Bob, happy to hear that Amazon honored the $20 price. Much better than $40. Thanks for confirming that Amazon is selling pressed discs. - Paul

The set was erroneously listed for sale on Amazon for around $20. They have since corrected the error but my purchase at that price was honored. On the set that I received, I can confirm the discs were pressed.

While it’s sad this set is so bare bones, I’m just happy it finally exists. It’d be nice if a boutique label were to give it a nice treatment but I’m not going to hold my breath. But perhaps there will be a renewed appreciation for the show that might make something like that happen.

The problem with Frozen Empire is simple: then new actors (Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon,Finn Wolfhard) lack the comedic energy of originlal cast (when they were young/middle aged). The new guys are simply unfunny, Rudd is simply pathetic trying to be funny…

Mckenna Grace plays it all deadly serious and her scenes looks like from totally different movie. But she’s not very good either. She looks like an overgrown child actress, who is too old to play like a liitle innocent girl.

Aykroyd is ok as always, but also a bit too serious.

The best performances here ware from Murray and Kumail Nanjiani. At least they understand IT IS A COMEDY.

The original GHOSTBUSTERS have their own tone. The were never copycats of GOONIES or STAND BY ME. They were never LGBT version of CASPER.

Sorry to hear that, Pedro. I was actually surprised that the theater still had so much stuff. I thought it would have been sold on opening weekend the week before. - Paul

I went to see the film today and I did not see any of the lovely merchandising you had. Kind of sad now.

I have to disagree with you on it being like an episode of the animated series. It visually had nothing to do with the animated series. Overall good points though.

• The Mini Pufts are back, but serve no purpose to the story.

They are used the illustrate how the orb is effecting other ghosts

• A common shot in the various trailers and TV spots shows the firehouse freezing over. In some trailers, this shot has the No Ghost logo, lights, and doors on the building. In other trailers, those accoutrements are missing. Matthew Jordan thought the latter version was “unfinished". Well, I can report that in the movie, there is no sign, lights, or doors in that shot. They were added for the trailer (and promotional photo) to deceive people.

Not to deceive but to show it’s the ghostbusters fire house. A for the trailer version if you will.

You’re welcome Paul. My pleasure.

Found another one in this "Everything in This Place is Haunted" social media ad (3/22/2024). At the start, the shot of Gary saying, “We ain’t afraid of no ghost” was deleted from the film. It would seemingly take place at the end of the scene where he quotes the song, right after he sings a little bit of it.

Thanks for the kind words, Tyler.

Good point about Podcast and Space Camp. I completely forgot about that, but now that you reminded me, it does ring a bell. I removed that part of the review.

Yeah, I think I would much rather have a theatrical animated Real Ghostbusters film.

- Paul

Hi Paul,

I felt lukewarm about this film. Ghostbusters as it stands now is a almost a complete farcry from what it once was. Although I didn’t really hate this film. It just could have been better.

I will say though, from what I remember, Podcast tells Phoebe that his parents thinks he’s at Space Camp. His parents actually do call and he has to fake that he’s there and plays a recording. They don’t know he’s with the Ghostbusters.

As for Phoebe playing chess in the park (yeah, that was not very bright), that was another callback to Afterlife. I think she was hoping to contact Egon again and when her Ghost Friend showed up, you could see she was disappointed as that is not who she was expecting. That’s what it looked like to me.

On a personal note: thank you for archiving all of this Ghostbusters History. This is one of the first fan sites I ever visited and still continues to be. It is a tremendous resource of information and little known facts about the franchise. Thank you for all that you do. It is very much appreciated sir!

There may be yet another deleted scene in the "Raving" (3/21/2024) spot. I’m 99% positive that the clip at the end of Peter saying, “That was some talent.", is not in the film. I do not remember that at all. Looks like it would have happened at the end after they defeat Garraka - which is not a spoiler :-) - Paul

Don’t forget Trevor firing the neutron wand at Slimer. And the line about do we have a ghost chopper.

Wesley, all you have to do is look at the main page here on Spook Central. You’ll find the Ghostbusters Frozen Empire Deleted & Extended Scenes page. - Paul

Could you please direct me to the clip that has a longer version of Paul Rudd singing the Ghostbusters song? It’s not in the movie or the other clips but I saw it somewhere this week. He’s singing the instrumental part “dun nun nun nun na, Duna nuns nun na” and dancing in a goody way.

And I think (to my knowledge) that this is the first time that a Ghostbusters cast member mentioned DVD Beaver anywhere, not just The Tonight Show.

Thanks, Jason. I visited DVD Beaver many times over the years. It’s a great site. - Paul

You know, in the Tonight Show interview with Carrie Coon, she mentioned DVD Beaver. And if you all do not know what it is, here’s a link for the Ghostbusters (1984) review on the same site: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews46/ghostbusters_blu-ray.htm

Really interesting, and frankly encouraging, how much stuff from the trailers isn’t going to be in the final movie. It’s nice to know that I haven’t seen the majority of the movie already!

I’ll look forward to your review on Monday, by whcih time I’ll have seen it twice!

Yup, sure is. - Paul

That’s not just any roof, they’re on top of the firehouse! At least, the surrounding buildings seem to match, so I’m pretty sure that’s where they are

Excellent job on the review, Paul! Totally agree with you! Although, what this would be like without the alternative takes and TV edits so that it’s just deleted scenes only and the story is more focused rather than playing the same scene over and over again but with alternate takes. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed it. I did mention this in my comment, where I loved to see an alternative cut of the movie that contains all of the deleted scenes put back in with the Fort Detmerring scene in better picture, sound, music and vfx completed. Not as a Director’s Cut as the theatrical cut is Ivan’s cut but I say call it the Writer’s Cut by restoring its original timeline.

Some fun facts about two versions of the script for this episode:

1) The mailman’s nightmare that kicks off the episode was supposed to have him wrestle with mail that turns into live fish, not being attacked by an envelope monster.

2) Garrett actually had two dreams: the basketball game one where everyone except for him is in a wheelchair and he gets run over and the one where Morpheus is a doctor that tells Garrett that he came up with a cure for his paraplegia: shocking him multiple times with a cattle prod. Worse, Garrett’s mom is there to “help” the doctor.

3) Eduardo was supposed to lose the hair on his head and his goatee hair in his infamous dream where Kylie confesses her love for him, then blows him off and calls him a bald freak. The TV show just has him go partially bald and his hair grows back in the end while the original script implies that it didn’t grow back.

4) There was supposed to be a subplot about Janine hiring a journalist to help The Ghostbusters get good publicity, but it all goes wrong when the homeless shelter collapses.

5) Roland’s dream where he spews water and drowns during a science symposium was also supposed to have him getting flushed down the toilet and an extended sequence where the dream leaves him with a full bladder and desperate to use the bathroom (which he does by peeing in a Thermos when he and Eduardo follow the dream worm creatures to the radio station)…at least the first script did. The second script had it the way the TV version was, where Roland just wakes up and spits out water.

6) Janine’s dream was supposed to be her locked in a cell as it fades into the darkness and she screams that she’s innocent and wants to be let out. The first draft had her as a Catholic schoolgirl while Mopheus was the nun punishing her while the second one just had Morpheus locking Janine in a cell. While I do think the TV version was scary (where Janine is the last person alive in New York and she desperately tries to find signs of human life), the two script versions are better (though I could see the Catholic schoolgirl one getting altered because of censors not wanting any complaints about religious references, even though they got away with showing Jewish culture – and anti-Semitism – on “The True Face of a Monster").

7) One of the scripts (not sure which) revealed that Barry Sherman actually was the traffic report announcer before Morpheus possessed him and turned him into a Howard Stern-esque shock jock who criticizes the news and spouts politically incorrect things.

Thanks . I never knew you existed except for an article about the owner and one of the stars sharing a birthday..

I grabbed the budget set from Walmart for $20 CAD last October (or maybe that’s the even more budget-er version, with Sony’s 10 DVDs in one keepcase). I’m disappointed but not necessarily surprised they didn’t reauthor Vols. 1-5 DVDs with the titles cards after bothering to do it on 6-10, but oh well.

For $20, I’m happy with 111 episodes that aren’t unwatchable. I’m also not a completionist/purist by any means, just a casual fan when the show ran in re-runs on TeleToon for Halloween.

I can’t believe those scenes were originally in the main story of the film. I would love to see them in their entirety. I wonder if they’d ever release the assembly cut.

I thought the book was awful. Sure a couple new things come to light but it’s just so….blah. It’s poorly written. It’s written like a middle of the road like a high-school essay copied from Wiki. The writer 1000% pads out the book with details that do not matter one little bit. Then comes the COVID & Politics. I’m reading a Ghostbusters book, ok? Leave your politics out of it. Yes there were sexist morons back in 2016 but that’s not why most people disliked Answer the Call or it’s trailer. Remaking a bonafide classic movie like Ghostbusters? That’s why people hated it. But Remaking it and it being a complete unfunny, unscary, unthrilling disaster? That should be illegal. People waited, what? 25 years for a new Ghostbusters movie? Constant hype & promises and then tragically Harold Ramis passes away & Sony dances on his grave by releasing that garbage remake. The fact that any fans enjoy that POS just shocks the hell out of me.

It’s also total BS you didn’t get an acknowledgment in the book. You are easily the greatest GB source on the internet & it’s not even close. You must get tired on people stealing your research and scripts & profiting on it.

If anything, and I’ve heard this said elswhere, the 2 latest GB movies show how special Ivan, Harold & Dan were as creative partners. Because 2 very talented filmmakers have tried making a Ghostbusters movie & each kinda failed. Afterlife was fan service shlock with an ending that Harold Ramis would’ve no doubt loathed. It had some moments and was at least better than Answer the Call. But there’s just so much wrong with it. The cameos? The fan service? The lack of comedy? Apparently making Ghostbusters movies is really, really hard. Same with writing “Making of Ghostbusters” books because this is just a complete dud. I’d give it a 5 out of 10.

Yes, that is the box with Egon’s ashes next to Winston. I would guess that after Callie didn’t want them in the “Is It Ever Too Late” scene, she brought them to Winston.

As I wrote in the article, I’m positive that both end credits scenes were originally meant to be used in the film proper as part of the story.

- Paul

Is that the box containing Egon’s ashes (that was seen in the 1 deleted scene on the Blu-ray) next to Winston in his office in the 2nd to last still? I wonder if originally Janine ended up taking Egon with her after that scene and upon returning to New York, went to visit Winston. And what was that part of the end tag took place early to mid-movie originally.

Thanks for the very thorough review of this set. I also want to buy this and other BDs from MonsterlandMedia. May I ask if you know someone else who has reviewed MonsterlandMedia for other cartoon series?