Review: At least the cast is having fun in the overstuffed ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’

It doesn’t feel good to beat up on “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,” which is a film with the right intentions: to entertain families looking for spectacle that will please both kids and their Gen X/millennial parents. The Ecto-1 races through New York City in the movie “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.” It may be a new generation of Ghostbusters, but the family of the late Egon Spengler finds itself back in New York, in that familiar firehouse headquarters, after “Afterlife’s” jaunt to Oklahoma. Dan Aykroyd, left, and Kumail Nanjiani in the movie “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.” The good thing about “Frozen Empire” is that it’s less of that “Easter egg hunt”-type cinema that Reitman extolled “Afterlife” as, instead using elements of the original “Ghostbusters” in ways that work within the story. The lore may be better integrated here than it was in “Afterlife,” but “Frozen Empire” will still never beat the allegations that it’s merely regurgitated nostalgia aimed at a kiddie crowd.