Jason Reitman takes up his father’s legacy in the latest attempt to revive the Ghostbusters franchise.
The originalGhostbusterswas an interesting beast.
What, exactly, was the main ingredient in this success?

Lucky (Celeste O’Connor), Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), Podcast (Logan Kim) and Phoebe (McKenna Grace) ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’.Kimberly French/Columbia Pictures
Worse than that,it just didn’t impress criticsor audiences much.
They find themselves on a farm belonging to their grandfather, an original Ghostbuster.
Annie Potts' Janine Melnitz appears early, the first of many cameos and callbacks to the original films.
Callie asks Janine if the run-down farm she just inherited really is as “useless” as it seems.
“You mean aside from the sentimental value?”
The same could be said of the new film as a whole.