Is Ghostbusters II actually good?

Ghostbusters II sits in the 41.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 41.7% of them.

How does Ghostbusters II compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Ghostbusters II lands in the 39.1% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Ghostbusters II's score based on?

287 calibrated reviewers stand behind Ghostbusters II's score.

1989

global pct

41.7

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Ghostbusters II

Name: Ghostbusters II
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Released: 1989

Scored from 287 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

41.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

39.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

27.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

287 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Five years after saving New York, the Ghostbusters have been disbanded and discredited. When a river of psychoreactive slime fed by the city's negative emotions surfaces beneath Manhattan, it empowers a malevolent 16th-century tyrant trapped in a museum painting who targets Dana Barrett's baby. The team must reunite, get the city to feel good again, and stop him before New Year's.

Ghostbusters II is a 1989 action, comedy and fantasy film. Its comedy subtype is Action Comedy.

287 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 295 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Ghostbusters II (1989) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 287
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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