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Ghostbusters II is the 1989 sequel of Ghostbusters
(1984); the sci-fi comedy films are about four parapsychologists.

Taglines:

Be ready to believe us.
The Superstars of the Supernatural are back!
We're back!
The Superstars of the Supernatural are back. And this time, it's no marshmallow roast.
Guess who's coming to save the world again?

Plot

It is five years after the events of Ghostbusters and after property destruction and "blowing the top off a high-rise" (as Winston puts it), the Ghostbusters have been banned from operating as paranormal investigators. To top it off, they have been presented with a lawsuit for all the damage they caused. As a result, they have had to find other ways to make a living.

Ray Stantz and Winston Zeddemore still attempt to make a living off their past as Ghostbusters by doing special appearances at children's birthday parties. The children we see in the film seem to have forgotten what the Ghostbusters did for the City, and are more interested in seeing He-Man. Ray also now owns an occult book shop. Peter Venkman has his own TV series, "World Of The Psychic", in which he ridicules people who believe they have telepathic powers. Egon Spengler, meanwhile, is a medical scientist at Johns Hopkins University. Dana Barrett and Peter Venkman never managed to stay together after Ghostbusters, and she had a baby named Oscar with a musician who played in her orchestra. As well as the orchestra, Dana restores old paintings at an art museum, overseen by Dr. Janosz Poha. He is at work restoring a painting of Vigo the Carpathian, an ancient and cruel medieval ruler.

At the start of the film, Dana is taking Oscar for a walk in his baby carriage when strange pink slime rises up from a crack in the street and gets on the wheel of the carriage (unbeknownst to Dana). As a result, the carriage takes on a life of its own and tears down the street, eventually heading into oncoming traffic. The carriage stops just in time and Oscar ends up safe, but Dana is obviously disturbed by what happened. She consults Egon at the University, who examines Oscar, and he recruits Stantz and Venkman to investigate what happened. Eventually, the original Ghostbusters find themselves back together and attempt to solve the mystery.

While posing as workmen, Stantz discovers a huge river of slime flowing through the ruins of Beach's Pneumatic Subway. It is eventually found out that this slime has been accumulating under New York City for decades. Stantz takes a sample of the slime for study, but the Ghostbusters are accosted by a police officer who arrests them for disrupting traffic by drilling a huge hole in the street. The resulting chaos sees Stanz inadvertently destroy a powerline, plunging the entirety of New York into a blackout.

In court, the Ghostbusters are tried by Judge Wexler for breaking the legal ban that stopped them from paranormal work. The exhibits at the trial include their proton packs and the jar of slime Stantz took for research. Because of the skepticism of Judge Wexler and the prosecuting attorney, as well as the ineptitude of their own lawyer (Louis Tully, played by Rick Moranis), the Ghostbusters lose the case. Apparently affected by the mere presence of the slime, Judge Wexler flies into a terrifying rage at the Ghostbusters (once swearing that, had he the power, he would have them "burned at the stake") and the slime uses his anger to release the vengeful ghosts of the Scoleri brothers, two murderers who Wexler had sent to the electric chair. Panicking, Wexler is compelled to remove the Ghostbusters' operating ban to let them bust the two ghosts: the Ghostbusters are back in business.

Although Venkman is still trying to rebuild his relationship with Dana, the Ghostbusters use their freedom to research the slime. They soon begin to find out what causes it to react. Spengler discovers that it is a kind of "mood slime", that feeds off of the emotions and feelings of people around it. Insults make it react violently, whereas plying it with soothing, calming words and compliments will make it settle down again. After coating the interior of a toaster with the slime and experimenting with Jackie Wilson's "Higher and Higher", they find that music makes it move and "dance". Further investigation into the river of slime beneath the city, meanwhile, reveals that the river is feeding off the bad vibes of the New Yorkers above and that it is making Janosz's painting of Vigo come to life. Vigo plans to use the slime's power to engulf the city in evil and live again.

When the Ghostbusters try to inform the mayor about the danger from the slime, he refuses to take them seriously and throws them out. To protect the mayor's image before the upcoming election, Jack Hardemeyer, the mayor's publicist, has them committed to a psychiatric ward in Parkview Hospital, classified as insane.

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