Ghostbusters – The Ice Menace on TF1: return to the roots of the saga (review)

Gil Kenan mixes generations, from Dan Aykroyd to McKenna Grace via Paul Rudd for a new episode, certainly imperfect but clever and good spirited!

As Halloween approaches, TF1 is broadcasting for the first time free-to-air this Thursday evening the latest opus of the Ghostbusters saga, The Ice Menace. Première recommends it: this family film seemed more successful to us than its predecessor, L’Héritage, when we discovered it in theaters in April 2024.

What exactly is a Ghostbusters movie? By going through multiple iterations we ended up getting lost, to the point that it is difficult today to define the DNA of a saga that has become polymorphous. So let’s say that there are obligatory passages (the car, the ghosts, Bill Murray) but that we have to know how to bring them up to date. This is what The Ice Menace does, a direct sequel to The Legacy which launched a new team of ghost hunters in pursuit of ghouls. In Legacy therefore, Carrie Coon (who played Egon Spengler’s daughter), McKenna Grace (his daughter), Finn Wolfhard (his son) and Paul Rudd (a science-loving teacher), made up a dysfunctional family struggling with a menacing monster…