Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Needs to Go Full Animated Series

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After viewing the recent trailer for the latest Ghostbusters feature, titled Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the only thought that crossed my mind was: Now is the time to go full-on animated series. Like, The Real Ghostbusters circa 1986.

I had hoped Ghostbusters: Afterlife would shed the weight of Ivan Reitman’s classic original feature and bask in the weirdness that defied the animated series, charting a unique course in a new direction. Alas, that film clung to the original Ghostbusters like a ghost to a haunted house, resulting in a shallow retread about as exciting as a picnic with Bella Swan.

There were rumors and even suggestions from Jason Reitman that the sequel would focus on Vigo the Carpathian, the big bad from Ghostbusters II. Thankfully, writer/director Gil Kenan (of Monster House fame) pivoted from the norm and introduced an all-new bad guy that freezes its victims (and all of New York) with the Death Chill.

That’s more like it.

Ghostbusters will forever remain a pitch-perfect comedy. As I’ve said several times before, that film didn’t need a sequel. It’s a perfectly fine stand-alone entry with simplistic characters and a story that wraps up succinctly before the credits roll. The guys reunited for Ghostbusters II, a bland sequel that more or less killed the big-screen iteration of the franchise.

We should have left well enough alone.

However, when Ghostbusters II rolled around in 1989, the animated series turned the property into a viable product. The Real Ghostbusters expanded the lore and successfully reimagined the characters for the small screen, morphing the adult franchise into a child-driven commodity, for better or worse.

I own every season of that damned cartoon, and I still watch it on occasion. It