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On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was
will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil!
Five years after the events of the first film, the Ghostbusters are
undeservedly out of business after being sued by the city for property damage
incurred during the battle against Gozer, and have incurred a restraining order
preventing them from investigating the supernatural. Ray Stantz owns an occult
bookstore and does side-work with Winston Zeddemore as unpopular children's
entertainers, Egon
Spengler works in a laboratory conducting experiments into human
emotion, Peter Venkman
hosts a little-watched pseudo-psychic television show, and Dana Barrett works at
the Manhattan
Museum of Art restoring paintings and raising her infant son Oscar at a new
apartment, having broken up with Peter under acrimonious circumstances, but
strongly hinted to be from Peter's fear of commitment. After a supernatural
incident in which Oscar's baby carriage is controlled by an unseen supernatural
force and drawn to a busy junction on First Avenue, Dana turns to the
Ghostbusters for help, prompting an awkward reunion between herself and Peter.
Meanwhile, Dr. Janosz Poha—Dana's boss at the art gallery—is possessed by the
spirit of Vigo the Carpathian, a seventeenth century tyrant trapped within a
painting in the gallery. Vigo orders Janosz to locate a child that Vigo can
transfer his consciousness into, thus gaining physical form upon the approaching
New Year.
The Ghostbusters' investigation leads them to conclude that the supernatural
presence originates from under the city streets, prompting them to illegally
excavate First Avenue at the point where the baby carriage stopped. Lowered down
on a wire, Ray discovers a river of pink slime filling an abandoned subway line.
Attacked by the slime after obtaining a sample, Ray accidentally knocks out the
city's electrical grid, and the Ghostbusters are arrested. At their trial they
are defended poorly by Louis Tully and are found guilty, but the judge's
emotional outbursts prompt a reaction from the slime sample presented as
evidence; after a final tirade, the slime explodes, releasing the ghosts of the
Scoleri Brothers, two murderers the judge had previously sentenced to death. The
Ghostbusters agree to trap the ghosts in exchange for the dismissal of all
charges and the rescinding of the restraining order; after doing so, they
re-open their business and commence investigating the supernatural once
more.
After the slime invades Dana's apartment, seemingly attempting to abduct
Oscar, she seeks refuge with Peter; the two begin to renew their relationship.
Investigating the slime and the history of the painting of Vigo, the
Ghostbusters discover that the slime reacts both to positive and negative
emotions -- and even "dances" to music such as Jackie Wilson's "Higher and
Higher" -- but suspect that it has been generated by the immense amount of
negativity reflected in the attitudes of New Yorkers. While Peter and Dana have
dinner together and Louis and Janine babysit (and become romantically involved),
Egon, Ray and Winston explore the river of slime and, after falling in and
barely escaping, discover that it leads back directly to the museum. The
Ghostbusters go to the mayor with their suspicions, but are dismissed by the
skeptical politician; his scheming assistant attempts to defuse them as a
potential problem by having them committed to a psychiatric hospital. As they do so, a
spirit resembling Janosz kidnaps Oscar, prompting Dana to break into the museum
by herself; after she does, the museum is caked in a wall of impenetrable
slime.
New Year's Eve sees a sudden outburst of increased supernatural activity as
the slime rises through the ground and onto the surface of the city, including a
demon invading Washington Square Park, a fur coat returning to life to
attack its owner, and the "better late than never" arrival of the Titanic and its
long-deceased passengers and crew into the harbor. The NYPD's emergency lines
are flooded with calls from panic-stricken New Yorkers, and an ominous mass of
psychokinetic energy blocks out the sun and shrouds the city in darkness.
Realizing the truth of the situation, the mayor fires his assistant and has the
Ghostbusters released, whereupon they make their way to the museum. Their
initial attempt to break through the museum's slime barrier are unsuccessful,
the wave of negativity that has generated it proving too powerful to damage with
their proton packs. Determining that they need a symbol of equally-powerful
positivity to break through the slime, the Ghostbusters use positively-charged
mood slime from their slime
blowers and a remix of "Higher and Higher" to animate the Statue of Liberty
and pilot it through the streets of New York, using her torch to break through
the museum's ceiling to do battle with Vigo and Janosz.
While Janosz is easily taken down with mood slime, Vigo proves to be a
difficult adversary; immensely powerful with both the negative vibes of the city
and with midnight and the New Year rapidly approaching, he manages to paralyze
the Ghostbusters and attempt a transfer into Oscar's body. However, the positive
energy from a chorus of "Auld Lang Syne" from outside the building
manages to weaken him sufficiently to allow the Ghostbusters to break free and
return him to the painting. Vigo momentarily possesses Ray, so the other three
Ghostbusters attack him with a combination of proton streams and positively
charged mood slime. At the same time, Louis, dressed in full Ghostbusters
attire, attacks the weakened slime barrier around the building with a proton
stream of his own. Their combined efforts manage to trap Vigo within the
painting, destroying him and transforming the painting to a likeness of the four
Ghostbusters surrounding baby Oscar protectively. The movie ends with the
Ghostbusters receiving a standing ovation from the crowd and, at a later
ceremony to restore the Statue, the Key to the City from the
mayor.
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