In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the Easter eggs edge out the good stuff

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and Stranger Things star are new kids in this one-horse hamlet when their mysterious grandfather dies in mysterious circumstances.Grace, the Emmy-nominated star of The Handmaid’s Tale, I Tonya and The Haunting of Hill House, Giày da nam cao cấp nam cao cấp furrows her brow and steals the show as a pint-size scientist who holds the key to completing grandpa’s work (which just might involve saving the world).

Netflix hit Stranger Things recycled and remixed teen fantasies of the ’80s like Ghostbusters and The Goonies, and now Stranger Things DNA is injected back into the source material as a crew of four preteens, including Wolfhard and a socially awkward but unusually capable girl, tackle supernatural menace in rural America. It’s basically what someone who hasn’t seen Stranger Things probably thinks Stranger Things is.

And the nostalgia-fest doesn’t just extend to the franchise Easter eggs. The soundtrack is mostly classic soul songs, and the social hub of Summerville is a roller hop.