERRIFIED me as a kid, I would always skip it

Egon was always the funny one though, he made science jokes funny

19 : 00 I've got to admit, it's a cool idea !

31:04 *Fun fact:* this scene was actually supposed to be in the first movie

I always thought Vigo bring a baby was so his host couldn’t fight off his possession. If you possessed an assassin, they could potentially have the will power to fight you off, if not completely then maybe hold you back

I've read both the shooting script for "Ghostbusters" and "Ghostbusters II", and after looking at both of them I think I can see where things went wrong. Nobody knew quite what to expect from the original "Ghostbusters". Akyroyd and Ramis had given a massive overhaul to Akyroyd's original idea and had lots of things in mind, but with nothing set in stone quite a lot changed during production. Peter Venkman's role was originally written for John Belushi. When Bill Murray took it over, he made it his own--ad-libbing almost all of his dialogue and especially his jokes (the only joke that came completely from the script was his bit where he puts his head back in Dana's apartment and says: "...No kiss?"). Louis Tully's role was originally supposed to go to John Candy. When Rick Moranis took it over, he again made it totally his own and brought his improv skills completely to bear and went nuts on set. Sigourney Weaver put her own spin on Dana because this was the first time she was getting a chance to play this kind of role. Even Harold Ramis ended up tweaking the ideas for Egon Spengler because neither Akyroyd nor Ramis had initially planned on Ramis himself playing that role. Basically, a bunch of talented people all had the chance to put their own mark on the film, make the roles their own, and do what was funny and what worked. By comparison, reading the script for "Ghostbusters II", every character is written for the actor who's playing them. That only figures because they were all coming back, but now Akyroyd and Ramis had a universe and personas for everyone in mind and so they tried to tailor their script exactly to them. There wasn't any more "wiggle room" or opportunities to put their own touches on everything. Everyone was just playing out their role as outlined in the script. Sigourney Weaver did a thing or two different with Dana, but that was about it from the original cast. Whereas before Bill Murray had ad-libbed most of his performance, now he stuck to the script. Nobody had the opportunity to put their own spin on anything or give it any fresh injection or life. There was only a single character in the "Ghostbusters II" script in which the actor deviated from what was written and made the role their own. Take a wild guess who. That's right, Janosz. Peter MacNicol basically did with his character what Murray, Moranis, Weaver, Ramis, and the others did with their own characters in the first movie. And as a result, he's the only guy on screen who's fresh, energetic, and actually looks like he's having fun.

I really want to see Dougs version of GhostBusters 2... dimension hopping it is.

I've always wondered about the scene when Ray and Egon are in a photo development room developing pictures of Vigo. First, the door locks itself with the 2 men inside, then a fire breaks out, then Ray and Egon try to get out of the door in the room but find out it's locked and they can't get out, then Winston breaks the door down and puts out the fires. Which side of the door between the dark room and the only exit from the dark room was the lock attached to because Ray and Egon had no access to the lock, meaning it wasn't on their side. Winston breaks the door down instead of unlocking the lock on the door and easily getting in to save them. The lock on the door would absolutely have to be on Winstons side and he just chose not to open it. Why would anyone installing locks on doors in the house think it's a good idea to put the lock on the side of a door that would trap the people in the room because the lock isn't on their side?!!

8:25 glad you say that kid because in 30 years your directing and writing the sequel.

My favorite moment: "Helloooooooo" "Helloooooooo" "Hey" "Hey" "Hello?" "WIIIINSTOOOOOOOOOOOOOON"

Doug: *literaly makes the movie better* THERE. I FIXED DA M *O* VIE

6:36 - 6:39 What everybody who was following the MCU timeline said after seeing the beginning of Avengers: Endgame.

I wish this was the alternate universe where we got your version of what the movie should have been

I actually like Ghostbusters 2.

*female psychic says world ends in February 2016.* *looks at calendar, seeing its 2018* Huh. Maybe it was a warning of all the flat earthers.

19:01 anyone notice the lawyer against the ghostbusters is in the corner? 😂

Ha ha ha ha, the original Vigo voice is hilarious. This popped into my mind: Get David Prowse to record the audio, his Darth Vader voice was also hilarious.

Well, no. Walter Peck isn't totally justified. He makes some valid points about the possible environmental impact, but he goes way beyond that, like shutting down the containment unit he doesn't understand, against the warnings of his own expert, which causes an explosion... which he then blames on the Ghostbusters. And when ghosts start appearing and wreaking havoc over town, he accuses the Ghostbusters of drugging the water to cause hallucinations, which actually makes _less_ sense than "ghosts are real" (really? They managed to make millions of people see the _exact_ same thing?). And being with the EPA and not the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, he has no jurisdiction over the proton packs.

"Yo!" Egon Spengler, 1989.

Judge: "You're in MY courtroom! Not the other way around! I know EVERYTHING! And you..... know nothing."

The psychic at the beginning really wasn't too far off with the end of the world for new year's eve, since Vigo was planning to just exactly that.

This is now one of my favorite nostalgia critic videos

As a kid, the bath scene and the guy in the flying carriage scared the shit out of me.

The kids were expecting He-man, LOLz. 7:46 To this day I still don't know why little boys loved it.

Late 80s and 90s trope everyone overlooks as annoying and cliched: Runaway baby prams!

The train scene and Titanic bits are fantastic imagery.

Out of pure coincidence, I wore a Ghostbusters shirt today. I needed this today. 17:40, and Doug, you were spot on with those ways to fix the movie! I'd pay to see a reedited version of this movie with that plot. Using careful cgi, some clever editing, and really good makeup, we could make what I would like to call, Ghostbusters 2: The Re-Slimed Edition. Personally, I can't hate anything Ghostbusters does. I'm just too big of a fan. And each one at least gives us SOMETHING! The first one's a classic. The second one has Yadosh, a few funny parts, and good effects. The 2008 game is so good, people consider it the 3rd movie. And the 2016 one, even if you're one of the many people who hated it, at least there were actors that tried, Kevin was kinda funny, and of course, Slimer. Hell, if they wanted a sequel to BOTH Ghostbusters movies, there's a comic where the original GB's created a device that allowed them to go to other universe's to meet the animated GB'S, the 2016 GB's and even the TMNT at one point. If they wanted to save BOTH versions of the GB's, this could he the plot. The originals, with a ghost Egon and Slimer with them create the device and end up meeting the new ones, where they could even joke about version.

Man, "5 Years Later" sure takes on a new meaning after Avengers: Endgame... I now understood why Doug screamed, he was the true prophet.

29:47 that's actually a really funny line 😂🤣

I died laughing to the Bob Ross section

is Malcom growing the facial hair to be Lando in the solo review?

Holy shit you really did fix the whole damn movie and I am one of those "looks past the flaws" type fans! I want to see your version so badly!

The throne of blood bit gets me every time

We DID get a Ghostbusters 3 though, in the form of the 2009 videogame!

That halfway point skit was Malcolm's best performance ever.

"THERE! I FIXED THE MOVIE!" - Doug Walker